CSM Campaigns

My closing statement.

This is an interview.
Look at the different people that are applying for this job.

All you need to ask yourself is this:

• Will this person try and help CCP in their efforts to make the game more balanced and think outside of the box for new and innovative ways to play?

If you vote for someone based on their alliance, whether you like them personally or on some reputation as a player, you will be doing EVE a disservice and shooting yourself in the foot.
That is the essential problem with democracy. Incompetent people are winning elections based upon charisma and social connections.

You deserve the CSM group that you vote in to the jobs.

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Simply put, two over riding goals:

• More good fights and less easy kills
• Proportional representation on the CSM

The mechanics are in favour of the attackers.
For example, I suspect there has been no play testing to check the reactions of gate campers and miners when they stare at one object for a few hours.

Null Sec is far and away over represented due to having voting bloc. People vote to represent their groups and personal interests.
I suggest we have one negative and one positive vote or alternative you can abstain. One coalition can not down vote all the candidates that they do not like, while the whole of EVE can knock one candidate down.

Whether ideas are good or bad they can still generate new game concepts:

- Orca and Rorqual mini-bubble-POS shields
- Absorb modules
- Auto D-scan (slower than manually clicking but saves your mouse and fingers, worm hole love)
- Further consolidate null sec
- Anti-AFK cloaking SOV structure
- Force Recons become cloaky hunters.
- Getting veterans to break away and maybe take newbies with them from NPC corps.
- Missions, NPC protection & Contracts (bounties and escorts)
- Mining Discussion
- SOV alternative
- Blobs and system performance.
So on and so forth.

Misc

As for how I handle things, I do try to add a bit of humour to my stance. Probably fail a lot and if people are laughing it is probably at me but hey ... laugher is still good for us all.

My EVE story
I have a dream!





Proc now + 2x missile launchers, possibly?

I need YOU.

If you do think that I or any other candidate will do a good job then it is your responsibility to inform people in your local, corps and friend lists.

There is nothing more effective at spreading an idea than word of mouth.

If you do not want to vote for me, please consider one or more of the following:

New candidates:
Lorelei Ierendi
Trinkets friend had to withdraw.
Ambar Khardula withdrew - raises valid concern of impairment compatibility.
Marlona Sky - biomassed. EVE? WTH?!

Current CSM recurring candidates:
Mike Azariah
Sugar Kyle
Corebloodbrothers
Corbexx
Sion Kumitomo Yes, "GRRR Goons," but I like how he says what is on his mind in a straight forward way.

There have been a lot of questions regarding me and Core, whether somehow we are gaming the system or not. It is purely coincidental. I just set out to try and prove this .... but apparently, the first time I had any involvement in CSM matters, I had already heard of Volt.

So, all I can say is that if you look at what we write about, I am not some sort of ghost writter trying to gather more voters to support him.

I am surprised and really disappointed in people that this could reach this point:

Jenshae:

As an old boss of mine used to quote to me many times, "Democracy is the worst form of government...except for all the others."

Yes, democracy and the CSM are far from perfect, I agree. History has shown, however, that the CSM has been effective in stopping the abuses that spawn it, so that can be seen as a win.

I've been through some of the earlier posts that you referenced and find problems there as well. You don't seem to offer any reasonable alternative to the CSM, and a few of your ideas, such as making sure someone is "qualified" to be on the CSM either don't work on the face of it, or need to be far more developed.

You may be right that large voting blocks control the CSM, but I am not convinced. If, however, that is the case, I think a reasonable stab at the situation might be to improve the apathy and misconceptions that the player base has about the CSM.

What do you think?

If you can actually make that happen, you have a heretofore undiscovered talent.

EDIT: Due to your decision to no longer run on the platform of abolishing the CSM I'm forced to pull my support.

Well hello there!

My name is Lanctharus Onzo and I am one of the co-host and writers of the Cap Stable Podcast.

In early 2014 our podcast interviewed a great majority of the candidates for CSM9 and we will be doing the same for CSM10.

Here is our announcement: http://capstable.net/2014/12/01/council-of-stellar-management-x-call-for-candidate-interviews/

As we stated in the announcement, you can contact us to schedule your one on one interview via any of the following methods:

Email: podcast@capstable.net
Twitter: @CapStable
Or via our contact form

We look forward to speaking to you about your particular skill set and expertise in EVE Online and we hope you success in your candidacy.

Sincerely,

Lanctharus Onzo
Co-host & Writer of the Cap Stable Podcast
Military Director, Alea Iacta Est Universal

you have to be trolling.

for starters, if you think battleships are weak, then mail me in game and you can fight mine.

the rest of it must be a troll.. No sir, I dont like your version of eve at all.

your rantings sound like the rattles of a teen with too much time on her hands.

You know what eve needs?
MOA PONIES!!!!

I admire your enthusiasm for balancing out the power, but removing the CSM is really just going to put EVE back to the way it used to be, when it was more like other games and CCP didn't hear the voices of the playerbase. I think there really is less imbalance in allowing nullsec blocs to control the voting power than you think. For instance, it was not until The Mittani went into the CSM (CSM 6) that the game development took its major swerve away from adding new features and into fixing what was available. He may have taken a little too much credit for everything that happened, but his efforts were no doubt instrumental in things that most would say really benefited people outside of nullsec, like the industrial and mining barge updates. And while he didn't focus on the wormhole aspects, he demonstrated that a player voice can matter, and then there was an outpouring of voices which eventually led to the major turn toward giving wormhole gameplay some love in CSM 8 and 9.

I think the best way to get good representation is to make sure everyone knows how to make their voice heard. For newer or less experienced players (which highsec has a larger number of), that involves taking them under our wings one by one and showing them the ropes. I've also seen a trend among the longer term highsec players in that many of them are unaware of what goes on in the rest of the game. Perhaps another big way to help get them contributing and taking advantage of the power they have is to make better ways of informing them. Maybe player-run news corporations that control in-game banners in high security space. But I think the biggest cause of unfair representation is uneven awareness of what a person can do.





Poor argument, you haven't compared battleships except for a generalized taunt that in a one-on-one, you believe you would win. Ship balance isn't all about one-on-one fights, and even when it is, different pilots still have different skills (in-game and as a player) and different access to other valuable bonuses. You winning against another ship in your battleship proves nothing about their viability. Statistically speaking, battleships are underused in most PVP-combat-heavy areas in EVE.

FRAKK YEAH!
BRING TEH PONIEZ!

This thread isn't even two pages long and you missed something. I have no hope of becoming a CSM. That is not why I am doing this.


I can't think of anyone that wasn't disappointed when they realised how flimsy battleships are the first time.

Quite happy to settle for a vote of no confidence in a candidate and have struck out the lines that people seem to get so hung up on.

This CSM section should be linked in every local chat channel right now as a MoTD.