CSM 8 Results, Fanfest, Stuff
10 for 14 on my picks. Not bad, even if a few were shoe-ins. What surprised me more was the balance of who got in outside the bloc vote. Mike Azariah but not Unforgiven Storm? To me that was the biggest shock. Nice to see Mike get a seat after so much time, though. Apparently persistence pays off, even in spite of the Null Bloc ballots. So this thing called Fanfest happened. I didn’t go. I followed the news as best I could. Lots to talk about. Too much to talk about, really. So I’ll spin out some threads in my head. Mining This was at the same time awesome and disappointing. Removing grav sites to a simple system scan is a small boon to finding the things, but a huge smack in the face to anyone who wants to mine in them, especially in non-HS space. CCP has essentially turned grav sites into FW plexes, and that will not entice any miners who want to keep their ships for long. The one nice thing about signature-based sites in LS is the small window of obfuscation they provide for ships that are designed for some sort of PvE instead of Continue Reading →