Death to all link alts.

that's what I want to change by giving them a aggression timer or something when they activate links so you can prevent station games/gate games with them.

Good to see multiple Low sec and solo/small gang people running this year.

Do you not think that its a problem when in faction warfare areas the most effective way of grinding is to use cloak/stabbed frigs? The incentive isn't there to compete for resources at the moment. These farmers are damaging the income of both faction warfare fighters and mission running in general. Why do you think it would be a bad to see them removed or forced to adapt? (Which hitting them in the wallet may do). You mentioned the rated plex's later, if you've done many you'll be aware that nice fights can stem from competition for them, when people's income is at risk they become a lot more willing to grab some guns, instead of this current system where players just wait while being hassled or pop next door because its more efficient.

Personally I'd be concerned about making those rated plex's easier too, because that suggests they will be completed faster and conflict has less opportunity to occur, which is bad.

I'm also curious how you feel about piracy? A low-sec candidate must have an opinion on this? Happy with the current state/not happy? Things you'd like to see regarding it etc?

Thanks for the response Gorski,

Regarding the stabbed/farmer issue, it is frustrating but that isn't my main concern with it, its the fact its not more benificial to fight than to passively wait for somebody to leave or system hop where they can easily find another source of income. I don't agree that you're hurting new players by removing use of stabs and cloaks, the novice complex's are very new player friendly already for example. I don't like to see players rewarded for blueballing which the current system promotes. I agree you can't make people fight, and am not suggesting trying, I'm suggesting they no longer be able to farm as easily or passively, which is to the benefit of everybody else collecting LP who actually earn it.

Sorry I should have been clearer I wasn't specifically meaning FW missions in my previous post. The normal loyalty stores have similar rewards. If more people are collecting LP and cashing out in either FW or normal LP stores, the additional supply will lower the value of the products. Hence my reasoning behind LP farmers damaging other peoples income. So they not only affect FW dudes, but also highsec mission runners, L5 runners etc. (which take more effort and investment to aquire the lp for)

Regarding piracy. I absolutely agree with you about it being solo account runner and new player unfriendly, I think its where most people consider trying out pvp the first time so seems pretty stupid to punish them for it, maybe it would be nice removing sec loss in low-sec non pod kills or something or outside of empire ganks you can only damage your sec status enough that you can only be kos in 1.0's and 0.9's.

But I digress, what I was actually meaning when I asked was I'm curious how you feel about things like gatecamps, CCP seems to have implemented a strategy whereby its really easy to cyno past or use pretty much immune from being caught ships to avoid camps in anything worth killing, these camps are more prone than ever to getting curbstomped by the proliferation of hotdropping, these 2 factors seem to have greatly reduced the number of pirate outfits about and those that remain have very difficult to engage set-ups ie linked with falcon/logi support. This in turn has reduced content to small gang pvpers who enjoy breaking up camps for example, as its hard enough to find a camp let alone an engagable one these days. I personally think it's a shame that content is being nerfed out of the game and I was wondering how you feel about it?

Regarding medium autocannons, do you think their range and kiting potential should be buffed?

Regarding the devaluation of LP from other factions. I don't think that highsec and FW lp stores share that much and it shouldn't be a problem since the best isk/lp items in highsec will not be able to be available in Faction warfare.

Actually there's extensive overlap between what the two stores offer, and the FW offers for ships have a tremendous edge that renders navy ships unprofitable for highsec LP stores. The primary item not available in FW are BPCs for items, and those are only available to certain corps in highsec anyway.

Only one ASB per ship.
Rebalance pirate ships, buff underpowered hulls and nerf overpowered ship bonus (serpentis).
Rebalance T3 so they are no longer better than T2 in their specialized roles, follow the "Jack of all trades, master of none" logic.

I like what you've said so far, one question for you if you've got time to explain is why do you think boosters are allowed to be off-grid to provide boosts?

I think the incursus should not be able to fit 3 or 4 armor reppers.
What's up with that???




Serious bit -
What is your opinion about silent plex auctions being used to guarantee only rich players have a chance at entering the CCP run tournaments?


Do think a system that gives all alliances/players an equal chance is fairer?

The biggest problem I have with lowsec is that it's very hard to live there at the moment. I have countless losses where my ships are half/sub optimal fit because I couldn't find the stuff I wanted on the market. This is a even bigger problem for newer guys starting out doing lowsec pvp and piracy. They don't have the luxury that I got where I can afford multiple black frog trips from jita or buying tags to fix my sec status over and over again. I think that sec status is a bit to punishing for people actually fighting in lowsec.

Maybe have missions that only unlock when you are -5 or below or cheaper repairs in stations or something. Just a thought.

How much is this a CSM issue and how much is it a player issue? Your fellow candidate, Sugar Kyle, had the same problem, so... she went out and started a market. Despite her having no experience, and despite Bosena being lowsec (albeit, one jump from high sec), despite it being in relatively depopulated Molden Heath low sec, she succeeded. Now other traders sell their wares in Bosena as well, and people outside her corp buy them. It's not what anyone would call a major hub, but it supplies the necessaries.

Given that, perhaps the question is, to what extent does the current cultural makeup of low sec contribute to the pain of getting stuff in the market? Is the problem systemic, or a mere lack of people who find market-running and logistics to be interesting gameplay?