EVE General Discussion

This is a man whose reputation for honesty and neutrality transcends the game. (apologies to Grendell, another great honest broker)
The 3rd party tools and websites he maintains for Eve players, plus his in-game brokerage service, have more value than anything the 3 best devs for CCP have ever collectively accomplished.

No one questions his dedication to the game and community of Eve.
If Chribba wanted to run for CSM, he would be a automatic.
But he is likely far too busy to do that, as I surmised from his Fanfest interview yesterday.

However, he could do the game another great service, and select the 14, or 12 , or whatever number he deems fit, to be the CSM.
Enough of this system designed directly to further the goals of any one special interest group.

If Chribba simply selected people on their merits, we would have a far more honest group, and group far more interested in improving the game as a whole, as opposed to furthering the financial well-being of one select group.
We would also have a far more equitable representation of the demographics of the Eve playerbase.

Next year, let Chribba choose. It would be far more fair than the charade we have today pretending it represents democracy.

So what exactly do you mean by charade?

You could cast your vote, up to 14 candidates.

The only charade here is voter apathy and CCP's lackluster communication; but that doesn't need to stand in the way of anything representing democracy.

Confirming Chribba is the biggest scam in EVE history waiting to happen.

Link?

The player base needs to get folk like Keith Eaton onto the CSM.

It is a shame he does not run for the CSM.

The CSM needs more folk like him, rather than the, 'but I want Eve to changed to suit my alliance, corp, security sector of Eve because we are important' folk.

People like /c already give.

How's about we let others step up and serve?

You don't make something stand in gaming for 10+ years if it has a poor foundation.

The odd wrong step won't bring it down.

i appreciate his websites and the work he puts into them

but he's not the omniscient infallible carebear godhead

this is an absolutely terrible idea

i'm sorry you're so mad about the csm the players wanted to have instead of what you wanted to have

On the contrary. I voted for 3 people, 2 got in.
But that does not change the fact that the the current selection system is a disaster, where a single person with the level of integrity of Chribba would select a better representation of the demographics of the Eve playerbase than the abomination in place now.

maybe before making a big thread you should ask chribba if he would even want to do it.

It's like being oppressed by a fascist regime vs being oppressed by corporate sponsors behind a government. I'd rather know that my suffering is keeping someone else in power rather than suspect that the government might just be very incompetent and scared. At least then the right decisions are being made for somebody who's got more invested than their pocket lining.