Jita Park Speakers Corner

Questions to a CSM candidate :

1- When will you answer to all the issues in your SNA thread ?
2- All the feedbacks (but a few from some EVEuni pilots) are rather negative about your idea. Since wardecs (subject of the SNA thread) are supposed to be your "specialty" (with corp management, and maybe your "secret pvp alt that nobody knows"), do you think that you should become one of the very few pilots that CCP will ask when dealing with a new game mechanism ?

Thanks.

EDIT
If they don't log in, where is the issue ? Oh, I know, the pop-up when you're getting some remote ?

True.. but other then giggles.. what would attacking corp gain from being able to shut down a teaching group like the uni? other than bragging rights saying.. oooh.. look.. I held up a bunch of noobs..


Since most of the experienced players all have alts, and the uni has no reprecussions for people leaving to avoid the wars, once again there's no point in "psychological" warfare.

Quite a few people have asked where I stand on a few different things, so I went though http://swiftandbitter.com/eve/wtd/ and put some responses together. If you want more info, or something I haven't covered, feel free to post below.

PvP
Faction Warfare
Like wardecs, I’m pleased to see this is getting some work. Its impossible to say what CCP plan to do with it, but adjustments to make it more friendly to ‘casual’ or ‘entry-level’ PVP would be a good move. There have been a few suggestions about reducing/removing/restricting the opposing faction loss from the structures, which may be a nice incentive.

Losec/Piracy
Piracy needs targets, and said targets need a reason to go to losec other than people wanting them to so they get blown up. Increasing the rewards overall in losec (rats, missions, Incursions) would promote traffic, and fixing the bounty/kill rights systems would help also.

Nullsec
At present nullsec does need a little work, specifically something to drive conflict and keep things moving, preventing space becoming stagnant - a few suggestions I agree with (in principal) are shifting resources, depleting moons, or sovereignty based simply on usage. Overall however, I feel the mechanics are okay and I don’t see any major problems with it other than the ongoing supercap proliferation, which is another problem altogether.

Wardecs
The wardec systems clearly need a rewrite, both eliminate the existing loopholes in them as well as encourage PvP against groups who can/will fight. I’m pleased to hear that this is something which is being worked on by CCP.

Scamming
Scamming is fine, and one of the things which makes EVE what it is. It would be nice to see mechanics which allow more interesting and involved scams, but these are always hard to ‘support’ while fixing UI problems.

Grief/Ganking
Like scamming, griefing and ganking are things which makes EVE what it is. The recent changes to insurance for suicide ganking have balanced that pretty well, so I don’t see any need to change how those mechanics work at the moment.

Mining/Industry
Belt Mining
The old suggestion that belts may be moved to require some level of exploration may be worth CCP revisiting as a way to balance mineral availability as well as a way of dealing with macro miners and bots, which is still an issue, and something I strongly expect CCP to continue fighting against.

Moon Mining
CCP are apparently already moving in this direction, but to would make sense for moons in nullsec to have semi-limited resources. Something like ‘layers’ of the moon which change over time, meaning that the most valuable moon resources are randomly redistributed based on heavy usage.

Planetary Interaction
PI with the recent changes is pretty much OK, but more information is obviously needed as to how this will interact with DUST 514 and just what the results of the combat on the planet will/won’t be.

Market
There was an early version of a ‘Corp Market’ shown on Singularity some time ago, and while it didn’t function, it would be nice to be able to tie standings and corp/alliance status into the market, allowing things like reduced prices for corp members, and ‘trade sanctions’ against hostile parties. While this could be bypassed with alts, it would add more depth to the market.

Contracts
The recent rework of the contracts UI is a vast improvement, but there are rooms for further additions, such as the ability to check ‘closed contracts’ to see how much an uncommon item was last sold for, as well as improving the auction mechanics to be more in-line with common online auction sites such as eBay. Similarly, high value and low volume items should be kept off the market and be limited to contracts, providing more opportunities for the seedier side of EVE.

Research and Production
Clearly, the UI needs some massive work for production, and simple (from the users perspective) things the ability to ‘select all and manufacture’ would be nice. However, a revamp of corp and POS mechanics in general would also be welcome, finally allowing public research/production to work as intended, and corporations to properly use each others services in an alliance while not opening up security issues. Similarly, NPC research should probably scale in cost based on usage the same way corporation offices do, or otherwise be completely removed once corporation public research is updated.

Other
Corp Interface
Its clear for anyone who has tried to use this that it requires a massive amount of reworking, from titles to hangars and wallet divisions. This would obviously be a major project, and touch on many areas of EVE, and proper and logical documentation would go some way toward making social groups at least appear somewhat safer.

Customisable UI
Customizable UI stuff, I'm not certain on - it really depends just how much work would be involved for CCP vs the result, especially as it would generate more bug reports for UI things as everything has to work with English, German, Russian and Japanese now, plus improving the UI for everyone would probably be quicker and easier.

Anything else?
Post here or go ask: http://www.formspring.me/kelduum

Sure there are. Only 10-25% of people drop corp during wardecs. So you still have most of the Uni, in station, whining that wardecs are so boring and they suck. (Occasionally a fleet goes out to alleviate some boredom.) You also have the fact that of the people that drop corp, not all of them return. Case in point, when the Uni his 2000 members last year, they right afterwards, went through a period of being under wardec for three (maybe four) weeks straight. Once the dust had settled, they had 1500 members. Five hundred people never returned. That could be a valid goal of a wardec, screw with their recruitment, over work their personnel officers after the decs complete, just make people generally angry and whiney ... lower morale. All sorts of reasons to go to war beyond just pewpewing.

Kelduum, whoever convinced you that its a good idea to run is incapable of seeing the potential for leaders.

They say that "those who can't, teach", I think your position in Eve University is the perfect place for you. Continue to teach mediocrity and a false sense of ability, they make for excellent cannon-fodder.

So other then you.. who else would want to scew with the recruitment of a corp that teaches people to play the game? You see, it's not the experienced players that stay in the station and complain. Since they just go play on their alts, (or lead the fleets). it's the new kids, the ones that don't have the courage to go and PvP because they don't think they have the skills or the money to do so. (and while yes.. the uni has ship reimbursement, I know I didn't feel right asking for replacements, and would just play my alt instead of risk loosing my ships)

(it was actually about 5 weeks.. with a few days off in between IIRC) Which is when I left.. :D but I plan on going back, to teach once I know enough to be able to do so.


[Edit]
Poetic, you still haven't answered my question from before.. Other then vote for me cause I'm a goon. What's Mittani's running platform? Cause out of the 15 pages. I haven't seen any suggestions for improvement in the game.

Because all the knowledge and experience in the world is best received at the end of a club...

True fact;
The Navy's "Top Gun" Air Combat Maneuvering school is "taught" by the best fighter jocks in the service.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_Strike_Fighter_Tactics_Instructor_program

So, that "truism" is anything but.

And, to put a >fine< point on it - if *anyone* doesn't like how the Uni teaches PVP - the Uni *does* allow outside people to come in and teach classes. But I suggest you bring plenty of instructors...

I originally made the claim not Poetic. Neither Kelduum nor Poetic were able to provide proof to either back up or repudiate my claim despite them both claiming it would be scriptable and thus easy for them to do.

As for the proof, I physically counted them and it was just over eight hundred who were over a year old. Both Kelduum and Poetic said they could automate this process to produce a replicable count method but neither did. Again, I invite both of them to do so.