Undock CSM 21 - Orion Sa-Solo

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Orion Sa-Solo for CSM 21

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Who is Orion Sa-Solo?

I started Eve in 2013 after my uncle introduced me to EVE Online. Like most of ya’ll, I began in High Sec, mining and building ships as part of Yulai Heavy Industries. Over the years, my journey has taken me across nearly every corner Eve except Poch and Wormholes they spooky.

Now I fly in Faction Warfare in the Minmatar Militia with Minmatar Fleet Alliance. I am director in L3ARN our new bro/new to FW corp to help players get undocked and exploding or explode others. I also stream and put up Eve online videos on YouTube hoping folks can learn from my mistakes.

Why I’m Running

EVE Online helped me through the difficult periods in my life, and the folks I’ve met have saved me more times than I can count. Running for CSM is my opportunity to give something back, I hope.

I believe the best way to be a CSM is not to push a single playstyle, alliance, region, or agenda. They’re there to listen to the players and use the knowledge from their playstyle to help Eve be better.

Eve online does best when everyone has opportunities:

  • High Sec pilots finding their first community
  • Low Sec groups creating content
  • Faction Warfare militias pushing meaningful objectives
  • Null Sec empires maintaining and defending their sov
  • Wormhole doing whatever they do (Ya’ll need rat jesus)
  • Content creators helping showcase the game

My goal is to ensure all those voices are represented.

What I Bring to the CSM

My Experience

I’ve experienced:

  • High Sec industry
  • Null Sec sov and
  • Small gang PvP
  • FC’d small and large fleets
  • Faction Warfare
  • Solo PvP
  • Corp leadership and recruiting

Accessibility

One of the biggest complaints players have about elected representatives is accessibility.

I’m active in:

  • Twitch
  • YouTube
  • Discord….. sweet rat jesus there are so many of them
  • In-game channels
  • Community events

Players need reasons to undock.

Live events, more seasonal content, lore-driven conflicts, or new objectives, I want to advocate for activities that get pilots to interact. If folks do not undock nothing happens in Eve.

Faction Warfare needs meaningful stakes to fight insurgencies.

Wormholes need just as much focus as any other space.

New Player refinement

We were all noobs, so we need to make sure Exordium is a platform where they step off like your epic journey just started. Not a checkbox to complete so you can get to new game +

I’d like to see more Dev interaction with Exordium, my girlfriend was there working on a mission, and one reached out to her to help her which was awesome. Problem was she never noticed it because the window didn’t pop up and she didn’t notice it till I pointed it out to her.

What you can expect From me

I will do my best to:

  • Represent all areas of space, not just my favorites.
  • Bring community concerns forward.
  • Provide regular updates to players.
  • Focus on improving EVE’s long-term health.
  • Advocate for meaningful content that gets people undocked.

TL/DR

  • I mine, I build, I undock, I feed, and I follow a Rat deity because I was conned into some weird group of nerds who like cheese I think?
  • FW needs more reason to fight the insurgency
  • WH’s need more chaos
  • Exordium needs to be a epic launch for new players not a check box
  • What you want to say matters doesn’t matter what area of space or playstyle.
  • More events, more stakes, more undocking.

EVE is at its best when folks are undocked and in space.

Vote Orion Sa-Solo for CSM 21

PS I’ll try to edit this as time goes on and add things that are brought up. Either way thanks to everyone who plays this weird space submarine game.

Kshal Interview: Link to video

Federation Frontline Interview: Orion Sa-Solo - CSM 21 Interview by Federation Front Line Report - Eve Online Podcast

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Can definitely vouch for Orion, great person, who loves to share his knowledge and help others.

Strong candidate in my opinion.

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He has my vote! Orion is definitely the LS King of the Rats.

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Orion has my vote! Very strong candidate for LS and FW!

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As someone that spent some time in null with Orion, can confirm he’s a good dude with good mechanical knowledge of the game. Probably nobody better to represent the player base especially when it comes to actually undocking and blowing things up and not just being a N+1 F1 nerd.

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Sir,

I also find wormholes too spooky. But I wholeheartedly agree with undocking.

As a CSM member who would represent many playstyles in many areas of the game, what is you opinion of FC’s Military Campaigns? What did they get right, what were their shortcomings, and do you feel they should continue to iterate on this feature? If so, how?

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I think they are a step in the right direction for trying to get folks involved with Faction Warfare, Lore objectives, and a way to incorporate new items/sites into the game. Short coming was that some objectives were harder for others to do an example I mostly pvp in lowsec so my sec status is normally very low meaning anything in high sec requires me to fix before doing.

I think they should keep iterating on it, by using it as a vehicle to help bring in more lore objectives/items into the game. Make it easier to participate in the objectives (felt weird as a minmil fw pilot that had to click participate on a minmatar military campaign objective that I should/are typically already be doing to support the militia).

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If you could add or change one thing in FW what would it be?

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Would you like to see the Proving Grounds return?

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No proving grounds though nice wasnt something I enjoyed so not something I would like to return personally.

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Right now remove the ability for neutral citadels to be anchored in FW space. All current ones will be grandfathered in but no new ones. Only a citadel owned in a FW aligned group will be able to be anchored with no more keepstars being able to be anchored. Though this is something I would like to see may not be what the greater eve/FW groups may want. I am not here to push my wants what the eve players want.

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My name is Dzonzla Iliryan and I approve this message.

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I was told by the devs to tell you that I want food and food recipes. I want spice down on lowsec nullsec planets that comes from a worm. The spiceworm baits mercenaries to it’s mouth.
Eve is starving for food. We need dishes that last maybe 4 to 6 hours depending on skill in biology. Then a biology 2 that allows you to eat 2 meals and have the effects from them. I want to boost my skill points by eating. Spice and refined spice will get you the highest tiers of food.

Farming and Fishing become a possibility, temperate planets and ocean planets become a place to gather food. Send down farmers and hunters to gather meat and food.

Crafting recipes, blueprints, recipes, these come from doing food missions for the food companies. These bonuses drop with a 1 in 3 chance to get a blueprint, with a chance to get a rare high quality one.

Please support food being produced in this game. I want my character to eat, and I want to feed my mercenaries, so they level up faster.

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Hello @Orion_Sa-Solo, what about this?

  • The connection between EVE Online and EVE Vanguard

Do you have any expectations what that could be, how it could work? I am aware there is nothing tangible yet, but it’s rather inevitable if I red FC correctly.

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It should be when ships and things die that you can possibly loot it during Vanguard if I recall correctly. My hope there is even more such connections like controlling certain planets making PI better or worse depending on how Vanguard players do.

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