OK, there's 2 simple points arising.

1) Are you in favour of design changes that encourage sov war to become more about ship to ship combat rather than the current structure grind?

2) Are you in favour of design changes that encourage null sec dominance to be based more on your number of pilots than on your number of supercaps?

How would this be done in a way which isn't exploitable?

What is my vote worth in the grand scheme of things...

I refer you to your own signature for an answer.

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.

Because clearly only YOU care about improving the game, no the carebear can't.

Get over yourself. Vote Herr Ronin.

So while you say you agree with 90% of what I have said (which is great btw) and that most of the CSM probably would as well is also great. So it comes down to this. Why didn't I know? I read these pages everyday, One of the CSMs I think it was Trebor hinted he has similar ideas in a Null sec thread, then later joked with me (which I took the wrong way and attacked, then apologized) but at the end of the day, I did not know the views of the current CSMs given EvE as a whole approach.

At the start of CSM 7 their was a thread in which it was suggested CSM take a greater role in these forums, some did like Seleene's AMA but again that was an ask not the CSM member is involved, yes some things are NDA but your personal views cannot be nor should any member be silent for the sake of unity. You are all different people elected for different reasons, yes you should be seen to ***** argue and fight for the sake of those who elected you. This harmonious front has just caused a lack of information about what you actually stand for.

I would support one nerf to cloakers: a cloaked ship should not be able to actively scan. If you want to use the DSCAN, system scan or probes, you should have to be uncloaked. That would mean a cloaker would have to briefly decloak to locate targets off his grid. That would give you your opportunity to know whether he was active or not.

As it is still unclear to me whether or not the voting method will change in such a way that I have to choose multiple candidates, I'd like some clarification on this matter:

Is this something you would actively push for, or is it something you would only bring out if CCP said "we're hitting cloaking with a nerfbat, we are open to suggestions as to how we do this"?

The first is directly related to the second. As long as we have 100m hp structures, then supers are going to be intensely desirable, because if we wanted to spend hours shooting inanimate objects we'd be mining.

As for supercaps: supercarriers I'm honestly not too bothered about at this stage; they're fairly vulnerable to various accessible subcap doctrines, and they die quite often. Titans I'd like to see repurposed away from the current role of "double super dreadnaught".

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?

What are your plans about lowsec?

My plans can be summarised as:

(1) Endorse Marc Scaurus as "lo-sec" rep; since he's good enough for Hans to endorse, he's good enough for me to do the same, and I encourage any lo-sec people who don't wish to vote for me to vote for him instead.

(2) Sense check any proposals he has to make sure that they don't unintentionally crap on 0.0, or violate my "red line" issues (small chance of this, I think!)

(3) Keep my fool mouth shut on proposing big ideas for an area of space I only have a few months experience with and almost no current investment in until I've run them past Marc (or whoever does get elected as the "lo-sec" rep if it's not Marc)

(4) Put forward such minor lo-sec ideas I have as occurr to me, like a sliding scale ME advantage for NPC stations based on system sec, which would give a production advantage over hi-sec, and making lo-sec the focus of booster production & trade (eg: allowing 'illegal' items like drugs and maybe those pirate tags which can be redeemed for sec status, if we ever get them, to be listed on the market only in lo-sec, not hi-sec)

(5) I'd like to see a change in the way we gain sec status from shooting rats such that it's much more effective to do this in lo-sec than anywhere else.

When it's worth while for 0.0 players to do their mining, ship building, invention, R&D etc etc etc in their own space, then the population of sov 0.0 will rise dramatically (my best guess is that it would at least double, probably more). And all those guys in belts and anoms, hauling ore and datacores, attending to research POS and so on an so forth, those guys right there should be the foundation of a sov alliance's wealth and power, and by their presence and by their importance, right there you have your "small gang" objectives. And that in turn will give "small gang" obectives for the defenders too.

Once voting comes around I reactivate my other half and you get both of my votes.. unless Akita T runs too


[edit]Just got a little question for you too (wont affect above statement):
..could you imagine (once the sustainable population density in nullsec/lowsec is similar to a normal highsec mission running hub - if CCP ever manages this) that it would be a good idea (*) to reinvent intersolar traveling by giving everybody a jumpdrive (even capsules) and scale the speed similar to the warp speed (small = fast, big = slow)?

*) this naturally needs a different way of finding other ships than today, where the points of interaction are determined by celestials/gates/stations/ihubs/pos/moons/etc.pp.

What are your thoughts on power projection?

And I definitely want to see more NPC 0.0. The north in particular badly needs a Curse-style region, close to empire with lots of stations. The NPC 0.0 regions are the spawning ground for small nullsec groups, a viable alternative to the big-bloc lifestyle, and a vital source of relatively small-scale PvP opportunities.

I feel that the issue is that wormholes have supplanted NPC 0.0 for that purpose. They soak up a lot of the talent that is essential to budding nullsec organizations simply because they are so attractive for the groups that would previously set up in NPC 0.0, since small-gang PvP is the norm and you're not going to get stomped by a bunch of bored supercapital pilots.

I have no idea what CCP can do to make NPC 0.0 more attractive for such groups without screwing wormholes beyond belief.

Please don't prove me wrong between now and vote time :)