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Kelduum Revaan - Running for CSM7

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Kalot Sakaar
CragCO
#321 - 2012-02-26 17:10:22 UTC
Kelduum,

How do you stand and what are your ideas on the following (I thing the wardec thing has been fully beaten to death now).

1. Ship balancing? In particular Gallente ships but also the many other hulls that see hardly any use. Drone boats in particular to me seem to have languished. There has been lots of talk about nerfing things, such as ECM drones which are the only useful ewar drone out there. (not a supporter of this idea personally). ECM in general has been hinted at being nerfed. Seems like instead of nerfing things that work well, they should bring other flawed systems into line. Plenty of ways at defeating/mitigating ECM such as ECCM and info command boosts. The fact that people don't use them is their problem. But I digress. Opinions on all this are varied but I would very much like to hear you thoughts.

2. Command ships/T3's and their bonuses. A lot of talk about making them only apply on grid. Again, I think this is foolish for many reasons as it would give the defender huge advantage, would negate many tactics to catch kiters (which has become increasingly difficult) and the whole ability to grid fu I think makes it unwise. So would like to see where you stand on this. Perhaps just removing their ability to be activated in a POS would make the whiners sufficiently happy?

Thanks in advance.
Trebor Daehdoow
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#322 - 2012-02-26 18:51:09 UTC
Snowflake Tem wrote:
Trebor is an honest to gods enabler and far too straight laced to be that two-faced.

That's a horrible thing to say about a fellow EVE player, shame on you!

The truth is, like everyone else, I have my price. It's just that it's at least an order of magnitude higher than anyone is willing to pay (cheap bastards) Twisted

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Kelduum Revaan
The Ebon Hawk
#323 - 2012-02-26 19:41:29 UTC
Kalot Sakaar wrote:
1. Ship balancing? In particular Gallente ships but also the many other hulls that see hardly any use. Drone boats in particular to me seem to have languished...
The recent hybrid fix has brought a lot of the Gallente stuff more in-line with other other races, but due to their fragility, time to get into range and engage and so on, drones are not significantly used in PvP, which of course affects Gallente the most.

The clearest fix to this would be to improve the drone interface, for example making them work like a 'normal' module, and allowing a single hotkey to launch and have drones engage could be one way of doing this. The current system is horrible, and requires a rewrite as soon as possible (why does the window disappear when you launch all your drones? Why does it keep collapsing the sections? agh!).

Kalot Sakaar wrote:
There has been lots of talk about nerfing things, such as ECM drones which are the only useful ewar drone out there...
The thing to remember about EVE is that its a massive game of 'rock paper scissors' (or maybe 'rock paper scissors lizard spock'), so there should always be one or more counters to everything in PvP, in that specific case, Smartbombs and ECCM. Possibly an update to Smartbombs (so they are actually smart)? I certainly don't support nerfing things which work OK on their own when they don't have an effective counter.


Kalot Sakaar wrote:
2. Command ships/T3's and their bonuses. A lot of talk about making them only apply on grid. Again, I think this is foolish for many reasons as it would give the defender huge advantage, would negate many tactics to catch kiters (which has become increasingly difficult) and the whole ability to grid fu I think makes it unwise. So would like to see where you stand on this. Perhaps just removing their ability to be activated in a POS would make the whiners sufficiently happy?
Command ships are currently a mess, and have been for some time. Giving then relevant bonuses, and allowing them to compete with the Tier 2 battlecruisers should help a fair bit.

Having the bonuses only apply to those ships on-grid makes some sense, but has the potential problems you mention - possible fixes could be only applying when the rest of the squad, more than half of the fleet, or something similar are present. This all depends on what is possible to implement cleanly however, but I would agree that combat related fleet bonus mods should probably not work while inside a POS shield.
Kelduum Revaan
The Ebon Hawk
#324 - 2012-02-26 19:52:04 UTC
Going back to this briefly, as it needs an answer...
Wacktopia wrote:
Kelduum Revaan wrote:
As mentioned, the 'structure-based' Wardec proposal is a proposal, but people keep missing this word somehow, so I keep having to mention it...

It's not a platform, something I would push above everything else, or anything other than a suggestion posted for feedback.


So are you saying that your proposal is essentially a straw man?
No, its certainly not a straw man - the core of it was to come up with something significantly 'out of the box' related to wardecs, which fixed a specific set of problems without being too overpowered. As mentioned, it was posted seeking feedback.

Wacktopia wrote:
Do you believe in your proposal still or do you agree it is not the right solution?
It's not the right solution for wars as proposed, but I do feel a 'portable nullsec bubble' or something similar could have its uses at some point.
Enik Gonz
Thorium.
#325 - 2012-02-26 20:08:29 UTC
I've sent a few questions to your formspring account, and i really liked your answer. We seem to have, a somewhat similar look on the game. You got my support, and i'll try my best to get my friends to vote for you aswell.
Kalot Sakaar
CragCO
#326 - 2012-02-27 00:13:48 UTC
Thanks for responding.

Just a few more two cents on command bonuses. I think if it goes to on grid, you'll see them pretty much disappear as they'll just be too hard to use. What if the FC is the scout and is off grid doing his thing? Then bonuses can't get passed. One SC gets killed and gets his pod out of the fight, but then all bonuses stop going down now to the rest of the squad? Etc etc. It will pretty much just get too hard and not worthwhile and people will just stop bothering with them.

Also, fights happen in a system on more than one grid. If we are camping several gates or trying to catch someone the guy pushing interdiction maneuvers can't be every where at once. If we are trying to bait someone and trying to get them to engage I can't exactly warp in and boost the bait because the the target will just get spooked and warp away. Even worse are these ridiculously fast BC's that even with perfect punts/warp in's are almost impossible to catch. By the time you land and come out of warp, target they are well out of scram/web range. The only meager, and still very meager chance, is to push interdiction maneuvers. If you have to wait for me to also land on grid, and the BC/command ships are much slower than inty's in warp, the target is gone.

The bottom line is that there is only one fair way to push command bonuses, in system. Anything else will only more vanilla the game in the more kiting fleets of nano-drakes/canes/tornado's etc. The people who whine about off grid boosting just need to scan him down and warp in on him. If he warps, great job, his boosts are off. And nothing prevents the other side from bringing in all their boosts. Further on grid only will only encourage more blobbing as you'll want to max boost as many ships as possible. Breaking up into squads in small hunting packs will be far less effective.
Kelduum Revaan
The Ebon Hawk
#327 - 2012-02-27 02:09:08 UTC
Kalot Sakaar wrote:
...The bottom line is that there is only one fair way to push command bonuses, in system...
I agree, this may well be the case.

Somewhat related, but not limited to Command Ships is that barring the 'off grid' and 'Inside a POS' issues, neutral command ship/gank link alts in hisec may still be an issue.

It's not apparently as prevalent, and harder to confirm either way, but this will hopefully be something that gets dealt with along with neutral RR and similar with the CrimeWatch rewrite.
Snowflake Tem
The Order of Symbolic Measures
#328 - 2012-02-27 18:17:36 UTC
Trebor Daehdoow wrote:

That's a horrible thing to say about a fellow EVE player, shame on you!


Yeah well, y'know - if you're not offending someone in the EVE universe you're not playing right.

My last vote went to you at Mynxee's recommendation. I consider it well spent.
Trebor Daehdoow
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#329 - 2012-02-27 18:43:37 UTC
Snowflake Tem wrote:
Trebor Daehdoow wrote:

That's a horrible thing to say about a fellow EVE player, shame on you!


Yeah well, y'know - if you're not offending someone in the EVE universe you're not playing right.

My last vote went to you at Mynxee's recommendation. I consider it well spent.

Well, say so in my thread instead of giving Kelduum free bumps!

Damn! Now you've got me doing it! Evil

Private Citizen • CSM in recovery
Snowflake Tem
The Order of Symbolic Measures
#330 - 2012-02-27 19:42:43 UTC
Trebor Daehdoow wrote:


Well, say so in my thread instead of giving Kelduum free bumps!

Damn! Now you've got me doing it! Evil


Aw com'on T' you're a shoe-in, everybody knows it. -- just y'know, make sure everybody knows it.

But, if you want to make a point and shake things up a little you run with a guy with a strong block vote, who has not sat on council before and has at least some sympathy for the clueless nubs in high-sec.

Even if 'K' does not get in, (although I'm confident he will) the "Help me I'm from High-Sec" argument has been heard and will stick with you guys in council.

Also, make CCP make incarna meaningful. It is important to me if no-one else.
Kelduum Revaan
The Ebon Hawk
#331 - 2012-02-27 23:01:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Kelduum Revaan
Anyway, bumps aside (thanks guys), I was on the third of the Lost In Eve CSM debate podcasts, along with fellow candidates Alekseyev Karde, Trebor Daehdoow and Leboe, released earlier today.

It should be a good listen, and I make an interesting election promise.
Trebor Daehdoow
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#332 - 2012-02-27 23:59:56 UTC
Snowflake Tem wrote:
[Aw com'on T' you're a shoe-in, everybody knows it. -- just y'know, make sure everybody knows it.

I've replied to this in my thread, no more free bumps for Kelduum! Twisted

Private Citizen • CSM in recovery
Asuri Kinnes
Perkone
Caldari State
#333 - 2012-02-28 16:13:35 UTC
Trebor Daehdoow wrote:
no more free bumps for Kelduum! Twisted

ooooooops....

Pirate

Bob is the god of Wormholes.

That's all you need to know.
Kelduum Revaan
The Ebon Hawk
#334 - 2012-02-28 23:47:02 UTC
I've collected up all the questions and answers, as well as podcast info and questions from my formspring and posted them here, on my CSM blog:
Delici Feelgood
Doomheim
#335 - 2012-02-29 08:24:41 UTC
Good luck with the CSM election Kelduum.

With such a weatlh of experience afforded as a result of your EvE Uni position and the encompassing spectrum of material it provides I'm sure you can act as a very useful addition as a key member of the CSM.
Snowflake Tem
The Order of Symbolic Measures
#336 - 2012-03-01 13:01:42 UTC
You’re on the short-list! what would be your Dream Team?
Poetic Stupidity
Doomheim
#337 - 2012-03-03 01:01:04 UTC
Hmmmm, is it bad to support someone just because it'll honk off certain third parties?

Kelduum,

what is your stance on using the 'griefer's communities' own tactics against them?

I think that if what they do isn't in violation of the EULA and rules, then it's fair to do it back to them. They do seem to whimper and cry alot when you do that however.

Also, would you support a member's tab on the corporate information window? One that lists the current membership of a corporation?
Geertruida Zelle
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#338 - 2012-03-04 11:12:22 UTC

Vote for being nice, vote for the new player experience. Vote Kelduum,


GZ
Asuri Kinnes
Perkone
Caldari State
#339 - 2012-03-05 01:44:26 UTC
/bumpages!

Bob is the god of Wormholes.

That's all you need to know.
Resivan
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#340 - 2012-03-05 15:09:13 UTC
Listening to this weekend's Eve Radio roundtable, I think I've finally got what you're talking about when you say the corp interface. It's not the actual interface (bad as that is), but roles. I have to agree that roles as currently implemented are horrible. We need a lot more granularity available and the names of roles really need to more accurately reflect the powers they grant.

I've already committed my votes elsewhere, but I think you might get more traction if you talk about roles and the need for a rewrite of the whole subsystem instead of going on about the "corp interface."