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Congrats to the new CSM. Please don't use Twitter.

was thinking it might not happen, thank god for veto.

Nothing wrong with twitter, just don't use FB

I am smelling pirates in a more recent RL-usage of the word.

CCP has always been a reactive establishment, requiring vast abuse/overuse to react to any issue. But I guess so is any government and so is any evolutionary process. It was good to read this and it is good to see CCP still out there tweaking the way things work for the greater good of their game and everyone who plays it.







Fanfreakintastic! Not only is more communication central to improvement, but I sense a certain "they will be compelled to act more like adults and take responsibility for their interactions with the playerbase" hidden in the undertone of this post. I strongly suspect that we can expect to see an end to the days where CSM's are trolling people on CCP's official forums, which is very good for RL business.





And the player base will happily be giving it. In the past year or two we have seen meta gaming climb its way to new heights in the exploitation of the CSM chair. No one could have anticipated how much ingame rivalries and agendas could begin to permeate CCP's real world organization. It is good to see them respond to overuse and abuse in RL just as they do in game. CSM 7 will be remembered for all time as the CSM where CCP returned the counsel of stellar management back to their playerbase. After the Jita burn fizzles out and the goons are done with there luls on the forums (which may take a year or so TBH) perhaps we can all calm down and thank the Mitanni for what he has done.



He, and he alone, by taking the sheer asshattery that he displays in game into real life, and broadcasting it world wide, has managed to give the CSM back to all the carebears, empire dwellers, solo PVP'ers, Wardecers, WH residence, and Low Sec players of New Eden. The non-nullsec playerbase who consists of the true majority of individual subscription holders. This may be his greatest act, one overshadowed by "spymaster metafame" and "Burn Jita curiosity". He would have inspired the CSM to treat all players new and old with respect, he, the great Mitanni, would have made it so both CCP and the CSM have no choice but to listen to the majority population of non-nllsec account holders. This may turn out the be the greatest change to EVE Online since the institution of capital ships, only time will tell.



Mitanni, we could not have done it without you! So thx.
Signed, a member of the non-nullsec dwelling majority eagerly looking forward to influencing the game.

Greetings and gratz.

I wholeheartedly commend your intention to communicate with the majority of the player base and present their concerns, needs and desires to CCP. Just remember, the majority of the player base is not here in the forums or on twitter. They are located in-game and not just in null security Alliances.

Unfortunately, there's a really bad stigma associated with the CSM for quite a while now. It will take a lot of work on your part to remove it.

I wish you all good luck and much success.


DMC

First CSM member to convince CCP to read James 315's manifesto gets cookies from me.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&find=unread&t=101626

Heh, tiz an interesting read :) Some of it is a little limited in scope, but I think it does honestly make some very good points on some of the issues with Eve.

Personally I'd expand his dislike of high sec care bears to jump freighters, the increased use of carriers for personal logistics, nullified t3s and pretty much everything else that has damaged "sandbox" style PvP in Eve. There is a trade off between making life easier for everyone, and killing off non-consensual PvP, personally I think the balance in that respect has swung too far in one direction.

i have strange feelings that noone cares about cms without mittani...
(oh yeah.... i should use my npc corp alt to speak on forums to be cool)

It's pretty amusing though, while mittens was CSM these kinds of threads generated some interest. Now it's reached two pages after a week, and most of the posts haven't had anything to do with whatever the hell it was the CSM message was about.

Judge by the posters' content and not by the label associated with their name.

Posts that present viable ideas, depth of experience and wisdom hold value no matter who types them.

It will be interesting to see the general player participation once the CSM reaches out to the broader playerbase via EVE Voice and other in-game methods. Mittens vocal following (CFC) are unabated forum whores and naturally would make a big impression on the EVE-O forums.