Youngpuke2 for CSM 20- Moving Forward Together

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Hi everyone!

My name is Youngpuke2, and I am rerunning for CSM this year. MY primarily focus is on improving and iterating low-sec, npc-null, and null-sec as an advocate for small to medium alliances that are typically not represented on the CSM. Even though, I may not live in your space I try to bring voices and perspectives from alliances that may not be often heard on the CSM. Over the past year, I have advocated heavily for alliances in low-sec, wormholes, and null-sec. Trying to help CCP understand the difficulties of building up alliances and creating the stories we love in New Eden.

My perspectives come from living in all areas of K-space. I have spent most of my career FCing small gang to mid-scale PvP settings. I am the alliance executor of an alliance called Sedition. We are a low-sec and NPC null PVP alliance. I love Eve Online, and I want to be your next CSM Representative as I was for CSM 19.

My Eve Online Story

I have been playing eve online more seriously in beginning in 2016. However, my early beginnings began in the heart of Gallente FW. Where I used to fly with many of the early Gallente militia folks and fighting the Caldari under the Mjlonir Block. Afterwards, I went over to join various pirate alliances and eventually ended up in an alliance called Sedition. After being in Sedition for a long time, I ended up going to null sec with Nullsechanya Sholupen and a few other brief stints in blocs under Fraternity in Into Oblivion. When we heard about the uprising expansion, a few of the old Sedition leadership came back and rebuilt the alliance as the premiere Gallente FW alliance. In 2023, Sedition was found to kill the most isk destroyed in Faction Warfare and I love Eve Online and have been one of the most active players in the game. I hope to use my knowledge and skillset to assist my fellow CSM and CCP in helping steer rudder of CCP game development, as I have been working as a current CSM member and previously for over the past 3 years.

Your areas of expertise. In which areas of the game do you feel you are the most knowledgeable? What qualities set you apart from other candidates?

For over the past three years I have been working with CSM 17/18 and now as a current CSM member I have had the opportunity to assist CCP with their development of Faction Warfare and Low-Sec. My approach is community centered approach by working with focus groups, being open with feedback and iteration from the community to CCP allows for real time feedback. It is why I created two focus groups for low-sec to help streamline the iterative process. My voice is your voice and I am elected to support you. The player.

This journey started with my advocacy in the FW community as it is a vibrant and passionate bunch of players that for the first time in a decade had dedicated development team focused on iterating Faction Warfare and low-sec. I was luckily selected to be one of members of the Faction Warfare focus group that directly collaborated with CCP on the uprising expansion. This led to one of the best most recent expansions in recent memory. Furthermore, by establishing my relationships with both CSM and CCP developers we were able to continue to iterate on Faction Warfare. Many candidates think they have to be on the CSM in order to make changes in Eve Online. For over the past 2 years, we have been able to iterate on Faction Warfare by working collaboratively with various individuals across New Eden. Some of our accomplishments over the past three years are here:

The FW community created multiple white letters to offer suggestions and implement iterative improvements that been implemented into the game here:

LP Exchange Removal White Letter

Supporting LP Taxation into Eve Online

Changes Tag requirements in Faction Warfare

Battlefield Suggestions

Implementation of the Ship Caster Drugs into LP Stores

Other wins: Logi pilots now receive LP on kill mails!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/112l9fq/faction_warfare_updates_loyalty_points_are_now/

Many of these changes have been implemented that were caused by direction collaboration with CCP: https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/patch-notes-version-21-05

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/15f9z0l/fw_balance_update/

More thoughts:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/12ogbff/the_uprising_expansion_whats_next/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/ri9cn0/ccp_rattati_suggested_a_fantastic_change/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/15fbbvs/fw_reloaded_fw_iteration_is_here/

Our FW and low-sec advocacy team, Faction Warfare Parliament, created a PowerPoint that was eventually presented to CCP leadership during the last CSM summit. I hope to capitalize on these ideas here: Faction Warfare Into the Next Decade Draft - Google Slides

Here is also my CSM 19 presentation that was created with my fellow FW partners.: Reddit - The heart of the internet

Over the past year, I was selected to become a CSM member and I had a certain set of goals that I wanted to accomplish. I am proud to say over 2/3’s of the goals I wished to accomplished from my CSM plan was implemented. Specifically:

Faction Warfare

  1. Beacon sites (Listening Posts and Propaganda Beacons) percentage change should be increased from their current amounts to at least 2% changes. The problem is that listening posts and propaganda beacons do not impact advantage enough to make a meaningful difference in system total advantage, particularly given the player time investment to complete them

  2. Continue to iterate on battlefields to make it less unbearable by fixing the respawn of the rats within plex grids. Added a Scout-ADV plex for AF fights. Fix Amarr BF spawn bugs.

  3. Ihub iteration by increasing the rewards of LP of destroying of flipping the IHUB.

  4. Removing -5 navy sites and only making -5 sites only advanced sites to allow for players more opportunities to fight in smaller scale T2/pirate ship fights.

Citadel Mechanics

  1. To limit Ansi projection being able to bubble and tackle folks on Ansi gates would limit folks projection by limiting their ability to take the gate while pointed.

  2. Metenox iteration: The time to change timers is bugged as it is a month not a week. 2 hour window should be looked at and increased timezone variability from 1 hour window to 2 hours to allow for more cross-timezone PVP.

Low-Sec and Ships:

  1. Continue to advocate for industry changes that have been presented by Angry Mustache and work with colleagues to advocate for cheaper ships overall. Capital class vessels are still to expensive to be used on a more frequent basis. Simplifying the overall industrial process.

  2. Revoke part of the surgical strike nerfs. Improving subcapital logistics ships as well and having more options for subcapital logi (i.e., logi battleships that are not only nestors).

  3. Advocate for CCP to remove the previous Skyhook raiding nerfs, as it is implemented poorly and hooks are not able to raid as frequently. It also hurts new FC development, as skyhook content is a fantastic way to continue to grow new generation of FCs to learn how to PVP.

  4. Add cynos back onto Hics

  5. Increase rorqual usage (only have accomplished this in null-sec so far)

  6. Made ghosts sites manageable to be ran again and eliminated capital bottlenecks.

CCP Culture and Communication:

  1. Encourage CCP to attempt to reach out to the community more and create more avenues of information sharing from podcasts, social media, and discord. In order to rebuild trust, one must show honesty and being willingness to engage with each other.

While these are some of the accomplishments we have achieved in this year, we have done a lot more to improve the ecosystems in Low-sec, NPC-Null, and Null-sec.

Created an FC roundtable series with the Meta Show for CCP to hear about difficulties running small to medium size alliances across areas of space:

Why are you applying for the CSM?

To provide a knowledgeable, non-biased, and extensive perspective for low-sec and faction warfare to the CSM and CCP. I want to continue the hard work we have been doing over the past two years with the CSM and our CCP colleagues. I want to use my expertise and voice to collaborate with my peers in other areas to learn from them and help us all create a better game for everyone by working with my low sec, null sec, high sec, and wormhole peers on the CSM. Together, we can use our knowledge and support the development of Eve Online into a better plane.

What can players expect from you?

  • Open to discuss with anyone regarding issues and development in Eve Online
  • My DMs are always open to communicate with anyone
  • Focus on improving the low-sec ecosystem, faction warfare, NPC-Null, Null-Sec.
  • Advocate for the new bro and want to see newer groups thrive and grow throughout the game
  • Support newer FCs and content creators by focusing on ways to minimize burnout and workload in Eve Online
  • Willing to learn information from others with expertise in areas I do not and use our shared knowledge to find common ground and common-sense solutions.

For more information about my areas of advocacy and things I would like to see: Feel free to join my discord here: YP2 CSM 20. I have a page of changes that I am posting! A summary of these changes as well are the following. These are proposals I have submitted to CCP based on feedback from our communities:

My other stances and goals are still provided by my previous list here: Youngpuke2 for CSM 19- Rebuilding the Ladder

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Yeah, he’s pretty good. I’ll be voting for him.

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Puke has done a fantastic job over the last year listening to anybody who will talk to him. I remember being a bit annoyed because I felt he’d set up a certain round table differently from how I would have. His response was to ask me who he should have on. He had a second roundtable going just a few weeks later.

I don’t think there’s any chance lowsec gets a CSM more willing to put in the time and effort to working with lowseccers to bring our concerns to CCP. I absolutely endorse Puke for CSM 20.

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I am Brisc Rubal and this is my favorite CSM candidate on the Citadel.

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Puke for CSM, he cares about the health of the game, and has helped push through several direct changes to the game for better balance. Has my vote.

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Great guy in and out of eve. He will be getting my vote. Knowledgeble and is fighting for cat ears.

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Youngpuke has put in a lot of hustle to gather feedback from a diverse array of perspectives on the issues of the day and created many communities and mechanisms to sustain that feedback cycle long term. It’s hard to ask for more from your CSM candidate, I’ll definitely be voting to send him back for more!

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Puke works extremely hard to ensure that entities that aren’t always heard from have a voice. He serves as a centerpiece to many good faith conversations between many different opinions and groupings of people.

It’s hard for me to think of very many people who genuinely care about EVE and EVE’s community more than Puke.

+vote from me.

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What are you going to do about militia wide awoxing?

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Great question, there have been multiple suggestions that have been presented to CCP. Specifically, regarding various LP penalties and significantly increasing standing losses. The first step of that has been implemented with raising the pirate militia standings, which comprises the vast majority of awoxing. My personal idea is to create militia friendly awoxing setting to allow for FW groups to use AOE weapon systems without issue and if those settings are breached. It will lead to harsh lp denial and standings losses. Other ideas mentioned are the awoxng flag mechanic that shows players of known awoxers.

I also believe that we cannot design the game for CCP. This is a massive problem and CCP have acknowledged it across numerous areas: Discord

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I am in constant discussion with various CCP developers regarding this issue. I hope a fix will be implemented soon, but it is up to CCP.

We have a dedicated awoxing discussion thread with CCP in our dedicated Faction Warfare focus group here: FW Parliament

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As a member of an empire militia faction (Amarr), I’ve had to deal with DRL and Frat proper awoxing, and even with DE they are able to get around the standings penalty. I started awoxing any Frat Amarr members I see and it only took me some isk and an hour or so for the Sisters of Eve Epic arc and agent tags to keep on shooting them. Which is a problem, it shouldn’t be that easy to go shoot fellow militia members.

Where would you say awoxing is on your priority list?

My shot in the dark random suggestion: make a requirement to join FW be in a wardecable corp and reduce the cost for said wardecs, idk how to balance that. The current awoxing mechanics are just broken and gets quite annoying when I can’t shoot first when I know people are going to awox me without having to spend either money or time to fix my standings after.

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“Where would you say awoxing is on your priority list?”
Top 2-3. Right up there with the LP wallet/transaction log.

Your suggestion could work. Idk how feasible it is because I am not a game developer. Let’s set up a time to chat and we can discuss other ideas we can bring up to CCP.

Your experiences are not alone regarding fraternity and DRL. I have submitted such feedback to CCP and tried to work with those groups to stop. We must continue to march forward together until a solution is implemented.

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I’ve flown with YP for many years and hes always had a strong passion for this game and its been great to see him working with the CSM this last year. There is a reason CCP picked him to be on the CSM and I hope he can continue his good work going forwards.

If you are looking for a candidate who actually is willing to listen to new ideas and try to break the mold he’s your guy.

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As a representative of a large multilingual alliance, Youngpuke2 has helped bridge the language barrier and given us representation to CCP that we previously lacked. He has done a fantastic job gathering feedback.
On behalf of Dawn’s Light, we endorse Youngpuke2 for CSM.

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He’s got my vote

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It cannot be denied that YP2 has high efforted his time in the CSM, constantly engaging with groups and giving a voice to those who have often felt overlooked. It’s a shame that voice is a little high pitched and annoying. Otherwise a solid CSM member who has earned the vote of CTRLV.

Edit: also thanks for you help in rebuilding our dead alliance <3

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Was good at taking feedback and communicating to CCP. Along with other lowsec rep actually seemed to have got good changes for the game done.

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YP2 has brought a lot of ideas, effort, and energy into this years CSM. I support his re-election 100%.

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Youngpuke is very knowledgeable about the ins and outs of low sec and is a person that isn’t afraid to generate content. Given his knowledge and experience, he has worked to make content generation more prevalent and widespread and has some additional/new ideas to continue his efforts.

He has my support. Vote for Youngpuke!

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YP2 has been one of the most prolific CSM members this year, and I would absolutely love to work with him again. We have very constructive discussions and I think anyone who cares about game health will find a spot for him on their ballot.

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