These guys do an excellent job ganking endless jump freighters and are generally hilarious, A++. Ten Tron is also a hero Curse pilot.

You told me i was your hero.

I hate you.

This man knows more about internet spaceships than anyone else i have ever met and i believe will have a VERY positive influence on its' direction.

A vote for Widdershins is a vote for justice.

I will vote for you, follow you into the depths of the null and the darkest corners of the wormholes without hesitation.

You have my blaster.

- This man knows his ****, and is an exceptionally amazing influence to me. An outstanding individual as well.

Do you agree with Issler Dainze that CCP should ignore FiS content to make more space pants?

But no, Flying In Space should never be ignored for the sake of spacepants or any other item of spaceclothing.

If only all of the candidates had your sense.

My focus and perspective, summarized:

I think the direction CCP took with the Crucible expansion is fantastic. Fixing extant bugs, peeves with the UI, and mechanics that just make us want to stab our monitors is a crucial process that not only makes existing gameplay better, but is an essential process to enable expanding the game into new areas and making more major changes that let the game continue to mature. I am very interested in seeing this trend continue and finish some of these left-behind features.

I would like to see a growing focus on improvements to the game's UI and its less visible mechanics; while recent changes have been excellent, I'd like to see more specific overview settings, general UI usability improvements, and a push for the re-write of the Crimewatch engine which handles all the aggression flags in the game.

I believe that EVE is built around conflict and risk. EVE is a risk-permeated wonderland, a PVP-saturated extravaganza fraught with risk & reward, and I want to see the future of EVE maintain this excitement and keep PVP in every area of the game. This does not mean we should make it easier for established PVPers to prey on the weak, any more than it should be easier for our carebears to completely avoid all harm in any security space. New Eden is not a tennis court, with strict boundaries of play and frequent breaks: it is a long and bloody beach with an unrelenting drive and no such thing as complete safety. That's what makes it so good: we should protect that however we can.

Along these lines, we should help foster mechanics that will drive small-scale PVP alongside large-scale. Not everyone wants to be involved in epic-scale fleet engagements, and a lot of people's computers/internet cannot even handle the strain. I believe everyone should be able to look to their left, look to their right, and find opportunities for good PVP on either hand wherever they are -- in the future, much as it is today. Hisec PVP is an extremely important and oft-overlooked aspect of this, because only in hisec can an aspiring PVPer learn by getting engagements with a limited number of opponents without CONCORD involvement. If PVP is reduced in hisec, the barrier for entry into PVP is raised dramatically.

If you have any questions about what I think about something or whether I would support a certain proposition, I will do my best to answer all comers.

My job as an internet spaceship politician:

I'm not here to play at being a politician, garner internet fame or in-game notoriety, or do anything but work to improve the game as best I can. I don't pretend to be a great problem-solver, some kind of analytic powerhouse, or a great mediator of disputes. I am here to improve the core of the game, and I hope the rest of CSM7 can be productive adults as well.

I believe I am well-suited among the current candidates to contribute to future discussions, and my greatest honor would be to contribute in a meaningful way to the future of the game and its development.

My job as an internet spaceship politician:

I'm not here to play at being a politician, garner internet fame or in-game notoriety, or do anything but work to improve the game as best I can. I don't pretend to be a great problem-solver, some kind of analytic powerhouse, or a great mediator of disputes. I am here to improve the core of the game, and I hope the rest of CSM7 can be productive adults as well.

I believe I am well-suited among the current candidates to contribute to future discussions, and my greatest honor would be to contribute in a meaningful way to the future of the game and its development.
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Hello- Seeing that you believe hisec pvp should be a launching pad for aspiring pvpers, I'd like to know how you envision hisec wardec mechanics should be fixed? And consequently, how hisec pvp should be enhanced for those who are just starting out.

One thousand times yes

There's a lot that could be improved, and there's a lot that could go horribly wrong if this isn't done right; if there is something to be exploited to use the mechanic to your advantage, EVE's players (including us in Project Nemesis) will be all over it in a flash.

That's the kind of insight I like to bring to a discussion.

as for your war dec issues.. and recruitment. I think when applying to join to a corp that is at war one should get a pop up saying

this corpoeration is at war with the followign corps and or alliances. do you wish to continue?

otherwise i am for your empire war dec changes.

Project Nemesis was my first war dec, during my first few weeks in Eve. I hated them back then, but now being an older and wiser pilot I appreciate what they did for me. It was definitely a trial by fire.

Also, they mega-trolled my terrible former CEO EthanPow, for which I am forever grateful.

Definitely have my support.

You get my like, even though i probably will not vote for you.

This is why Widders will make a great member of the CSM. So many of the current CSM candidates seem to want to do it out of ego or political games, and while their platforms have been tailored around what people in game claim to want, after reading many of their posts, its clear that they don't understand game mechanics well enough to realize what this game needs.

You can vote for a CSM candidate who will promise you the EVE you think you want to play and things they can never deliver on because they're outside of the CSM's scope, or you can vote for someone who will give you a better and more playable EVE.

Despite the fact that you are in my threads trying to run a smear campaign, I am here to tell you that i love you, dearest space friend, and that you have my like.

[quote=Lyris Nairn]
In any case, making POS reinforcement non-functional under any special circumstances is sheer folly, and I was only there to point out as such.

Thanks for the +1.

Only in your mind was the issue I was raising ever at all related to POS Reinforcement with strontium clathrates.

Considering that Iam Widdershins is daily in every pore of EVE PvP and has lot of time that he spends on EVE coupled with firm grasp on state of game mechanics; You got my vote m8.

Now can I have my rubber ducky back that you hold hostage?

you got my vote on both accounts :P

this will make hunting isk farmers that insta corp jump so much easier if it happens...

Iam Widdershins sperged out in Skippermonkey's joke thread and will probably act like a self-important doofus who won't be able to get along with anybody else in the CSM. See for yourselves.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=65474

What can I do to change that? I honestly want to know. Screw politics, what are you looking for in a CSM?

Iam Widdershins sperged out in Skippermonkey's joke thread and will probably act like a self-important doofus who won't be able to get along with anybody else in the CSM. See for yourselves.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=65474

I like that other guy - he has some kind of "I'll punch ya face in....no srsly."-attitude. Could work on the worst debates. Someone else vote for him, I still won't change my mind ^^.

EDIT: Duh, hur hur - Knightmare. Creative. What was that anime called again? Code Geasss I think it was...

Person. There is bunch of forum avatars in this sub-forum who promise stuff and talk a lot about their ideas/concerns/thoughts/political views. Who cares about that? Only them probably. Not CCP, thats for sure.

99 percent of the CSM candidates are some generic political slogam bullshit idiots. They promise **** and talk alot about what they think about some minor detail, that might not even come up during their term as CSM.

Look at Trebor's campaign last year. He posted entire mini biography of himself, all his experiences, projects he worked on, etc. That was some good stuff, even tho Wizardry suck balls and he is a douche. It still allowed to see him as a person. I liked that.

So stop being politicaly correct, and show me who you really are. There are no perfect people. We are all flawed. And if i vote for someone, i want to know their flaws, vices and virtues.

**** guys who have better ideas or can speak nice on forums. I want someone with character, and i want to see that character.

What do you think about sec status and neutral logistics in high sec?

Reading over this again: Holy wall of text batman.

But it describes my thoughts and reasoning. There you go.

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It may be slightly outside the scope of this discussion, but I don't like these changes. I think that they are having a hurtful impact on high-security PVP, and I think that CCP is responding far too vigorously to complaints of griefing in incursions. I believe that it is not CCP's place to protect people from consequences of putting the trust of their most valuable assets into the hands of strangers they have barely talked to; if CCP had just played it chill and given it some time, incursions would work differently: People would form more tight-knit communities of incursion-bears who actually form corporations and closely bonded groups that have to rely on each other for their safety and income. That is, they would do it the way they've done it in all other areas of EVE since time-immemorial.

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Neutral logistics play an important role in the game and they are one of the more interesting things to work with in hisec PVP: the better your research, the more you can anticipate from your enemy, even though local is FULL of neutrals. They do not make anyone invincible, and they are literally the only way to possibly win certain fights. They are here to stay.

*snip*

The dock/jump timer on the logistics ship should only be as high as the dock/jump timer of the ship it is repairing; once that ship can dock, so can the logistics. If the logistics turns off its reps early, then he can dock 60 seconds after he's done. Great! This forces logistics ships to be more mobile and self-sufficient instead of cap-recharge monsters with maximum reps that nobody bothers to shoot because they are too far away: if anything goes wrong, that logistics could have to fend for itself for a whole minute. This should serve as a viable solution to both complaints, without breaking anything new.

I agree with a lot of what you said but I take issue with the side about incursion bears. Incursions were made for pickup groups to form and for people to be able to fly with folks outside their own circle, if they so chose to do. Wardec mechanics have pretty well stopped any incursion-bound corp dead in its tracks.

Would you consider a slight alteration of 'not all rules are universal' in that the rules within an incursion for logistics CHANGES from those in normal hisec. This would leave the incursions their safeties and yet not have that cascade of power off reps off that you spoke of, above, in normal space.

Seeing as you are running, Iam, I could turn it back to you and ask what your prroposals were . . . are you looking to make Concord less or more active as a police force?

I just want it to make sense and to make the graded scale of security mean more than response time for Concord to react.
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P.S, if I were to be looking to build a CSM based on skills and diverse representation YOU would be the person I would want to see in as a hisec pvp rep.

What would you say as to the addition of more T3 style ships?

(1)Thoughts on High Sec Incursions?

(2) Local chat Intel/cloak detection?

(3) Use of off grid booster alts?

(4) NPC corps as a means of avoiding Wardecs?

(5) Have you read Malcanis's High Sec Manifesto? What are your opinions?

Thanks for the answers. I was a little surprised by some. Just to clarify..

Other than some adjustment to lower the payout on Vanguards, you're largely supportive of High Sec Incursions as they are now? You wouldn't support removal of Incursions from High Sec, removal of Concord protection from Incursions in High Sec systems, or a means for players to side with the Sansha against Incursion runners?

The ability to use a T3 booster that is virtually unprobable and that aids in a fight while it is largely immune from hostilities is a good thing?

Oh and to clarify one of my original questions.. it was in relation to the last CSM minutes where both removing/changing Local Intel and a means of detecting Cloaked ships was brought up by CCP. I see you're against changing Local Chat Intel, what about a means to detect Cloaked ships?

What would you say as to the addition of more T3 style ships?

I welcome you to post yout thoughts on T3 BS/Frigs

I apologize if this is a disorganized answer, as I just started coming down with the flu from the flu shot I got like 10 hours ago (ain't that nice). Here we go.

Neither do I claim to be able to design balanced ships that could find their nich+¬. The main problem here is - I think - that a lot of ships allready aren't used at all (or hardly). So far I have seen a grand total of 2 EWar frigates in my EvE playing time (which is only 5 months but still) - but hundreds of Canes, Drakes and Machs and a good score of Harbys, Myrms, Curses etc.

I can remember having seen design concepts for a T3 in the "Design a ship"-contest. It didn't even make finals (it didn't look that great but still far superior to some of the other concepts).
I believe CCP could/would figure T3 BS' out - but it would still be nice to have some kind of variation to the standart pattern of Amarr=Armor/Lasers (Caldari=Shield/Missiles and so forth) as well as having a justification for all subs they give us (Hardpoint Efficiency configuration here again - no justification to use it at all whatsoever).

Regarding ships&modules - I don't even read that anymore. Most of the people crying, I mean criticising stuff in there sound as if they can't even see 2 steps ahead of them.
I accept your point of view on no discussion. After all this is your thread - not mine, and not about T3.

Are you going to be healthy enough to travel to Iceland?

Thanks to CSM6, the CSM has much better utilized the stakeholder status earned by CSMs past. Instead of championing specific fixes, proposals, and buffs CSM7 will be plugged into CCP's actual development cycle and be on-hand to give feedback on what CCP is actually planning on doing to help them get it right and steer them away from potential disasters.

So no, I don't have any specific fixes or pet issues. There really wouldn't be any point. What I do have is intimate knowledge of small fleet PVP dynamics and how proposed ship balance or mechanics changes will affect them. If say Electronic Attack Ships or Black Ops came up as a ship balance priority (and I hope they do), instead of handing CCP a post or a set of crunched numbers on how to buff their stats I'll talk with Soundwave + his team + the other CSM reps about how they work well, where they fall short, and if the proposed direction of the buffs is a good one that goes far enough.

tl;dr Spec proposals and backseat developing are a thing of the past. Vote for candidates not a specific fix they claim they can deliver for you.

I will vote for you, follow you into the depths of the null and the darkest corners of the wormholes without hesitation.

You have my blaster.

- This man knows his ****, and is an exceptionally amazing influence to me. An outstanding individual as well.

There is bunch of forum avatars in this sub-forum who promise stuff and talk a lot about their ideas/concerns/thoughts/political views. Who cares about that? Only them probably. Not CCP, thats for sure.

Look at Trebor's campaign last year. He posted entire mini biography of himself, all his experiences, projects he worked on, etc. That was some good stuff, even tho Wizardry suck balls and he is a douche.

meaning that only corporations who end up having wars of a length worth speaking of are the ones that are unable to defend themselves, turning wars in hisec into a farce of grief that drive people out of the game. This is a very bad mechanic.

Inside the game, I play for maximum grief. I've done terrible, terrible things to people and their misbegotten spaceships and loved it. Trolling and killing and unapologetic theft; everything goes under the EULA. . . . . I always try to troll someone by default. If they're mad about their loss and start smacking about it, double down! Those are the best kind of chat logs. Otherwise I guess you can just GF or give them some vague suggestions, or even try to double down on the scam and then explain to them how they messed up later.

If that doesn't make me seem terrible enough, come hit me up on EVE Voice or some ****. I'll try to tone the gay jokes down to the point where information transfer is possible.

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For one: Being a 'grief' PVPer, I have had over five times as many people thank me than I've seen people actually quit the game. And yes, I've checked back on people, a lot. The people who actually quit the game, to a man, were mind-blowingly incompetent to begin with, and they were blaming all their problems on us and not their own carelessness the way you seem to want to.

You are making unsubstantiated and untrue claims that the people who create hardship in the game are driving people out of it. You are also misrepresenting the state and the common usage patterns of war declarations, which are a valid and intended game mechanic. It is cumbersome, ineffective, and generally a huge waste of time to grief someone out of the game even if you want to. If someone actually bothers to target you with continued wardecs, it's because you're actively making it worth their while with your endless wellspring of terribleness.

You say that it might be darwinism, but that people want to enjoy the game too. Well, people play EVE because the enjoyment comes from succeeding at a game which is hard. For a pretty significant subset of its players, we are the people that make that game hard, and if you took that away it's just mining and missions. Very few people would actually want that, despite what they say.

Well then, you're in luck. One of my most iterated points in my argument is that the game should not allow people to be repeatedly griefed with nothing for them to do about it. If a game mechanic allows a loophole for people to do this, it needs to be closed. Forcing people out of the game is a bad plan for all its players and for CCP, and I do not endorse it in any way. If you happen to be the one that kills someone and it's the final straw for them to quit, 999 times out of a thousand that person was already on their way out. People will blame their quitting on anything as an alternative to admitting that they were stupidly betting their entire fortune on one weak and undefended ship.

Since I began PVPing, the only organization I have been a part of that had more than 100 members at any given time was The 0rphanage, and they were terrible. Moar Tears currently has less than 100 members, most of whom have roles preventing them from leaving corp -- and everyone freaks the hell out when someone leaves for a couple days to help out a friend. There is no shadow-clan of hundreds of members who are constantly moving and constantly oppressing your pilots; if there were, and that's what I did, I'm sure I could get a seat on the CSM with very little effort.

PVP in these alliances gets boring pretty fast, and I encourage my own pilots (currently PRONS has only about a dozen active pilots) to get some small and interesting wars of their own going. They are free to move about as they wish, but I do not know of ANYONE who "corp hops continually to escape any meaningful revenge." If I saw someone doing that, I would boot them immediately. Meaningful revenge is what we're seeking out more than anything else. We want fights, wherever we can get them.

Getting blueballed is a win for nobody; that is the reason why we will move about often. There are a number of fights we are involved in at any given time, and we are looking to help out our own members. I am looking to eliminate corp hopping entirely, and if you claim otherwise in any way you are very poorly read. Please take your tinfoil conspiracies elsewhere and never return.

It directly contradicts you claiming not to condone corp hopping to escape retalliation.

I call GÇ£ bull+++tGÇ¥ on that statement. On all of it.

For one: you cannot honoustly claim here you have kept track of the people that you have had wardecced, and certainly you have not been able to keep a running tally of GÇ£ThanksGÇ¥ versus quits. Also, only scary stalker types check back on people...I know, I am one.

It is YOU who blames the other for being GÇ£mind-blowingly incompetent to begin withGÇ¥ and in that statement is packed the highsec PVP elitist stance every other serious PVPer spits on.

I never claimed that people who create hardship in EVE are driving people out of EVE. I claim that targeted and continual GÇ£griefingGÇ¥ declarations of war on younger corporations cost EVE players that might have developed into valuable additions to the EVE comunity without that pressure.

I am not misrepresenting the pattern of use of declarations of war, in fact I have done extensive research into the goings on surrounding highsec declarations of war.

Furthermore, do not accuse me of being an GÇ£endless wellspring of terriblenessGÇ¥ and do not apply this blanket statement to corporations being repeatedly wardecced for a plethora of reasons. It highlights your one sided view of the goings on as well as advertises your ignorance and lack of empatic ability for any playstyle but your own.



You are hereby stating that you don't listen to people because they mean the exact opposite of what they say? I would hate to come across you in a bar and have you apply that logic to me when I say GÇ£No, I would rather not partake in that helping of rainbow manlove you so kindly offered.GÇ¥.
Also, making EVE harder does not translate directly in a feeling of succeeding when you cease piling on the GÇ£hardshipGÇ¥. Even though you seem to think so.



You seem to be of the belief that quitting EVE happens in a rage over a single loss that breaks the camel's back. Two words for you: asset denail. The asset being the prefered style of play and the denail being the conduct of another. If a fledgeling player is forced to eat excrement for two months they will think twice before renewing that subscription.

That said, having someone who regularly pushes highsec war mechanics to great ends could be valuable in upcoming discussions about low sec and high sec changes that will surely be a focus in at least one of the next 2 expansions.

Don't be flattered Iam, he tells every candidate to go for it.

Tinfoil this:
Absolut352 GÇô currently in T-cells 15 Non NPC corporations
Acid Burnn GÇô 1 month in T-cells, 2 times totaling one month in Project Nemesis 38 Non NPC corporations in corp history
Alphalfa GÇô currently in T-cells 14 Non NPC corporations
Aluka 7th GÇô currently in T-cells 4 Non NPC corporations
Alun Hughes GÇô half a year in Project Nemesis 11 Non NPC corporations
Ashteron'n'KA GÇô over half a year in T-cells 14 Non NPC corporations
Azithromycin GÇô currently in Project Nemesis 4 Non NPC corporations

For those of you who have trouble reading information, these are just the members my limited research found directly connected to Moar Tears starting with an A. The list is extensive even without cross links that tie these corporations to other corporations that have a firm love for Highsec wardecs.

The people Iam Widdershins flies with are, more often then not, in posession of an employment history that has them in one corporation for a month or so before moving on, how is that not corp hopping? Most all of these corporations engage almost exclusively in Highsec wardeccing of the GÇ£griefingGÇ¥ persuasion.

The last thing you want is people losing their blinged out Incursion ships for months due to unwanted game mechanics from a war dec change.

Don't be flattered Iam, he tells every candidate to go for it.

I see you were able to quote back your original quote that I quoted. Nice work.

Would you mind explaining again in what context are gay jokes are ok for CSM members? or calling each other douchebags? I think the rest of the voters deserve to know, if you've already lost my vote because you're a close minded bigot with a tiny platform riding on a cloud of grief.

I'm sure you're exactly what high sec players really want.

Actually, it's not the first thing I want, but it's definitely up there.

One thing that really needs to change with Incursions is that player conflict is fully injected into the mix, perhaps that means less 'blinged out' ships as a result. But the last thing I want is a game that has high value PvE that is largely insulated from threat of other players... Themepark style grouped PvE raids have no place in a player conflict driven sandbox MMORPG, none at all!

They should go back and revisit it, making it less safe again, but making sure that everyone knows how and why things can happen.

So I'm here to announce

That I'm not gonna make it for this CSM election. Sorry guys. Details here.

Yeah, this is lousy, but it's not all over. Not only will I be able to get a better run at it next year, but this year Alekseyev Karrde is definitely the man you want to vote for.

If you thought you wanted to vote for me, well then this is the guy you want to vote for. He might not have as much experience living on the edge of the exploit, but he's an excellent candidate and probably the single most important candidate to defend the very existence of PVP as we know it. There are multiple threats to this in the running, malicious and simply dim-witted, and if they had their way (not that CSMs do, but they have an influence) there would be nothing to protect the ideal. EVE could be divided into clear 'safe zones,' most of its players could be virtually unassailable, and all kinds of terrible things could result.

I have talked with Aleks, and he's a smart dude who knows what he's talking about. I believe he has the best interest of the game at heart, and the only disagreements that have surfaced between us in discussion have been matters of expression and miscommunications.

Vote for him. Show your support. Do it as if you were voting for me. If you had talked to me about a particular concern or something that I promised that I would look into if elected, tell me about it, or tell him directly, either one is fine.

Thanks for your time.