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It did happen, there is a thread about it in Jita park.

It also has the goon bee in the corner.

But vote scamming is perfectly legal.

@CCP Dolan
Could you explain these two columns?
I want to know what percentage of US players cast a vote.

I will try to recall the conversation from two weeks ago in hopes that your comment was not a mere dismissal of the problems.

I think one of them had problems finding the voting site and gave up at that point. He has found the website before and voted, but this time the Eve website maze caught him. This indicates that CCP could have increased the vote with more advertising with links.

The second person found the website, and wanted to try out STV voting. He claims he filled out a ballot and that the system would not accept it. Since I was not there I cannot give a detailed analysis of the actual UI failure.

I found the system to be difficult to use. The computer I was working on had a limited amount of space for the ballot. I had to move people to the top of the selection list and then I had to move them into the ballot at the right position. The system felt odd and clunky. I am certain that part of that feeling is the STV system which I have not used before.

Simply put I do not believe that an approximately 15% turnout and 15% drop in voter participation is good news or part of a peace time council. CCP seems to stumble around on UI design, and as I recall the ballot system was put together quickly. It is funny to think of all the worry and theory crafting on the "best" and "most fair" voting system when the voter turnout is so abysmal. I like the idea of an STV system, and was glad to see one in action. Hopefully next year they will smooth out the process, do more advertising and can happily cheer at an increase in voter turn out.

Well done to all those who got elected.

I wish you all an enjoyable and successful term in office.

congratulations. well done. yay. woop, woop.

another csm filled to the brim with nullbears and toons that think like they do.

yawn.

how much will they try to nerf high sec this time? let me guess, the following expansions will also only benefit the nullbears and toons that like their playing style?

I do hope CSM8 also becomes known as CSM (Last) as its a rather pointless exercise.

With the majority of income CCP receive funding free to play PlayStation Dust players the future direction of Eve will be around Dust and not Eve. It will be Dust players that control the future direction / investment / content within Eve not some silly little CSM.

For those that won have a nice jolly but remember it wont make any difference.

I can't understand all this complaining about the voting system. Anyone who can manage to correctly fit a ship and actually use it in EVE shouldn't be overly challenged by a drag 'n drop interface. Not exactly rocket science.

Admittedly it is more difficult to successfully organise than 'click da link and vote for Mittani' so perhaps that's where the angst is coming from.

But anyone who thinks null (and low) don't need the focus this year actually needs to visit these places.

A great idea, if the image of GM's having to deal with more angry "I can't log in" petitions than votes gets you all excited.

You've obviously not heard about the CPM.

It's OK though, at least you have your looks to carry you though life.

Maybe the disenfranchised 10k voters of last year were also an issue. Although hisec forumbears believe otherwise, The Mittani got a lot of votes from people not affiliated with Goons and not even living in null, including one of mine. Some people may not have bothered to vote after their vote was just thrown into the trash bin last time.