Tbh I think the whole movement possibilities of fleets is less a problem the whole SOV system is, and I'd much rather CCP put effort into making that better, more dynamic and actually strategic with the possibility of feints and surprise attacks etc.

Which is why I advocate changing the Titan jump bridge mechanism such that the Titan jumps to the cyno and takes any ships within, say, 5000m with it. Remote DD was ridiculously OP because it allowed the Titan to have a massive effect on the battlefield without committing anything except a disposable cyno ship, and remote bridging is OP in exactly the same way.

3.Null corps have (il admit rather old) rap for being highly dominering, most people do understand the concept of following the chain of command but there are limits to this (ultimately fictional) concept, Example: a player wishes to become a soldier in a null corp to participate in null battles, he will follow his superiors orders and fly the appropriate ship/fit/broad skill plan, but say he is told he must dedicate his skill training to some hyper specific plan for the next 6 months to fulfill the a extremely specific role as dictated to him with no deviance, do you support this philosophy and belive it is affecting the desire for people to plunge into Null.

These are ****** corps, but it should be their choice to be ****** corps and your choice to join said ****** corps if you want to.

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These are ****** corps, but it should be their choice to be ****** corps and your choice to join said ****** corps if you want to.

Tbh I'm not convinced that's really the way to go. If any ship should do the whole jump to cyno to deliver fleet maneuvers, it would be the mothership, and for that to happen pilots would have to dock with it prior to jumping.

Actually, I just had an idea. Why not make it so you need two titans to initiate bridging? Source and destination titan. It can be argued that everything else which is bridging other ships than themselves needs a source and destination structure, why not titans. Bridging equipment is huge and requires a lot of fuel and power etc and all that jazz. That way you make it more dangerous to hotdrop something, and you avoid the problem where CCP would invariably just suck up everything in a radius of 5000m, including POS structures or the POS itself, and move it to the cyno system, along with AFK people. Otherwise you'd have a hell of a time taking a titan into POSes or station undocks and bridge AFK people into hostile space and leave them there just because you can.

Tbh I think the whole movement possibilities of fleets is less a problem the whole SOV system is, and I'd much rather CCP put effort into making that better, more dynamic and actually strategic with the possibility of feints and surprise attacks etc.

Fleet movement is an issue because of the SOV. Fix the SOV system and that movement wont be an issue.

If they cant fix the system though, limiting movement would be a nice bandage for the gunshot that is the SOV system.

Huh? Elucidate.

Again, huh?

What about botting? (Either drone ratting bots, or regular mining bots) Fixing the drone rats would definitely help, but do you think that being more aggressive with bots would help miners more?

My question is mainly about blobs.... The game seems to be heading in a direction again where we have no counter at all to massive blobs.With Time Dilation and the way sov works it will end up like it did a little while back,where null eventually settles down and becomes very static and boring with space being held for years by Alliances with no real way to challenge their sov.

Personally I would love the end game to be epic.Where skills, imagination and tactics play a more important role than having loads of characters with average skills who only need to press F1 when told to do so.Imagine if you can wars,instead of being based on single focal points at a time are run over massive battle lines.Where you have both large battles and small battles raging along the 'battle front'.Using different tactics like guerrilla warfare, interception of enemy supply lines,disrupting the industrial side of the enemy(moons,pi) etc,etc.The potential list is endless and would open up some epic gameplay.

Now as I said the game is getting pushed towards massive blobs again and the old 'bring more' or 'you need more friends' isn't a valid argument to let the game go this way.Is the CSM really pushing for null to be this way or are positive steps being looked at to improve gameplay in null so it encourages more people to partake in it and lets all Alliances and Coalitions have a chance to play a role without having to piggy back onto a large blob just to play.

Can you outline why you would be worth voting for in the next election ? Outline what you feel you have achieved for the EVE community in your role as a CSM.
And as a follow up, can you outline what your thoughts are on the future role of Null sec and in particular, NPC null (Where I live.)

Dear Mittens, a few questions regarding Null life in general, as always i leave it to you to answer as you see fit.

1.On a number of occasions when talking with friends/aqquaintences about playing eve, i pitch the sandbox pvp as the main point (null-sec) to subscribing, this leads to the claims that eve endgame is controlled by giant douchebag conglomarats, that are united by the fact that they are all by nature, complete and utter ass-holes, im never quite sure what to say to that, so i ask the (in)famous Mittani for guidance.

2.Null corps have in general a VERY bad rap when it comes to a non multi-year vet applying, storys are abound of endless scams and dashed hopes, do you belive this rap is justified, that it is truly hard to "break into" Null and what impact it has on the state of Null life today.

3.Null corps have (il admit rather old) rap for being highly dominering, most people do understand the concept of following the chain of command but there are limits to this (ultimately fictional) concept, Example: a player wishes to become a soldier in a null corp to participate in null battles, he will follow his superiors orders and fly the appropriate ship/fit/broad skill plan, but say he is told he must dedicate his skill training to some hyper specific plan for the next 6 months to fulfill the a extremely specific role as dictated to him with no deviance, do you support this philosophy and belive it is affecting the desire for people to plunge into Null.

Post-Crucible, what sucking chest wounds are you still trying to bandage? You'll say Sov, what else? Did the super nerf go far enough for you?

This isn't election season. I'm not running a campaign in this thread, I'm answering constituent issues. Make up your own mind.

There's already a ton of posts itt about nullsec and it's role. Specifically re: NPC nullsec, I'd like to see disableable station services on NPC null stations that regenerate fairly rapidly (within a day or two) if not repped by a player. Right now there's a major strategic imbalance between NPC nullsec, particularly in 'pocket NPC space' compared to conquerable null.

Oh Mittens, you're such a pretentious douchebag. But I must say, this is a mighty fine thread you've created here. Now if only the rest of the CSM weren't so damn lazy and would do at least half of the outreach their Chairman does...

I also must say, as much of a douche as you are, you've been a rather effective Chairman and I'm happy to hear you'll be running again for CSM7.

For some people the holy grail of game design for sov warfare would be a system that encourages both military entities to split their forces over many objectives. This would mean that each one of current huge fights would be replaced by a number of concurrent, smaller fights that can be handled more fluidly by our hardware, are more interesting (because )and are more fun.

He said encourages, not forces.

That's a selling point. We ran our most successful newbie drive ever based on the fact that in EVE, and only in EVE, can you be complete and utter assholes to other players.

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.

The forums ate my reply. I'm very much against the fact that the new forums devour posts and 'get ganked' all the time. What a pile of crap.