CSM Campaigns

In past times people have had Real Life interfere with their duties and most folks understood.

Ali moved states, got a new job all during the CSM8 term and there was never a hickup. She has been the communication rockstar and a powerhouse in the CSM/CCP discussions.

I don't care who you think she represents, who she flies with . . . it doesn't change the fact that you cannot go wrong re-electing her to the CSM. She has nothing but my utmost respect.

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If through some incredible set of circumstances you were still unsure whether you should vote for Ali or not, you may be interested to learn that she put an incredible amount of work into getting the minutes finished, and that level of work has been exemplary of her performance throughout the entire term.

tl;dr, never not put Ali on your ballot.

Answered :) The TL;DR is, I don't mine that often, though I have in the past. My industry side tends to be more space truckin'.

Thanks Mike, Salpun, and mynnna :) I'm happy the minutes are out-- gives me stuff to point at and talk about.

Speaking of the minutes, I'll be doing a hangout to talk about them, and everyone's invited. It starts at 19:00, and will be at this link: https://plus.google.com/b/107533183557785189768/events/cmj9cucbmc6l4lq1ji3b55jl5l4 . If you can't make it, feel free to click the "q&a" button to leave a question for me to answer on-air or see and upvote others' questions.

I said way back in February that I would be endorsing Ali, and I did just that today. My words back then really havent changed, in fact they do not do Ali justice at all.

Elect her to CSM 9 tomorrow for a better CSM for us all.

Vote for Ali Aras!

Good luck, Ali...you deserve another term for your hard work, thoughtful participation, and steady presence...was quite happy to include you in the top 4 on my slate!

My problem is that I care less about the actual DUST content, and more about the desire to know if the CSM represented me in the only issue I really care about. For me, without those minutes, the election isn't much more than a shot in the dark.

Thanks Manifest for coming in and clarifying things-- this was one of those questions where the NDA is so thick on the ground that "say nothing" is the safe CSM answer, and obviously the community would like to know more. I'll be bookmarking this thread for when it comes up again.

Well, lemme just try writing out a position paragraph then. Regarding DUST, on CSM8, I have been advocating for a strong but not overpowering link between DUST and EVE. Aspects of this which are important:

DUST mercs are mercenaries. This means that I should not have to have a DUST arm in order to succeed at things in EVE; having one on speed-dial should be sufficient. If I need something from DUST mercs, I should be able to easily find available outfits, know something about their reputations, and pay them to do things for me. I do like the pattern wherein both air and ground superiority is better than either individually.

In general, DUST mercs *doing things* are more compelling than DUST mercs owning stuff. Bonuses such as "you get x% off fuel on planets you own" are kind of meh; I have to own a DUST outfit (:effort:) and it's a static situation rather than an active source of fights. That said, I've heard some good ideas involving e.g. owning planetary facilities gives you bonuses for doing stuff in space (kind of like links), which is neat for terrain reasons.

My personal favorite point for interaction between DUST and EVE would be PI disruption. It scales really, really well between low and null-sec-- someone sitting on your PI and dramatically reducing its output would *suck*, and you should be able to pay people to do this (and pay people to kick people doing this off of your planet). It's a pure "**** you" mechanic that would allow a wealthy attacker to whittle away at a main income stream for a lot pilots, particularly in more-lucrative null-sec space. However, disrupting people's PI doesn't affect the *mechanics* of sov capture; it just would provide a valuable extra tool in an attacker (or defender's) tool box (c.f. "Scarpia stated that currently, wars of material attrition hardly exist, and CCP should focus some of their efforts on making those work." from winter minutes)

I've heard some interesting ideas also around integrating DUST (optionally) into structure hits to make them less grindy; that's a lot harder without carefully tuning mechanics. Again, the goal should be making DUST hard, but not impossible, to ignore. It seems like DUST does reasonably well in FW right now (although I understand there are still some issues and correct me if I'm wrong); if it could have a similar kind of interaction with other areas of EVE, that would be ideal.

I've said as much to CCP on basically every chance I've been given, and I've had a number of great conversations with the CPM on this subject. Don't believe me? Ask my colleagues, or the CPM members, in particular Hans Jagerblitzen.

Has the CPM and CSM formed a strategy to address a more fluent communication relay between Dust mercs and Eve capsuleers, to provide the players of both games a reliable way to find and help one another ?