CSM Campaigns

Feyd, Oh how I would love to hear you and Dinsdale debate. Each of you tyaking the side that Highsec is being nerfed into the gorund but from opposite viewpoints.



and nobody hears things said in a vacuum. I love your blog about nerfing highsec though. Don't agree with parts of it but it was fun to read.

If Ripard and I have joined forces to nerf hisec non-consensual content in hisec into the groud then all ganking has stopped . . op success?

Um, nope. I looked and it is still going on. People are still shooting people, Niarja is still a place you move through quickly and carefully. Maybe loophole kills are lower, tricking people into being easy targets due to convoluted rules. I think that is a good thing, you are allowed to disagree.

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+1 vote from me. Your blogs have certainly helped me to keep track of what's happening when I haven't had the time to follow the news as closely as I would like.

It's funny to watch you chest-beat and whine about sandbox game-play when you seem to forget the fact the sandbox sword cuts both ways. Targets have just as much right to use any and all available mechanics to evade your intentions as you do to try to imbalance any encounters (neutral RR, Non-War Target Boosts, etc.) They don't pay a sub to amuse you.

I will be voting for you Mike

OK, so my last question went nowhere. Let's try this one:

What do you think of the direction that CCP Rise and his team are investigating for the all-new NPE? What can the CSM do to support their effort?

Do you happen to have a link to something about operation magic school bus?

i to will be voting for you again mike, you are by far one of the most publicly active members of the CSM next to Xander.

~~~~question time~~~~

I know some and maybe all of this may fall under the NDA so don't feel bad if you have to give "general" answers.

Ive heard the guys on the podside podcast mention this to you several times but I absolutely love the idea of station services in NPC null to be attackable. This happens to us in sov null from time to time and if I recall correctly you your self mentioned ( I cant recall your exact words) that you saw NPC null as a way to get used to the mechanics of sov null and the tactics used there. As it stands now NPC dwellers don't have to deal with the defensive side of sov warfare. Now im NOT saying we should be able to flip stations just incapacitate there station services the same way its done to us. With the difference being the NPC station services will eventually repair them selves just at a slow rate or they can form a rep op the fix there services faster. What is your though on something like this.

Agents....why cant we have some in sov null? There everywhere else but sov null and w space, why cant we have some sort of station upgrade for agents. It would be very helpful for the newer players that move straight to null to have access to mission agents. Another station question the different station upgrades that can be installed and as far as I know can not be removed unlike ihubs. Ihubs can have the different upgrades removed they are just destroyed like ship rigs. I think the station upgrades should be able to be FULLY customizable not a one time deal.

Im fairly sure this is in the pipe line but ill ask it anyway, the current balance or unbalance as it is of the low end ores in null sec is an issue. If CCP wants sov null to be eventually be self sufficient, as is my tin foil hatery from phoebe with the introduction of space aids, the minerals need to be rebalanced. im just curious as to how you stand on this as a high sec indy guy since right now we still, myself included, do the MAJORITY of our shopping in Jita 4-4.

Let me know your thoughts and ideas
Also where do we sign to get you a permanent seat on the CSM

Okay this one first, It IS a cool idea but the sov free areas are used by a lot of sov folks because of the safety. A place where you can put your stuff that will still be there tomorrow. You know that the null entities would enjoy making life hell for their less committed brethren in npc stations.

So is there a balance? Maybe not kill the services but hinder them or make them scale up in expense. A price of battle and failure to consider where you are, your home.



Moon mining, why can't we have that in highsec? Some things are the difference between one space and another. There are supposed to be differences between parts of space to give us a reason to make choices and not all of the choices should point to null being the end game where everything evrybody else has can be found there, as well.



I know some folks think each part of space should be self sufficient unto itself. I am sure if I looked hard enough I could find someone demanding that sleeper loot become atainable without all the hassle of wormhole life.

Out of curiosity, though. ARE all the belts in null mined out? Is it that you lack the minerals or people willing to mine them?

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Mike is one of the smartest EvE players I have ever met. I hope you make it this time as well!

I understand where you are coming from on this one . . . it does feel like it is possible to 'buy the vote' but I would not push to change it.

-Churchhill

This is representational democracy with the account (not the person) being the ones represented. Like stocks in a company, the more you put into it the more you have a small say in what happens. The sheer magnitude of the task to decide if two accts belong to one person would also not be something I would ask CCP to try. Brothers, wives, whatever, there are households that play (how they keep from stabbing each other at night is beyond me)

Do multiboxers have a slight advantage in the elections? Maybe, but then so do large voting blocks, groups of friends or even people who hotdrop podcasts. I think I can live with it and accept the competition as said multiboxers have the same right to representation as other players do.

A process has been banned, a style of play, not the players. They can adapt . . . or leave . . . or be asked to leave. But until the time that they are gone they have a right to the vote, one per account, just like the rest of us.

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