Jita Park Speakers Corner

As now is the beginning of the candidacy period I am announcing my entry into the CSM8 election

I am Mike Azariah

I have played Eve for enough time to have tried a bit of almost everything. But if you ask me to nail down the style of play I best represent and identify with it would be the Casual Player. The person who has a job, kids, wife, pets and cannot sit at the machine uninterrupted for five hours straight bashing a POS or waiting for a fleet to form. The person who does not want his entire Eve experience to be spreadsheets or clicking to manage PI.

I have spent more than half a year in wormholes, managing the POS there drove me out, in the end, frustration got that bad. I flew with Soco in the south and did manage to get in on fleets now and again but CTA’s don’t always jibe up with a limited time availability. If you are nodding right now at this then you know what I mean and you have experienced the same sort of problems. You are the one I want to represent. I fly incursions for my isk and then blow it in places like the Bomber Bar or RvB or helping out in contests, donating prizes.

I have been active in the community since 2008.. I currently help host the podcast Podside, I have had a blog as a proud member of the Eve Blog Pack for more than four years. I have written for Eon and the Eve Tribune, often doing commentary on the CSM. My twitter handle is @mikeazariah. If you want to hear the Crossing Zebras interview it is here. Though you will get a lot of what I think from the Podside podcasts as well.

I don’t know it all. I am not a Game Dev nor do I aspire to be one. I am always willing to ask questions when I don’t know the answers and consider the answers carefully. I am a teacher by trade and the skill set that goes with that would be helpful as a CSM member. I take pride in my ability to see things from more than one side and explain my position well.

I am NOT here to save one portion of space to the detriment of all of the others. I do not propose to drive x y or z feature through . . . that is not what the CSM does. Oh, there ARE things in the game I would love to see fixed. POS’s and more corp bookmarks, a window in stations so you can look out and see what awaits you. Some sort of automation to save the hardcore industrialists from carpal tunnel syndrome. I’d like to see more Live Events and Lore and some sort of motivator to break some of the growing inertia in nullsec. More reasons to go to lowsec aside from Faction Warfare.

I have never been afraid to voice my opinion and would love to answer any questions that you have though I don’t plan on feeding trolls. This is NOT a contest of antagonism but a choosing of a GROUP of people to represent the players to CCP. We have to be able to work together and we must be able to see concepts and ideas from a variety of different viewpoints to do the best for the game and for the players of Eve.

I don’t have a huge alliance backing me nor a dedicated voting block throwing all their votes my way. I need your votes, each and every one of you, to become your representative. Please, when the voting opens, vote for me, Mike Azariah to be YOUR rep in the CSM.

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Your platform is you sometimes play Eve but have a life and want Eve fixed of that broken stuff.

Okay.

How will you have time to do CSM considering you explained that you don't have time to do 'that' Eve stuff?

In the case of this election, it is what it is. Complaining about it won't change a thing. That said, I think the 200 preliminary vote is still just a hoop like last years 100 likes, something to get through but not really a part of the election proper.

The transferable vote system is set so that votes are not wasted and you are allowed more than one opinion. We are electing a council, not a president. Multiple winners means that the voter should be able to make multiple choices, not just 'pick one'. Giving the voter the ability to influence more than one persons campaign enhances their vote . . . if they use it properly. I do not think the individual vote has been reduced, just altered and the responsibility of knowing what you are doing has fallen more on the voter.



Go ahead ask them. Please try to be more specific than waving a hand at a pile of issues.

m

If you asking whether I agree with Jamie-boy in regards to nerfing hisec incursions to the point of removing them from hisec completely, hell NO

Trying to improve the game by depopulating the most populated part of it is the act of an idiot.

Out of curiosity, are you James 315's alt or just campaign manager?

m

The most basic question:

You are most famous in EVE as a strict roleplayer, and your blog posts are in character. If serving on the CSM, will you continue in-character RP communication with CCP? Other CSMs? Player facing communications?

You are a person on this forum. Some other people might share your concerns about "loss of voting power." This does not mean, as you subtly imply, that all people share those concerns.

Frying, to reiterate what I said in answer to your question the first time . . .




so I did answer your question, would it be better if I bullet-pointed my answers for you?

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The voting stats do not prove that there are plenty of people who do not care about the CSM; the voter stats prove only that there are plenty of people who do not vote, and offer no insight into the reason why. I know it's kind of your "thing" but let's try to limit the spurious leaps of logic around here, shall we?