Jita Park Speakers Corner

You argue like a spoiled child throwing a tantrum, Karadroid. Please stop posting now, kthxbai.

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The CSM need to focus on particular issues in order to get elected. People vote for candidates because they offer solutions to specific issues, not because of vague hand-wringing about general areas of the game. This focus serves the candidates well because CCP have a history of expending their limited resources on particular areas of the game.

When this batch of CSM's pet issues is fixed, a new group will be elected that has different pet issues. They can then try to get CCP to work on those. If you as a high-sec dweller feel that your particular issues are not being addressed, you should probably find a candidate whose pet issues reflect your views, and vote for them next time.

Engaging in feckless attacks against elected officials or the institution of the CSM is entirely the wrong approach. It is also generally more reflective of antipathy toward particular members of the committee, or toward null-sec players in general.

The worst is a short-sighted belief that any attempt to fix null-sec/low-sec/w-space somehow makes high-sec worse. This is even more hypocritical in the case of players that did not vote in the previous election. Work within the system to effect change, rather than destroying the only direct means of influence that players have over CCP. This company needs to hear things to their face, not read the results of gerrymandered polls.

Supporting statements?

"The wrong people won"

Everything i have read leads me to believe the current CSM is not working in my perceived best interests. I am not convinced that removing the concept of the CSM is the proper solution. I hope Hilmar is clever enough to realize that focusing the future of EVE and Dust on the rantings of the flavor of the month CSM chair is lunacy.

If this game builds it's future on catering to the bitter whiny afraid to undock alone vets of Null it's going to implode once the number of Null alts reach the diminishing number of new players that stick around longer then a few months.

While this self serving CSM tends to their own "sucking chest wounds" they scoff at every injury they inflict to player enjoyment and retention. I sincerely hope that CCP does not actually believe that players are quitting because they are upset that life is too easy for high sec players.

This game will hopefully always have a hardcore contingent of elite pvp zealots but that should not be at the cost of not improving the game and making it more enjoyable for all players.

Newer players and representation based on where most players play not on where CCP wishes they should play needs to be implemented. A reformed CSM could consist of a High sec rep, a low sec rep, a wh rep, a newbie rep, a null rep and an at large rep from each empire.

This could be verified by CCP to make sure Phony Alts of high sec members could not succeed in pretending to be Null seccers and vice versa.

No player owned corp member could vote for the at large rep that would be restricted to players who have remained in their starter NPC a bunch of great people there who help new players get their space legs.

Love Null vote only in Null, Love WH vote only in WH and so on in most Democracies you don't get to vote everywhere you have an interest or a business just where you live. EVE's biggest sucking chest wound is the lack of balanced representation that understands ignoring player apathy towards voting might be a good strategy for winning an election with a large Alliance block of votes but it is a terrible business model for sustained and prolonged growth. Wake up Hilmar!

Um. Point out those who are saying people are quitting because they think hisec life is too easy, please?

Also, how many sucking chest wounds are there for hisec that is actively threatening to stagnate hisec to death?

Gatecamps and station camps on all the major trading hubs? Funny, I keep flying in and out of them all the time, they never seem to bother me.

As to my null sec reps on the CSM claiming hisec guys are leaving because it is too easy ... what I've seen so far has been mittens saying L4 botting is a problem, incursions are good because it teaches PVP-ish behavior (even though I find the wow-speak in incursion channels absolutely ******* atrocious), and Vile Rat wanting more hisec careers to make hisec more interesting.

Honestly, if I were to assume people in hisec left for a reason, I would assume it would be because hisec can be too boring, especially if they haven't found a good corp. Too safe? I think it seems mostly balanced wrt safety as it is. vOv

Name one.

Let's try this again.



Something THE CSM has done to inflict injury to the playerbase, not what someone on the CSM in the game has done. Completely seperate things, and if you are unable to realize that then well, debating this point further is pointless.

Edit: I mean seriously you don't think Mittens would continue PwnZoning miners and morons if he wasn't on the CSM? It has nothing to do with it whatsoever.

So again, Name One.