CSM Campaigns

Hello everyone,

As a candidate for CSM9 I will focus on supporting mercenaries and small to medium size warfare.

I have some specific ideas that I'll be bringing to the table, as you'll see in my next post, but first I'll describe my mental approach to being an efficient and helpful member of the CSM for the players.

As a CSM member, my feedback to CCP would remain focused on ensuring changes, additions, or tweaks do not exclude or make life unnecessarily difficult for people to play in small, independent groups - whether this is a fleet, a corporation, or an alliance. I strongly support and advocate gameplay that encourages people to play in fleets that don't number in the hundreds, gameplay that gives these groups a meaningful objective that isn't simply killboard stats.

I believe that positive reinforcement is a better incentive for players than negative reinforcement. Instead of discouraging people from taking actions, I will advocate for encouraging people to do more and do it more often. Encouraging players to undock, take action, and fight for what they want is what we as players want from EVE.

It's very important that the CSM remain as transparent as possible so that players know and understand what the CSM are doing and why. I have always been a proponent of an open process, and will maintain that throughout my term if elected. This policy ensures that I must remain harshly critical of tweaks or additions that negatively impact players while ensuring I am a strong advocate for positive changes.

To the best of my ability, I will stay in touch with the EVE community, having an entirely open door policy so that any member of the game can approach me with ideas, criticism, suggestions, or comments. It's important that the CSM remain grounded and connected to the realities of the game to ensure the council is representing the players effectively and fairly.



A bit of background about me. I've played EVE as a mercenary almost exclusively since I first really got into the game in 2011. I'm currently the CEO of Noir. Academy, a training corporation in the Noir. Mercenary Group alliance, and have held this position since February of last year. Noir. is the only full-time nullsec mercenary alliance in EVE and we focus on small gang warfare. Unlike many mercenaries we also operate in high, low, and even worm hold sectors of space.

As CEO of a training corporation, I have the unique position of witnessing how people view and react to small scale warfare in various types of space for the first time, whether for good or bad.

I write a blog where I try to post about things from the point of view of a mercenary.

As for myself out of game, I'm a 27 year old marketing and sales consultant for apartment communities across the United States of America. I also work part time as a volunteer community manager for an independent game developer and have been doing community management for various other independent game companies for about four years.

These two facets of my life lend a great deal of experience in relaying vital information in organized and understandable ways to and from developers and the community. My sales experience has given me the skills necessary in conveying an idea to others as well as the confidence to communicate effectively.

Are you planning on continuing with that community manager position? FYI, CCP has changed the CSM eligibility criteria to exclude folks that work in the gaming industry.

I endorse Psianh whole heartedly

As CEO of NA. and integral part of NMG., Psi runs a tight ship.

Calm and collected, intellectual and to the point,

You can count on my vote for sure!

Even if I didn't know Psianh in game, his name would be on my ballot. We need someone who can provide feedback from a small-medium gang pvp perspective on Eve's long and short term visions. We need someone to chip in for Mercs. He is our guy.

I endorse this candidate as he has put in a considerable effort for us mercs.

Keep up the great work!

Would you be willing to champion "farms and fields" concepts and encouraging small gang warfare relevance via something akin to FW mechanics?

Driveby-- happy to see you running, and I'm sorry I haven't gotten around to your thread before now. Your merc project is an admirable one. Should you be elected, do you see yourself running similar kinds of community interviews for other areas of the game? If so, what'd be next?

Thanks, Ali!

I was just talking with Tyrant Scorn about this, actually. Doing these interviews has really shown and taught me a lot about the mercenary career path. Even though I've been doing it for three year almost exclusively, learning about low sec and WH mercs (and hopefully HS mercs soon) has shown me a lot.

I'd love to continue doing this for other careers, breaking it down into different areas of space, for instance, and noting the issues, problems, and praises that span across those gaps. This has turned out to be a really great way to dig into the topic in fine detail, and can really be applied across the board.

I don't have anything planned next yet, as I'm still working on the mercenary one, but I'd certainly like to work my way through the list. Just off the top of my head, maybe I'll tackle bounty hunting next!

Psianh, don't know how much this counts, but you will have this new NA. members vote.