Jita Park Speakers Corner

Neither do I claim to be able to design balanced ships that could find their niché. The main problem here is - I think - that a lot of ships allready aren't used at all (or hardly). So far I have seen a grand total of 2 EWar frigates in my EvE playing time (which is only 5 months but still) - but hundreds of Canes, Drakes and Machs and a good score of Harbys, Myrms, Curses etc.

I can remember having seen design concepts for a T3 in the "Design a ship"-contest. It didn't even make finals (it didn't look that great but still far superior to some of the other concepts).
I believe CCP could/would figure T3 BS' out - but it would still be nice to have some kind of variation to the standart pattern of Amarr=Armor/Lasers (Caldari=Shield/Missiles and so forth) as well as having a justification for all subs they give us (Hardpoint Efficiency configuration here again - no justification to use it at all whatsoever).

Regarding ships&modules - I don't even read that anymore. Most of the people crying, I mean criticising stuff in there sound as if they can't even see 2 steps ahead of them.
I accept your point of view on no discussion. After all this is your thread - not mine, and not about T3.

Yeah, I advocate finding roles for lost ships before we start adding new ships at this point, especially multi-role ones. Find a place in the game for EAFs and the Eos, then we can get cracking on 100m isk modular interceptors maybe :)

I'm pretty excited myself to see what these will eventually be made of anyway.



Of course. It's just an immunization reaction, I basically felt like **** for two days, couldn't move my arm without pain for another day, and now I just have a big swollen bruise where the shots went in. It's not that bad. No, really. Plenty of people know I have gone through FAR worse. oh my god so much worse

I never planned on going to Iceland. If I end up going I will have exceeded all expectations. I'm here because Pinky Feldman told me to run on the 7th (o7 mate), and because Bryan Havoc, CAAN0N, Szilardis, HellGate fr, and numerous other people I know shocked me by backing him up. I had no idea I would be here, no idea that STRANGERS thought it'd be a good idea for me to be here, and I'm still pulling my **** together. I do not have a campaign team, I don't have alliances or large corporations backing me: I have you guys. If you think I would be a good addition to CSM, it's going to be 80 percent up to you to actively go find people for me to hook up and talk with, sell me to other alliances, and choose what kind of hats you want your avatar to wear.

Just kidding on that last one. I realized that I should clarify something for you guys today, as well. I read Alekseyev Karrde's first Q&A post (he's a cool guy):


Eloquently put. This is absolutely true. I am not here claiming to march down to CCP HQ, armed and armored, ready to stuff some fixes down CCP's throat for you. I'm here to tell you what kinds of things I think would be beneficial to the game, and more importantly WHY I think so. I don't consider myself to be "the hisec candidate," "the wardec candidate," or "the griefer candidate" (lol). I'm a dude who is apparently damn good at the kinds of things that will be asked of the CSM in the future, and based on what people are telling me I guess I am moreso than the majority of the current CSM candidate list. Most of the questions and discussion I've had so far has been related to hisec wars; this is partially because I've been categorized as that guy, and partially because I have an expertise in the matter and am not afraid to say so.

The reason I am telling you ideas about things I'd like to see, and why those posts are really really long, is because I'm demonstrating to you the way that I process things and the reasoning that goes into my decisions. If you want to look for a good CSM candidate, you should look for someone who has a lot of knowledge in the area, isn't a stuck up butt about it, and has a willingness to learn coupled with a strong ability to reason and analyze new information without. In the CSM process, we the players are hiring volunteer game design advisors. That is exactly what is going on, and those are the qualities you should look for.

AND MY AUTOCANNON

/me senses a campaign alt...

(If only his spelling was worse, I'd bring in a maverick1 joke xD )

I call “ bull+++t” on that statement. On all of it.

For one: you cannot honoustly claim here you have kept track of the people that you have had wardecced, and certainly you have not been able to keep a running tally of “Thanks” versus quits. Also, only scary stalker types check back on people...I know, I am one.

It is YOU who blames the other for being “mind-blowingly incompetent to begin with” and in that statement is packed the highsec PVP elitist stance every other serious PVPer spits on.

I never claimed that people who create hardship in EVE are driving people out of EVE. I claim that targeted and continual “griefing” declarations of war on younger corporations cost EVE players that might have developed into valuable additions to the EVE comunity without that pressure.

I am not misrepresenting the pattern of use of declarations of war, in fact I have done extensive research into the goings on surrounding highsec declarations of war.

Furthermore, do not accuse me of being an “endless wellspring of terribleness” and do not apply this blanket statement to corporations being repeatedly wardecced for a plethora of reasons. It highlights your one sided view of the goings on as well as advertises your ignorance and lack of empatic ability for any playstyle but your own.



You are hereby stating that you don't listen to people because they mean the exact opposite of what they say? I would hate to come across you in a bar and have you apply that logic to me when I say “No, I would rather not partake in that helping of rainbow manlove you so kindly offered.”.
Also, making EVE harder does not translate directly in a feeling of succeeding when you cease piling on the “hardship”. Even though you seem to think so.



You seem to be of the belief that quitting EVE happens in a rage over a single loss that breaks the camel's back. Two words for you: asset denail. The asset being the prefered style of play and the denail being the conduct of another. If a fledgeling player is forced to eat excrement for two months they will think twice before renewing that subscription.

You are ragey and you're jumping to conclusions.

If you clicked Show Info on random people more, you'd notice that the majority of the actual active players in EVE have corporation histories that look basically like this. 4 different corporations in your history is NOTHING. If you don't move out to 0.0 and bring all your assets with you, you're a lot more free to move around and spend time with different people without worrying about losing all your stuff.

Just because you've been fanatically loyal to a total of two corporations since your join date in 2009 does not mean that anything else is abnormal, suspicious, or in any way wrong. If you think that maybe changing corporations every 1-4 months is an exploit and counts as corp-hopping, I don't know of anything that can save you.

For one, as I've already said, it has nothing to do with escaping relatiation. If you're butthurt about not being able to fight us, send us a mail and we'll fight you. That goes for any one of my members, I guarantee.

More relevantly, just because I do something that is part of the game does not mean that I think it should be part of the game.

Moar Tears fills a niche. The very same niche that Crimson Federation and 0rphanage fill(ed). It's not a new, unique or particularly notable gimmick, other than they have been known for some pretty high profile kills. Making him out to be a villain because you dislike his gimmick isn't the best way to go about derailing him.

You can go that well enough by challenging his signature line.

That said, having someone who regularly pushes highsec war mechanics to great ends could be valuable in upcoming discussions about lowsec and highsec changes that will surely be a focus in at least one of the next 2 expansions.

He's definitely not top 7 material, but if Widdershins sticks to his area of expertise and becomes an advocate for sensible highsec mechanic changes in regards to CRIMEWATCH, aggression, global criminal flags, wardecs, bounties and kill rights he could be invaluable when the time comes.

That's not correct. I look at the candidates individually for their strengths and encourage the ones who may have unique perspectives to share.

CSM 5 shared a terrible groupthink complex when it came to topics that they had little to no experience with, which led to fiascos like the jump bridge changes. Those changes spurred the nullsec blocs to pack the CSM with their own candidates.

Ultimately while this was a net positive for EVE, now that we've got CCP's attention and all aspects are open for discussion for changes, there's a use for people with very specific expertise. Widdershins is the only highsec wardec/griefer candidate, and having someone who understands the mechanics inside and out has it's benefits.

I'm not really sure what you're trying to prove here other than attempting to derail the thread like Miso the obvious CSM trolling alt(check posting history). In fact, the list of people you chose show a pretty big mix of longterm and shortterm pilots. Ashteron'N'KA, for example, is a 2005 pilot. 14 Non NPC corps is a pretty stable corp history. None of the pilots you've listed have ever to my knowledge left corp to "escape retaliation" as you put it.

The truth is, war decs are broken on both ends. Its too easy for corps and members to just leave and rejoin after the war is over, likewise its way too easy for groups like Lonetrek Salvage and Scrap to abuse these mechanics for offensive purposes.

While we currently may represent a niche, we do understand and accept that what we do under current game mechanics is most likely going to change. Iam and I have had lengthy conversations about this and realize this isn't what CCP intended when they invented the war dec system. With that being said, we want to make sure CCP gets things right when they do change the way dec system and while this may come across as arrogant, after looking at other CSM member's campaign platforms and what they would do to highsec, its clear to me they really dont understand the secondary effects of their proposals.

This is an extremely important CSM election to all members of highsec, be it PVPers or beariest of carebears. Look at CCP's track record of making changes that have tons of unwanted side effects like when they added truesec calculations into the value of nullsec systems in an attempt to make certain space more valuable...they mostly made lots of space useless. Even the most recent anomaly nerf should ring fresh in the heads of most nullsec dwellers. The last thing you want is people losing their blinged out Incursion ships for months due to unwanted game mechanics from a war dec change. Unfortunately, people would rather vote for a politician who promises them what they want and smiles when they pledge to fix what they just made worse...instead of just voting for someone who could have avoided the entire fiasco to begin with.