https://forums.eveonline.com/t/high-sec-candidate/63973
Hello!
My name is Lorelei
and I am announcing my candidacy for CSM XIII. I have just submitted my
application to CCP. I am running whilst focused on High Sec. I am a
self-confessed High Sec Carebear and am proud of it. I have – as I do every
year - analysed the commitments planned/coming up in my life for the next year
and have decided that I can afford the time to run for CSM XIII!
I really haven't
changed, neither has what I am thinking, (and therefore neither has my opening
campaign post, really) and I am looking forward to discussing with you all!
This is my Campaign
Thread from last year:
This is my Campaign
Thread from the year before:
This is my Campaign
Thread from the year before that:
This is my CapStable
Podcast Interview from 2015:
And this is my
infrequently used blog:
But to recap for
people that do not want to jump to other web sites:
Is there room for a
High Sec candidate on the CSM? Someone that has the well-being of the multitude
of High Sec pilots at heart?
I would like there to
be a "High Sec" platform, for a candidate for the CSM.
The problem with High
Sec space is that the players there are all independent. There is no feeling of
"we". This lack of "we" is a problem. The lack of "we
all stand together" is a problem. The "apathy of the carebear"
is a problem...
This I know. I know
that, although numerically High Sec has the largest number of log-ins...
accounts... players... I know that High Sec will probably never be able to
gather together enough in order to support a CSM candidate. But that is no
reason to not try!!
Come on, High Sec! If something is important for you, stand up for it!!!
**Who am I?**
I am a High Sec Carebear, and proud of it!
High Sec Carebears
tend not to socialize too much, and are only members of NPC or small
corporations. If you are reading this thread, then sadly you probably do not
belong to the player-metric that I mostly represent!
Well, this is not the
first character I have created in order to play "EVE". I have never
been a member of a big alliance or coalition. I have never been a member of a
big corporation. I wouldn’t know what one would do to “define” a big
corporation. Hell, I have never really left High Sec space before the CSMX
Election..
I gained my love of Spaceship games by playing Elite... way back on my ZX Spectrum 48k+ (with a jammed SHIFT key (jammed as in... raspberry jam)). Back then it was possible to try docking with a space station and to accidentally line up with the back of the station... and die whilst trying to fly through the back of the station to the entrance. Fun times.
I graduated to
Frontier: Elite II on a 486 PC, and spent my time happily flying between
Barnard's Star, SOL, and Wolf 359. I should have been studying, but flying a
(mostly harmless) panther fully loaded with robots was more fun.
I kept my eyes open
for an online version of a space-sim... and that is where EVE comes in.
I really enjoy (as in
"really") flying transports, fulfilling contracts, and, sometimes,
mining.
**My CSM Interests
for 2018:**
I think it is
important for people to know what the CSM is, and can achieve. I could not run
claiming that I would make all spaceships pink. As a member of the CSM I would
not be in a position to dictate to CCP or enforce any "election
promises". The scandals of the past have meant that the Player Base has
lost some trust in this institution.
But well, check out
all my old threads for more about what/how I think… but here is what is mostly
on my mind at the moment:
**None Of The
Above**: An opportunity for people to vote in the CSM, but to vote for None Of
The Above. It’s like a survey to try and gauge player interest. The problem of
player participation is disproportionately affecting those of us in high sec
(because we carebears are not exactly non-solo)
http://hisec-carebear.blogspot.de/2017/03/just-vote.html.
http://hisec-carebear.blogspot.de/2016/03/this-is-reposting-of-post-in-my.html http://hisec-carebear.blogspot.de/2016/03/just-just-vote.html
In order to increase
the possibility of player participation, maybe CCP could get some more Popups
rolling. Reminding players to vote is not a bad thing, and I remember thinking
when all those “Agency” popups/notifications started flowing… that CCP could also
do something good for the elections (if they were interested in the CSM).
**Ganker**: I would
like at least a 50% chance of walking away from a gank. At the moment this is
not the case. On my blog, in the past, I mentioned some changes to Concord that
I would like to see http://hisec-carebear.blogspot.de/2015/08/concord.html. I
would also like to see some changes to Ice Spawning (maybe in random systems?)
that would mean that the gankers would have to move around to gank ice miners!
Local chat could also be changed to provide less free "intel" to
people. No need to announce to everyone who is in local... just the number of
pilots.
I would like to
clarify, I am not in favour of stopping ganking completely. I am not in favour
of just AFK mining the whole day. EVE is what it is, and the game developers
have been quite clear over the years where they stand on this issue.
Please read my last
threads before posting questions... we really do not need to cover the points
that have been discussed before... high sec is worth fighting for!
**New Player
Experience**: That was a WOW change in the last years. I have managed to try
it. It is about a bazillion times better than the old way. It does however need
observing, and I am looking forward, as always, to the statistics from Fanfest!
On the subject of
Fanfest, I missed the (missing) Team Security presentation last year. That was,
for me, one of the highlights!
**Player
Corporations**:
http://hisec-carebear.blogspot.de/2015/08/player-corporations.html
Last year in the campaigns, some other candidates also took up this banner. Inventing some way to let people socially interact without having to deal with a bunch of tedious stuff can only help player retention – especially in an area (High Sec) where people are otherwise isolated. See my blog and previous posts in Campaign threads for details. The need for player groups that are just social has not changed.
Last year in the campaigns, some other candidates also took up this banner. Inventing some way to let people socially interact without having to deal with a bunch of tedious stuff can only help player retention – especially in an area (High Sec) where people are otherwise isolated. See my blog and previous posts in Campaign threads for details. The need for player groups that are just social has not changed.
But when all is said
and done, I believe a CSM member needs to be a conduit for information exchange
between CCP and the players. I do not think that the CSM should be used for the
Metagame
http://hisec-carebear.blogspot.de/2017/09/i-wandered-through-null-again.html.
Thank you for reading
this far. I am looking forward to working with you / hearing from you, and
although I am always busy at this time of year, I promise to read every post in
my thread.
Links to other posts
about me:
http://hisec-carebear.blogspot.de/2015/03/csmx-lorelei-posts-links.html
http://hisec-carebear.blogspot.de/2015/03/csmx-lorelei-posts-links.html
