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CSM 10 Suggestion: "I Voted" T-shirt

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Teyr Schmitt
An Errant Venture
#1 - 2014-04-09 03:37:51 UTC
Since CCP likes giving out T-shirts for fanfest and tourneys (and maybe some meetups? I don't know), I thought it might be interesting to have a T-shirt, or other article of clothing made up for people who voted for CSM members.

It's obviously far too late to do anything like that this year.

I just thought it was an interesting idea, and might actually send more people to the polls to get their CCP swag.

Because when I go vote, the only reason I ever do it is for the awesome sticker they give me afterwards.
Scipio Artelius
Weaponised Vegemite
Flying Dangerous
#2 - 2014-04-09 03:49:33 UTC
Would make for an interesting in game reward.

I probably wouldn't wear one IRL, but as a marketing tool to increase awareness of the CSM, it might be a good redeemable for anyone that votes.
Teyr Schmitt
An Errant Venture
#3 - 2014-04-09 04:12:41 UTC
Scipio Artelius wrote:
Would make for an interesting in game reward.

I probably wouldn't wear one IRL, but as a marketing tool to increase awareness of the CSM, it might be a good redeemable for anyone that votes.


Yeah, I meant in-game. Like the Quafe, AT, etc shirts we already have.
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#4 - 2014-04-09 05:00:15 UTC
Everyone who votes should get a blue finger.
Tesco Ergo Sum
#5 - 2014-04-09 06:13:52 UTC
Teyr Schmitt wrote:
Since CCP likes giving out T-shirts for fanfest and tourneys (and maybe some meetups? I don't know), I thought it might be interesting to have a T-shirt, or other article of clothing made up for people who voted for CSM members.

It's obviously far too late to do anything like that this year.

I just thought it was an interesting idea, and might actually send more people to the polls to get their CCP swag.

Because when I go vote, the only reason I ever do it is for the awesome sticker they give me afterwards.


What like Soylent Green? Who chooses which members are reprocessed for said T-shirts?

Maybe I have this wrong...
ISD Ezwal
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#6 - 2014-04-09 20:42:37 UTC
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Rivr Luzade
Coreli Corporation
Pandemic Legion
#7 - 2014-04-09 21:16:39 UTC
"I Voted

Crap"

CFC"

Not a Voice Representing My Playstyle Anways"

Just Something That Might Represent My Voice"

--

Interesting reason to vote, OP by the way, do you also vote on the same premise in real life? Your views are the reason why the CSM is pointless and does not really do anything to better the game for all, but only for a select group. Roll

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My ridicule, heavy criticism and general pale outlook about your or CCP's ideas is nothing but an encouragement to prove me wrong. Give it a try.
Alvatore DiMarco
Capricious Endeavours Ltd
#8 - 2014-04-09 21:28:13 UTC
If the CSM is only beneficial to a select group, it's because only that select group runs candidates or bothers to vote.

If more people from other groups would step up as candidates, get the support needed to make it onto the ballot and then campaign the way members of the "select group" do, then I strongly suspect maybe other groups would be represented as well.

Then again, the only group that isn't particularly well-represented is the casual highsec miner and those people don't spend enough time at their keyboards to express anything that can actually be represented.

All of that being said, CSM 10 is definitely worthy of T-shirts - at least IMO - simply by virtue of being the 10th CSM. We silly humans have a species-wide thing for commemorating the 1st, 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th, etc instance of a thing and so we might as well play along with it.
Teyr Schmitt
An Errant Venture
#9 - 2014-04-12 17:13:25 UTC
Rivr Luzade wrote:
"I Voted

Crap"

CFC"

Not a Voice Representing My Playstyle Anways"

Just Something That Might Represent My Voice"

--

Interesting reason to vote, OP by the way, do you also vote on the same premise in real life? Your views are the reason why the CSM is pointless and does not really do anything to better the game for all, but only for a select group. Roll



Oy! I get my sticker when I vote in the US!

This is the same principle.
Alvatore DiMarco
Capricious Endeavours Ltd
#10 - 2014-04-12 22:26:29 UTC
Teyr Schmitt wrote:


Oy! I get my sticker when I vote in the US!

This is the same principle.


What do you get when you vote outside the US?
Rowells
Blackwater USA Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#11 - 2014-04-12 22:33:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Rowells
Alvatore DiMarco wrote:
Teyr Schmitt wrote:


Oy! I get my sticker when I vote in the US!

This is the same principle.


What do you get when you vote outside the US?

Shot at by the taliban

Also: can I get a shirt that either says "I waited ubtil the last minute" or "There was an election? CSM 9"
Selina Dyle
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#12 - 2014-04-12 22:49:35 UTC  |  Edited by: Selina Dyle
but what about anonymous voting then? you saw that the csm can start a which hunt and if they would get metadata about who voted what...ohh ma geeerd

edit: obligatory tinfoilhat attached
Hesod Adee
Perkone
Caldari State
#13 - 2014-04-12 23:41:39 UTC
Instead of a t-shirt, what about a special ship or ship skin ?

It would be much more visible to anyone who hasn't voted.

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Then again, the only group that isn't particularly well-represented is the casual highsec miner and those people don't spend enough time at their keyboards to express anything that can actually be represented.

Of the carebear candidates available this election, I've only looked into one. A candidate too lazy to get to a keyboard before posting to try and drum up support. A candidate too lazy to fix the spelling and grammar errors posting from a phone causes. Someone I doubt I'd vote for even if I did agree with him because I doubt he'd put in the effort to get anything done.

Are the other carebear candidates any better ?
Alvatore DiMarco
Capricious Endeavours Ltd
#14 - 2014-04-12 23:53:57 UTC
Personally, I'd rather the T-shirt or a hat. Yes, I said it. A hat.

The trouble with ships and ship skins is that they tend to be destructible. Your fancy "Iteron IV-oted" isn't very visible when it's either locked in a hangar forever or blown into fancy little space-bits. Avatar clothes, on the other hand, are mysteriously immune to being lost (as long as you're wearing them).
FT Diomedes
The Graduates
#15 - 2014-04-13 04:52:50 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
Everyone who votes should get a blue finger.


Iraqi-style! I like it!

CCP should add more NPC 0.0 space to open it up and liven things up: the Stepping Stones project.

FT Diomedes
The Graduates
#16 - 2014-04-13 04:54:57 UTC  |  Edited by: FT Diomedes
I'll take it a step further. Give a t-shirt that says, "I voted for mynnna!"

Or, "Don't blame me, I voted for Xenuria!"

CCP should add more NPC 0.0 space to open it up and liven things up: the Stepping Stones project.

Teyr Schmitt
An Errant Venture
#17 - 2014-04-13 19:02:04 UTC
FT Diomedes wrote:
I'll take it a step further. Give a t-shirt that says, "I voted for mynnna!"

Or, "Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!"



fixed your post there. :P
FT Diomedes
The Graduates
#18 - 2014-04-13 19:17:38 UTC
Teyr Schmitt wrote:
FT Diomedes wrote:
I'll take it a step further. Give a t-shirt that says, "I voted for mynnna!"

Or, "Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!"



fixed your post there. :P


Fair enough, although I maintain that Kodos is a little bit more humanoid than Xenuria.

CCP should add more NPC 0.0 space to open it up and liven things up: the Stepping Stones project.