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Aralyn Cormallen
Wildly Inappropriate Goonswarm Federation
317
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Posted - 2014.04.14 14:28:00 -
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Little Dragon Khamez wrote:I do vote in the csm elections, but I know that many players are extremely suspicious of the csm and thanks to what they see as vested interests and power bloc voting they won't vote
This is exceedingly stupid, and any person who refuses to vote simply because they feel their opinion is in the minority, and would therefore rather slouch and whine that their obviously superior opinion is being ignored, deserves a good hard slap. All such a person is doing is ensuring their opinion doesn't get traction (who knows, maybe it might have won had all their like-minded sulky ilk actually voted), or they are so insecure, they are attempting to use their faliure to vote as an excuse for why their opinion didn't win, rather than the honest truth of it really not being popular enough.
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Jeremiah Saken
State Protectorate Caldari State
29
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Posted - 2014.04.14 14:38:00 -
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Quote:One of the strongest ways we can help is by bringing in-depth knowledge of specific gameplay areas. Remember that EVE is simply too big and complex for anyone to be an expert on everything - even the devs. Especially the devs, because they spend more time writing code than playing the game.
CSM Malcanis wrote what i suspected. Bacon tastes so much better when it's marinated in vegan tears.-á |
Riot Girl
You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack
3121
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Posted - 2014.04.14 18:18:00 -
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Josef Djugashvilis wrote:The only thing worse than having the CSM, would be not having it. Tell me one single good thing the CSM has done for Eve.
Oh god. |
Serene Repose
1262
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Posted - 2014.04.14 19:16:00 -
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Riot Girl wrote:Tell me one single good thing the CSM has done for Eve. Umm...they disband once a year so we can have a pantomime election!
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility toward every form of tyranny over the mind of man.-á |
Malcanis
Vanishing Point. The Initiative.
15099
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Posted - 2014.04.14 19:16:00 -
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Jeremiah Saken wrote:Quote:One of the strongest ways we can help is by bringing in-depth knowledge of specific gameplay areas. Remember that EVE is simply too big and complex for anyone to be an expert on everything - even the devs. Especially the devs, because they spend more time writing code than playing the game.
CSM Malcanis wrote what i suspected.
Don't you spend more time at work than you do playing video games? Here is my CSM9 endorsement list - vote for diversity of expertise : Ali Aras-á Mangala Solaris-á Mike Azariah-á Steve Ronuken James Arget-á Xander Phoena-á Sugar Kyle-á corbexx-á mynnna-á progodlegend-á Psychotic Monk-á Jayne Fillion
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Malcanis
Vanishing Point. The Initiative.
15099
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Posted - 2014.04.14 19:24:00 -
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Serene Repose wrote:Riot Girl wrote:Tell me one single good thing the CSM has done for Eve. Umm...they disband once a year so we can have a pantomime election!
Ship Maintenence Arrays drop loot again.
That was us.
Here is my CSM9 endorsement list - vote for diversity of expertise : Ali Aras-á Mangala Solaris-á Mike Azariah-á Steve Ronuken James Arget-á Xander Phoena-á Sugar Kyle-á corbexx-á mynnna-á progodlegend-á Psychotic Monk-á Jayne Fillion
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Antisocial Malkavian
Antisocial Malkavians
693
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Posted - 2014.04.14 20:27:00 -
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Malcanis wrote:Jeremiah Saken wrote:Quote:One of the strongest ways we can help is by bringing in-depth knowledge of specific gameplay areas. Remember that EVE is simply too big and complex for anyone to be an expert on everything - even the devs. Especially the devs, because they spend more time writing code than playing the game.
CSM Malcanis wrote what i suspected. Don't you spend more time at work than you do playing video games?
If I worked on a video game, I wouldnt. PSYCHOTIC MONK (or Erotica1's next alt) for CSM. All gameplay modes should be represented! http://i.imgur.com/N949bKU.jpg proving that Im a sociopathic ganker and all around scum of the game http://i.imgur.com/RX8oBRN.jpg |
Infinity Ziona
Cloakers
2184
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Posted - 2014.04.14 20:35:00 -
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Aralyn Cormallen wrote:Little Dragon Khamez wrote:I do vote in the csm elections, but I know that many players are extremely suspicious of the csm and thanks to what they see as vested interests and power bloc voting they won't vote This is exceedingly stupid, and any person who refuses to vote simply because they feel their opinion is in the minority, and would therefore rather slouch and whine that their obviously superior opinion is being ignored, deserves a good hard slap. All such a person is doing is ensuring their opinion doesn't get traction (who knows, maybe it might have won had all their like-minded sulky ilk actually voted), or they are so insecure, they are attempting to use their faliure to vote as an excuse for why their opinion didn't win, rather than the honest truth of it really not being popular enough. Given your coalition has 40k people, can vote with alts giving them 120k votes and will almost certainly vote as a bloc and you also have a permanent Goonswarm CSM why would we bother with the GoonSM Goonlection?
We have better things to do while you ruin the game with your meta-garbage. Like play it.
Want to make billions a week solo running combat sites in null sec? -á Read my Exploratation Guide here -> https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=309467 |
Jeremiah Saken
State Protectorate Caldari State
29
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Posted - 2014.04.14 21:02:00 -
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Quote:Don't you spend more time at work than you do playing video games?
I do, but it's not my job to create games. Coding without good idea is a waste don't you think? My model example is "infamous loot bukkake". It was designed by someone who didn't know how exploration looks like. I don't belive that everybody in CCP are writing code. Still i didn't see any bold movement to justify naming the expansion Rubicon. I really hope they have something behind colonization term because current mobile structures have nothing to do with colonization.
Shame you don't running again Malcanis. Bacon tastes so much better when it's marinated in vegan tears.-á |
Dinsdale Pirannha
Pirannha Corp
2639
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Posted - 2014.04.14 21:09:00 -
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The CSM is extremely effective, if you look at it for what it is: A lobby group for the null sec cartels. As a lobby for them, it does en excellent job of skewing the game's design in the direction of improving the profitability for the cartels, and specifically their leaders' wallets, while impoverishing all other aspects of the Eve universe.
Remember, one of the dev's, I think it was the Pandemic Legion guy, said on the forums, and I paraphrase, "if your group is not on the CSM, we don't listen to you". He apparently was "joking", but the sentiment was clear.
How many of the current cartel representatives have said the same thing this last year?
There is a reason that the cartels exert so much energy to dominate the CSM every year. They know precisely how much power this gives them in-game.
the goons do far more damage to high sec using the the CSM than any Burn Jita event can possibly imagine to. And it will continue, as the CSM convinces their very wiling partner, CCP, to give the CSM ever increasing say on game design.
So yes, the CSM is an extremely effective tool in the political machine of the cartels, and will continue to, right up until the moment the largest segment of the subscription base, the silent majority, leaves for greener pastures Most people viewed Orwell's writings as a warning. The harper regime and the goons treat them as a guidebook. |
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Benny Ohu
Beneath the Ashes Margin of Silence
2895
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Posted - 2014.04.14 21:26:00 -
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hello, dinsdale |
Lors Dornick
Kallisti Industries Solar Assault Fleet
1055
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Posted - 2014.04.14 21:29:00 -
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Dinsdale Pirannha wrote:The CSM is extremely effective, if you look at it for what it is: A lobby group for the null sec cartels.
"Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.GÇ¥
But I'll make an exception.
Every company that sells a consumer product will have part of their staff dedicated to understanding their customers.
This is done by observing how the product is used, by issuing polls to the customers, by having dedicated customer focus groups, lately by providing their customers with a forum to discuss their experience and by participating and monitoring social media.
CCP does all of this.
The only difference from many other companies is that CCP provides their customers to have an input on who should be on one public customer focus group.
But in difference to random customers, or even members of the CSM, CCP have access to all the data from all the sources.
So do the CSM matter?
If the selected group is good, knowledgeable, capable of coherent argument and can provide CCP with valid input, sure.
If not they'll get some free lunches, some pats on the back and be ignored.
Vote for Fuzzy Steve! https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4236322
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Kaarous Aldurald
ROC Deep Space The ROC
4689
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Posted - 2014.04.14 21:42:00 -
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Benny Ohu wrote:hello, dinsdale
And hello Dinsdale's tears. Dammit, I forgot my umbrella. Why don't they sell these in the NEX Store? "Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."
-áPsychotic Monk for CSM9.
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Dinsdale Pirannha
Pirannha Corp
2639
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Posted - 2014.04.14 21:46:00 -
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Lors Dornick wrote:Dinsdale Pirannha wrote:The CSM is extremely effective, if you look at it for what it is: A lobby group for the null sec cartels.
"Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.GÇ¥ But I'll make an exception. Every company that sells a consumer product will have part of their staff dedicated to understanding their customers. This is done by observing how the product is used, by issuing polls to the customers, by having dedicated customer focus groups, lately by providing their customers with a forum to discuss their experience and by participating and monitoring social media. CCP does all of this. The only difference from many other companies is that CCP provides their customers to have an input on who should be on one public customer focus group. But in difference to random customers, or even members of the CSM, CCP have access to all the data from all the sources. So do the CSM matter? If the selected group is good, knowledgeable, capable of coherent argument and can provide CCP with valid input, sure. If not they'll get some free lunches, some pats on the back and be ignored.
What describe is indeed how well-run companies keep track of what consumers want.
However in CCP's case, the forum they provide is this very one. Two things stop it from being effective: a. People are not aware of it. I came across a miner today in low sec. Jan 2014 char. He did not even know about the forums. Now, in retrospect, he did not know who mynnna was, and thought the goons were "some corporation". That is a very large segment of the customer base, and that group does not represent itself on these forums. (and no, though I was in a combat Loki, I did not kill him. I shot the rats he wanted help with, and left him alone.) b. The null sec cartels are very good at getting any thread that threatens their agenda derailed or locked, very quickly.
And as for the focus group you describe, no doubt the CSM is that focus group. But how many successful companies would build a focus group that is dominated by the small minority of their customer base? If Proctor and Gamble ran focus groups like CCP does, when P&G does potential customer response for a new toothpaste, the would come back from the focus group thinking a toothpaste that allows the user to spit cyanide at anyone is a really good idea. Most people viewed Orwell's writings as a warning. The harper regime and the goons treat them as a guidebook. |
Benny Ohu
Beneath the Ashes Margin of Silence
2895
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Posted - 2014.04.14 22:02:00 -
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Dinsdale Pirannha wrote:b. The null sec cartels are very good at getting any thread that threatens their agenda derailed or locked, very quickly. threads you post in get locked and you think someone else is responsible? |
Duke Wendo
Probe Patrol
33
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Posted - 2014.04.14 22:02:00 -
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http://csm8.org/csm8-reasonable-things-results/
Check the date of the list...
Check the things that 'we', the players asked for as 'reasonable things'.
Check how many have been implemented since that date.
Come to your own conclusions... |
Little Dragon Khamez
Guardians of the Underworld White Mountain Coalition
1287
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Posted - 2014.04.14 22:15:00 -
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Aralyn Cormallen wrote:Little Dragon Khamez wrote:I do vote in the csm elections, but I know that many players are extremely suspicious of the csm and thanks to what they see as vested interests and power bloc voting they won't vote This is exceedingly stupid, and any person who refuses to vote simply because they feel their opinion is in the minority, and would therefore rather slouch and whine that their obviously superior opinion is being ignored, deserves a good hard slap. All such a person is doing is ensuring their opinion doesn't get traction (who knows, maybe it might have won had all their like-minded sulky ilk actually voted), or they are so insecure, they are attempting to use their faliure to vote as an excuse for why their opinion didn't win, rather than the honest truth of it really not being popular enough.
Agreed on all points I vote in every election for all of the reasons you've outlined, plus democracy is hard won.
Sadly a great deal of high sec won't or don't vote in the csm as they think it's dominated by null cartels and people who hate their play style. The csm needs to actively counter this as it's becoming a self fulfilling prophecy. Dumbing down of Eve Online will result in it's destruction... |
Kaarous Aldurald
ROC Deep Space The ROC
4690
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Posted - 2014.04.14 22:17:00 -
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Little Dragon Khamez wrote: Sadly a great deal of high sec won't or don't vote in the csm as they think it's dominated by null cartels and people who hate their play style. The csm needs to actively counter this as it's becoming a self fulfilling prophecy.
And it's dominated by those things precisely because highsec is too stupid to vote.
Well, and because they aren't anywhere close to the silent majority they think they are. It's a rich tapestry. "Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."
-áPsychotic Monk for CSM9.
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Mike Azariah
DemSal Corporation DemSal Unlimited
1047
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Posted - 2014.04.15 05:39:00 -
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CSM is as effective or ineffective as it allows itself to become.
If we work with the devs then we get closer to the planning stages end of the development cycle and are listened to in a more cooperative fashion.
No, Nothing I can say will convince some of you because any evidence would mean taking the word of players, devs . . . other people. If a change happens it probably happened in spite of our efforts, not because of it. If we manage to push SMAA drops to the top of the fix it list then it was probably there already, right?
All this talk of the work involved, the day to day talking to devs, passing forward concerns of people who can make a good reasoned point without using all caps . . . yeah.
So take the arguments as presented.
1) It is a popularity contest. (Show me a democratic process that isn't. So you are right on that one.) 2) It is a publicity stunt. (If so it is not a very good one. Nobody has interviewed me and those of us who see our names out there damn well wrote them ourselves.) 3) It is a trick to quiet the noisy forums and make you think they are listening to you (Doesn't seem to be working if that is true) 4) We are a cheap focus group of various skill sets within the game who work for almost free (If you ignore the flights to Iceland) 5) We are an oversight committee to make sure the devs don't cheat. (Um, they have an internal affairs for that, so no) 6) We are whatever we make ourselves and have not been that same two councils in a row.
To expand on that last idea. We are also what you, the voters, make us. If you step back and abstain then we are what somebody else makes us and you can still complain but it will seem a little shiny, at that point. If you want a diverse council of people who will work . . . then vote for the ones you think will do that.
If you want to proclaim it a grand waste of time then go ahead. But we are still in there, trying and working. Just remember that you get what you work for and vote for. If you don't make the effort to VOTE then you will probably get what you put into the process.
m Mike Azariah-á CSM8 |
Luwc
Biohazard. WINMATAR.
92
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Posted - 2014.04.15 06:23:00 -
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Zappity wrote:Luwc wrote:ask yourself how happy you are with eve and how things are.
Question answered. Ask yourself how you would feel about EVE if they were NOT there.
ask yourself if it really makes any difference.
Only thing CSM does is work for the powerblocs.
inb4 pubbie tears.
I have been in the CFC for 3 years.
We wanted drones nerfed. CSM got on it We wanted Titans nerfed. CSM got on it
etc. etc.
So please dont try to be a smartass publord. |
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Riot Girl
You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack
3122
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Posted - 2014.04.15 07:38:00 -
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Malcanis wrote:Ship Maintenence Arrays drop loot again.
That was us.
No it wasn't. lol. Oh god. |
Richard Desturned
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
1839
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Posted - 2014.04.15 07:42:00 -
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Luwc wrote:ask yourself if it really makes any difference.
Only thing CSM does is work for the powerblocs.
inb4 pubbie tears.
I have been in the CFC for 3 years.
We wanted drones nerfed. CSM got on it We wanted Titans nerfed. CSM got on it
etc. etc.
So please dont try to be a smartass publord.
Both titans and drones required more than "CSM lobbying" to convince CCP to fix. With titans, we took 900 m/s permamwd Drakes and tossed them into the meatgrinder as an example of how ridiculous it was that they were able to apply full damage against fast moving ships, even with transversal. With drone assist we did nothing but field Dominix fleets even in engagements where they didn't really have a place. With AoE DDs we demonstrated that we (with our friends) could field enough titans to clear a grid of literally everything smaller than a titan.
0.0 groups field CSM candidates to get a strong nullsec presence in the CSM and shoot down bad ideas that would screw up the quality of life in nullsec. npc alts have no opinions worth consideration |
admiral root
Red Galaxy Disband.
1095
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Posted - 2014.04.15 10:07:00 -
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Benny Ohu wrote:Dinsdale Pirannha wrote:b. The null sec cartels are very good at getting any thread that threatens their agenda derailed or locked, very quickly. threads you post in get locked and you think someone else is responsible?
Grrrr, cartel moderators. No, your rights end in optimal+2*falloff |
Coffee Rocks
Thrall Nation Brave Collective
154
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Posted - 2014.04.15 10:54:00 -
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Lors Dornick wrote: "Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.GÇ¥
I did a once over of the thread, and this sums up any response I thought of making.
Edit: If you think the CSM is useless, pod yourself. thecoffeerocks.blogspot.com Twitter: @thecoffeerocks |-áSteam: CoffeeRocks | thecoffeerocks.blogspot.com https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&find=unread&t=327221 |
Infinity Ziona
Cloakers
2185
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Posted - 2014.04.15 11:30:00 -
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Coffee Rocks wrote:Lors Dornick wrote: "Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.GÇ¥
I did a once over of the thread, and this sums up any response I thought of making. Edit: If you think the CSM is useless, pod yourself. Its not that they're useless its that they were an idea designed to represent all EvE players but the voting process is manipulated by coalitions to only represent sov null. They are then effectively an imbalancing factor in the game. This can easily be seen by looking at how bad null and sov mechanics are.
That 10 of 11 CSM voted against a covert ops cloak on the Nestor, making it a completely fail ship is good evidence they're not exactly good for the game.
That the CSM had a hand in diluting the usefulness of siphons, once again making them useless, to protect their own null interests, is further proof of bias and evidence they're not good for the game.
I didn't vote for them, they don't represent me or the majority of players in this game and they need to be scrapped imo.
Want to make billions a week solo running combat sites in null sec? -á Read my Exploratation Guide here -> https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=309467 |
James Amril-Kesh
4S Corporation Goonswarm Federation
9379
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Posted - 2014.04.15 11:35:00 -
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Infinity Ziona wrote:That 10 of 11 CSM voted against a covert ops cloak on the Nestor, making it a completely fail ship is good evidence they're not exactly good for the game. You're not interested in what's good for the game. A covert ops Nestor wouldn't have been. It would have been good for you though, I'm sure, which is why you think it's good for the game. As with everything else you have to say on the subject of game balance. "Pretty much all 14 of the CSM were in favor of a drone assign nerf for OBVIOUS gameplay reasons" - Sala Cameron
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Infinity Ziona
Cloakers
2185
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Posted - 2014.04.15 11:44:00 -
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James Amril-Kesh wrote:Infinity Ziona wrote:That 10 of 11 CSM voted against a covert ops cloak on the Nestor, making it a completely fail ship is good evidence they're not exactly good for the game. You're not interested in what's good for the game. A covert ops Nestor wouldn't have been. It would have been good for you though, I'm sure, which is why you think it's good for the game. As with everything else you have to say on the subject of game balance. Horsecrap. I have a Stratios that can do 900 dps vs my widow which can do 900, applies all its dps to small ships vs my widow which applies very little except to battleships, locks a frigate in 3 seconds, vs 8 seconds in my widow, mitigates damage much better than my widow, aligns twice as fast, moves 3 times as fast....
You're either stupid or a newb if you think a nerfed hull like the battleship is more dangerous in cov ops than smaller ships. Want to make billions a week solo running combat sites in null sec? -á Read my Exploratation Guide here -> https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=309467 |
Seven Koskanaiken
The Shadow Plague Fidelas Constans
1192
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Posted - 2014.04.15 11:48:00 -
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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
-- H. L. Mencken
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Aralyn Cormallen
Wildly Inappropriate Goonswarm Federation
321
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Posted - 2014.04.15 15:57:00 -
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Dinsdale Pirannha wrote:The CSM is extremely effective, if you look at it for what it is: A lobby group for the null sec cartels. As a lobby for them, it does en excellent job of skewing the game's design in the direction of improving the profitability for the cartels, and specifically their leaders' wallets, while impoverishing all other aspects of the Eve universe.
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There is a reason that the cartels exert so much energy to dominate the CSM every year. They know precisely how much power this gives them in-game.
the goons do far more damage to high sec using the the CSM than any Burn Jita event can possibly imagine to. And it will continue, as the CSM convinces their very wiling partner, CCP, to give the CSM ever increasing say on game design.
Granted, most of this is twaddle, but peel back the layers, and the core principle is right. We get people of the CSM to direct and protect our way of playing.
It didn't used to be this way. The CSM up until and including CSM 5 was largely ignored by the Nullsec entities (barring the odd guy who wanted to play armchair politician). Then the CSM blithely took a hammer to our Jump Bridge networks, and didn't blink as our anomolies got hammered in to the ground, and we realised we had to get the brakes on on this clown car, before a bunch of ignorants and incompetants plowed it straight through our part of the game, leaving flaming debris in its wake. So, since then we have. And if you want to make sure your play style is protected, as we want to protect ours, you have to get your guys on to seats too, it's as simple as that.
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Infinity Ziona
Cloakers
2185
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Posted - 2014.04.15 18:13:00 -
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Aralyn Cormallen wrote:Dinsdale Pirannha wrote:The CSM is extremely effective, if you look at it for what it is: A lobby group for the null sec cartels. As a lobby for them, it does en excellent job of skewing the game's design in the direction of improving the profitability for the cartels, and specifically their leaders' wallets, while impoverishing all other aspects of the Eve universe.
...
There is a reason that the cartels exert so much energy to dominate the CSM every year. They know precisely how much power this gives them in-game.
the goons do far more damage to high sec using the the CSM than any Burn Jita event can possibly imagine to. And it will continue, as the CSM convinces their very wiling partner, CCP, to give the CSM ever increasing say on game design.
Granted, most of this is twaddle, but peel back the layers, and the core principle is right. We get people of the CSM to direct and protect our way of playing. It didn't used to be this way. The CSM up until and including CSM 5 was largely ignored by the Nullsec entities (barring the odd guy who wanted to play armchair politician). Then the CSM blithely took a hammer to our Jump Bridge networks, and didn't blink as our anomolies got hammered in to the ground, and we realised we had to get the brakes on on this clown car, before a bunch of ignorants and incompetants plowed it straight through our part of the game, leaving flaming debris in its wake. So, since then we have. And if you want to make sure your play style is protected, as we want to protect ours, you have to get your guys on to seats too, it's as simple as that. Well considering the atrocious state of the game, especially in null sec, stagnation, 40k player coalitions designed to steamroll any real opposition you guys are doing a fantastic job - of totally screwing up EvE Online so you can have your 'playstyle' protected.
But then that was the stated intention of Goons when they joined EvE, to ruin it... congrats.
As for getting seats, its not a practical suggestion given the opposition will be 10's of thousands of organized out of game SA members and their pets. Want to make billions a week solo running combat sites in null sec? -á Read my Exploratation Guide here -> https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=309467 |
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