Wormholes

nice npc alt bro, I think there is a gift bag or something for you.

proof that wormholes cause cancer.

yes you are

THIS THREAD IS INFORMATIVE AND I WILL BASE MY DECISION ON VOTING SOLELY ON OP'S OPINION.

It means I will be voting for all the wormhole candidates as a result.

People just don't even try when they troll anymore =(

Not true. CSM's help represent player arguments and support for CCP's proposed changes; help them gauge community support / advise direction for the game. I'm under no illusion that these players have the power to change game mechanics nor do I believe that they will be changing the game through their conversations and elevator pitches.

However, they do communicate with CCP developers regularly. Aside from the forums they probably have the loudest player voice.

If CCP didn't listen to their player base and just made the game whatever they wanted we wouldn't have the game we do now. The fact is they are sensitive to player opinion enough to change direction balancing what they think players want, need, and maintaining a profitable business. The results they deliver may be relatively intangible to the player base but they are there.

Since I personally feel this thread applies to me, as one of the CSM9 W5, I’d like to take a moment to answer this post. Firstly, troll or not, alt or not, the following is your opinion and this is what I'm responding to:


This opinion is the basis for your title, “why I'm not voting for any wormhole candidates.” Now, since you aren’t voting for me anyhow, I’m not going to attempt to win you over, but I will show you how your entire argument is incorrect.

• WH’s are fine.

I can speak for myself by saying that I believe the overall state of wormholes needs far less work than other areas of gameplay. Many would love to see an expansion into our content and perhaps an arc that provides more focus on community growth, attention, and interaction. This isn’t something everyone would prefer, but after speaking with many many wormhole residents, it is something that is seen as interesting. However, wormholes are fine and protected by this community publicly and by the CSM members like Two step and James. The Chitsa is a wormhole resident and CSM delegate who wishes to stir the pot within the community, but he also actively engages the community to get the ball rolling on discussion.

Honestly though, none of the current CSM9 candidates overly duplicate The Chitsa’s approach to wormhole changes, although I have been known to write and publish an idea, then engage the community in discussion, followed by sharing my findings and learnings (C4 Super Highway and Redux), which may be viewed as close. This group wishes to support changes that are beneficial without breaking our gameplay overall and/or engage in discussion to understand why an idea or prospective change is off beam. It’s through instigating discussion and communication that we can determine how an idea is viewed by the overall wormhole communities. If none of us are elected, then those discussions can’t be ensured.

• Leave them alone.

This is impossible. The ESS is a perfect example of a change to the greater Eve community that horribly impacted the wormhole community. CCP will implement changes and it is smart to have wormhole candidates who take the time to observe, stay involved, and communicate with CCP directly when issues arise. Also, who do you expect to stop CCP from implementing Wormhole Stabilizers and/or other awful ideas if there aren’t dedicated wormholers to protect our community. We have some good delegates that could engage some of us to ask if an idea would be good, but the NDA will prevent those CSM delegates from engaging us, unless we have a delegate already on the CSM. It is vital that we have community involvement onboard, and personally, I’d like to impact role management, POS changes, protect and impact the T3 rebalance, increase PVE yield in lower class wormholes among other things that could improve wormhole life and gameplay. In this, I disagree with your stance.

• C4's are fine.

Some players agree, some players disagree. I wrote the article based on Axloth’s idea for dual-static C4’s and it lead to a great discussion on Reddit and on these forums. This led to me writing a second article with alternative proposals, including one about increasing wandering wormhole to wormholes, which many more players seemed to be interested in supporting. All in all, this idea led to a discussion, and was important to making progress on the subject of C4 wormholes. Who is going to do that for you on the CSM? Us.

• No K162 delay is fine.

The Discovery Scanner Overlay automatically updating is a poor mechanic for wormhole residents, pvp groups being the most impacted. I like the Discovery Scanner Overlay, but would prefer it to only update with a session change or actively probing. K162’s should spawn a signature when opened, and should be probe-able, but the automatic update of the Overlay is not fine.

• Seriously, we need new content, not changing existing content.

This sentence is confusing. You suggest that wormholes are fine and that we should leave them alone, yet you want new content, and you don’t want Wormhole Delegates on CSM9 to be involved in the changes and new content? Guess what, new content is going to cause change. If we aren’t there on the team, communicating with Developers and Staff, then we can’t provide insight and experience from our gameplay experiences during the process. That would be bad for wormholes.

In conclusion, players should vote for wormhole representation. Thanks.

Not true. Now let me reiterate what you're saying in different words.

After reading your arguments, I have petitioned CCP to remove my votes for our wh candidates. I'm confident that they will allow this removal because I linked your amazing thread here to show my reasoning and explained to them your unquenchable thirst for bags of dicks. Your contribution to the wh community is greatly appreciated.

Don't lie, you're just not voting because I'm not running this year.