OH GOD RAN OUT OF WORDS...


I have no idea. I haven't gotten a whole lot further on that aspect of the problem. The personal income side of it is comparatively easy - it already exists (just not necessarily to the scale it needs to) in the form of the military and industry indices in a system, and the obvious approach is to simply build atop those mechanics to build higher & taller at the expense of sprawl. And to a degree that's a partial solution to the problem of organizational income, if you accept "renting" as an acceptable resource - if any given system can support a heck of a lot more people so long as it's active, then you can obviously charge a lot more for access to those systems, put more people into them, or both.

It's more problematic when it comes to considering moons though. As long as we're doing the handwavey thing we can pretend industry is now a viable activity in null, so perhaps that drives mining (which can be taxed) and more lively markets (ditto) in addition to mining and POCO fees, but something more is probably needed. Given the somewhat delicate balance moons are designed for going and saying "okay now there's this thing that jacks the output by 1000% but (handwavey limiter so they can't be everything goes here)". Even if the limiting mechanics work, suddenly you've got a bunch of different groups sucking way more goo out of the same number of moons and the balance goes out the window. If that can't be worked around then moons wind up turning into bonuses rather than a serious income source. So what replaces them? Something new, no idea what just now...haven't really gotten that far in the brainstorming.

mynnna is an being on the same moral level as erotica1. The only difference is mynnna has a massive voting bloc behind him, filled with like-minded sociopaths. He has done more damage to this game than any griefing organization can even imagine. And he will do so much more before he is through.

Eve will not be recognizable in a few years with what it is today. Naturally, the sociopaths will seize on that comment and say "hurrah, we hope so!"

But the subscription base will have shrunk, because high sec will be a wasteland, and god knows what the nulls sec cartels have planned for low sec and wh space. We have seen the 1st inkling with the suggested change to K162 mechanics, and that is a terrible idea.

Also would multiple stations per system in 0.0 solve some of the problems with industry?

I can see the bad side of this as it would be just more ehp to grind though if a system was attacked but why should 0.0 be unable to have multiple stations when any NPC controlled system can?

If a certain play style is unrepresented on the CSM, for whatever reason, and a proposed change will dramatically effect them what do you do? I know you are a bloc candidate and you realistically don't have to do anything. I guess I am just curious. Low Sec was basically unrepresented(At least "officially") this term, if something came up that could have a potentially large effect on the low-sec player base do you let it go as "not your area of expertise" or search out as much information from those in the know as possible without breaking the NDA?

Also would multiple stations per system in 0.0 solve some of the problems with industry?

I can see the bad side of this as it would be just more ehp to grind though if a system was attacked but why should 0.0 be unable to have multiple stations when any NPC controlled system can?

Wouldn't a simpler solution to this be to move moon mining to the surface via PI? Just allow the items from a moon to be sent to the parent planet and allow variable tax rates to be set for moon PI vs planet PI. This would allow for a more bottom up income and also increase the conflict drivers of shooting POCOs. You could still keep reactions in POS or move these also to the surface.

Moving reactions to the surface and allowing them to be attacked via orbital bombardment would be a great feature to incorporate a almost useless feature in game currently.

Who's to say I don't have a character in BNI already?

So what do you do? You can't go and handwave something to make the goo all more valuable, because doing so by enough to make goo mining competitive even just with other kinds of mining means you increase the cost of Tech II by several hundred percent. So that's out. Clearly the solution is to just make it a sporadic, incursion-like activity right? That would make it valuable enough, surely, and give you a means to preserve the bottleneck that gives R64s their value in the first place to boot.

Fair enough, with that particular implementation I was suggesting I was building off your comment in your previous talk about moving moon goo to an incursion type mechanic. So the gating mechanic would be the fact that these sites weren't always available. I.E. for Null they would be in addition to the standard industrial index sites, not an 'always on' effect.

Agree that there does need to be some kind of supply limitation though to avoid T2 being almost as cheap as T1

what would you say to the people who argue you only got elected in the first place because you had a coalition behind you where people thoughtlessly pulled the slot by your name because their leadership told them to?

actually i voted for you last time but i wanted to know because a lot of people have been saying that.

didnt expect such a defensive reaction

Hello.

Currently the Serpentis are the only pirate faction in the game that don't have a rated 6/10 and 9/10 DED complex available to be run. These sites have been on the "coming soon" list for quite a few years, but no further news or information has been released. Would you be willing to request that CCP introduce these sites to the game so that areas like syndicate that rely on running sites as the main form of income can continue to grow and prosper?

I literally just copy/pasted this into the skype channel of the appropriate team, which I think should answer your question.

That's cheating.

Mynnna pointed me to this thread and I agree, we need to complete the DED work and it is on our backlog, we haven't forgotten about it I just can't give you a time frame right now.

grr goons, you'll probably be my top vote again this year though. glad to see you're running again to be honest.