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Dersen Lowery
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Posted - 2014.12.05 16:34:20 -
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Immediate +1 from me. The CSM must have its righteous mustache!
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Dersen Lowery
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Posted - 2014.12.08 22:39:58 -
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Much of the ISK/hr that high sec activity can generate is because high sec is the beating heart of the EVE economy. Would you agree that part of the problem with nullsec income in particular isn't just the risk, but the fact that it's a nearly pure ISK faucet that hardly requires any interaction with other players--and their wallets? Given that a neck-punch to high sec might just bring the whole game's economy to its knees, wouldn't it be better to figure out how to get players to interact profitably? If you could get the ISK transfer/ISK injection ratio in null sec to roughly the same proportion that mission running enjoys in high sec, that would be a huge buff to null sec income, but with the same or less ISK injected.
Unfortunately, that would be a very tall order. But do you think that it's the right track, or do you have a better idea?
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Dersen Lowery
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Posted - 2014.12.09 18:22:16 -
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Mike Azariah wrote:Man you ask think questions with a lot of layers.
I'm not so much interested in answers--which is why my questions are generally too big to answer--as I am in revealing thought processes. CSM strikes me as involving a strong analytical component, so I like to watch the candidates think.
Mike Azariah wrote:As for the last part I wrote a huge paragraph and then realized I was tapdancing too close to my NDA boundaries for my own taste. But I can say in more general terms that a lot of commonly held beliefs of how things are in Eve are based on faulty premises.
But back to my key point. I do not want to ruin one space to benefit another. Each space should have its own draw and its own reason to be there.
I can't really argue against :NDA:, but it's a shame that I won't get to see that paragraph, given that it's what I was angling for. Still, I'm sure it's the best answer you can give, and it's tantalizing. I agree 100% with your key point.
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Dersen Lowery
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Posted - 2014.12.11 18:15:54 -
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I've seen discussion about an all-new POS replacement that wouldn't require hanging at a moon, and furthermore wouldn't require that only one could hang at a moon. It's been a while, but it stuck in my head.
This seems like it would simultaneously make the dead-stick phenomenon much worse at the same time that it would take away the real problem, which is a dead stick occupying a valuable space that a live stick could have instead.
I'm asking because I once explored a C2 with a whole bunch of dead sticks, and it was like coming across an abandoned town. All these ruins of boldly named corps with ambitiously optimistic descriptions, hanging silently in space. It was cool. The last tower I found in the system still had a force field around it. I like that. Ruins and ghost towns and abandoned houses are cool parts of the landscape, especially when there's only enough left to make you wonder what once happened there.
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Dersen Lowery
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Posted - 2014.12.18 20:13:18 -
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OK, so my last question went nowhere. Let's try this one:
What do you think of the direction that CCP Rise and his team are investigating for the all-new NPE? What can the CSM do to support their effort?
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Dersen Lowery
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Posted - 2014.12.18 21:39:48 -
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Mike Azariah wrote:Look, the current NPE trains the players to mine, to shift a bit of freight, to run missions. Is that how YOU describe Eve to people in real life? The disconnect needs to be addressed.
Yes, it is.
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OK, no, not really. But you don't have to convince me that the current NPE is absolutely terrible.
Mike Azariah wrote:I'll toss it back to you, though. Which game has the 'best' NPE/tutorial, in you opinion? For me it is Portal.
I'm not much of a gamer, and EVE strikes me as different enough that I'm not sure how much EVE can learn. I mean, sure, TESO has a decent tutorial, including the fact that you can skip the little baby part if you're rolling an alt, but what you have to learn for a mostly themepark game vs. the urgent problem in EVE, which is giving new players the ability to reach other people and plug into whatever the meta is.
The 'basic controls in the game' part is easy, although the current tutorial manages to do even that wrong.
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Dersen Lowery
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Posted - 2015.02.13 01:28:31 -
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^^ That.
I have nothing against Sion Kumitomo, but the fact that Mike is essentially incomprehensible to him is an excellent reason to have Mike on the CSM: It means he's representing people who Sion could not hope to speak for.
And that's OK. It just means that EVE is a big game.
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Dersen Lowery
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Posted - 2015.03.19 19:02:06 -
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You have earned it! Congratulations, Mike! Do us proud.
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I voted in CSM X!
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