mynnna
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2014.04.22 12:54:00 -
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Over the last few years we have seen a multitude of changes some good and many at the expense of other playerGÇÖs enjoyment... I'm not defending one group or another, but there is a strong belief that CSM and CCP has lost its way in the balancing of the game. "I'm not getting everything I want" or "I'm not being allowed to continue in my bubble unaffected" is what people are equating to "lost its way."
How do you support mechanics that allow for trail characters to become powerful enough to gank miners, throw-away alts for scamming, or worse create a complete new mechanic in the game to further production that within a month is owned by very large alliances (HS POCO for those who can't read between the lines.) Conversely, miners have better options for resisting ganks in the first place and as Steve noted, recycling said alts is grounds for a ban. I'm not even sure what you're referring to by throwing away alts for scamming (but someone falling for scams from these supposed throw away alts would fall for them from "mains" too, no doubt). And there are something like ten thousand POCOs in highsec, please provide documented proof that every last one of them is owned by very large alliances; also note that the largest such grouping of them that I am aware of them is owned by RvB which, of course, has its roots in highsec.
I have received more EVE mails then I would care to admit from players who are on their way out of EVE because it has lost its fun for them. A place where an escape from RL is no longer possible because the deviants they are trying to avoid in RL are now ruining their fantasy world. Really not earning any points when you label someone whose preferred playstyle conflicts with yours in a game that allows it to as "deviants".
I am not saying High Sec should be a SAFE haven, no, more that the constant introduction of mechanics that appear to nerf one group over any other is appalling. I see more and more how do we keep new players, how do we fix the constant war declarations on small corps, how do we mine in peace. It sure sounds like you're saying highsec should be a save haven. See aforementioned comments about "I want to play in a bubble" though.
I then accuse the CSM of pushing forward their own agenda and/or succumbing to the peer pressure of low/null sec handlers who put them in office. So on a personal level I'm somewhat insulted by your notion that I & others on the council are just "puppets" of "handlers", and I find the subtle implication that you are by contrast a ~free thinker~ to be incredibly pretentious as well. Yet on the other hand, of course the CSM "pushes its own agenda/the agenda of our constituents." By definition that is the agenda with which we are probably the most familiar, and it's the job of an individual CSM member to convince both the rest of the CSM and CCP that it's an agenda of value. The sum total of those actions by each individual member that leads to the whole game getting represented, rather than the ridiculous idea that every member is supposed to be intimately familiar with every aspect of the game so as to represent it all, as so many uninformed or naive players like to claim. I should also point out that if you do a bad job of convincing the rest of the CSM that your agenda is of value, you're probably not going to have much luck convincing CCP, either.
CCP needs to invest more in surveying newer players and players who cancel subscriptions to determine the loss of revenue I agree, it would be a good idea to investigate players who cancel do so. What you're doing is assuming that they don't already do this.
...instead of turning a blind eye to the internal relationships and behind the scenes gifts they give to a specific player base. [Citation Needed] Member of the Goonswarm Economic Warfare Cabal |