Nuff said.
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Link to my official CCP Interview: Twitch
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Thanks again for coming out to talk! It was lots of fun and I’m looking forward to the board game rematch if we both make it back on! 
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This is a no brainer in my books. He is a subject matter expert on this topic and has a great personality to work well with others. Consistent, Positive Ambassador to EVE. Glad to see him run again for the better of the game.
Did you understand that the LP stores never gave out hulls for LP? What they did was to upgrade the hull you brought there. Like, you flew your Coercer to the Amarr Crusade LP store, and it got tuned into a Coercer Navy Issue, or you flew your Vexor to the Gallente LP shop and it got pimped up into a Vexor Navy Issue.
Those mechanics were market opportunities for the industrialist who provided the basic Coercer or Vexor, and for the space trucker who placed the Nexus Chips on the markets, while it also provided the faction warriors with an opportunity to quickly turn LP into cash using only the local market ot the war region.
What the faction war LP farmers get now are single-run BPCs that can’t be traded on the market. You destroyed an entrire market ecosystem just because you didn’t understand the difference between “giving away a new hull” and “upgrading an existing hull”.
I’m a bit disappointed that you count this as an achievement.
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Absolutely Fantastic interview, year on year one of my most favourite candidates.
@The_Oz I’ve been following your content for a while and you are doing an excellent job of creating high quality content on in-game economy and trading. You have my vote!
Meanwhile I have some questions regarding the marketing system itself, so would love to know your thoughts:
I’ve been focusing on marketing for a couple of weeks, and to be honest my biggest gripe is it takes so much energy and time only to maintain market orders. When you have hundreds of orders to maintain, and the whole system is based on undercutting your opponent by 100ISK(used to be 0.01), it’s becoming increasingly frustrating over time.
Meanwhile there is significant evidence that marketing bot exists, and I feel those bots are blatantly taking the profits from human players by consistently undercutting with big-sized orders. For example, if you check HyperCore in Jita right now, you’ll find some orders being created within 1 second and each contains 9,900 items. It’s very hard to believe those are done by human:
So my questions are, if you’re elected again, is there any plan for you, or do you have any thoughts to push CCP on:
- Have a review of the current marketing system, and try to push changes which reduce the frequency needed to constantly update the market orders? For example, a queue of similarly-valued orders etc.
- Measures on dealing with marketing bots more efficiently, or promoting more automated trading features in-game like real-world trading software already been doing?
Again, great stuff over the years and wish you all the best of luck!
heya @The_Oz, glad to have you here!
One part that I especially like about your opening post is this:
“EVE desperately needs more meaningful encounters. Players resorting to “kill mail hunting” in absence of actual meaningful, strategic targets and/or real economic gain is absurd to me. I wish there was a consistent economic incentivation that rewards PVP and PVE somewhat equally. PVP being essentially always a net loss makes no sense at all.”
I think, improving on the PvP in Eve Online is always a good choice. Do you already have some concepts or ideas that would bring this about?
Second question, how does ganking fit into all of this? Do you want to leave it as is or do you have specific ideas and feelings about it?
Looking forward to your answer!
With democratic regards
-James Fuchs
Oz rocks!
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I ask all CSM candidates this question
Fighting against toxicity is a strong case, as it comes with the territory of gaming -everywhere-
However. How would you handle a hypothetical stalemate wherein both parties are believe the other to be toxic, but only one party can really be telling the truth.
But then again, truth is based on the perspective of the perceiver.
How would you handle this?