Do you feel that it is decorous of a CSM candidate to engage in frivolities such as heckling another potential CSM candidate?

I thought it was more of a good-natured pun than honest heckling.

Also, I followed it up with an honest compliment about his interview, so no poor interpretations would be made.

AT LEAST BY XENURIA.

I can see that we simply have a fundamental difference of opinion regarding what constitutes 'good' food and what is a culinary catastrophe. Honestly, I don't feel that it is going to be of any benefit to either of us to continue this debate unless you can change your barbaric world views first.

Your time in TEST has clearly distorted your world view on what is good and not when it comes to food. Beef and pork are, when given proper chili love, the greatest of pairings. Next you'll be telling me you use tomato in it as well.

Xenuria, what is your position on the pork/no pork chilli question?

Wait. Wait. Stop right there. Are you seriously telling me that you believe that beef and pork should ever be mixed?

Wait. Wait. Stop right there. Are you seriously telling me that you believe that beef and pork should ever be mixed?

And do you believe that the two do not belong together, a glorious matrimony of meaty delight?

And do you believe that the two do not belong together, a glorious matrimony of meaty delight?

Meatloaf. You lose.

He wouldn't mix them..

OK so it's true that meatloaf is a mixture of meats. That doesn't make it right. Meatloaf is the food of the working classes. No self-respecting gentleman would eat meatloaf for Sunday dinner - he'd have roast lamb, roast beef, roast duck, roast turkey. Lamb curry or beef stew if he was feeling lazy. He wouldn't mix them.

Just because it happens, doesn't make it right.

Then your hoity-toity bourgeois "self-respecting gentleman" has no taste or imagination and his meals will rightfully suffer for it.

I'll probably be banned for this, but anyone who says meatloaf is an abomination has never had properly made meatloaf.

I'll probably be banned for this, but anyone who says meatloaf is an abomination has never had properly made meatloaf.

Wait. Wait. Stop right there. Are you seriously telling me that you believe that beef and pork should ever be mixed?

So what you're saying is you'll use big words in attempts to confuse the masses and hope for the vote of the carebears? I don't get it.

While I would hesitate to agree that beef stew is inherently superior to stews that use other types of meat, I would certainly agree that any meat stew is better than any meatless stew, because meat owns.

Virtually every curry I make basically has the meat cooked separately and added last, whereas stew you throw everything in and cook it together.

You've never made a Thai curry, or if you have, you did not make it right. Sorry, but the meat needs to soak in the flavours.

Are you coming out in favour of anatomically correct avatars?

Well it's a good thing you weren't planning to vote for me anyway.

I am officially announcing my candidacy for the 8th Council of Stellar Management. This thread will be used to answer questions. Any questions I answer that I feel are important or meaningful will be posted in the OP.



-Core Platform-


Risk vs Reward
My central focus is the concept of Risk vs Reward, this is something that effects almost everything a player can do in EvE.
Currently there is a good deal of mathematical inconsistency when it comes to the way in which PVE content rewards players as well as the proportion of risk(s) that would lead to said rewards. I think the new AI changes were a step in the right direction in so far as they discourage people from just going afk and disengaging from the content. I personally feel like players should be rewarded not just for completing a task/mission but for how effective they are at doing it. Right now there is a stagnation as players do the same missions over and over again with the same reward each time now matter how quickly or slowly or dispationatly they finish the task. If missions and pve encounters were tooled in such a way that they rewarded based on factors like combat effectiveness or how few people were used to complete the encounter this would be better. In this example somebody who warps in and deploys drones before going to make food would make way less isk and loyalty points than somebody who has a pimped out ship that steamrolls through the opposition.

New Player Experience
Secondary to my focus on Risk vs Reward is the New Player Experience. New players will be encouraged to do the tutorial and then the career agents; sometimes they will even do the noob arc but what then? I have been getting a great deal of feedback from people whom I have given buddy invites and the most common source of confusion and frustration is "what do I do now?". After doing the tutorial, Career Agents and then the noob arc there really isn't much in the way of guidance. I am not saying hold hands but I am saying there should be something that influences less intuitive players to the effect that they set out a plan of action that they ultimately find rewarding.

Can you define gender for us?

Edit: OK, serious question about your CSM candidacy: if you were to go to Iceland, what kind of stew would you have there, and why?