My Eve History
Early On (2009-2012);
I first started playing Eve in September of 2009. My original character was different from my main now, but originally I was SGTheron Shal’tek (big SG1 nerd here). Early on in my time in Eve, I didn’t really do much. I was a spotty player that worked his way up to doing Level 4s in highsec in a Battleship. I would play for a bit, quit, and come back for a bit. Nothing really excited happened during this time, although I did lose a Paladin somewhere during this time because I shot at a Tengu who baited me.
Mid Game (2012-2018);
This is the timeframe I started diving into more part of Eve, specifically Faction Warfare with a little bit of null sec shenanigans. Early on during this time period, I was flying as a Caldari FW pilot in FW lowsec. I bounced around a bit, and even did some Nullsec stuff until I realized that nullsec wasn’t the life for me. Ultimately I went back to FW space, this time as Gallente, and joined Aideron Robotics, which was a member of Federation Uprising. This was my favorite time in FW. We conducted system sieges, small gang/large fleet ops, roams, and even had null sec space for income. This was a time period where I did just about everything, except for Wormhole content. While in FEDUP, I did quite a bit of moon mining, industry, and logistics to help out leadership. This golden era came to an end when we lost our SOV space to Snuffed Out, and the alliance decided to move out of lowsec/FW space to join in the big null wars.
Modern time (2019-Present);
Around the time we lost our SOV and the alliance decided to head deeper into null, Abyssal Deadspace content was released. This was when I started doing that and streaming. The Original Abyssal Arena became popular to watch on Twitch, and I had a ton of fun with it. This was my main activity until they closed the old arena, and brought out the new arena. During this time I had also decided that because I miss FW and desperately wanted CCP to finally work on FW, I ran for and was elected on CSM15. My main focus on CSM15 was to get CCP to focus on FW. To do this, I worked alongside Phantomite and Gobbins to arrange a meeting with the head producers and directors at CCP to hear us out. While Phantomite and Gobbins were more focused on driving conflict, structures, and the ecosystem – my entire focus was purely on the gameplay of FW. We had our meeting, and nothing more came from it until 1.5 year later when CCP finally announced they were working on FW. After my time on CSM, my entire focus in Eve was on the new iteration of Abyssal Proving Grounds, lowsec roams, events, and Abyssal PvE.
Why I want to run for CSM18
I felt a huge sense of success and achievement when I finally learned that CCP was focusing on FW, and I want to have that impact again. I now have a lot more experience from my previous CSM term and can go on to CSM18 with realistic expectations. CSM is a focus group. We’re a tool that CCP can run stuff by, and bounce ideas off. I don’t have this huge expectation of going onto CSM and accomplishing what I did on CSM15. My focus now, is getting CCP to focus on what players want and what makes the game fun. A few of these areas:
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Events
- Events break of the monotony of Eve. Seasonal and regular events give us something to look forward to and do outside of our normal Eve time, and they’re great at influencing content that otherwise wouldn’t happen (fighting over event sites). On top of that, events offer us unique rewards whether they’re boosters or cosmetics (NO CASH SHOP P2W CRAP PLZ CCP). I want to serve on CSM to encourage events, and work with CCP to make events both more fun and rewarding that way players are encouraged to go out and do them.
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PvE
- Whether you like it or not, PvE is a basic function and major part of this game. I was drawn to Abyssal deadspace due to the amount of variation and the fun that it brings over typical PvE (missions, ratting). I want to work with CCP to make PvE better. We have an entire universe with tons of content to work with. I’m not asking CCP to remove anything, and no I’m not for any new kind of instanced content. We have abyssal deadspace and Proving Grounds, I am not advocating for any new instanced content. I’m the owner and operator of one of the largest communities in Eve, The Abyssal Lurkers in game channel and Discord, and I see a ton of people coming into this community because they were told running Abyssal PvE in highsec is the safest and best way to make money. That right there is an issue, someone going out to nullsec should not be looking at running instanced content in high sec because they can’t make the same or better income where they live and operate out of. Risk vs Reward. I don’t have any grand ideas or presentations like I did with Faction Warfare, but I do have the ability to go onto CSM as a player that wants to bring more interaction and variety to Eve Online PvE.
- Missions in Eve are a foundation of this game that should of course stay as they are, but I’d love to see new mission content added that doesn’t replace the old missions. I’d love to see missions that have variety and different outcomes. Maybe I don’t want to save that damsel in distress for the 1000th time.
- Whether you like it or not, PvE is a basic function and major part of this game. I was drawn to Abyssal deadspace due to the amount of variation and the fun that it brings over typical PvE (missions, ratting). I want to work with CCP to make PvE better. We have an entire universe with tons of content to work with. I’m not asking CCP to remove anything, and no I’m not for any new kind of instanced content. We have abyssal deadspace and Proving Grounds, I am not advocating for any new instanced content. I’m the owner and operator of one of the largest communities in Eve, The Abyssal Lurkers in game channel and Discord, and I see a ton of people coming into this community because they were told running Abyssal PvE in highsec is the safest and best way to make money. That right there is an issue, someone going out to nullsec should not be looking at running instanced content in high sec because they can’t make the same or better income where they live and operate out of. Risk vs Reward. I don’t have any grand ideas or presentations like I did with Faction Warfare, but I do have the ability to go onto CSM as a player that wants to bring more interaction and variety to Eve Online PvE.
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Faction Warfare
- I’ve achieved my goal of getting CCP to finally work on FW after years of only getting small tweaks here and there, but I want to keep at it. FW is an unique area of space that gives players the ability to participate in quick action. I want to continue working with CCP to make it even better. One thing I’d love to see with FW is a rank system. We already have a rank system, but it’s an old and useless system. I’d like to see FW rank actually be an achievement, and give rewards based off of rank. The big factors when you think about an actual ranked system; PvP activity, warzone activity, and time in service. This is such a cool system that could reward players and showcase who is actually a veteran of FW while rewarding them for being high rank.
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Another Issue I’d like to bring up to CCP - Evermarks. I believe Evermarks were a horrible idea compared to just monetizing aesthetics/customization, and the current dailies are 1) annoying and 2) way too focused on Evermarks. This should be an easy fix that I’m hoping to address with CCP if elected. No, I do not want to go mine ore, or kill X enemies in the Abyss to get Evermarks. I especially don’t want to shoot a firework at an NPC for Evermarks.
Why should you vote for me?
I’m a casual Eve player. I’m not the leader of any corp or alliance, I don’t play Eve at any advanced level. I’m just a player that hops on to enjoy the game and have fun. I don’t have any agenda that favors a specific group, nor do I plan on giving anything but my true and unbiased feedback working with CCP. If you vote for me, you’re voting for a voice to help make the game better and stop CCP from doing some of the questionable things they’ve done in the past. This is a game and it should be fun, and that is my ultimate goal. As a member of CSM, my job would be to take any concerns or issues the playerbase has and take it to CCP. Anyone can bring me an issue at anytime, and I will do my absolute best to hear it out and make sure I fully understand the issue and take it to CCP with as much information as possible. You can contact me anytime in game (Torvald Uruz) or on Discord. I think numbers are gone now so my Discord is simply “Torvalduruz”.
TL;DR I’ve played Eve for 14 years now, with experience in everything except for wormholes. My main go-to content is FW and Abyssal deadspace PvE/PvP. I want to work with CCP on CSM18 to focus on PvE across the game, events, and continue working on FW.
Here’s a few things I personally want:
I’ve been around Eve for 14 years now so we’ve most likely crossed paths somewhere.