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The problem with this stance is that you seem to be arguing for a mechanic that has stayed completely static for over nine years to not be evolved or iterated upon. That's just not very realistic, m8. At some point in the near future, once all of the sov mechanics and FW stuff has been given a good booosh, there is an industrial revolution coming in EVE. There are too many people that want to see positive changes and interesting game play applied to that part of EVE.

And now I've bumped Hans' thread, as if he needed it.

EvE BBCode sometimes doesnt like parsing the percentage symbol Andrea.

lol interesting, cheers

I read every candidate's positions (Those that bothered to write one, anyway)

Hans' is by far, in my opinion, the most level-headed and realistic candidate. A few others had valid points, but in my opinion are simply to stubborn or hard headed to get things done. I think the candidates personality is equally as important as their views.

Anyway, come March 7th you've got my vote Hans. Hope you get a seat.

wow...the thought of having sweet grief tears in exchange for my hulk gank butthurt...so satisfying. I would be TOTALLY fine with losing a hulk if i knew it meant such sweet revenge soon.

my new main profession? ganking the gankers.

making.5 space kinda dangerous but worth it AND knowing anyone who F's with me has to deal with the size of my wallet when I drop a few bil on your head?

delicious

Hans, you just got +5

He states himself that he hasn't been around for as long as a lot of the other candidates. However, for the past year and throughout CSM6 he has been rallying the FW community (which was one of the most fragmented communities in EVE) and collected, organized, compiled a list of common themes that all FW pilots agreed needed to be fixed and ideas on how to fix those problems. He coordinated with CSM6 (as many of them have testified throughout this thread/forum) to bring those issues to the CSM and CCP's attention.

We (the FW crowd) didn't get exactly what we were expecting despite Hans' work unifying our ideas and presenting them to CSM/CCP. We were listed as a "Little Thing" in the recent Minutes and there were comments that FW might be a great "test-bed for Null Sov mechanics. Therefore, Hans is running based on the need for a CSM member that is in-touch with the FW demographic seeing as the Inferno expansion is going to be focusing on FW and warfare mechanics.

If you've taken the time to read through this thread, read Hans' blog, see his comments in other threads on the forum, peruse his numerous FW-related threadnaughts he has managed in W&T and General Discussion, you will see that your idea that "The message here is good, but the messenger: not so much" is pretty silly! He has proven himself on the forums and off as a smart, down-to-earth guy.

More than any other candidate in the race for CSM7, I think Hans will follow through to the absolute best of his abilities to provide meaningful and desired change to all EVE demographics. He has noted that his "agenda" is simply the amalgamated desires of the FW demographic, and I am positive he would be as happy to work with the actual communities (pirate, high-sec, mercenaries, industrialists, etc) as opposed to merely pushing his own personal agenda (which, IMO, a lot of the other current and past candidates have been prone to do).

I'm obviously somewhat biased as I have known Hans for quite a while now. However, I think that if I was some total scrub who didn't know any of the CSM7 candidates/incumbents and their past exploits and judged them solely on their "platforms" and responses in their forum threads and their handling of themselves in interviews, Hans would come out miles before any other candidate as the most level-headed and professional.

I think hans has been more engaged with the community than any csm candidate since Mynxee or Teadaze. Take a look at his posts in the faction war thread. Yes that is what he has focused on - it is a large part of the game and more importantly he worked with the players to come up with concrete ideas and more general ideas to offer ccp that will make it bigger better and overall a big boon to all of eve.

I don't think any csm candidate in the history of the game has created the sort of consensus of players for how to ccp should iterate on a large feature in eve.

Again I encourage you to read the thread where he started teasing out ideas about faction war from the players. Look at all the arguing and initial disparaty in that thread. Then look and see that even people who were basically just calling eachother names in that thread still are supporting Hans here because he pulling together the best ideas and capturing the spirit of what we want out of eve more than anyone else.

Hans can do that with many different parts of the game too. How do I know? Because these weren't his ideas he was pushing. He was listening to players asking questions about what they wanted, challenging them to think about other points of view, and trying to encapsulate the upshot of those discussions. That methodology can be used in any area of the game.

I believe we should elect a diverse enough leadership that the permanent residents of the various regions can make decisions regarding their own space. Two Step is the resident wormhole expert and candidate, whether he defends the status quo or not is a decision he should reach by working with wormhole citizens.

I do have some wormhole experience - dropping in and out of class 3’s to solo sleeper sites, and I’ve also led some week-long “camping trips” where we’ll post up a POS for the corp and let members mine, PI, and rat till we exhaust the spawn rates, look for an exit point, and break everything down. Wormholes are one of the last bastions of small-gang warfare (beside FW), so I’d hate to see this compromised by “wormhole stabilizers” or other nonsense that allow powerful null sec groups to storm the gates. My personal beliefs aside, I’ve been consistent in saying I would never try to override the proposals of candidates like Two Step if he can confirm that’s what wormhole citizens wanted.



I’m high enough from the chemicals I’ve been exposed to after years of booster manufacturing that my “third eye” now allows me greater insight and vision than any piece of technology could offer. At least, that’s what the voices in my head tell me.

You should be careful not to take too much of your own kool aid while your campaign has momentum. You're advocating for modules that people put down when they live in, or 'occupy' space to not be a part of an occupy mechanic. This is the exact opposite of what the null community has been asking for since Dominion: tie occupancy to a mechanic that reflects people actually living in, or occupying, the space.

You may not like to have FW mirror nullsec sov, and that's fine, functionally there should probably be some sort of overlap and perhaps differing capture mechanics, but taking a position that the measures one takes to occupy space such that it's livable not being a part of the mechanics of transferring occupancy from one group to another is an illogical platform.