CSM Campaigns

Are you serious though or are you going to do a james 315?

He/She did a 'James 315' already last time (as in start to run then quit).

Tried sucking up to the goons for support and that didn't work.

Exposed by goon

Then quit

I always approve of the noble task of separating fools from their money, and so I'm a fan of your efforts in general.

Nonetheless, I find myself skeptical as to your suitability as a CSM representative. Most CSMs come to the table with some kind of plan, to improve EVE, making things better and more fun. You, on the other hand, have an anti-plan; you want a certain segment of the playerbase to stop having fun (for whatever value of 'fun' is to be had from mining).

As such, even though I have no respect for AFK hisec miners, I can't support your position unless you're offering something different. Ok, so you want AFK mining to not happen. Do you have an alternative in mind? Would you support, say, an exploration-type minigame to replace the senseless tedium of mining? Or do your ideas stop at "I want those guys to stop doing what they're doing"?

I see where you're coming from, but that's more or less exactly what I'm referring to.

Suggestions like "remove all the ore and ice" fail at the first word, remove. CCP isn't in the business of removing features; it's bad for business. If a new expansion included in its patch notes anything approximating "Removed all the ore and ice from high security space", subscriptions would plummet. It is a fact that CCP lost subscriptions off of Odyssey, based on changing "push button, receive bacon" into an actual piece of content requiring some effort. It may be argued that that was partly due to flaws in the implementation (re: the much-hated loot scatter mechanic, which is already confirmed to be on the chopping block), but the fact remains that there are a lot of players who will simply stop playing in response to being required to put forth effort... and as a CSM, that's actually something you need to be concerned with.

Similarly, though the question of "How exactly is it that the belts respawn, anyways?" is a valid one, and one could conceive of interesting gameplay regarding prospecting and the discovery of new belts... you don't actually go there. Your proposed ideas have too much stick and not enough carrot; you've simply suggested that stuff go away until arbitrary objectives are completed. Okay, fine... but once those objectives are completed, then what? More of the same thing that was there before? Again, insomuch as I'm taking you as a serious candidate, my problem is primarily that I don't see you bringing anything to the table. You've got things that you want taken off the table, but you don't have anything to replace them with. In this context, that effectively means that you want to implement plans which will lower the subscriber base, and have no corresponding plans to increase it. And that doesn't actually work, since the CSM is an advisory body, not a governing one; if you're not bringing things to the table, you're not effective as a CSM.

That being said... what do you think you can bring to the table? Do you have 'Reasonable Things' to champion, or actual plans to improve gameplay? Or am I essentially right in seeing you as an anti-CSM, wanting mainly to implement anti-plans against the things you dislike?

For reference, I already mentioned that. Also note that the specifics of that change haven't been announced yet; there may be some other non-standard loot mechanic in the works, or otherwise be something other than the default 'box with stuff in it'. Even if loot spew were simply replaced with the standard loot mechanic, though, I'd argue that there's a largish difference between changing a wildly unpopular bit of one particular feature and removing the feature entirely; it's the difference between reworking loot spew and removing exploration. CCP is prepared to change specific minor details to improve the gameplay experience. They do not remove features wholesale. Incarna was horribly unpopular, but the crappy hotel simulator in space is here to stay, and probably won't even be improved or tweaked much in the foreseeable future.

Thats Endoviors point though Erotica. Your ok with all the high sec miners quiting eve, but most people aren't and CCP definetly isnt. I think if you did a survey of miners who mine because they enjoy it, they would love an active mining mechanic (as opposed to the guys who do it on a tabbed out alt for the free isk). Make mining actually FUN. You could champion this, your smart enough to see the benefits of this and there are many ways to do it.

Your not saying this though (or appear not to be). Your simply saying get rid of the high sec miners/remove their play time.

Would a removal of concord help or hinder the game? Thats a very good question. I too would like to hear the ops thoughts on this. Its one way to ensure miner interaction as they are all forced to spam dscan or die.

And you would be wrong.

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Another vote for extra enforcement. Thanks for coming!