Your views on the place of moongoo are excellent. "An organizational perk, but not absolutely necessary to be remotely competitive" is about as perfect a place for moongoo as you can get. I'd be willing to state that the majority of people who comment on moongo don't even know that it was never the intent for technetium to be the bottleneck, nor even the nature of the bottlenecking inherent in current t2 extraction and production that is the ultimate cause of all the moongoo issues.

The knee-jerk reaction seems to be "remove moons" or something else similarly extreme, while even in their broken state they have provided half a decade of decent gameplay. If done right for once, moons absolutely have a place in Eve, as they are an organizational reward and, all else being equal, an excellent way to provoke fights.

Incidentally, I specifically disclaim any promises to make tomorrow better.

Well I've addressed nullsec in quite some detail already Was there anything I've not covered to your satisfaction?

PS No whiteknighting please; I'll slay my own trolls.

Oh he's left now has he?

I think Ronin's going for a very different consituency than the one I'm aiming at, and perhaps his electoral tactics makes better sense than mine. I'm really only aiming for that segment of the voters that is interested in improving the game as a whole, using methods based on evidence and logic, rather than baseless conspiracy theories.

I think that you, on the other hand, would be best represented by Ronin, and I wholeheartedly recommend him to you.

I want to like Malcanis' candidacy. But then I see Frying Doom supports him. I feel like I'm being tricked.

I guess my question is what in particular about Malcanis places him outside of your empty-chair-0.0-CSM-Rep (regardless of how it comes across to you, no one actually says any of those things except maybe number 1 and even then none of the "they should have to move" stuff) .

Your future EVE is one I share too (maybe move WH above sov), and I think most of the rest of the CSM, certainly the null sec guys like Elise and Seleene, would agree with like 90% of that stuff.

But those facts don't ever seem to connect with you. So why Mal?

Well to name only the most obvious example, the "answer" to the very first question in his list is the direct opposite of my view. Rather than hi-sec being nerfed to reflect it being a starter area, I think the way we look at hi-sec needs to be completely revolutionised, because it's clearly and obviously not just a starter area and hasn't been for the majority of EVE's existence.

Pretty sure I've posted directly in response to you in several threads saying as much if not more. You either ignored the information or didnt believe it credible, hardly my/our fault ;) But that may have been your old perspective at work; the new you is looking up.

So Malcanis, are you the candidate of public bickering? SPOON THROWING?

Null is always going to import from hi-sec, if only because of comparitive advantage.

Null needs massive numbers of miners now; it's just that most of those miners are in hi-sec.

Ok so lets just look at Goonswarm and Test the biggest 2 to answer that.

Goonswarm 71 outposts
Test alliance 67 Out posts

So combined 138 Outposts
So under Tippias proposal they would have 48300 Manufacturing slots equaling 966 Hi-sec stations
48300 Copy Slots equaling 4830 High sec stations
48300 Invention slots equaling 2415 Hi-sec stations
48300 Material Research Stations equaling 2415 Hi-sec stations
48300 Time Efficiency Research equaling 2415 Hi-sec stations.

These calculations done at 350 per station so assuming they all have advanced upgrades but are not Industry type.

All of Hi-sec Empire contains 2996 Stations so just between the outposts owned by goonswarm and TEST would be greater than the manufacturing capability of the whole of high sec.
So yeah I do feel that would be unbalanced and having gone over the numbers like this I would be more inclined to say 5-10% of the amount you want would be balanced.

If CCP give me Outpost-focused wishes, what I would like to see is outposts that are defined by being a bonus platform that can be customised with modules - very analogous to fitting a ship.

To use an example, an Amarr outpost should have a unique and unduplicatable manufacturing bonus, something that no NPC station has and no other outpost can get, just as a ship (For example, a Force Recon) has a specific set of bonuses.

The players should then be able to customise the outpost as they like. The model I'd like to see is that outposts have 4 prime characteristics; manufacturing, refining, research and offices. Each outpost should therefore have 10 upgrade slots; 4 primary, 3 secondary, 2 tertiary, 1 quaternary. The Primary slots will always be dedicated to that outpost's bonused function: Amarr outposts can fit 4 manufacturing upgrades, 3 upgrades of whatever the owners decide is that station's secondary function, 2 for what the tertiary function is and 1 for what the quaternary function. Likewise, a Caldari station can fit 4 research upgrades, etc etc. An upgrade would cost 1B for the first in a function, 2B for the second, 3B for the 3rd, 4B for the 4th. So to completely upgrade an outpost with 10 upgrades would cost 10 + 6 + 3 + 1 = 19 billion ISK

As for the precise numbers, obviously that's up to CCP, but a fully upgraded Amarr station should provide at least as many slots as a top-end hi-sec system (400-450). That obviously implies +100 slots per upgrade level.

I haven't gone over the numbers of research slots needed yet, but again the principle of a fully upgraded Caldari outpost being at least as good as the best hi-sec systems should be maintained.

On a side note, I'd be absolutely fine with outpost upgrades being a shootable service and a suitable medium-gang objective to provoke fights.

you already got mine

My reply above was in response to Flying Doom's question "Do you think it is the CSM's job to represent the players".


I assume he actually meant to ask this of another candidate rather than throw me such an easy softball

You really DON'T have a clue as to how this all works, do you.

The minute the CSM fails to be of use to CCP is the minute it ceases to exist. The more practical benefit we provide the company, the longer we preserve our ability to operate and serve as the voice of the people. CSM7 has elevated the status of the institution internally by making ourselves too useful to ignore, and its now up to CSM8 to carry that momentum into their term as well.

Especially with a new EP entering the picture at some point in 2013, its all the more critical that we prove our value to as wide a cross-section of the company as possible. Otherwise, new management may decide that an expensive handful of ragey players that can't channel their energy into anything more constructive than ranting on forums or skype isn't worth the effort.

Perhaps you might like to infer something from the fact that I was the only candidate paying close enough attention to the community to slip an answer in before you edited it

It's very, very easy to consider CSM7 as an ineffective CSM, simply because the only major thing I've seen the CSM7 being particularly involved in (not that I've been paying that much attention, but still) was the STV-gate.

Maybe until the results are announced. After that there'll be a huge boom in the A BLOO BLOO THE CSM IS A NULL FIX AND DOESN'T REPRESENT ME threads by a bunch of crying non-voters, to whom I will be savagely unsympathetic.

Non voters should put in the effort to educate themselves as to why they should vote for me after all.

I got my first CSM hatemail already GÖÑ