Wormholes

Hi

Some of you perhaps know me, I am fairly certain none of you fear me

I have been considering going for CSM 3 years In a row, the first time I decided not to when I realised Two-Step was going to, last year I had too much on my plate for the coming year.

This year I am finishing my re-education and as a result I will have alot of playstyle freed up, And as we have seen WH can in fact get more then one candidate in, hence I am considering stepping up again.

I have talked to some of the x and current CSM's about how they experienced the role to be, contra their intitial beliefs o how it would be.

In my experience there are very varying opinions on this,so I would like to see if there is a general concensus.

Would love to hear the general opinion of he wormhole community on what they think a WH CSM's role is and how the CSM should go about achieving that role.

I always hear people saying about the CSM "fix pos's!" like that isn't on the list of things to do. It's such a waste of a voice to address something that they have heard over and over and over and over...They know POS's are bad. But I digress...

Like Incindir said though, communication is the key.

Can I run for CSM too?

But Mooooooom :(

CSM's are the go in between the players and CCP.
They are there to keep ccp from doing realy stupid stuff, no real power only their reaction is probably a good sounding board.
If the csm can keep ccp from doing realy stupid things , helps with fixing the most urgent things and helps point ccp in the right direction in the future it is a good csm.
Communication with us players is also important, helping managing expectations but also the how and why(wich is not nda'ed) things change is also important.
While chitsa did good in it james was a bit less in it(communication that is).
But basicly you just get a 3rd job from what i hear all csm members say.
The more candidates there are the bether, it helps the debate and helps find out what the w-space community wants(unless trolls appear) and fears.
Just first think of what you want for w-sapce and tell us.

When I've had the odd question for James he's gotten back to me quite quickly with answers to my questions. There's no doubt in my mind that both Chitsa and James are doing their jobs in that department.

I think the takeaway here is that a CSM rep isn't a "junior developer" but more along the lines of playerbase elected focus group for CCP to bounce ideas off of. And in some cases in the past a liason to quell mass player outrage, eg; T20 and Incarna blowouts.

I'll actually say that my communication level hasn't been as good as I think it should have been. I let Chitsa take that role primarily from the WH side of things, and there have been some very social people on CSM8 such as Ali, Mike, Ripard, and Malcanis who have kept the CSM forum tags highly visible. It's an area that I want to improve upon in a second term, and I'm working on a Thing™ to get my presence more known.

As for the role of the CSM, you can all be right and all be wrong at the same time. The white paper is pretty outdated now, and the CSM is different things to different people, both players and developers. I know for a fact that I've had many significant discussions with a number of developers, but there are other developers for whom the CSM just isn't something they consider. We just try to make ourselves as helpful as possible for both players and devs, getting the most out of it where we can.

Personally, I'm sticking to my campaign platform from last year: Advocate for Wspace in terms of New Content, Inclusion, Improvement, and Safeguarding, while giving CCP the Player Perspective.