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Given what I've read of the CSM's blogs? The CSM.

The Mittani's been vocal in his support of Incursions (though not of their ludicrous payout), of FW improvements, of POS living improvements, etc.

Seleene puts an incredible amount of effort into their blog, and is a fantastically well rounded EvE player (and former CCP employee)

Two Step is a big advocate of improvements to WH space, in addition to being well rounded.

I'll admit that most of the other CSM's don't stand out much in my head, but I think it's a disservice to say that they (even if they only cared about null[something I don't believe is true]) don't understand the important roles Highsec and WH space (and to a lesser extent Lowsec [needs its own bit of industry please]) play in a healthy nullsec environment.

That said, if you live in Hisec and you want a real safe place to play? None of the CSM members at this time will support that, and I would hope that CCP would never implement that.

Overall, despite the lumps the CSM has taken (a lot which I think are undeserved), they shit diamonds compared to the leadership at CCP. Nothing CCP tries turns out as planned.

Supers and Titans: Supposed to be special snowflakes, rare on the battlefield => Remote DDs & Invulnerable in Lowsec (before HICS) => Super Fleets after the OP MoM buff => Tracking Titans and Supercaps online who can always Logoff => Almost fixed (Now)

WHs: Supposed/Expected to be a Nomadic Existance => An exercise in Masochism where you get to fight all the wonder that is POS mechanics.

FW: Supposed to be Small Gang PvP taking systems => Uh.... ?????

PI: Supposed to be, uh... ??? => Clickfest that made people billions from reprocessing NPC goods => Clickfest with moar structurebash

Incursions: Supposed to be difficult, PvP Style group PvE => More Isk Farming. (The content's great. The income is just high for the risk in a hisec incursion)

Incarna: Supposed to be functional => Rusty door. => Back to Ship Spinning (some people sit on a couch, oooooh)

Drone Regions: Supposed to be a cool new area => Sorry miners, better find a new job.

There is a *LOT* of great stuff mixed in that I haven't mentioned, and overall CCP has done a great job making this game what it is. But a lot of the brilliance that went into making this game special was frontloaded in the ideas stage.

Single-Shard, Player Driven Sandbox.

5 words. That's what makes it special in my eyes. The more effort CCP puts into approaching that ideal, the better the expansion is. The less CCP gets in the way of players making stories, fighting, and generally creating content for the game, the more fun the game is.

I got into the game because I read about a giant heist, and I read about this Great War. And then I mined for 6 months because I didn't get it. I'm finally starting to get it now, after years of play.

"(even if they only cared about null[something I don't believe is true])"

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Lowsec isn't relevant at the moment, because it has nothing to fight over. The CSM has been up CCPs ass for ages trying to give Lowsec some industrial reason for being, and CCP hasn't done it. Snide comments about relevance seems to be roughly the amount of effort the CSM's willing to put into fixing lowsec because higher levels of exertion have done diddly in the past.



Yeah, organized groups can organize votes to consolidate power. Welcome to what we in the US figured out in 1797 with the rise of political parties. (Ok, the Federalists and Anti-Federalists were around well before Adams, and they had a huge influence in the writing of the Constitution, but I'm marking 1797 with the first party backed president as the rise of political parties)



I want a healthy Hisec experience that's dependent on Null, WH, and Low. I want a healthy Lowsec experience that's dependent on Null, WH, and High. etc.

Right now, Lowsec's irrelevant because nothing depends on it for anything substantial.
Hisec's unhealthy because Eve's attracted a huge population of the worst sort of risk aversion.
Null is unhealthy because it's being continuously depopulated, which leads to NAPfests.
WH space is probably the healthiest, but POS mechanics make it soul crushing to live there.

I think the CSM is better at advocating these goals than CCP is. I don't think they're perfect, but they're better than CCP, and every replacement idea I've seen puts their portfolio back into CCP's hands.

I don't follow. How are political parties bad? They tend to prevent tiny but organized minorities from taking hugely disproportionate levels of power (example, the CSM).


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I disagree that they're pushing improvements to null -at the expense of everywhere else-

The King was Crazy and Corrupt before Grima showed up, in this case.

Drakes are generally passive tanked, which means SPR and PDS in the low slots instead of BCS (thereby trading DPS for tank). And mid-slot modules can be traded for increased DPS too (e.g. TP, web).

Agree with Omega - Drake is well balanced as it is, in terms of the tank vs. gank trade-off.

A good Mission drake has 3 BCS. Last Mission drake I owned had a TP, an AB, and 3 BCS. And you can get by without a TP with intelligent reloading.

More importantly, ships are not balanced around their PvE potential, because you're not compromising the fun of the blinky red cross when you slaughter it every single time you fight.

I get that. The problem is finding something better. CCP should hopefully, by now, have figured out that they're not very good at listening to their customers (or maybe it's that they can't understand the words that come out of our fingers). More importantly, with a large, diverse, vocal, and crazy customerbase like they have, they need some kind of filter. They certainly can't pick one, because [point 1], so they need the players to pick one. When the players pick one, they can't interfere, because [point 1].

Good Fight indeed. It's really nice to be able to essentially agree on the facts with someone and argue about the differing conclusions we reach. Much less tiring than fighting about what the facts are.

Balance via UI design. I love it.

Maybe set up something like a tags settings menu. Let there be more than just ABC..123 tags, something like a Point Tag, etc. It would still be something a player would have to actively do, and require that people have their overview's set up to take advantage of it, but I can see something like that being a huge improvement.


BTW: @CCP, if you put a expansion together (proper sized one. We love crucible, but it's a mini[the amount of win in the mini makes us love it more]) that affected no in game mechanics, nor WIS, nor Graphical improvements, and instead focused your entire efforts on improving the UI... it would be ... well received(As in, Do it near fan fest, and you won't have a choice about crowd surfing).

how about gang/fleet the majority of pvp

The reasons given for changing the drake are that it can do everything effectively and it has too much range compared to the other bc's. Even in 200 bc vs 200 bc fleets the extra range means nothing if someone isn't getting points on them and if you are using something other than a drake to provide those points then it's no longer a bc vs bc comparision.