The current CSM
wants to nerf NPC 0.0 without opposition from the candidates I
supported in the previous election. Because of this I will be
running for CSM7 on a small gang/NPC 0.0 platform. I believe that the
extremes of Eve's gang sizes (solo and 100+) are well represented,
with no one left for that middle ground.
Who am in
game?
I started playing Eve in mid 2007, being thrown into Sov warfare with various now-dead entities. I moved onto lowsec after a year, where I relearned PvP in Amamake with Heretic army, and eventually moved on to Dark Star Cartel, a member corp of Molotov Coalition. In late 2009 Molotov coalition folded, and I joined Stimulus for the smug, ~elitepvp~ environment.
I've
been a member of Stimulus for
the past 2 years, who is the executor corporation of Rote
Kapelle. Rote are a PvP alliance based in Syndicate. For the
unaware, Syndicate is the most active region in Eve for PvP kills,
year after year. All we do as an alliance is PvP, usually in gangs
between 5-30 people. I dabble in industry on alts, mostly producing
boosters.
Who am I
IRL?
>My name is Sam
Leboe, I'm 21 and live in Victoria, Canada. I went to college for a
diploma in Electronic Engineering technology, and work in that field
for a local company. I've worked with various Engineering companies,
focusing on electronic hardware design, being exposed to many project
management styles.
The Campaign Talkingpoints
Why would I be an
asset to the CSM? Because People who live in NPC 0.0 are massively
underrepresented. Here's a few things that I agree with/would push
for if elected.
Viable small gang objectives
Why do something with 20 people when its much faster with 200? ' really no argument for it. But why keep structure EHP so high that these things are limited to hundreds of people, but still annoying for them. Things like customs offices have the EHP of a small control tower, and I still believe that is too much. Its not an objective for a roaming gang, when it had the potential to be one. When it comes to station EHP, people worry about roaming gangs disabling stations and messing up everyone else's evening with an small bit of effort. The problem is, this is already possible with supercapitals, we clearly aren't preventing it from happening if people were motivated.
Repairing static structures is soul destroying, so at the very least the EHP should be a mix of resistances and raw hitpoints, so that if you wanted to keep the DPS and time required to disable something the same, we can at least reduce the time to repair it if no one shows up.
Not Nerfing NPC
0.0 Regions.
From what I've
seen, none of the current CSM members have come out directly opposed
to this. I believe that NPC 0.0 is a unique PvP focused environment
that, at the very least, is fine and doesn't need work. The
last thing NPC 0.0 residents want is to be forced to repair station
services every day or grind NPC missions for standings.
People like to
complain when Pandemic Legion stage from an invulnerable station and
harass them with supercapitals, but that's an isolated case. Making
NPC 0.0 stations vulnerable ignores the fact that supercaps can't
dock, and there’s a staging POS that people aren't shooting
anyways.
Making LowSec a
Higher Priority.
I fly through
lowsec regularly, and its always empty. While I don't live there now,
anyone can figure out that the regions need love. Things like player
owned customs offices and Faction Warfare help, but the work is far
from done.
EWAR Balance
Nobody likes ECM,
and its been a problem since the beginning. CCP needs to look long
and hard at it, and come up with the right solution, but right now
there’s no indication that its a priority when it should be. Damps
are obviously underused on tranquility, so I'd push for a full
EWAR iteration.
Boosters
Last year, CCP
proposed some changes to booster bonuses without touching the rest of
the system. Both people who use them and who make them made clear
that this wouldn’t be acceptable. Luckily CCP shelved the changes
but the system needs to be looked at in the future.
Side effects as
they are now are a huge turnoff for people, like CCP said, but issues
like how boring gas cloud harvesting is cannot be ignored if
increasing demand. I produce boosters ingame and could provide needed
insight to the bottlenecks involved with that side of
things. Abandoned mechanics like smuggling should be examined at
the same time.
Jump Clone
Timers, Clone Upgrade Costs
This hits very
close to home in Rote Kapelle, its an issue we struggle with every
day. For example, we do an armour gang on a Monday Night, people jump
into their armour themed clones to maximize EHP. If we run a gang at
the same time the next night, with a shield/nano composition, those
pilots can't swap to snake clones. While a 24 hour timer makes sense
in a broad sense, if you factor in real schedules and the time
it takes from deciding to run armour or shields, to
swapping clones and getting in space, its a big annoyance.
The timers were
intended to prevent people from instantly going from one side of the
universe to another, but with titan bridges that's already
prominent. If the timers were adjusted to say, 20 hours, that would
allow people to change in anticipation of the next fleet. Or just
scale it to distance, being unable to store multiple clones in the
same station without destroying them is a big "little thing"
that CCP should look at.
Clone upgrade
costs are just as annoying. At the high end of SP, make flying frigates a costly choice. It just
punishes older players for being older players, independent of
their actual wallet size.
Last Bit
These are a few of
my views on topics that are a high priority to me. There are lots of
things in Eve that still need work, but I think that the members are
mostly unified in the direction CCP needs to continue taking. The
next expansion is supposed to be focused on Sov warfare, and I'd like
to ensure the rest of the universe isn't left out.
I encourage anyone to ask me questions, especially if its about a topic I haven't discussed above. I can be contacted through the comments or an in game evemail.
I've already achieved the required 100 'Likes' on the forums to be an official candidate, but if you agree with what you read above, you can show your support for me on the eveo forums here:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=812219#post812219
