Check your mail Hans fark

Guys.
Sigma once FC'd from his car while he was driving.
It was loltastic

First, there was no retreat. We saw the changes our minmatar csm overlord was pushing for and we decided we didn't want to risk being locked out of our stuff. Now with the increase in flip times its not such a worry.

Second, Egg is closer to the Minmatar bases than our old base. If anything we advanced! Use a little better judgement in your words Hans.

Third, and final, I hoped when I voted for you I was voting for a FW csm voice. Now Im sure I voted for a Minmatar CSM. You can say all you want about how you pushed for fair changes but dev blogs and patch notes say so much more than you. Im really sorry I wasted my vote this year. Next year I won't make the same mistake.

Hans is now saying station lockouts are tolerable.

edit: BTW I do not think hans was biased to minmatar. I just think he has been biased toward ccps and csm 6s plans to make this null sec light. Specifically his advocating Station lockouts and long flip times.

Personally I am not in favor of anything that prevents the losing side from putting up a fight. Including station services. Gate fire from stations is fine because that doesn't effect fighting in plexes.

Long flip times just favor the side that can get a blob. Shorter flip times would favor hit and run small gangs. The shorter flip times also brought about more pvp in and around plexes.

Anyway I wrote a seperate thread on this issue with a more detailed analysis of the pros and cons.

Reset is irrelevant, he should have dug his heels in when they said they wanted to implement draconian consequences without first addressing the damn balance .. since he didn't he must have an agenda as of yet undisclosed.

Always get this warm and fuzzy feeling (and a small psychotic tick) when a person I supported/voted/promoted turns out to be something entirely different

They won't have the standings to pull it off. But let 'em come. Moar fun.

Sigma, explain how this leads to a revival? I want some detailed reasoning as to how.

Cause All i see is tracks being laid for it to be null sec light. Needing logistic chains and super blobs is where this leads cause we already see that in Null. And they are overlaying Null over FW. Instead of making FW its own experience they are just making it a variant of null sec style game play long run.

All i see is your options being limited high sec and null sec variants of play as opposed to the old High, Low, Null.

They are taking three different ways to play and distilling it too only two ways to play the game.

Well I think its clear CCP' expansion is not at all in line with the ideas he ran on from 3:52 on. But it is not GÇ£hans's expansion.GÇ¥ In fact most of this was probably already done by the time he took office. I don't think we can blame him for this.


When he says leave all the empire building resource management blobs and political drama to null sec, well that is what we are getting.

Already you see someone saying "the problem" with amarr is we aren't "organized." We have multiple fcs running small gangs. This is supposedly the problem??? In other words we need to all get in one big blobby fleet. And indeed the side that does that will win with these mechanics.

The other answer we hear is that we should start recruiting more players. Yep we need bigger and bigger blobs if we want to have fun in this proposed mechanic.
What happened to making the mechanics fun for roaming pvpers?
The 2 end results are either a large null sec alliance comes and swings the battle, or it just ends in stagnation. Neither option sounds very good based on the ideas we had in mind when we voted hans in.
I donGÇÖt think this is hansGÇÖs fault though. I just wish ccp would recognize what the people who voted for hans had in mind.

Because people leave enviroment where they get four times as much LP for same effort as opposition for more challenging enviroment because ultimately people want pvp and not isk farming --- CCP's train of thought.

If you believe that, I might have several decent bridges to sell...

Bolded the incorrect bits. You can only ever bring Dramiels to minor plexes, too, and you'll begin to note weird patterns of behavior in your enemies (why are they so rude? Why do they keep leaving?), and you may even get so used to justifying your actions that you settle on a few that sound particularly good to your ear ("if you don't like it, buy your own Loki booster alt"; "This is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARTA"). But don't be so ******* surprised every time you're called out about it.

Yes I agree this may be what people do. But it would take allot of lp and therefore a coodinated effort to do this.


As far as people draining your lp while you sleep I suppose they would but you gain lp from doing offensive plexes 2xs as fast as they will be able to drain yours. So I'm not sure you would defend it even if you were awake and solely concerned about lp.


Anyway now that I know a bit more about how the lp banks work I think this is looking allot better than I initially thought. They definitely put some thought into this I will give them credit there.

Well that was bizarre. And oddly timed, just as he was beginning to give CCP some credit for coming up with some sensible mechanics. :-P