Best way to get in touch with me is the Talking in Stations discord or the CSM discord (separate from the eve online discord)
I will put a list of positions and talking points at the end, but I am running late to the airport and I’ll edit tonight:
Good day capsuleers, my name is Kenneth Feld and I’m an EVE addict. Sorry, wrong group. My name is Kenneth Feld and I’m running for the CSM!
A little bit about me. I’ve been playing EVE for the last decade, almost to the day actually. I started way back when in the patch when Capitals were introduced, but couldn’t really devote enough time to really get the bug. I eventually got sucked back in when a friend of mine started playing too, and together we tried to plant our flag and build an empire. In high-sec. Long story short, it didn’t work out too well. So we ran off to nullsec to a group in Vale named Majesta Empire. There was a little bit of everything to be done there, but there was a big need to help out in the Industrial side of things. Next thing I know, I’m helping alliance logistics and running my own reaction farm.
This is where I really found my niche in EVE. Going on fleets, shooting people, roaming - that was all well and good. But maximizing efficiency with my reaction farm, setting up manufacturing chains, and making sure the alliance had the ships they needed really resonated with me. As it turned out, I was pretty good at it as well. After a year of doing it for the alliance and then for myself, I had accumulated quite the nest egg.
Majesta ended up collapsing and I bumbled around for a while before finding myself joining a corp whose requirements to join was an Arts and Crafts project. With the help of my son I submitted it, and never looked back. HABIT became my home, and I took my expertise to Pandemic Legion.
Not really considered an industrial powerhouse by any means, PL still had industrial needs. I eventually found myself being one of the main capital and supercapital producers for the PL. After the famous Bloodbath of B-R I was in charge of resupplying the alliance with Titans at a frenetic pace. With the industrial chains I had set up, within 3 months everyone who lost a Titan was back into one, fits and all. One of my prouder moments, really.
EDIT: I had high hopes for Equinox - but there are pain points:
Skyhooks - Once again the new solution is better, but the 1 hour window could be opened up a bit - and the variance closoe a bit - done, but still feels like something is missing
SOV - more upgrades - We had discussion during CSM 16 about this and I would like to see those ideas come back around - I can’t say what was discussed per se - but I had proposed cost index modifiers, adm index adders and upgrades to increase PI output and storage (storage isn’t much of an issue now that PI volume has been halved) - more upgrades came - the new mining anoms and the new Explo upgrades are fire - but there is much more that can be done here as well
PI - we don’t have enough time - but a “Restart butan” is top of the list - copy/paste is second (Much harder due to planet sizes - but doable with the volume changes not requiring link upgrades nearly as much) - retsart butan was finally added as well as templates
Industry - better, but I worked with Angry (sad he isn’t running - get well soon my friend) as we could tag team and we got good results) but there are still pain points that should be addressed. Specifically the 4% tax - ESPECIALLY for ME/TE - it is nearly impossible for someone to “Catch up” now. - we got tax lowered to 2% - but we can and should do better
Edencom got the short end of the stick and we need more places to earn LP etc - overall compared to Trig - it is in a bad place - so much this
LP stores - we need to consolidate - there should be 4 empire LP stores and 4 empire FW LP stores - the the pirate stores - everything should be consolidated and remove the stupid tags
Supers/Titans - They need to be balanced and out in the Meta ~somewhere~ and once they are in and USEFUL - we need to address building them, which is painful at best right now - but I am pretty sure that is by design. I am not sure we will get many concessions by CCP here - but getting them to a place of useful is first, then they need to be “replaceable”
One huge pain point now is the ENPC is half the price of a super - they need much more granularity.
ACL hangars - It is about time to beat that drum some more - we have multiple cloens in a station - maybe ACL hangars time has come
AT - It is back and alive - need to keep it that way