Just ignore the people you disagree with. This is a thread for me to discuss issues with actual constituents, not to have a slapfight with lunatics who have never used a jump bridge in their life.

Just ignore the people you disagree with. This is a thread for me to discuss issues with actual constituents, not to have a slapfight with lunatics who have never used a jump bridge in their life.

I have a few questions mostly directed towards your position as the null-sec representative, there fairly interlinked questions so feel free to structure the answers as you see fit.

Q:do you think the coming supercapital changes are going to shift null battles away from super cap pilots being the most desired by the alliances

Q:sub cap fleets today have mostly moved to just BCs (whelpcanes, drake) do you think null batttles will now shift back to the tactical BS fights of yore, which we quite frankly call "the good old days"

Q:do you think the coming gallente changes are enough to make their ships viable across the board for null-sec life/battles

Q:some players (myself) have a strong inclination to want to fly just one factions ships, generally because of a combination of looks/mechanics/feel, do you think this kind of thought is applicable/viable in null-sec in general

You have been quite vocal when it comes to the RMT and Botting that it is up to CCP to police there own game how exactly does that reconcile in your own and the CSM's role of "policing" ccp, bringing players together to fight any changes in eve that are seen as wrong or impact the game as a whole.

How can you justify sitting on the fence and saying it is not ours or a players problem, I agree ccp needs to put more effort into dealing with these problems but as my local police man told me "we can not be everywhere, we need your help and comunity support to deal with these issues" If we do not take a stand if leaders do not help set a standard nothing that ccp does will solve this.

This may be their world but it is our home. I have actually left alliances and lost "friends" because I did what I believe was right in standing up to RMT and botters.

Oh great and powerful King of Space,

I have but a few small questions for you that I hope you will bless with answers.

1 - How does it feel to be so incredibly ~spacefamous~ that your name causes people to go on spy hunts? (The Mittani sends his regards.)

2 - You miss Prencleeve, right? I mean seriously.

3 - As your sponsoree, have I done you proud?

4 - Is it true that I'm actually your alt? Riverini seems to indicate that I am and I can't disprove it.

Last one, I promise:



This makes sense to me, even if it does not quite cover the (un-?)importance of supply lines in such a conflict. But then, I'm not an armchair general but an armchair armchair general, and I look at such things from a purely academic perspective as opposed to your practical one.

Still, from what I understand, jump clones are the key to projecting power as a null point null entity. Do you think it is to the broader game's best interest that they can do that so effectively no matter the distance, or would you prefer alliances to suffer drawbacks the further they deploy from home? If it is the latter, would you like CCP to have a close look at jump clones, big wrench in hand?

First and foremost; Great job on bringing more than an ounce of relevance to the CSM. And the quick stir to the politics of EVE.

My Question;

As a professional running a law practice myself and not having the time to really dedicate to EVE. I am now relegated to casual play time in high-sec. Do you feel EVE can remain committed to FiS for even the casual player or do you advocate more to the hard core player base.

Putting yourself in the casual/time limited players shoes, What do you think could be done better to attract and retain this kind of player?

*snip: hella words*
Am I just crazy, or would eve be far more interesting if null sec was actually a place where people lived, buying, selling, mining and manufacturing things?

Countless small things would need to be adjusted as well. For example, the access rights on mobile labs are currently useless. One outpost per system may not be enough, or outposts will need more research/manufacturing slots. Agents in player owned stations would be nice, better yet, allow sov owners to pay for missions or rat bounties (or add their own isk to rat bounties) in their systems and have the number of missions completed and rats killed give a benefit to the sov holders (tougher sov structures, cheaper maintenance costs, whatever).

Is CCP looking at doing anything like this to shake things up or are they quite happy with the current state of the game and sov warfare?

Dear mittens,

Which do you think had a greater impact on CCP's recent face-heel-turn: the CSM's media zergrush, or the drop in subscriptions?

If the latter, what effects do you think this use of such a "blunt instrument" will have on EVE's future?

Everywhere in EVE is dangerous. You're trying to say that the reward for months of effort and billions of isk expended to claim and hold space should be circumvented by a single ******* module on a single ******* ship just so you can avoid a couple of gate camps? It's ridiculous and flies in the face of the anti-solo gameplay that makes this game.

Hell, why shouldn't the pos you're trying to hack just blow you up the instant you uncloak? This is why it's a dumb idea, sorry it just is.

So people using jumpbridges and POS's because they "metagamed" the password and thus took advantage of all that hard work somebody else build up are just plain unfair? Shouldn't you go cry in a corner somewhere in stead of playing eve?

I was under the impression people could allready do all this, providing they "steal" the pasword by metagaming. Although now paswords will be eliminated.

You have to be blue to the alliance that controls the JB before you can use it, password or no.

btw currently there is no way to allow blues into a pos' forcefield without the use of a password right ?

And getting the password to the pos shields so you can get in and bump/kill/steal ships in it(or even funnier, hide from the owners in it) IS fair, because you are taking care of an intel screw up on the part of the owning entity.

Mittani, what do you think about all the stuff that is coming out of CCP regarding eve these last few weeks. I find it amazing that a high number of features and ideas get implemented in record time while some of these things have been asked for years. Have they been stocking up on ideas and only now gotten enough people to actually implement them or is this all a big co+»ncidence a perfect "white swan event", with carbon being finished for the UI etc, etc.

Is GM Thunder correct in banning recruitment scamming and were the CSM consulted? https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=31744&find=unread

I agree, I was being sarcastic. But ganking/trolling/harshness has to work both ways. And lets be honest, POS's paswords where a bit more secure then JB paswords but in practice they are ineffective and more annoying then a decent security measure.

It is not correct, and no, the CSM were not consulted. I think that instituting some kind of protection against scamming for newbies would be wise from a business perspective, somewhere below the 1-million sp level. However, most of the people who fall for recruitment scams are veteran player who should damn well know better, not newbies.

So here we see a policy apparently aimed at protecting newbies that offers no such protection, cuts off an honorable and noble profession, and coddles the weak, wealthy and ignorant.

I think that instituting some kind of protection against scamming for newbies would be wise from a business perspective, somewhere below the 1-million sp level.

That idea in like, page... 3? About hijacking ships doesn't pan out, but there is an idea there -- how about having Salvaging affect the drop rate of mods from PVP targets? A person good at salvaging would be better at recognizing that that Dark Blood Mega Pulse Laser would work just fine with a little polish and duct tape, for example.

Or, oh hey, maybe a small chance for a "ruined hull" to drop whenever a ship is destroyed, allowing people with big enough cargo holds to scoop those up and repair them via the crafting system at a station someplace. Would add an entire new dynamic to post-fleet ops, and give newbies and craft-centric players something to do -- instead of just cleaning up belt rats via Salvagers and Tractor Beams, a newbie grab a broken version of a Gurristas Saboteur and make a frigate out of it.

To say nothing about the dynamic that could add to faction spawns and the like. Get an officer spawn, luck out and have the ruined officer spawn's hull drop, and drag that sucker back to a station to repair it for yourself.

Nutter . . . fair enough, I play and write

hahahahahaha

I'm sorry to ruin the constructive thread but mother of god