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Kesper North
Caldari
Epiphyte Mining and Exploration
Combined Planetary Union
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Posted - 2008.09.29 22:50:00 -
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Edited by: Kesper North on 29/09/2008 22:52:27
I'll say it right up front: I'm a relative newcomer to EVE. I started playing in January of this year, on a whim. "What harm could a fifteen-day free trial do?" I asked myself on that rainy winter's day in Seattle. "I'll probably get bored and quit inside a week." After all, no video game at that time had managed to hold my interest for very long.
I've since subscribed two alt accounts. I have EVEMon skill plans going out two, three years in the future. I'm hooked. I love this game.
So since I have come to care about this game so much, and since I've got so much invested in it, obviously I want to see it thrive and prosper. And I would love to have not just a chance to have a say in where it goes, but to be a voice for the people who play it. As a result, I'm running for CSM in the hope that I'll be able to help make a better, brighter future in EVE.
Here's a few random facts about my life in EVE to give you an idea of where my EVE experience has taken me:
- 0.0 resident
- 0.0 alliance executive board member
- Avid (but still rather noobish) PVPer
- Caldari ewar specced
- Aspiring capital pilot
- Have a carebear alt - industry and research
- Have participated in FW with a (non-Calamari!) alt
- Mac and Linux user
With the preliminaries out of the way, there are a few platform issues I want to talk about to give you an idea of my areas of focus.
Cross-Platform Support
This is my pet project. I started playing EVE on a Mac. I hate having to boot into Windows to PVP worth a damn. I hate that the inset map is broken. I hate the Disco Box. I think we, the non-Windows-using community, deserve better. To that end, I campaigned in the forums:
Link to post
and successfully petitioned the current CSM to raise an issue to the CCP developers about this issue:
Link to post
As a result, CCP's response has improved slightly (they've been more active in the Mac and Linux forums) but we still are no closer to having regular, ongoing status updates about the status of a Mac Premium client, and we continue to have severe graphical bugs.
As a CSM, I will give this issue the attention it deserves, and I won't CCP get away with saying "It's coming, there'll be a dev blog about it in a couple of weeks" and then lapsing into radio silence again.
TL;DR: We should be able to PVP on non-Windows platforms at a reasonable framerate. Pretty graphics would be nice. I'll bug CCP about it until they get sick of me and give us a proper client just to get me to shut up.
The Evolution of 0.0
EVE as a game really started for me when I got to 0.0. I like the danger, the excitement, the wars and the politics and constant shifting of influence that goes on in 0.0 space. As a CSM I will encourage and support new ideas on how to improve the 0.0 experience, from making sovreignty more valuable to increasing the role that non-capital ships have in sov warfare. At the same time I realize capitals need love too - I can't wait to fly one, and I want them to still be as useful and exciting then as they are now.
Nano-nerf
Every CSM candidate needs to have a position on this one in my opinion. In my case, I'm cautiously for it, but I'm concerned about how it will affect blaster-boats. I do feel that *something* needs to be done - I'm tired of the predictability of nanoship gangs; it's all I ever see in small gang PVP, and it gets monotonous. Levelling the playing field will force further tactical evolution, and I'd like to see something new.
Lag
CCP's hard at work on this one, and as CSM I would continue to encourage them to do so. I'm in a 0.0 alliance, that means I have to deal with plenty of big blobs and the lagfests they generate. Not on the scale of the big boys, of course, but even so, I feel your pain. |
Kesper North
Caldari
Epiphyte Mining and Exploration
Combined Planetary Union
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Posted - 2008.09.29 22:50:00 -
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Edited by: Kesper North on 29/09/2008 22:52:27
I'll say it right up front: I'm a relative newcomer to EVE. I started playing in January of this year, on a whim. "What harm could a fifteen-day free trial do?" I asked myself on that rainy winter's day in Seattle. "I'll probably get bored and quit inside a week." After all, no video game at that time had managed to hold my interest for very long.
I've since subscribed two alt accounts. I have EVEMon skill plans going out two, three years in the future. I'm hooked. I love this game.
So since I have come to care about this game so much, and since I've got so much invested in it, obviously I want to see it thrive and prosper. And I would love to have not just a chance to have a say in where it goes, but to be a voice for the people who play it. As a result, I'm running for CSM in the hope that I'll be able to help make a better, brighter future in EVE.
Here's a few random facts about my life in EVE to give you an idea of where my EVE experience has taken me:
- 0.0 resident
- 0.0 alliance executive board member
- Avid (but still rather noobish) PVPer
- Caldari ewar specced
- Aspiring capital pilot
- Have a carebear alt - industry and research
- Have participated in FW with a (non-Calamari!) alt
- Mac and Linux user
With the preliminaries out of the way, there are a few platform issues I want to talk about to give you an idea of my areas of focus.
Cross-Platform Support
This is my pet project. I started playing EVE on a Mac. I hate having to boot into Windows to PVP worth a damn. I hate that the inset map is broken. I hate the Disco Box. I think we, the non-Windows-using community, deserve better. To that end, I campaigned in the forums:
Link to post
and successfully petitioned the current CSM to raise an issue to the CCP developers about this issue:
Link to post
As a result, CCP's response has improved slightly (they've been more active in the Mac and Linux forums) but we still are no closer to having regular, ongoing status updates about the status of a Mac Premium client, and we continue to have severe graphical bugs.
As a CSM, I will give this issue the attention it deserves, and I won't CCP get away with saying "It's coming, there'll be a dev blog about it in a couple of weeks" and then lapsing into radio silence again.
TL;DR: We should be able to PVP on non-Windows platforms at a reasonable framerate. Pretty graphics would be nice. I'll bug CCP about it until they get sick of me and give us a proper client just to get me to shut up.
The Evolution of 0.0
EVE as a game really started for me when I got to 0.0. I like the danger, the excitement, the wars and the politics and constant shifting of influence that goes on in 0.0 space. As a CSM I will encourage and support new ideas on how to improve the 0.0 experience, from making sovreignty more valuable to increasing the role that non-capital ships have in sov warfare. At the same time I realize capitals need love too - I can't wait to fly one, and I want them to still be as useful and exciting then as they are now.
Nano-nerf
Every CSM candidate needs to have a position on this one in my opinion. In my case, I'm cautiously for it, but I'm concerned about how it will affect blaster-boats. I do feel that *something* needs to be done - I'm tired of the predictability of nanoship gangs; it's all I ever see in small gang PVP, and it gets monotonous. Levelling the playing field will force further tactical evolution, and I'd like to see something new.
Lag
CCP's hard at work on this one, and as CSM I would continue to encourage them to do so. I'm in a 0.0 alliance, that means I have to deal with plenty of big blobs and the lagfests they generate. Not on the scale of the big boys, of course, but even so, I feel your pain. |
Kesper North
Caldari
Epiphyte Mining and Exploration
Combined Planetary Union
|
Posted - 2008.09.29 22:51:00 -
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Forums
The forums need work. The censor software has an unacceptably high rate of false-positives, and the human moderators have trouble keeping up with the rate of posts. I like the forums - I enjoy reading them each day, and I think they are one of the most vital parts of the EVE community. Let's give them the attention they deserve.
Politeness and Professionalism
If elected, I want to work with, not against, my fellow CSM members. I am committed to dealing professionally with both the other members of the CSM and with the community at large. I won't let my personal feelings get in the way. I have no alliance-based axes to grind. I just want to make things work.
In Conclusion
There's a lot more that I would like to say about each of these issues, but I'm trying to resist the temptation to blast you all with a wall of text. I'll be setting up a campaign blog in the next day or two in which I'll talk about the issues I support at more length. Until then, thank you for your time, and fly safe. |
Kesper North
Caldari
Epiphyte Mining and Exploration
Combined Planetary Union
|
Posted - 2008.09.29 22:51:00 -
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Forums
The forums need work. The censor software has an unacceptably high rate of false-positives, and the human moderators have trouble keeping up with the rate of posts. I like the forums - I enjoy reading them each day, and I think they are one of the most vital parts of the EVE community. Let's give them the attention they deserve.
Politeness and Professionalism
If elected, I want to work with, not against, my fellow CSM members. I am committed to dealing professionally with both the other members of the CSM and with the community at large. I won't let my personal feelings get in the way. I have no alliance-based axes to grind. I just want to make things work.
In Conclusion
There's a lot more that I would like to say about each of these issues, but I'm trying to resist the temptation to blast you all with a wall of text. I'll be setting up a campaign blog in the next day or two in which I'll talk about the issues I support at more length. Until then, thank you for your time, and fly safe. |
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