C4 space drives people away rather then draw them in.

I am here to announce my candidacy for CSM 9, where I want to offer my support to two minorities, namely Community Content Creators (and everyone who enjoys their work) and Wormhole Space Residents.

Not wanting to be argumentative but you have facts and numbers on this. just from what i have seen (and some mates who live in a c4 c4) c4 space seems alot more populated now than ever.

Not wanting to be argumentative but you have facts and numbers on this. just from what i have seen (and some mates who live in a c4 c4) c4 space seems alot more populated now than ever.

I asked James Arget for details on those kinds of metrics and his response was that CCP wasn't giving out that kind of information anymore. And even if it were available that they would be disinclined to aquiesce to release of said data as it would "ruin things".

*shrug*

We tried.

Same i asked chista he got the info apparently but had to check with ccp on if it was nda, he hasnt got back to me so guess it was.

Alot of people say "I think this" but we dont seem to see much facts.

On to serious questions for asay

Whats your thoughts on dread blapping and on t3 rebalnce.

ooh and should station outposts be destroyable

no because i don't want you to stop making videos

You have my vote. And just don't forget us role players

Do you feel that CCP working to promote player made things is more than 3 times more important than w-space?

Strawman? From Two Step?

NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!


Corbexx posts 20:38. Two Step posts 22:44.

Coincidence?

Considering where he's lived for the past few years, Worm Hole Fundamentals and the U-Boat Series I would say Asay's focus is pretty sharply on WH's.

I am a little worried by what seems to be the focus of your campaign, having CCP do more to promote things made by the community. Certainly I am not against some effort being spent, but you have 285 words about w-space and 1049 words about promoting eve videos. Do you feel that CCP working to promote player made things is more than 3 times more important than w-space?
What would you do if your suggestions to CCP about video promotion were met with a flat "no, we don't have the resources to do this"?

Are you running to represent the wormhole community or the video production community?

Not wanting to be argumentative but you have facts and numbers on this. just from what i have seen (and some mates who live in a c4 c4) c4 space seems alot more populated now than ever.

I don't have a chart to demonstrate it, but Asay is usually right about most things in Eve - especially things related to w-space. He's also done more than most to encourage the upward trend in the above chart, with his videos, especially the Wormhole Fundamentals series, helping to bring new faces to w-space. In my opinion he's the best wormhole candidate out there, and the content stuff is all a bonus. It might take more words to explain, but that's simply because it's something different to what the other wormhole candidates are talking about.

I don't actually think Asay would do a bad job as a CSM rep. In fact, if you had told me he was running before I saw this post, I would have thought he would be a great choice. I am very concerned that his *main* focus seems to be on CCP better promoting player created content, and I personally don't think that is a good use of CCP's limited resources. Clearly Asay disagrees.

The problem is, I (and other voters) need to decide what is more important to us, Asay's great wormhole experience, or having him possibly divert resources to something that the wider community can do a much better job of.

I would rather have CCP's limited web team working on the long promised 3rd party developer site, Single Sign On, CREST, and even more features for the forums and EVE Gate.

Me too! I think expanding on EVE Gate and forums and SSO would be a great start. And I can't really see how that is diverting resources from wormhole space or anything else. The devs are already doing some of the things I'm talking about, all I want is to give it more structure.

What I would propose is a central hub for community created content, similar to what eveisreal.com and the True Stories websites were. I would like community.eveonline.com to become a place where people go to share, support and discover new player made creations, with the support of CCP community management staff, showcasing the best, most popular and endorsed content. I would like to be able to search for videos, blogs, and stories related to the things I like about the game more easily, comment and show my support for them all in a single, well organized place. I would like to see a place where people could not only promote their content but reach out to the development staff and get help creating it.There are already foundations for a structured hub like this, it simply needs some work and guidance from the community to make it shine. I think, with the help of the community and CCP staff we can make it happen.

Something that occured to me I may have not been clear about: What I really want is to give certain devs, that are already involved with the community projects, the proper tools that would make their jobs easier by involving the community in the process. Give the whole idea a structure that would make it easier for people to take a part of the work load from the devs. Incorporating EVE Gate and SSO into this would mean a great deal.

My point is that you didn't use those 285 words to say very much at all about w-space. You say that C4s need something, but not what sort of thing. You say that "some quality of life fixes (POS system) would mean a world to people living here" but not what those fixes would be. If you want the support of those living in w-space, maybe you could treat us with a small fraction of the passion and detail you used when talking about content creators?

I'm confused. CCP has a limited number of web devs. They can be working on all the stuff I listed, or they can be working on your proposal, which sounds like a rather involved new site:

It sounds like you would prefer they work on this new version of community.eveonline.com, right? Am I missing something?

Which devs? Who builds and tests these "proper tools"?

Why should CCP spend time doing this? If there was real demand for something like this, wouldn't the community already have built it? Haven't they already built it in the form of all the sites you listed (reddit, themittani.com, etc.)?

I'm also still waiting for some response to my earlier post:

The problem is, I (and other voters) need to decide what is more important to us, Asay's great wormhole experience, or having him possibly divert resources to something that the wider community can do a much better job of. I would rather have CCP's limited web team working on the long promised 3rd party developer site, Single Sign On, CREST, and even more features for the forums and EVE Gate.

to build a car you first start with the wheels.

I speak from experience here by the way - Asay's videos helped bring me to ADHC when I was at a loose end in the game, and might have quit. They then brought me back to the game (so paying my subscriptions again) after a long period away from EVE. His videos alone can't do this on a big scale, but I think his ideas can help, working with CCP. And better yet, he's a wormhole dude so can represent my playstyle and those that I play with, too.

Incorrect

Also, just a little bit of advice. Do what some of the other canidates have done and make a simplified list of your stances on wormhole issues. I am not sure if it's just me but it seems like you are dancing around taking a firm stance on any issues. This would help in that regard.

Good luck!

I'd like to better understand your views on these three. What sort of fix do you have in mind for the discovery scanner?

What would you like to see revamped in the alliance system?

Why are you personally not a huge fan of alliance bookmarks? Have you ever been in a multiple corporation alliance in w-space?

Alliance Bookmarks - I have mixed feelings towards them. I understand the appeal, especially for wormhole alliances that occupy the same system, because it would fix the the issue of having to copy bookmarks over into a jetcan to be able to transfer them from corporation to corporation in the same alliance, basically what corp bookmarks did for corporations themselves. I endorsed the idea of corp bookmarks and tried to help with feedback on them back when they were in development. However Alliance level bookmarks, if they were to be implemented the same way the current system works, in my opinion would create a lot of issues. Wormhole space isn't the only area that would take advantage of this system, and we need to remember that. The main issue here are roles and their current state that doesn't allow alliance-level roles what so ever, which would mean that implementing alliance bookmarks right now would create a clusterfuk in the ability of large alliances to control who creates, who deletes and moves the bookmarks, which is a huge issue if you think about it. If anyone can fiddle with them in a 20,000 people alliance, then anyone is free to grief a large entity, rendering the system unusable.
A similar issue goes for w-space, where as I assume all the transit bookmarks would quickly become alliance level BMs, and with the limited role management one would only have to have a single spy in a single corporation in order to disrupt the operations of an entire alliance (an invasion scenario comes to mind). And while it is not unheard of for one player to take down whole alliances, I'm not entirely sure that it's a good thing when it comes to a small gang environment like W-Space.

I am not against alliance bookmarks at all, I simply want to see them done right and I think more discussion is needed in order to iron out all the pros and cons, because it will have a huge impact on gameplay for everyone. It needs to be done along side Role Management revamp. Without it, it would be simply a broken product.

I'm confused by this. You mention some issues that would certainly need to be resolved for alliance bookmarks to be usable, but assuming they were resolved, would you then be in favor of them?

Also, isn't EVE a game about risk? If people choose to expose themselves to the risk of someone messing with/deleting their bookmarks, is that really a reason to oppose the creation of the feature? How is the issue any different to the risks one takes with POS hangars or with corp offices?

Personally, I would think that someone fluent with the goings-on in Wormhole space would be able to easily and succinctly clarify the issues of importance. A bullet list in itself is very telling.

Your other passion about increased interaction with the community is more ephemeral and less rigidly defined. By its very nature it requires more language, word count, character count, pixels-per-inch, or whatever brain-dead measurement you want to apply because it's about communication and relationships, and not so much about mechanics that have often been well-discussed and can be clearly detailed and specified.

Based on the disappointing performances of some of the previous W-space candidates, I'm looking more at what the prospective candidate has done previously in W-space and for W-space as opposed to any fly-by-night promises he or she makes in a pretty campaign speech. You have done more to educate and inform and support W-space life than the rest of the candidates combined.

Good luck in your campaign.

First of all, I really enjoy your videos. I'm always checking for new uploads!

I do have a question for you. What is your opinion on the delay of K162 sigs as recently proposed by CCP Fozzie?

How do you feel about the idea of C4 dual statics? As a current C4/C2 dweller, I feel that if every C4 hole had a connection to another C4, little else would need to be done to make the class desirable. More connections means more fights and more money. I definitely like the idea to create some sort of 'subcap escalation,' but I think the greatest issue within C4 space particularly is the lack of fights.

Do you agrree or disagree that Strategic Cruisers have to be nerfed and why?

Yes

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 will be doing an interview and Q&A session on the EVE University mumble next week.
more info here: http://forum.eveuniversity.org/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=79067

I am happy to endorse Asay for election to the 9th Council of Stellar Management! Good luck at the polls!

Very happy to see you run Asay. I quite enjoy that you tackle wh issues as well as content creation.

Sorry for the edit, finally remembered my question:
Whats your stance on Tournaments like, SCL, NEO? I personally think they are a great tool to promote Eve and show of how great PvP can be if they would be more integrated into eve.

Asayanami Dei I think you're an excellent candidate so I will vote for you. By the way, I like your suggestions I really do.

Edited:

I have no idea how this post got here. Meant to put it in a different spot. I voted for ya Asayanami!