Jita Park Speakers Corner

I'll happily keep drinking my kool-aid, its quite nutritious and the recipe has over 9000 herbs and spices sourced from the players that live in low sec space. You should go back and read the stuff I've written regarding the cultural differences between low sec residents and null sec residents, and the myriad reasons why you can't just take what works in 0.0 and use it to shape other regions of space.

Faction Warfare is just that - warfare. It's not about empire building, resource managment, logistics chains, or even a sense of permanency. If you read the lore, the militias are a legally *tolerated* defense group, born out of emergency need and are not the military themselves. We are essentially the xenophobic and patriotic crazies hanging out on the borderlands anxious for anything we can justify shooting without actually breaking the law. As actvitiy has dwindled over the years, we nowadays hardly even care about the law anymore.

Faction Warfare occupancy mechanics should revolve around fleet combat victories, not structure shoots. This isn't about what the null community has been asking for since Dominion, its about what the low sec community has been asking for since Empyrean Age. If null residents want occupancy to include revolve around structures, dreadnoughts, and POS shoots, GREAT!! I'm happy to support those changes as long as they apply to 0.0. Forcing null mechanics on a crowd that doesnt appreciate them is not only illogical, its dangerous in terms of customer retention. I'd hate to see another mini-Incarna rage summer because CCP didn't listen to the thousands of players enlisted in Faction Warfare.

Players should vote for me because the experience for players in the first couple years of playing the game is different in some ways than players that have been playing for 5 or 6, and I live permanently in an area where other new players are also just cutting their teeth on EvE.

Here is the beginning of exchange I had with one of the current CSM's regarding Faction Warfare specifically. I hope voters will see the value in electing council members who aren't simply knowledgeable in a field, but who also stay firmly grounded in what current players engaged in a feature want for themselves. We're electing representatives, not hiring a think-tank.

As for "lack of insight", I think I've demonstrated aptly throughout my campaign that I do have plenty of important things to say about a wide reaching array of issues. The existing CSM members have had almost universally positive things to say about my proven work ethic, my knowledge of the game, and my willingness to be a team player, so I don't think there's any reason for voters to worry about whether or not I'm capable of performing the job once I'm there.

Can you give me some advice on what minerals to mine or what mods to make and sell at a loss in JITA?

Sorry I forgot making mods at a loss for the JITA market. Good luck in your defeat.

I dont think hes saying anything about sov mechanics...I think hes made it clear he doesnt care about sov mechanics.

as a primarily null-sec person I personally like the sov mechanics, thats just my opinion.

in contrast, i think what Hans is saying is that there are changes that need to be made to low AND hi sec that are completely independent of changes to null-sec (if any, which hes not really advocating any)

I agree that low and hi sec need the most help, and thats why I like Hans

gratz hans, you have passed the troll test


and for the record, I love 0.0 and have spent the overwhelming majority of my 3 years in eve there...but i like hisec too and i think hisec could be way more fun with some changes. plus 66% of eve lives there so its only right that they get some love.

Trolls occasionally ask important questions, they just do it in nasty ways.

Look, you need to put 5 minutes of preparation into these tirades of yours before you launch off on a tear and tell me what's up. My warning is because I want the level-headed Hans on the CSM, not the irrational circlejerk cult of personality that you're becoming.

Think about it for a moment: Ship battle victories = FW capture mechanic: Okay, GSF will go join Caldari militia and rampage through all other lowsec systems in odd hours raping anything with a signature radius and then coordinate the caldari militia to not be in lowsec for the next 20 hours, boom, caldari militia wins. it's an unworkable solution born out of a need to be the 'anti-thatguy!'

The fact is that FW has a current capture mechanic for star systems. The current mechanic is disliked, that's cool. Guess what, nullsec has a pretty ****** capture mechanic too. On top of that, nullsec has been pitching this 'farms and fields' idea, where we hope to generate small gang warfare from non-critical structures and activites that will not only provide income to the residents of null empires, but also provide target rich environments to solo/small gang gankers. Sounds familiar, yes?

A good CSM will seek to learn about the pitch already in place and see if they can develop it in a way that the same mechanic can be shared for both systems, ensuring some cohesion that the developers will love, since they won't need several sprints for each iteration of the mechanic as well as creating a system by which experts in the 'farms-and-fields-gang-warfare' can find some common ground and make the borders between null and low sec more porous.

Before you come out screaming and stomping your feet like a petulant child, listen, learn and corroborate with those who have already paved the way for the mechanics that you're looking for.

I suggest you take a deep breath, calm down, and reread just about everything I've had to say on the topic of Faction Warfare. Including all my audio interviews. If you've gotten this far and you think we've all been "disliking the current mechanic" you haven't been paying attention at all.