Featuring CSM9 candidates Mynnna, Steve Ronuken, and Sugar Kyle
Topics covered: Industry UI, each candidates thoughts on the direction indy improvements should take, highsec production capacity, impact of FW on lowsec industry, Farms and Fields from the producer perspective
Recorded the day before the release of today’s dev blog regarding changes to refining. Kudos to CSM8 incumbent Mynnna for being able to stop himself from letting the cat out of the bag during this in depth discussion.
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“So here’s the thing…”
Feat. StarConquer212, Synsational, and a lot of realtalk
-Changes to interceptor agility and an expansion of things you can overheat
-Omnidirectional Tracking Links turned into scripted, active modules with the same strengths as turret tracking computers
-Nerfing the Elephant in the Room: Alek is not pleased that sentry drones and their upgrades are being targeted for nerfs that don’t address the underlying problem of drone assist. A discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of the drones as a weapon system ensues
-Meh: Dreads get a slight tracking nerf unless paired with carriers but StarConquer and Turtle explain why it’s not really a big deal
-Expectedly Safe Structures: The MJD Array, the Dscan Disruptor
-Extremely Scandalous Structures: More frustratingly designed siphons, “ESSgate”
-Ali likes the ESS, Alek hates that she likes the ESS, a feeding frenzy on the numerous design issues of the ESS ensues
-The Big Question: Are these deployable structures a product of reluctance to deal with the core issues holding EVE back?
-Case Study: StarConquer brings up the lack of alliance bookmarks as a major failure of CSM8 WH advocacy which leads to a discussion of a dearth of major features with widespread consensus on value compared to the controversial little features like the ESS
-A Question of Faith: Can CCP actually deliver on their 3 year roadmap and if so where are the landmarks we should be looking for to see progress? And if/when they do get there will it be a compelling enough destination to retain the new players it attracts?
-Where were we? Oh yeah: the ESS. At great length.
-Jester’s Trudge: CSM Vice Chair Ripard Teg put out a touchstone post called “Another Way of Saying ‘Never'”
-Voyeurism: “EVE is way more fun to read about than it is to play” hits home to most of the cast and we explore why that is
-The Ultimate Irony: Springboard expansions have nothing to jump off too, we’re talking about increasing the peak concurrent user count for a game which crashes because single system capcity is exceeded during fights, and EVE’s fundamental gameplay dynamic is painfully out of date
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Hello friends,
Declarations of War is proud to bring you an episode devoted completely to the CSM 7’s recently released minutes from the 2012 Winter Summit. We didn’t stop there; we also convinced TWO CSM8 candidates to come! Mynnna (aka Corestwo) and Ripard Teg join the discussion to help us tackle some of the most important sections of the minutes. Enjoy!
00:04:21 Context of the CSM7 Winter Summit
00:10:40 Thoughts regarding stakeholdership
00:27:10 Null sec 1 & 2
00:54:45 CSM Whitepaper and voting reform
01:08:40 Ship Balancing
01:21:55 Closing thoughts
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We all wear hats. Sean Smith was no exception to that rule. To a precious few, he was a husband and father. Others knew him as a dedicated employee of the State Department, a testament to all Americans that serve this country. In the eyes of the perpetrators, just another American; to the news media, one of four killed in Benghazi; to us, simply Vile Rat. “Simply” Vile Rat. As if there was a vet within the proverbial thousand miles that didn’t at least recognize the name. Granted you won’t find a textbook recanting EVE’s history while spelling out the major players at any given time, but his name would have come up. Those of us who remember can understand what the EVE community lost Tuesday night.
As condolences, remembrances, thoughts and sadness spread through #tweetfleet, the senseless violence in which he was claimed became even more overwhelming. It was a sordid reminder that ignorance and hate, antagonists seemingly as powerful as the planning and foresight VR gave, could take from this community even the best laid plans. In a game that offers no guarantees but immortality, we were once again reminded that life continued to offer us the possibility of anything but.
Just as his life spurred action, so must his death. To continue moving forward is to do him the best memory. Moving forward together as a community, understanding and exercising our differences in-game while transcending to the understanding that we can be and are still united as one outside of it. ‘Cause if VR really taught us anything, it was that regardless of our differences, a little diplomacy can make the world go ’round.
In the honor and memory of Sean “Vile Rat” Smith, we present you with Episode 33, The Ripard Teg/CSM Edition.
-NT
Show Notes
-Special guests CSM Chairman Seleene, CSM Vice Secretary Hans Jagerblitzen, and infamously critical-of-the-CSM blogger Ripard Teg of Jester’s Trek fame.
-Alek and Seleene both shout out to Poetic Stanziel; coincidence or cloning? We report, you decide.
-Ripard Teg talks about his start in EVE and as a blogger
-Discussion of the CSM6 election and the experience of being a candidate
-Fierce debate over the role of the CSM
-Alek reads controversial parts of Ripard’s latest blog and shit gets real
-Real talk continues over Technetium alchemy and the accomplishments/shortcomings of CSM7
-EVE News: Massive ship graveyards in Tribute (CFC vs DotBros), big shakeups in Faction Warfare, DUST 514 hits Sisi
-Black Ops hot drop highlights from Noir.’s latest deployment
Examples cited by Ripard of Mittens using the bully pulpit to communicate a message to EVE players and elsewhere:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/04/07/eve-online-audience-with-the-king-of-space/
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/14/feature/5582/The-Mittani-Speaks-Out.html
