Live Events Discussion

Eve already has the CSM for this.

I think a Gallente election could be run quite easily leveraging some already-existing infrastructure that CCP has already built.

So, for those who are resident in the Gallente Federation (that are a member of a corporation that is headquartered in Gallente territory, whether a player or NPC corp), the location of the headquarters could determine which "district" the individual lives in. For the sake of simplicity, a coarse measure such as a district being the equivalent of a constellation, might be best.

During the voting period, each qualifying Gallente voter would receive a choice of ballot via the gift redemption system that has been used for holidays and other landmarks in the past. The player would select the person that they are voting for. It would be a simple matter to tally the ballots cast for each candidate by district, and then declare a winner. It might also mean that some of the membership of the Gallente Senate would then be determined by the players as well, through a proportional slate system associated with the proportion of votes cast for each Presidential candidate.

Well, that's an idea to leverage existing tools, but perhaps CCP would go the custom route.

I hope the Devs push ahead with an election... what's the point of having selected membership in the only democratic faction if we do not have elections?


[Edit: must teach my tablet Eve-specific vocabulary.]

That is true... even if no one is expecting the result of it be based only on player votes

Well, that is true unless those in charge of the story arc elect to involve the player base. One reason to do so is to take that as a general measure of reactive sentiment... that is, how an observer of the developing story feels (or does not feel) motivated by the story, political rhetoric, and their place in the universe.

CCP did do this once, near the beginning of Eve's existence although it took them a whole to sort through the results. I hope they choose to do so again.

The event as it were last time was Jonny Damordred's "Why the hell not?" campaign of presidency, where he had a rally day which involved a large number of pilots lagging the hell out of Luminaire trying to blow up the Shiigeru.

Further lagged by a large number of pro Caldari pilots remote repping it.

Further lagged by a smaller number of reckless Federals suicide ganking the Caldari pilots.

Further lagged by the ton of CONCORD these acts generated.



And a lot of chat in local. Fun times.

It happened in game, even if the attack was futile it was a player run event (and the only in game event regarding the elections) with a story behind it that facilitated discussion pre and post marker.

Also the attack did pretty minimal damage. It depends on whether you mean "lore" as in "this was a CCP run PF event" or lore as in "I was there."

I'm well aware of the difference. OP asked what the event was, I answered his question.


Though I think you're putting too much stock on the idea that the titan would fire at Caldari Prime, when it was under Caldari occupation... populated with Caldari citizens. But I digress.

Those 19.991 trillion people are less than likely to be able to rain death from the sky in a suitably equipped T1 destroyer.

Might is right!

Well by that token I want to be able to be an Ishukone Shareholder.

More RP and gameplay integration would be cool. There's plenty of players who claims to be Amarr Holders, Caldari shareholders, or own X planetside assets and companies. It would be cool if that could be more than just words on a screen.

I understand time is limited, and my guess the election comes a bit badly times with all the wormhole stuff going on. But I would think a few ingame news articles would be great to set the mood a bit before a winner is announced for the elections.

In the past, ingame news articles published by CCP were usually a nice catalysator to energize RP/actions from certain groups & blocs, which in turn makes eve feel more alive in the end.