EVE General Discussion

Well CSM is made by player votes, why are you asking CCP?

They don't specifically need a CSM person to help raise awareness of disability issues, just start a thread about the specific issues you're encountering and they can look at helping you where possible

CCP has an automated server script to count the votes and thus they haven't ignored any vote.

As far as the community, yeah we're assholes; so **** you and your ****** candidates, and your needs and their needs. Next time, activate more accounts, vote harder, and/or help the candidates that you're supporting by helping them spread the word to all your friends.

And otherwise, stop trolling please. We know this is a troll post.

This smacks of SJW'ing. While I voted for one of these candidates based on many blogger's recommendation I don't think anyone deserves a spot on the CSM for reasons.

If a candidate is not part of one of the major blocks, they rarely make it on their first try. It takes a while to build player recognition.

Perhaps you would better achieve your goals by encouraging CCP to hold a focus group to get feedback from disabled players.

By disabled do you mean colorblind or something? If you play EVE you've adapted enough to use a keyboard and mouse. So as long as you can use a computer doesn't that put everyone on a level playing field since its a game? Unless you mean developmentally disabled in which case, not a lot you can do with game mechanics for that.

Nothing against disabled people, I'm just confused as to the relevance when it comes to people playing EVE together.

As for the CSM, I dont really care either. The only time they seem to be useful is when CCP makes a crazy bad decision (although that happens more often lately) like with some of the initial citadel mechanics and ALL of the CSM (and the player base) agree and start yelling enough for CCP to go "oh crap, ya, we didnt think of that". Otherwise they just go ahead as planned regardless of feedback.

I really do feel that the CSM is just used as a figurehead to make us feel better present day. Because of this I place little importance on the elections.

As a person who voted for both of them, with Joffy either #1 or #2 on my ballot, it was a pity to see them miss out.

Based on his twitter feed, Joffy was pretty disappointed, but he threw that off very quickly and has already committed to running again next year. I hope he wins a spot on CSM XII.

However, I certainly don't think it's CCPs fault, nor really the community's fault and characterising it as completely ignoring the needs of disabled players is kind of strange.

So in terms of 'CCP, what the **** man?' - that's democracy. What would you want them to do? Rig the vote? I'm sure that would go down well.

Even in the absence of either being on the CSM, I kind of hope CCP sets up a player experience focus group at some point and includes both, so that issues like the problems that the color blind had with the new icons, don't occur again anytime soon.

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While I understand the frustration of not having your preferred candidate get elected, and I believe there is some validity to what you say about the community being more focused on space politics, than differently able players issues.
However your post was made, and there has been no further comment from you in hours.

There have been many helpful comments, suggesting assisting those candidates get their message out and run again.
there are actually many groups out there to assist players with difficulties.
#BroadcastForReps #CareForKids You can go from there.

The only further posting that will continue here is flaming and trolling.