EVE General Discussion

While I'm not specifically standing for Miners, I would like to see some things change for them. Mostly be adding gameplay to finding asteroids, rather than the actual act of mining. Of course, the CSM isn't a group of game designers. We can just make suggestions. But it should give you some kind of idea where I stand on it. https://www.fuzzwork.co.uk/2013/05/31/mining-rights/ is an old copy of the basic idea. There have been some tweaks to it, but the core is similar.

Someone else I'd suggest thinking about is Mike Azariah. Close to the classic 'carebear' lifestyle.

i really wonder if something could be achieved, that supports the fun off all the different play styles. all sectors have theirs pros and cons. and sometimes i do not want to spend hours mining or hours hunting in a fleet. Still i want to play the same game and not an alternative.

I'm not sure you want to vote for someone who spends the entire term afk, and wont talk to others

Also, when you vote, vote with your heart....or your Harry Saq ;)

...ok, that was bad

Like...gravimetric sites?

Yup voted for him too.

I figure a cool panel of different mindsets is the best course. I voted for a guy from Brave, RvB, Goonwaffe, and a carebear.

You were talking about mining? Who supports this?

Didn't even read his manifesto, just voted with him as #2 on my list too.

Steve knows his stuff inside out.

Do we even need a CSM who represents miners? I have a 1+ year old mining alt and I use that character the most, and I really don't feel like this is an area of Eve-O that needs to be visited. Maybe a Tier III mining vessel would be real cool, but otherwise I can't think of anything CCP needs to change about this profession.

Mining is at the center of Sab's conflict and opportunity platform. At its onset it might seem hostile and adversarial, but the truth is that a lot of the other candidates have things other than mining to worry about in this big giant game that is EVE.

Sab might drive changes into cooperative play for mining, or how mining opportunities align with player corporations, or she just might completely wreck mining ISK/hr or move resources out of hisec altogether.

The point is, we have a person here who is thinking about this often-lampooned and afterthought-ish career of mining in EVE as a pillar of her platform. She could be a channel for more dialog about this profession in the next year of CSM. She would certainly draw our collective attentions to mining, above and over stuff like SOV and POSes that a pure miner might not care about.




Mike may be another candidate with his eye on this topic. I will be putting a vote in for Mike, but I personally can't agree with most of what he supports.



Edit: Grammar is hard. It might seem with my poor word choices that I'm speaking for these candidates.. I am not. It is simply my observations of what they appear to support. Happy voting.