CSM Campaigns

[Continued from previous post]

One: Alliance-level management deserves some love. Currently, just about every medium-to-large alliance must rely on out of game tools in order to support themselves. Some of these out-of-game functions, such as teamspeak servers and alliance websites, are spectacularly useful and hard to emulate. However, alliance leadership also finds itself forced to utilize out-of-game tools for such tasks as blacklist management, tax collection (for those who do so), and SRP. In addition, the existing in-game mechanics such as role management and hangars simply do not exist in any fleshed-out state at the alliance level. I firmly believe that if we can overhaul and add to the number of in-game tools available to prospective alliance leaders, both old and well-established alliances, as well as those who are struggling to get off of the ground, will prosper.

Two: Player customization of space should be an integral component of the investment in Sov. While the upcoming structures due to be released in Spring of 2016 are slated to be usable just about anywhere, some of their possible functions (specifically, those proposed at Fanfest 2015 that would allow for serious customization of space, such as alteration of security status, rat type, and warp speed within a system) should be specific to players who have invested in their space. Not necessarily invested a boatload of ISK, but rather invested their time and effort in acquiring a Sov system, and living in it and defending it. The more time and effort you put into your little slice of paradise, the more you should be able to customize and alter it to suit your particular playstyle, so long as those customizations are still occupancy-dependent . This would allow the ability to utilize, enjoy, and defend your space to be more dynamic than simply "how much have you ratted and mined in your space in the last week, and how high is its strategic index," while simultaneously retaining the underlying theme of occupancy sovereignty.

Three: Players should have multiple different avenues for taking and holding space. As I detailed in one of the columns linked above, while Fozziesov certainly has its merits and I am not advocating for a return to Dominion Sov, I do not believe that Entosis Links should be the only method of Sov acquisition. This is especially pertinent given the current usage of Entosis Links to destroy Sov structures outright: it simply does not make any logical sense in my mind that a Sov Lazor should be capable of making a huge structure detonate. As a result, I think that CCP had the right idea with how they treat stations currently: Entosis Links cause the station to flip once all levels of node contesting have been completed. With the announced return of a partial structure grind to destroy the new structures, it is my belief that the most reasonable way to proceed with Sov is to allow Entosis links and node contesting to be used to capture structures, and the limited structure grinding to be used to destroy them. When combined with the different force multiplication tools that are possible with the new structures, this produces a much wider variety of ways to engage in Sov warfare, and thus more ways to engage the player base.

In short: we have succeeded in making Sov somewhat more accessible in that an enormous blob of supers is no longer required to hold your space. However, we have not made either holding Sov or fighting for it much more engaging at all. The updates that the next year holds must make being part of an alliance, sov or no, more engaging for everyone involved.

If you're interested in getting in touch with me to share your ideas, comments, or concerns, you can contact me in-game at Kyle Aparthos, via Tweetfleet slack under the same name, or via reddit.
I hope to hear from you guys soon :D

Since the first two posts are essentially filled up, the Reserve post is where I'll put my interviews thusfar so you don't have to go digging to find them


CSM Watch

SCC Lounge


EVE-Guardian (Same interview as SCC Lounge)

EVE_NT

And more to come!

You do know that structures won't be affected by Entosis, right? (Not talking about sov structures. Things like Citadels)

I just don't see a reason to vote for you. There is nothing that stands out that says, Hey, we need this guy on the csm! Sounds harsh, but it's the truth. I've read some of your stuff, but it is rather bland. Not to mention I had to put up with that eye cancer web layout you continue to blog at - TMC. The other things that can't be ignored is you are part of the CFC, the worst offending coalition that prides itself on keeping the status quo when null desperately needs more things to shake it up to break up the cancer that is giant coalitions. You brag that SMA is a force to be recorded with, but everyone knows SMA has been nothing but cannon fodder for CFC since the beginning and would wither away and die before the sun set on their first day on their own in null. SMA couldn't win a coin toss on their own.

Not to just bash on your alliance, but we need people with fresh ideas to help put EVE back in the fun zone and grow. You simply have nothing to offer.

So, I've responded to this one about a thousand times before, but not usually in such a public forum:

The evidence placed on my desk at the time showed that he was in fact a defector, and I agreed with his purging with a heavy heart. Privately I was as close to heartbroken as you can get over a space video game, though publicly I honored my obligation as a reporter who was on the scene at the time, and reported based on the evidence and statements that I had in front of me.

Less than three days later, new evidence showed up that exonerated him - I was one of the first in line banging the pots and pans calling for his exoneration, and I could not have been happier when SMA leadership as a whole agreed that he deserved a full apology and a reversal of the previous decision.

I have, quite frankly, never been so ******* happy to be wrong in the entirety of my EVE career and the first thing I did when Rayonar got back onto our TS was pull him aside and beg him to forgive me for making the mistakes I did. The second thing I did was immediately go over to TMC and write a retraction of my previous statements. I had a ridiculous smile on my face the entire time I wrote it because I got a chance to make things right and not lose a friend.

Rayonar was, and remains, a very good friend of mine. As far as I'm concerned, if he managed to find it in his heart to examine the words coming out of my mouth and determine that I was worthy of his forgiveness, then why should the rest of EVE make a shitshow out of it?

#QuieroEVEenEspañol

Support making a EVE Client in Spanish and I will consider your candidacy

That's not an SMA Problem, that would be a Goons Problem. If they continue to support Digi, than that is there prerogative, not ours. Yes, he claimed I was a spy, turned out he was wrong, eh? But it turns out I wasn't, and my assets were replaced, and I got back to doing the things I wanted to do.

Guilt by association is easily the most half-assed excuse for not liking someone. Just because I'm in the general area of someone you don't like, I'm as bad as said person? Pretty awful. We walk amungst criminals daily, yet we're not labeled for what they do. The Stockholm Syndrome line is also very old and boring. I love how everyone just can't get over the fact that I wanted to continue to help an Alliance that I'd been a part of for many years grow, above all else. You're a member of Brave, who has collapsed and rebuilt countless times over endless drama, and yet you don't see me calling you a masochist, because some people do have the respect for someone who has the willpower and charisma to keep a good thing going, where others would call it mental illness out of spite.

In respect to my friend who actually wants a chance to make this run, I will no longer be posting in this thread. If you want to argue your personal gripes with me, eve-mail me. I really don't care to see this level of sperg on an open forum. But since you want it, here it is. Enjoy it, I guess. Otherwise, reach me by other means.

Kyle, you're a great guy and have done a lot for us. I really love your articles on TMC and support you. Some people may only see CFC and "grr goons" and that's fine, that's how they choose to see the game. But some of us don't let that get in the way of seeing the people behind the character. SMA has amazing people, and you're one of them. #Kyle2016

Si are non goon cfc members still pretending that they don't direcctly benefit from digis blatant doxxing, and that he doesn't also dox their own members?

If you're a CFC endorsed candidate this whole thread is more of a formality for you than anything. But in any case I'd like to know how you would differentiate yourself from other CFC CSMs or if you will just echo the party line. What is unique about you compared to your peers?