CSM Campaigns

A little under a year ago I posted this platform To save you all from jumpinng back to old posts I will summarize, below.

Since then I have served on the CSM8 and am running again for CSM9.

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 Ganked or helping out in contests, donating prizes.

I have been active in the community since 2008. I currently am a regular podcast Podside and occasional guest on Eve Radio. I have a blog that I write in character. I have written for Eon and the Eve Tribune, often doing commentary on the CSM. My twitter handle is @mikeazariah.

In the past year of serving on the CSM I have been an active member attending all of the summit sessions (In person for the Summer summit, remotely for the Winter) and most of the scheduled meetings. I participate in the debates we have on proposed changes offering opinions and asking questions when I felt I did not know enough about the subject. It has been a LOT of work.

and for some reason, I want to do it again.

Eve is not a game of right way and wrong way to play. I heard stories of how things went from null, from wormholes. I talked to people in Faction War and in Dust. Some gave me ideas that I could take further, others just wanted to be heard.


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 SOV need love, 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. CSM is like a parachute. We soften the landings but we are not wings to take the game to new places. We encourage CCP to jump, knowing we will help.

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. Look back at what I have done in the past year and decide if you want me to continue.

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+1 Mike :)

Mike, how do you deal with the immense pressure of the RMT cartels and their agents? Do you fear for your life when representing pubbie interests in the CSM?

Mike is funny, intelligent, a good guy to be around, has a really cool perspective on the game, isn't afraid of the work that goes along with being a CSM member, and just generally made the whole process more fun and pleasant by his presence. The CSM should have one mostly-dedicated PvE player on it just to keep pushing CCP on how freakin' BAD PvE is in this game. Mike did a terrific job on that, but also surprises me weekly with his breadth of knowledge of other topics.

I hope that he will be elected to CSM9, and I endorse him for a slot.

Just a quick note to say I am very pleased that Mike has decided to run again, and am happy to unreservedly endorse him for re-election. I will have more to say later, but the tl/dr is: he worked hard to help improve the game for everyone.

You done them since the last change? in the 1.1 release?




Edit: fixed quoting. ISD Ezwal.

take a moment to run thru the slides using the tutorial menu it will be worth your time

What is your point of view about lowsec and force projection in general?

For what it's worth he gets my support again this election. This fellow has a bright future in the CSM!

Issler

Too much reading . . . oh I read it but I am odd that way. You are right the tutorial is better than it was but it still has miles and parsecs and kilometers and the occasional furlong to go

m