Excellent announcement speech.

Much better than a lot of the other candidates

THARD REVEALED POLACY
FW did a great job at getting people into low but it has completely ruined the scaling of mission rewards in lowsec. Previously you were looking at like 6k LP for a good l4 in highsec, 9k for the same in lowsec. However now we're looking at easily 30k, often twice that, for easy FW missions which have the same LP store items. So lowsec missioning has become completely marginalised, it lacks the safety of highsec or the pay of FW. FW did a good job of stimulating lowsec activity but it has made a lot of existing stuff redundant. Substantially increase the payout on the mid tier (lowsec) pirate personal effects that get sold to concord buy orders too in order to give exploration the same love that other parts of lowsec got.

All my accounts will vote for this.

I am concerned about this as he makes no mention of the Worm Hole Mission runners, now they are most in need of respite.

ABOVE NOT ACTUAL POLACY
Just good ideas.

biomass yourself, then proceed to burn your computer to the ground, then move to the antarctic.

biomass yourself, then proceed to burn your computer to the ground, then move to the antarctic.

Hmm... Special ship needed for hunting them? Maybe made out of wood with harpoon based weapon system that keeps them from flying away into space and smashing stuff.

I already promised Gorski Car my votes, but I'm going to have to withdraw that and throw in with KwarK uK on the strength of the space worm idea.

As a result, I am starting a KwarK uK for CSMDONATION FUND to which you can contribute. Just send your ISK, as much as you can spare, or if you're quitting the game, all of it, to me, Lysenko Alland, with KWARK DONATION FUND in the comment.

I will make sure your funds get put to good use.

Edit: If the comment does not exactly read KWARK DONATION FUND, then I cannot promise that the funds will be put to good use. Sorry.

Why would Kwark need anymore isk he already has a win Somerblink button. All he has to do is push it and he instantly wins any blink/gingablink/promoblink/bonk/ect.

Hmm... Special ship needed for hunting them? Maybe made out of wood with harpoon based weapon system that keeps them from flying away into space and smashing stuff.

Why would Kwark need anymore isk he already has a win Somerblink button. All he has to do is push it and he instantly wins any blink/gingablink/promoblink/bonk/ect.

That is Uber not Kwark. Please don't vote for the wrong person. If uber runs I encourage you to vote for him too.


Kwark for CSM8. I now have my third candidate.

THARD REVEALED POLACY
FW did a great job at getting people into low but it has completely ruined the scaling of mission rewards in lowsec. Previously you were looking at like 6k LP for a good l4 in highsec, 9k for the same in lowsec. However now we're looking at easily 30k, often twice that, for easy FW missions which have the same LP store items. So lowsec missioning has become completely marginalised, it lacks the safety of highsec or the pay of FW. FW did a good job of stimulating lowsec activity but it has made a lot of existing stuff redundant. Substantially increase the payout on the mid tier (lowsec) pirate personal effects that get sold to concord buy orders too in order to give exploration the same love that other parts of lowsec got.

I disagree with bubbles in low for the same reason that I disagree with doomsdays and other sov upgrades. In fact, I'd see titan bridging in low added to the list of banned things. Lowsec is meant to be a smaller pond than the one you nullsec guys swim in, devoid of the superweapons and advanced logistical things. While nullsec certainly has its advantages and is a very important and entertaining part of the eve experience there's already quite a lot of it. I don't see any reason to pave over lowsec, which has its own diverse culture, with more nullsec.

Sorry Powers.

Please add bubbles and ecm bonuses(tied to FW control) to lowsec.

I disagree with bubbles in low for the same reason that I disagree with doomsdays and other sov upgrades. In fact, I'd see titan bridging in low added to the list of banned things. Lowsec is meant to be a smaller pond than the one you nullsec guys swim in, devoid of the superweapons and advanced logistical things. While nullsec certainly has its advantages and is a very important and entertaining part of the eve experience there's already quite a lot of it. I don't see any reason to pave over lowsec, which has its own diverse culture, with more nullsec.

Sorry Powers.

RANT ABOUT LOWSECS

Lowsec space is great in my opinion. It has easy access to highsec, the risk is somewhat lower due to limitations on bubbles and the like and there's no sovereignty, you can go anywhere and dock anywhere and so forth. But unfortunately actually spending time in lowsec causes you to lose sec status, even if you're just hoping to be a carebear you're often forced to fire first as the inty mwds at you in a site. I like lowsec a lot, I like the increased risk, I like the potential for sudden PvP, I like hunting people and I quite like being hunted. It's good, it's solid game design, but again, poor implementation. The game goes "oh, so you want to take advantage of all this amazing content in lowsec, that's fine, you can have that, hope you don't mind if I take away all the highsec content from you unless you jump through an incredibly pointless and arbitrary set of hoops". Well actually game, I do mind losing access to all highsec content just because I want to spend time in lowsec and I don't think the system used for sec status gain is in any way good.

Next comes the colossal imbalance in reward between comparable activities. Now, I'm not a space communist, I understand that different activities have different complexities, player skills required and so forth. I understand that knowing which are the high value activities and which are not often involves spreadsheeting and it's perfectly reasonable that ignorance results in a lower income. That's not what this is about. What this is about is that comparable activities which are comparable in game skills needed, risk, market awareness and all the rest of it are essentially a lottery in terms of the result because there is no consistency in the reward given when CCP introduced stuff to the game. I think part of this comes down to CCP not really playing their own game (as evidenced by Inferno and the fw problems) but it is an issue. A working knowledge of opportunity cost leads players to the conclusion that if they're in lowsec doing PvE that isn't fw missions, even if it's regular missions in the same space, then they're actually paying for the privilege of not indulging in the broken mechanic. What I would like to see is the reward for comparable activities scaled, rather than just being the result of an arbitrarily assigned number some years ago. Tiericide and t1 ship revamps are slowly dealing with the power creep that made some hulls obsolete but the exact same process of new content making old content obsolete has happened to entire parts of the game and that also needs to be addressed.

There are more examples which I'm sure other people have experienced, I raise these ones only because they're the ones nearest to my heart but what matters is the underlying principle. There is a problem of arbitrary and partial implementation of good game design in eve that creates a barrier to entry and actively disincentivises engaging in a lot of the content in the game. Entire parts of the game have become figurative pre-patch stabber with any value they ever had stripped away by new content. What I would like to see is for CCP to take a step back from pushing shiny new expansions and instead look at what they've done over the last few years and try and impose some kind of system on it to make content accessible and rational. I'm very happy to say that CCP seem to be of the same opinion with their new ship changes trying to redress the problems expansions have created over the years but the problems go beyond that.


TLDR: Give living in lowsec some love by making the stuff in the game make sense and not punish people for choosing to lowsec. I'm an angry angry man.

I would agree that much of EVE, possibly even all of EVE, is truly awful in both design and implementation. But somehow the combination of all of EVE's badly assembled facets manage to combine with the single shared harsh sandbox concept to make a game that is far better than it's component parts. I've yet to find a game that makes a better fist of what EVE does well... but it seems that the price we pay for the few gems is that everything else is truly and outrageously bad.

Apologies gentlemen. I was too busy undocking and engaging in honourable lowsec/nullsec solo PvP that I forgot to apply to CSM. I submitted it late and they wouldn't accept it.