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Little guys don't fly Gallente? Use hybrid guns? Get 0wned by supercapitals? Find 0.0 to be largely inaccessible and generally a bag of dicks anyway?


Yours in Christ,

H. Ratli Smirks, Esq.
Hero of 49-

That may be, but it is the only one that matters.

Maybe when you little scrublets set up yo' game and get on my level I'll take you seriously.

:pringles:

The CSM is a good idea. Electing representatives to condense player concerns, requests, and complaints into something more manageable should allow CCP to respond faster and more efficiently to problems.

That's not what I've seen happen in the short time I've been in the Eve community. Since I learned what the CSM is and what it's supposed to do, I haven't seen it produce anything like the intended result. That's not to say it's been useless--I feel the CSM did quite a bit to help resolve issues and answer questions during monocle-gate--but it certainly hasn't lived up to my expectations.

The problem here is two-fold: First of all, CCP has largely ignored the desires of the playerbase, and instead pursued their "vision" of Eve, resulting in Incarna, Dust 514, and a bunch of other things that, while interesting, don't exactly address long-standing problems with the core gameplay of Eve, that being all things spaceship. Second, the CSM elections *are* just a popularity contest where only those who know someone running a campaign are voting. Your typical highsec dweller has no idea what's going on with the CSM elections and overlooks them.

How do we fix this? I think CCP has finally gotten a clue and at least appears to be looking to restore their commitment to the players with the winter expansion. We'll see how well they do at communicating with us and giving us better content in the coming months.

As for the CSM, there's no easy fix. CCP needs to step up and try to get more people involved in the elections. Right now information on the CSM largely exists in the forums, which are completely optional and don't appeal to a lot of people who play Eve. Let's face it: this is a MUCH smaller community than Eve itself. If we could find a way to move the political discourse into the game and get more players involved, we'd see a more diverse voting group and possibly a much more balanced mix of CSM members.

I could care less whether the CSM gets to go to Iceland. That's a perk that CCP should consider doing away with if they are having budget problems. It's not profitable at all, and doesn't make much business sense when you're struggling to maintain productivity levels.

No, 25% are in nullsec IIRC. Means that >50% are nullsec residents.

are you kidding me? are you actually saying what you are saying? I want to rip my hair out.

CCP had:

Massive splash images over the login screen
Constant blogs and links on the front page
Stuff EVERYWHERE over the forum
Even billboards in space had CSM banners
Constant news updated regarding the CSM

Just because you don't bother to look past your mission running overview doesn't mean that ccp didn't make an effort, they could have probably replaced the entire background of the launcher with the letters "CSM" and you would have still ignored it.


Try taking an active part in something other than mission running you filthy highsec scrub nerd virgin.

change all eve to nullsec except for concord sov systems

done

Supported, but give Concord a 1.0 region.

You also realize that that particular member of the CSM was, in fact, the high-sec care-bear representative that had barely any idea how most of the game mechanics function and was also mentally unstable? Correct?

You also do realize that the CSM members are human beings and regular players like the rest of us, not demi-Gods or "professionals," correct?

None that I remember seeing. Of course, after months of seeing paid advertisements on the login screen, CCP did a pretty good job of training me to ignore that box and just log in. I might have looked right through it.

One of the common lessons of web design is that you can no longer use content on certain parts of pages any more because ad placement in those areas has become so common that people have learned to simply ignore it. Same goes for the login screen: if you're going to spam it with magazine ads, special pricing deals, and various other crap, don't expect people to see important information when you present it in the same way.



The website and the forum are separate from the game, and you shouldn't expect people to visit them in order to be informed of something like the CSM elections.



I almost never see billboards.



You're right, I probably would have ignored that, or at least stopped with "wtf does CSM mean?" CCP does a ****-poor job of communicating the existence and purpose of the CSM to new players.



I'm not even going to bother. That quizzical "wtf is wrong with you?" look on my toon's face...That's for people like you.

That is untrue at every turn my good man, let me assure you. The CSM isn't Prom King material: Underdogs can come out of nowhere and be in Iceland by July (even last place alts I am told) and believe it or not-some of Eve's best and brightest are in there.

I have a message for the OP