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Posted - 2015.01.09 14:49:20 -
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I am as of today announcing that I intend to run again for CSM 10, I was apart of CSM 8 and I believe that I have a lot to contribute to this years coming CSM through my years of experience in many different aspects of eve.
I am not running under a particular platform persay just with the same goal that I did last time and that is to attempt to help and guide ccp towards bettering the game for all aspects not just in 0.0 where I live.
For those people who are afraid that I am again another 0.0 candidate with only care for my own well I am here to tell you that you are mistaken. However I doubt that I could disuade you from this point so I will not bother trying with this.
People who know me know what I am about, I am open to questions about my ideas and thoughts towards different topics, keep in mind however any trolling or attempts to derail the thread will be ignored by me.
Thank you for considering me as a candidate for csm 10.
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Posted - 2015.01.09 15:05:12 -
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Vigilanta wrote:I order to secure my vote i need to know your opinion of ishtars, and if you were a soup which soup would you be.
He usually talks sense an generally has good idea, you have my support.
Ishtars I personally do not like but if we are talking from a game balance perspective then my issue is less with the ishtar and more with the sentry drone itself.
CCP's inability to deal with the growing issues of sentries while still adding more drone modules to the game is of big concern to me and will be something I would like to see addressed if I were to make it to csm. |
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Posted - 2015.01.09 17:05:24 -
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Jayne Fillon wrote:Unless I'm remembering incorrectly, you were widely viewed as one of the least contributing members of CSM8.
It's entirely possible that I'm wrong, so my question is this:
What did you do while a part of CSM8, and what is the one thing you are most proud of having contributed to?
With regards to the first half of your post that is each to their own I guess. I know what I did and how active I was and aside from that the only others that know about this would be ccp or other csm members.
One of the things I am most proud about is the changes made to the fleet system including details put into fleet composition and such. Take it as excuses but I am never going to be able to tell you for a few years exactly what I had a say in or not.
It is important to know that some rumours may have come out regarding my inactivity during the term, the only time I was inactive was when I was away from game due to real life issues for the last month and a half of my term.
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Posted - 2015.01.09 17:08:43 -
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Forlorn Wongraven wrote:Did you read "Sort DragonGÇÖs Guide To Diplomacy" ? 
I wrote it. |
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Posted - 2015.01.09 18:27:48 -
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Zomgnomnom wrote:You never did answer that soup question..... 
Pumpkin because I love pumpkin soup and I can't get a good kind here in the UK. |
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Posted - 2015.01.09 18:31:22 -
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MissBolyai wrote:Sort Dragon wrote:It is important to know that some rumours may have come out regarding my inactivity during the term, the only time I was inactive was when I was away from game due to real life issues for the last month and a half of my term.
At least jail is your first good excuse for being inactive. Do you really want me to drudge up the exact same complaints that were fielded last time? Or do you have enough mindless mongs to support you again?
Go ahead. :)
I believe I screwed up a lot in the past specially with how I handled the HBC situation and my main role in its downfall. Since then though I am happy to find myself in a great alliance with some really decent allies.
I guess things turned out well for me though so I am happy. The results of the vote will determine what people think of me win or lose.
Thanks for the free bumps though, its good to have my thread at the top for more exposure they do say any publicity is good publicity even in politics. :) |
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Posted - 2015.01.09 20:47:38 -
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StupidGenius Charante wrote:Do you know why many considered you to be ineffective or inactive member of CSM8? Why did you apparently not attend a single session during the CSM8 Summer Submit remotely via teleconferencing?
No I do not unfortunately.
With regards to your second question I did not attend them because I had just started a new job at the start of august which ran on a 3 month contract till the start of November.
It is commonly known from people who have been on csm and know of how the summits work that if you are a euro and do not get time off work it is hard to get in on any of the summits as they all start in the early morning EU and finish around about 17:30 in the evening. For the winter summit I however did not have a job and attended nearly every summit meeting.
If anyone is wondering I am currently unemployed and even if I had a job I would intend to have the time off for the summits that came up. This is one of the biggest issues for people who are euros and want to attend summits, you need to be a student or someone who owns their own business to be guaranteed to be able to make it.
I hope this explains and answers your questions. |
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Posted - 2015.01.09 21:05:28 -
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corbexx wrote:Sort Dragon wrote:StupidGenius Charante wrote:Do you know why many considered you to be ineffective or inactive member of CSM8? Why did you apparently not attend a single session during the CSM8 Summer Submit remotely via teleconferencing? No I do not unfortunately. With regards to your second question I did not attend them because I had just started a new job at the start of august which ran on a 3 month contract till the start of November. It is commonly known from people who have been on csm and know of how the summits work that if you are a euro and do not get time off work it is hard to get in on any of the summits as they all start in the early morning EU and finish around about 17:30 in the evening. For the winter summit I however did not have a job and attended nearly every summit meeting. If anyone is wondering I am currently unemployed and even if I had a job I would intend to have the time off for the summits that came up. This is one of the biggest issues for people who are euros and want to attend summits, you need to be a student or someone who owns their own business to be guaranteed to be able to make it. I hope this explains and answers your questions. how many of the sessions minutes did you write up for both summer and winter summits?
First one none, second one I helped look over the write ups for the second set as nearly all were done by people attending the summits and then editted by people who joined in by lync later on.
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Posted - 2015.01.09 21:52:54 -
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MissBolyai wrote:Sort Dragon wrote:Thanks for the free bumps though, its good to have my thread at the top for more exposure they do say any publicity is good publicity even in politics. :) Not in your case, I'm afraid. The more people know about you is only damaging unless, like I said, you have a large bloc of voters that is going to vote for you no matter what. I am not sure that particular brand of lightning will strike twice.
You are welcome to your thoughts but a lot has changed in what is now 2 years. The people voting for me know enough about me to make a decision to vote for me so I will leave it up to them. |
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Posted - 2015.01.09 22:28:40 -
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corbexx wrote:whats your thoughts on fighter assign. both in small scale, 20 fighters assigned to a few interceptors and large scale where fighters are assigned in huge amounts (several hundred)
The game has gone full circle from 4+ years ago where the NC used to assign fighters to fight insurgency and tri, it was a strange mechanic back then and a strange mechanic now. I believe the so called nerf is a band aid and will not change much with the mechanic itself. I think a medium needs to be found where the people assigning fighters put themselves more on the line and the people who use drones are not unbeatable that it kills any potential for fights small to large scale.
I am not sure how to fix it at all but along side the sentries issue I still have a big issue with anyone being able to control anyone elses ships damage. I believe that any type of game play where you can afk and do nothing is not good game design. The more ships on grid the more people have to put them at risk.
The only good I do see from fighter assign is letting 1 side be able to semi even the playing field with another bigger group of players, this however does not outweigh the issues with assign and drone mechanics in general. |
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Posted - 2015.01.10 16:10:10 -
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June Ting wrote:Jayne Fillon wrote:First question: Why should I vote for you instead of someone like Manfred Sideous, Sion Kumitomo, or Endie von Posts? Diversity on the CSM is important to me. Echoing Jayne's question: what would a CSM without you, but with Manny, Sion, and Endie on it lack due to you not being on it? What unique perspective do you bring that makes you a valued addition to the CSM as opposed to squeezing out a voice from, say, lowsec, w-space, smaller null entities, etc.?
That is an interesting question and to be fair I think Manny is a great candidate this time and I doubt I would be able to get more votes then him anyway. The interesting thing to look at though is that Manfred does not run an alliance that holds sov to live in sov for his members. Sion and Endie however do but at the same time they both look at different aspects in the game, Sion who is very diplomatic and endie who has in the past had his hand in that also.
I would never say that I am better then anyone else because that would be stirring the pot and trying to create a fight with other candidates and this I will not be apart of. I will allow voting to dictate who they believe in the list is better suited. If I do not get in I will accept the people have spoken and possibly try again for csm 11. |
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Posted - 2015.01.10 16:12:30 -
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Seraph IX Basarab wrote:Jayne Fillon wrote:Sort Dragon wrote:but a lot has changed It's your reputation against your word. Quote:For those people who are afraid that I am again another 0.0 candidate with only care for my own well I am here to tell you that you are mistaken. However I doubt that I could dissuade you from this point so I will not bother trying with this. Try me. To me, your OP makes me feel like you've blown this all off as a trivial necessity to be eligible for CSMX, and are completely apathetic towards inspiring people outside our your coalition to vote for you. So let's try this again, and let's keep it really simple. First question: Why should I vote for you instead of someone like Manfred Sideous, Sion Kumitomo, or Endie von Posts? Second question: If you are not running as a bloc candidate, are you going to encourage the pilots of your own alliance to educate themselves before voting, or are you going to present your allies a prefilled ballot and ask them to tow the party line? Wow Jayne i'm surprised you didn't ask him if he steal beats his wife.  Plus isn't "tow the party line" SOP from entities such as the CFC that backed you last year?  Serious question here to Sort, how do you envision your ideal version of sov mechanics? What would you change? What do you like currently?
I myself miss the old pos mechanics for sov, after having been through the whole of dominion I miss the old dynamics of pos sov. The chance to have fights at what could be all times of the day and the chance for both sides to play tug of war. This does not mean that I would go back to fuelling 100+ towers a month to hold sov but I would like something a long the lines that allows people small groups who are not harassing but genuinely want a home in 0.0 to have the ability to do so.
I see that being possible under the rumours of occupancy sov but I can see there being a lot of issues alongside this.
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Posted - 2015.01.10 16:15:53 -
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Nors Phlebas Sabelhpsron wrote:Sort Dragon wrote:corbexx wrote:whats your thoughts on fighter assign. both in small scale, 20 fighters assigned to a few interceptors and large scale where fighters are assigned in huge amounts (several hundred) I think a medium needs to be found where the people assigning fighters put themselves more on the line and the people who use drones are not unbeatable that it kills any potential for fights small to large scale. I am not sure how to fix it at all but along side the sentries issue I still have a big issue with anyone being able to control anyone elses ships damage. I believe that any type of game play where you can afk and do nothing is not good game design. The more ships on grid the more people have to put them at risk. The only good I do see from fighter assign is letting 1 side be able to semi even the playing field with another bigger group of players, this however does not outweigh the issues with assign and drone mechanics in general. I'm reading from this that you agree the current ability for Carriers and Supers to assign DPS to a different grid than the one they're on, and just sit next to a POS ready to dump the shield up is something that needs changing- is that an accurate conclusion? Would you be in favour of a straight up removal of the ability to assign fighters to a player on a different grid from yourself?
I do like the ability for assigned fighters to effect fights where the people you are against outnumber you by a huge amount, so no I do not want it completely removed however I do not believe you should be a loud to camp gates with drones assigned or rat with drones assigned. I want to see more to be done to see people be able to use supers and carriers more but at the same time put them in a position of threat.
I myself own a super and I like being able to use it to sometimes level the playing field when I am against a lot of hostiles but at the same time I do not want to kill the fight because people are too afraid of them. |
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Posted - 2015.01.14 18:56:29 -
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Burl en Daire wrote:First, I'm a little bit drunk.
Second, I think you were "in office" while I was just starting my eve career and I just want to know if it is true that you started a war over comments made at Fan Fest. If so, do you think it was a good idea and do you regret doing. I am just asking because I think honesty and openness is a big part of being a successful CSM. I don't care one way or the other because I just want to hear it from the horse's mouth to turn a phrase.
Third, I am a solo "carebear" player that likes to mine roids and explore highsec and lowsec. Do you think that making mining anoms non-scannable has hurt carebear mining?
Furthermore, would you agree that switching WH anoms and mining anoms would help. For example, making WH anoms show up like mining anoms do now and changing mining anoms to a thing that has to be scanned down. I feel, yes I used the word feel, that right now mining anoms enables gankers and un-enables people whom might want to explore WH? Changing WH anoms to an open warp to mechanic could give WH more action, do you believe that changing them would help or hurt the game?
Lastly, I think that the jump fatigue is a good thing and even though I have never fought in a large battle or been a part of a fleet that jumped across the galaxy to fight in a "news worthy" fight that JF is good for the whole of the game. Again, I just want to hear a response from a person whom has done these things and is running to represent me. There is no wrong answer.
Sorry for my lack of answering, I had monday, tuesday as my weekend with the wife!
The war I wanted never started due to my own self making comments at fanfest that in itself helped to bring down the coalition I was at that time at the helm of.
Do I regret it, nope not at all. Some of the things I said at fanfest I am disappointed in myself for saying some of the things I did. I generally do not like to talk eve when I meet people in real life. And even though my wife told me on numerous occasions to shut my mouth I did not. I have never hid anything regarding that time just that their is 2 sides to every story and my side I should have been more vocal or in some cases less vocal.
Regarding your last point, in some ways fatigue has helped the game a lot but in other ways it has really hindered it. I never agreed with the mass power projection of the old days but I find myself leading an alliance of newer, older and mid level players and with this I find that people are ending up knee deep in fatigue that they should not have simply because the system that could have been quite easily adapted to be a whole lot simpler. The unfortunate thing is that ccp is never known for doing things the simpler way they always over extend then nerf back towards what they want. I had hoped that if they made some jump changes it would not end up in some pilots with 30 days without being able to jump and the only way to combat that being log out for 30 days or fly the whole time in a frig.
In summary as I may have gotten a bit off topic with your last question I do believe the idea behind the concept of fatigue was good but the implementation like we see with ccp every time was poor and not completely thought out. |
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Posted - 2015.01.14 23:47:50 -
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Seraph IX Basarab wrote:Well honestly Sort, the major reason with fatigue, particularly your coalition is that you're trying to fight on two fronts to defend a fairly vast empire. So yes you have members that get 30 day jump fatigue but what do you expect when you fight both in Delve/Fountain and the south?
See that is not true. Most of my guys who have 30 days fatigue come from basic travel around Delve, we rarely take titans or jump bridges far out of delve. We probe wormholes which we have in abundance and then use them. It would be nice to have a fatigue bonus inside of your own sov to help with defence, outside of that I do believe it should be effected for sure.
But please tell me more about how much alliance has fatigue from 2 fronts. :) |
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Posted - 2015.01.15 00:17:48 -
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Seraph IX Basarab wrote:Then what do they have jfatigue from?
Sort Dragon wrote:See that is not true. Most of my guys who have 30 days fatigue come from basic travel around Delve, we rarely take titans or jump bridges far out of delve. We probe wormholes which we have in abundance and then use them.
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Seraph IX Basarab wrote:So just using titan bridges and jump bridges within Delve? If so...
Have you suggested to people that they use gates for daily travel?
Indeed I have, unfortunatly people are harder to teach and the fatigue system is not the easiest to understand.
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Posted - 2015.01.15 00:31:55 -
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Seraph IX Basarab wrote:Sort Dragon wrote:Seraph IX Basarab wrote:So just using titan bridges and jump bridges within Delve? If so...
Have you suggested to people that they use gates for daily travel? Indeed I have, unfortunatly people are harder to teach and the fatigue system is not the easiest to understand. Well with all due respect to you as a major alliance leader holding 0.0 sov, but I feel as the issue isn't the jump fatigue but rather people's gameplay habits. Jump fatigue is what is keeping 0.0 much more divided and conflict driven. Why would you want to limit that? What is "too harsh" in your mind?
In my mind over a days fatigue is too much. Most fights aside from maybe 1-2 in the past 2 years are over in under 24 hours stacking the most fatigue at 1 day is more than enough, why stop people from wanting to login due to not being able to join any fleet in your alliance for 30 days because you made a mistake and find it hard after that mistake not to wait over and up to a week or more. |
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