Jita Park Speakers Corner

Good to see Zion getting a little discussion rolling. It's a great corp and I've had some fantastic discourse with their members on rather major details throughout the beta. While it'll take a while to get the same rep out in the larger universe, I'm confident that will change soon enough.

However, while I'm not sure if Shad made any attempt at CSM, I don't think anyone was particularly serious about it. We have a lot of growth to do and furthermore a lot of relationships to build since we've been dragged over. On the Dust-side, things have been ramping up quite a bit.

But for the near future, to address some of the views, I think that while there is no need to lose and CSM Seat to a Dust player, I am rather in favor of opening at the very least 1 if not more preferably 2 seats to Dust Bunnies even as early as the summer to provide some well-needed feedback from the Dust community.

However, and these are rather big 'howevers':

- This should not be done in the traditional sense; No Dust player should be flying out Iceland this year. There is no sense in it as even if you have been a player of both since the beginning, there is little that has been consolidated between the two games in terms of gameplay, metagame, and even the communities themselves. However, I don't think this stasis will last long and to bring 1 or preferably 2-3 (for the same obvious reasons we don't have 1 or 2 CSM members) would be a great advantage to both CCP and the CSM as they can provide a way of bouncing ideas off of rather active and involved players while at the same providing a sense representation for Dust Bunnies in New Eden.

- I might even recommend a larger sub-"congress" that can be involved in a post-CSM meeting. At least for the summer. We could make that elected or simply volunteer/draft although I think election would be wiser and would yield more dedicated members. Or hell, you could make it a corp deathmatch. We certainly do love to kill each other.

- Keep in mind that this game is doubling New Eden's population and it's hard to get around that. Even in a worst case scenario, it remains a competent, F2P shooter that is constantly growing.

The Key here is while I never want to jeopardize a capsuleer who is the current resident, pays his/her subscription, and has essentially created this game from the ground up, to continue to be a dynamic game we need to constantly test ourselves and challenge our abilities to adapt. We set a vision a long time ago for the game and I don't really think anyone has lost sight of that here.

The only way we're going to unite these games is by communication and good community, top to bottom, and I believe that certainly includes the CSM just as it includes the kid mining in his Bantam and selling his first load of Trit.

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