EVE General Discussion

People are not machines. The study of how people behave in large groups and demographics is not based upon logical thinking. People act on whim, reward, motivation and ease of access. You clearly do not have a firm grasp of how this works by suggesting that the vast majority is some how mentally damaged because they are not doing what you want them to do.




Take me for example. If I thought any of those candidates could actually bring about a meaningful and positive change I would vote. I however do not. I am not going to participate in a flawed system and be goated into voting for the most polished of 8 turds. That is my objective view on the subject. That view is governing my actions. I am not simply "not voting" because of some handicap or laziness. I am choosing not to vote because none of the options given are in line with my personal set of principles. Nor do the candidates uphold my agenda.

I am also aware of how stacked the deck is in certain people's favor. Nothing is going to change that under the current voting system.


That sir, is why I don't vote.

Now your stupid really is showing


Thx. You demeaned your own intelligence on a public forum, better then anything I could have said on my own.

That makes about as much sense as someone trying to make a point in crayon.

Hint: to define that there is a growth trend, nevermind that it's steady, you need numbers, at the bare minimum a start and end, preferably with at least a FEW datapoints somewhere in the middle (you know, to show that silly "trend" part)

That's what Malcanis was asking for. You'd have recognized this if your IQ was higher than your shoe size.

As there's no purpose to vote.

CSMs are toothless (representation in name only).

They are bound by a NDA (if they break, they'd be too poor to game again).

Have no government to run, and held accountable to run it (no impeachment clause in this "democratic" election, too).

There's more power for a gamer putting their vote in a poll about "Men - Boxers or briefs?" than this process.

No in this case if you dont vote you are permitting Null sec to take this council, as in an STV election the number of votes required to get elected is related to the number of votes cast.

So by not voting you are making it easier for Null sec to have control of the CSM, in this case failure to vote is the same as if you vote for Null sec.

Well I am glad you like a Null CSM so much, what do you like the most, their attempts to have most of CCPs resources used to fix null sec?

These are nullsec candidates.

Not one a true high-sec candidate concerned over high-sec issues...not even one true marketeer who lives on Jita fumes in the bunch (and no, PB, doesn't qualify). Be it Caldari; Amarr; Gallente or Minmatar.

Not one.

So if you used this campaign pitch and actually convinced players to vote "nullsec out"...the only players left are WH candidates and they don't care about nullsec/lowsec/highsec, they live in their own world.

I am deeply concerned about hi-sec.

Psychotic Monk is wholly concerned about hi-sec - he's a hisec player

Mike Azariah is strongly focused on hi-sec - he's a hi-sec player

Once again you are using cheap cynicism and flat generalisations to paper over your lack of knowledge and scanty research. You could vote for the 3 of us and help to put 3 people who want to see hi-sec greatly improved onto the CSM.

Or you could handwave the opportunity away with an attempt to deflect your responsibility by making some barely relevent one-liner

I know which my money would be on if I could find anyone so foolish as to take that bet.

I would also like to point out that if you don't like a political system change it.

I don't want more ME/PE slots in Empire. I don't see a need for them, as it's not hard to get slots of your own, that you can fill at will. And you should know, Industry doesn't mean 'Industry in High-sec'. It /should/ mean 'Industry in any security sector (plus wormholes)'.

I don't fill /your/ vision of industry.