Jaysyn Larrisen
OSG Planetary Operations
Covert Intervention
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Posted - 2014.04.09 19:03:00 -
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I've been monitoring the thread for bit and this is my first opportunity to post so forgive me for being late to the discussion.
@SoTa... I appreciate your passion and they way you quite directly attack the issues or questions you are posing to the group. That said, i'm struggling to find out what exactly is that type of candidate you are looking for. You are pretty clear on what you don't want or what doesn't interest you but can you list the qualifications or experince level that you are looking for? What facet of PC most concerns you and that you don't think can be properly addressed by many of the candidates?
I've looked into all the current candidates, played with most of them, and done some basic forum research and I don't think any of them don't want PC to be what it was billed as...the persistent, meaningful aspect of Dust that gives high level game play and attracts people to Dust and New Eden. Look at some of their work and see if it's something you can get behind. Example would be Pokey Dravon's PC 2.0 concept.
I'm not trying to derail or disrupt your line of questioning...simply trying to understand more about the context of your statements. That might generate some more informed answers to you.
To be clear, I'm obviously not a CPM candidate, however, I am someone that is working to raise awareness of the CPM, it's actions, and inform the community about the election and candidates. Liked or hated, you are a well known personality in the Dust community and no once questions your desire for the game to be sucessfull in the long term...you just have a thorny way of showing it sometimes. For the record, you would clearly be the sensei i would seek out to learn Troll-Fu from if I every decided to go to the dark side.
"Endless money forms the sinews of War." - Cicero
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Jaysyn Larrisen
OSG Planetary Operations
Covert Intervention
875
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Posted - 2014.04.09 23:29:00 -
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PoP SoTa wrote:
Thank you for this post. I'm glad too see someone is raising awareness about the candidates, it's one of the reasons I decided to make my presence and interest on this matter finally known, so that I may speak of the candidates with certainty and help guide people to there proper choice. It's a nice hot topic in game, especially in DNS. But I'd also like to find my very own representative.
As for 'qualifications' I lowered them half way through first page, honestly. Asking for a PC active CPM - might be idealistic. It's enough that they're simply involved in a PC corp and it's doing on the PC level - at least have some 1v1 experience with the mechanics your helping fix and show some initiative to getting things done.
I just, really need to know there's at least one CPM like Kane who focuses on PC more then NPE - there's plenty of slots for people who care about NPE to get chosen in - but PC needs a proper representation too from a guy who understands our woes, the problems, and the bugs isolated to the PC experience.
Fair points, SoTa.
I think all but Kevall (who I think is very solid candidate for CPM) have a very solid backgrounds in PC competition and many still play periodically in PC. The practical answer is that there just aren't that many folks invovled in PC any more - which is a huge shame. If they are a member of a Corp or Alliance that isn't active in PC (for any number of reasons) it's pretty tough for them to be ringing and deploying regularly while being in a leadership position. The thing that you might be overlooking is that many of the candidates truly want PC to work and make it competitive. The mechanics now have snowballed baseline issues to the point where many corps and players can't even get on to the field.
You do have a good point about where the focus of the candidate is. I think its a great idea that we have one or two candidates with a deep understanding of PC and they have to be able to relate PC to the rest of the fabric of the game and help CCP understand how to synchronize those facets so the gamemodes themselves don't become imbalanced.
I think you're initial approach was taken as "none of the current candidates can support my subset of the community well enough so they don't belong to be CPMs". It appears that that's clearly not the case and you've pointed out several very viable candidates from the group running - I appreciate you engaging on this and keeping the discussion moving forward.
"Endless money forms the sinews of War." - Cicero
Skype: jaysyn.larrisen
Twitter: @JaysynLarrisen
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