This thread is to provide a consolidated place for my constituents to ask questions and receive personal responses from me.

In the midst of Goonswarm's campaign against the mining bots cluttering up empire, there has been a tremendous amount of noise and distortion about my opinions and positions as Chairman of the CSM, which have nothing to do with my perfectly honorable and reasonable desire to drop Brutixes on Exhumers.

While I do not promise to suffer fools or kiss babies, I'm happy to clarify my positions on the issues of the day if you're wondering what I think about... whatever, be it the hybrid changes, whether there should be insurance payouts for CONCORD killmails, or lunatic conspiracy theories about how I hate wormholes.

I'm going to toss a link to this thread into my sig and just turn it into a general Chairman's FAQ as it progresses.

I know that it's ~completely mindblowing~ for a hiseccer, but most nullsec alliances don't mine. Except IRC.

Mining is awful. Don't do it.

Lol Tier 3 BC's are way less tough than tier 2. They are glass canons, only usable against enemies that are unable to hit them (BS and bigger)

I believe a good middle ground to this is to have more tournaments or have some sort of automated tournament. The idea would be to still have the large one every year or something like a championship tournament where the winners to get a new ship. Then have smaller ones where the winners just get something like 1Bill isk or a few faction cruiser blueprints to keep the same people from winning it over and over.

You could follow the same rules or go with a smaller setup something like a 6v6. Maybe even do a bi-monthly or ever 4 month tournament where the winner get 1 BPC from a past alliance tournament, seeing some more Imperial Apcos in game would be cool. I think the whole competitive PvP is very under looked at in Eve when it could be something big if given enough love. I mean just look at something like DOTA2 where they had a 2million dollar tournament.

I'm one of those newbies and I can confirm the rather hands-off approach CCP takes to things like scamming, ganking, lying, and general skullduggery is a big draw of the game compared to most other big name MMOs.

Is that your way of ignoring the fact that your false on it's face assertions that PVE players are afraid to risk ships doesn't hold up to the simple fact that PVE players risk their ships twice as often as goons flying in their safe Alliance enclaves surrounded by blue toadies? PVE players are targeted by NPC threats and gank threats everyday. How much risk are you under surrounded by your swarm?

I have no desire to go on and on with you, if u have anything to add about your NPC empire vs nullsec wardec Idea, go and make them.

oh and :

"pro pvp tip" EVE isn't a 1 vs 1 game, you're doing it wrong.

Because we understand that if you find yourself in a fair fight, you've messed up somewhere.

Some consider winning worthwhile.

This is a fair argument, but you are talking about a duel 1 vs 1 which just hardly ever happens in this game (at least I've never seen it occur spontaneously aside from people in corp duking it out.

PVP in EVE is so much more than just 2 guys shooting at eachother. The intel gathering, fleet composition, tactics, leadership, the metagame in general is what makes EVE interesting (at least to me)

one vs one duels are possible but are largely irrelevant when it comes to "real" pvp engagements in EVE today.

Ah Leader, how fare you today?

Question, how would you feel about the removal of barges/exhumers from hi-sec as a carrot/stick incentive for Industrials to advance into low and null?