Jita Park Speakers Corner

I don't know what you're talking about, I agree with you completely. CCP is a menace and by far the biggest threat to EvE that EvE has ever or will ever face.

If I were elected CSM the first thing I'd do when I got off the plane to Iceland is punch the first CCP employee I saw right in the face. You need to establish dominance quickly. The CSM is basically like prison, you either beat the crap out of someone the first day, or you end up someones *****. That's why I'd also sharpen the end of my toothbrush before I went, too. I'd also smuggle in as much illict substances as I could by putting them in a balloon and swallowing them, but that's more for personal reasons.

I'd argue if you just use the metric of getting something done the record is not so clear. Volume and quantity are not the same as effectiveness or quality. I can think of cases in fact where the tone combined with the volume of communication went from persuasion to ineffective ranting.

The addition of remote meetings is great and has changed the character of the CSM. I was able to attend some of the first CSM 7 summit and most of the last summit remotely. To say that you can be as effective as being 1:1 just isn't true. Face to face beats " web cam to web cam" every time. For example when there are prototypes to interact with remote sucks.

Also, folks need to realize if you want to see Iceland the CSM is the worst possible way. If you want to see Iceland in the context of Eve then Fanfest is the answer. If you just want to go to Iceland, find something to do that pays to do with the time you have to spend as part of the CSM and just pay for a nice vacation there. You can go when you want and when you get there do whatever you want and see what you want to see. You'd probably even have some money left over!

So for the folks that do run and get elected I hope you are ready to commit and you are doing it for the love of Eve. The CSM 7 leaves you the opportunity to have the most influence with the dev process of any CSM to date. If you are running for the right reasons and get elected you have the opportunity to move that ball even further down the field. If you are running for ego/trip to Iceland/drama/circus then please find another distraction as you are just wasting a lot resources and time. Not to mention losing the momentum gained from CSM 6 and CSM 7,

One final thing, you no longer seem to get a CSM medal! So make sure you are doing this as a service to the game, not for the medal!!

Issler

Post using your main, Mr. Swift.

Well in that case I think you will not fit in with some of the other CSM candidates this year, as there seem to be quiet a few happy to roll over for CCP but there are those who aren't with those you might not get mike blocked by butt kissers.

Well it would at least be entertaining

And well a complete opposite of the CSM 7, CCP cheer leaders.

They should just create an office role assigned with the duties of butt kissing. Any of the other CSMs have to route their butt kissing to him, then he cleans it up, make it look professional and sends it on to CCP.

He gets a bus tour during the summit as well as being able to visit Hilmar's house during the weekends.

Would solve a lot of problems IMO.

Benefits to the game, when mistakes are made, and CCP will deal a heavy blow to the players in anger. He is there to soothe them with making them sound great, and all the problems were not their fault, but just problems everyone else has to deal with, so CCP shouldn't take it so personally.

My appologies if I offended you by something I said, my head has been wierder than usual lately.

But having said that I do like the idea of the players preventing the CSM members from going to Iceland if they are officers that have not produced.

Your initial idea got me thinking on that one thanks.

The CSM has never really had a great deal of power but it is slowly gaining more. Its actual purpose is to act as our voice to CCP and give ideas in game direction, while stating our point of view to any current crisis. They are effectively our union.

It doesn't seem like any of you truly understand what the CSM is, so allow me to enlighten you.

No one knows where the first CCP employees came from, although The Watchers have found records of them throughout all of recorded history. An CCP employee can only die only after being beheaded, and the CSM delegates and CCP employees battle one another in ritual single combat to the death, until the CSM summit when the few remaining Immortals will fight until only one remains to take "The Prize". We aren't exactly sure what the prize is it's probably some limited edition shuttle bullshit because you know CCP.

There are some who believe CCP are actually aliens exiled from Zeist to Earth but THESE PEOPLE ARE ******* WRONG THAT NEVER HAPPENED, GOT THAT!?

Legends do speak of a chosen one who will defeat Hilmar in single combat, absorbing his powers and becoming the new CEO of CCP. I don't see it happening with this CSM class as none of the candidates running have stated a platform of decapitating Hilmar and absorbing his powers via The Quickening.

This is why ensuring CCP can't pick the delegates that go to Iceland is so important. They'll make sure only the weaker ones go, who will fall and only make CCP stronger.

This is why Trebor keeps running for the CSM. He is biding his time, waiting for the right moment to strike. He has clearly been in training, having lost many pounds of excess weight while on the CSM (For real, ask him!). Trebor is also really old, which means he is probably immortal.