Gustav Mannfred for CSM 19 - Vote the Old Arena & Proving Grounds (again)

[Gustav_Mannfred]

Eve Story:

I started playing on March 21, 2009. In the early times I did mainly PVE stuff such as mission running and exploration. Later, I dipped into PVP. In 2015, I joined a nullsec corp for the first time. It was in pureblind. I did nullsec ratting sites and pve there. In 2016 to 2018, I lived in providence as a neutral person. In 2018, CVA lost control over Provi and then I went back to hi sec . I did FW PVP from time to time, but focused on missions and exploration again. I did wormhole daytripping. In fall 2018, I did Level 5 missions for the first time and made quite some money out of them. In December 2018, after the old arena came out, I got deeply into abyssal related stuff. The old arena was probably the best content I ever got in EVE. I made some friends there, and one of them lead me into TEST. I joined Dreddit in Summer 2019 and ran abyssal arenas together with my friend there. 2019 is also the year I started streaming. The old arena was best suited for it.

In Summer 2020, after the old arena closed, I moved again back to Hi sec, doing mostly missions (Lvl 5 specifically) and other stuff. It is also the time the request for the old arena was born. Towards the end of 2020 and in early 2021, motivation to play EVE went to an all time low, but with the arena events getting better in spring 2021 and T6 Abyssals, it became better towards summer 2021. After that time, it was mostly switching between Abyssal PVE and the arena events. In summer 2021 I did my first community event to celebrate one year request to bring back old arena (link). I did another issue of this event in summer 2022, and it got promoted by CCP in the community beat and I was able to do parts of it on the CCP Twitch channel. In 2023, the request to bring the old arena back got a little buddy: The request to bring back the proving grounds as well. In that time I did mostly Frigate abyssal multibox content and sometimes PVP in low/nullsec. In 2024, I did my first streams where I used my mic and came back to level 4 mission running and exploration content.

Expertise areas:

I have expertise in most areas of the game, this includes a variety of PVE and PVP activity. But mostly it is Abyssals, Events, Proving grounds/arena and missions, as well as exploration.
Ships & Modules are also a part of my expertise.

What sets me apart from other candidates is that I have some expertise in many parts of the game, with the exception of industry (I know how to use a blueprint, thats it!).

Why run for CSM:

Because I want to help develop this game. I have been playing for 15 years and I wanna feel involved into it. The CSM came more to my attention in summer 2020 when the old arena was taken away, and now even more with the Proving Grounds beeing no longer around.

What to expect:

I will bring up whatever you bring up to me. I will also try to communicate as much as possible with the community and with respect to the NDA. I will listen to people.

Contact:

Twitch: Twitch
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxUDvUwON_oX6RXqSbXqvRg
Discord: Discord

Changes I want so see (example):

Most important: Returning the old arena & Proving Grounds (Not negotiable!)

• continuing the events (The Hunt, Guardians Gala, Empire days), they should be more than pack sales!
• rebalancing all modules to make faction/officer modules useful and not just more expensive versions of deadspace modules, faction guns should be worth fitting, the specialisation skill should affect all modules with meta level higher than 5.
• Finding ways to reduce botting, RMT and hacking
• Reworking the escalation system from anomalies (accessing the sites and the escalations itself)
• Rebalancing DED complexes
• New abyssal weathers where the Gila wont dominate, a “turret dark” abyssal site
• Mutaplasmids for more modules, such as remote repairers and dps support modules like guidance computers
• Changes to bring mineral prizes down to make T1 ships and capitals cheaper and more affordable
• Improving Customer Support

Old Arena & Proving Ground Forum posts:

Proving Grounds again abandonned after deploying two new events and 23 new Reward Skins on SISI (SISI build 2454901)

As the title says it, in December, on December 19 2023, CCP deployed a new SISI build that you can find here: Hoboleaks: Singularity_Previous (Build: 2448204) to Singularity_Next (Build: 2454901) When you look at the new items, you will find that CCP added 23 new abyssal glory skins that players earned that got into the top 100 of a leaderboard. These include skins for the Mamba and Alligator, that were added with the Havoc expansion. This indicates that the art team made them somewhere between…

Bring back old proving grounds

As the title says, bring back the old abyssal proving grounds! As I am not sure where to put, I put it into feature and idea discussion. I know, this is not the first thread about that(and there will be more coming for sure), but there are people who liked it, and so it should come back. There was nothing wrong with them, really not! I dont understand, why content, which is great got replaced with these filaments. Why was it not possible to keep the old arena? to be honest, I was thinking abou…

Burner proving grounds as a replacement/relaunch for the old 1v1 arena at the end of abyssal sites

So, when CCP removed the old 1v1 arena, many people complained and wanted it back or either an equivalent replacement. Here I gonna suggest an equivalent replacement for the old arenas, the burner proving grounds. To enter these, there is a new filament, the burner proving ground filament. You can obtain them by the same way as you get the normal proving filaments. However, the mechanic inside these sites is different from the regular proving grounds. Instead of a queue, you always enter the …

[Diabolika_Spook]

Hey Gustav,

Since you mentioned multiboxing, what is your stance on it? Setting CCP financial incentives aside, do you feel it is in a healthy state? In abyssal space it is capped by its mechanics, do you feel it should be limited also outside of it, if so, how?

Follow-up question: how many omega accounts do you have?

[Felix_Frostpacker]

Make sure that you also ask about the number of multiple character training pilots on those omega that are also active.

[Gustav_Mannfred]

Multiboxing is good as long as it is done with brain. If imput broadcasting and botting becomes the case, then it is not good. This affects stuff like pochven sites or homefronts.

The solution would not be to limit multiboxing, but rather rework these sites so that they are harder to multibox and require interaction between players.

I have 4 Omega accounts.

[Diabolika_Spook]

Thank you for the honest feedback!

Viel Erfolg!

[Gustav_Mannfred]

For those not familiar with the old arena and proving grounds, I made a video explaining them https://youtu.be/qZaczrWj5yI?si=3M2fPspRbfKUrIWK

[Morphi0us]

No we don’t need arenas, it’s not something most of the game uses, it was ended for a reason. Most players don’t want it. It’s not needed. It’s a niche thing.

[Gustav_Mannfred]

It was ended for a reason we don’t know. Also, how would you explain that CCP planned 2 new arena events in January this year (1 year after the arena ended) when no one wants that?

Why are niche things bad for EVE? And when most players don’t want the arena, why were there a lot of players taking place in them and watching streams of them on Twitch?