How will you work to grow the ability of time-limited players to build new play capabilities or actual things in the world?

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So where will you take us in this new frontier CCP is hinting at? A land of opportunity for small business, smugglers, artisans and petty thieves? Or just another field to be conquered and divided by Alexander and Hannibal?

Carebears catch a bad rap for 'not playing the game right'. Man o man do I wish all the miners stopped for a week or two. Watched the supplies dwindle and the prices skyrocket. If a gate needs to be built? Materials have to come from somewhere.

Okay, couple ways to come at this so bear with me if I seem to veer off track.

If I invest time (gametime=money) into a specific role/ship, then what guarantee, or confidence can I have that that role/ship isnt going to change, therefore waste the time it took training into it?

Marauders being an example, Marauders take a lot of time(money) to train into and utilize correctly. If I had trained into a paladin specifically for its web bonus to be used in incursions, then that time(money) was wasted due to "re-balance" since the Paladin lost its web bonus. That change was approved of by the CSM 8.

Since you were apart of that decision and have seen what sway you have when it comes to these things, what are your feelings about that person who lost what he worked for?
Do you feel that this is a problem, or just something to live with?
What are your feelings on having a say in things that might not be your cup of tea? Ex. assume you dont fly a webbing paladin in incursions, but yet you still have a say in whether the paladin keeps that ability or not.

I think this is an issue for any game that is "balancing" its game play AFTER players have committed to its game play.


Real world example,
You love cats, but the pet store is far away and will take a long time to get there. You take the time and walk to the store, and buy a cat. Somehow it turns into a dog. Is the solution to "learn to love dogs" as EVE would imply.

What do you see as the biggest failing of CSM8?
What do you see as the biggest failing of CCP over the last year?
What do you think YOU personally, could have done better in CSM8?
What advice do you have for the perspective CSM9 candidates?
What do you see as the largest issue facing CSM9?

What would (or do) I say to a person who feels robbed? That they still have the skills they did yesterday. They still have the ships and the assets and Eve is a big game. Reship if your marauder does not work and you still want to fly the style you did before. Repurpose if you want to fly the ship and are willing to change tasks to do so. Adapt. This is not an Eve unique problem. Every game has rebalances, nerf to this weapon, OP another and players shift to refocus. I feel it is an industry accepted standard.

What is your opinion on two form authentication (security tokens) and account security in general?

I think you're going to top my ballot this year across all my accounts. However, I'm interested in what you feel needs attention in low sec. I'm a FW player and I like roaming for PvP. I guess my biggest gripe is links. I think they need to be on-grid and I think even the fleet bonuses should work this way.

IMO FW needs to have more in terms of building up a system that is important to the whole faction and in general there needs to be more to make a system feel like home to a player. I would particularly like anything tying those two ideas together.

Low sec tends to miss out in CSM as we are not generally large organised blocs. What can you do to represent?

Mike Azariah suggested tying the status of PvE systems to larger aspects of the game.
He gave an example: if the Gallente were doing badly in FW, taxes in Gallente space
might increase slightly "to fund the war effort". This would hopefully increase awareness
of FW.

Abraxis said that he had some designs for similar things, but that this would require
getting a bunch of game designers in a room together and "shouting really loudly at
them." Ali Aras suggested he get elected to CSM.

Abraxis noted however that tying largely-independent systems together was a very
complicated balancing issue and would have to be done very carefully

I WANT FW to matter to more than just folks trying to decide when to cash in LP. I would LIKE the changes there to echo through Hisec and Dust and Even open up specific battlegrounds in Valkyrie (If that becomes possible)

Sounds great! May I ask if you have a low sec candidate you most recommend I add to my ballot?

Would you say that CCP have low sec on their radar in equal measure to high/null/W and would you say the CSM in general do a good job of keeping low sec in the picture during discussions?

My 2 cents, during the time I was active in EvE in the last year mike was the guy who was well...

Too stupid to give up, for want of a better answer.

A vote for mike is a vote for KBO

*KBO is a registered trademark of Winston Churchill.

Keep Buggering On Mike, eventually you will hit your head hard enough to realise you are a CCP puppet. :)

I will say, when we are closer to elections who I think would be good people (in my opinion) to put on a ballot. Right now I am not even sure if all the horses are in the starting gate, yet.

CCP looks at the game, not a particular piece of it. They have to keep the whole picture present. When they fail to do that it is up to US to call them on it. Every feature that came out in CSM8 had the wormhole folks looking at it through the lens of their own constituency. Low sec lacked someone with the same focus. We TRIED to make the whole game better but on person banging the Lowsec drum? Wasn't there.

Was Low ignored? NO. But I do encourage lowsec to find folks to represent them this time so they are sure they have someone specifically focused on their wants and needs.

Problem is . . . which lowsec? FW? Pirating? PI and carebears? Can you show me the candidate who will properly represent ALL of Low or are you, like highsec, a segmented population?

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You said you make your isk in incursions. That is the part of the game I enjoy for now my question is simple: Are there any changes or iterations to incursions that you will be championing to CCP? THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for pushing to keep some drone assist in!!!!!!

What non current CSM members would you want elected?

Why would you want them elected?