CSM Campaigns

You ask—who the hell are you? I answer: I have been a member of the EVE community for over 7 years, I love the game, in all its facets, with all my heart. Over the last few years I have seen a pattern that EVE’s development has been focused on null and low sec at the expense of high sec. There have been a few gains with ship rebalancing but they don’t offset mechanics that have slowly been introduced over the past few years. Today high sec is plagued by mass griefing and other social epidemics. Yet, null sec and low sec will continue to tell you that high sec needs to be nerfed. As someone who has taken part in PVE, scanning anomalies, mining, manufacturing, production, and marketing, my goal is to have a voice for high sec that will strive to meet everyone’s (null, low sec, high sec, and WH space) needs without another group suffering additional ramifications from code review, mechanics modification, or play type. EVE is blessed with a variety of avenues for individuals to take based on how they interpret their playing style. Who has the right to dictate how one group should play versus another? We need each other; high sec needs the low/null sec ore and moon goo to build products, null/low sec need high sec to deliver low cost low end minerals and ships/equipment at less than mineral prices. EVE is a symbiotic circle of life and death. Each group does not have an absolute need for another group to maintain its existence, but they garner more time to experience their idea of fun when using the offerings taken from the others. Elect me and I will help you find the balance we all desire in this phenomenal game that we all love.

So, you say, that all sounds good, but why should I vote for you? I say—in my professional career I have managed global databases of 9.2 Terabytes with response times no greater than 400 milliseconds for any of thousands of users around the world. I hope to use that knowledge to assist null sec with their war efforts. As an IT manager it has been my goal to find the least amount of repetitive tasks to keep an individual engaged and caring about the actions they are taking. I think this could be useful in streamlining planet integration, manufacturing, and research and development. There are numerous other areas in my professional life that I think could benefit EVE’s global infrastructure and community. If you have any questions feel free to send me an EVEmail or contact me directly in EVE. CSPA has been set to zero so the only thing it will cost you is your time. Thank you.

Einear, another CSM candidate. Welcome. Like I just told Pizza, a pity you didn't announce sooner, as our deadline for candidate interviews is past. However, I will ask you the same exact set of questions I asked him.

Do you consider the timing of this post appropriate and adequate, given that it is going up a day before the election begins and given that there was no widespread public knowledge of you running prior to your name appearing appearing on the approve list of CSM candidates?

Then, additionally, do you feel it is appropriate for the community to hold CSM candidates up to public scrutiny? Would you agree or disagree that posting this late hinders the ability of either the community at large or media representatives to hold you to that public scrutiny?

That's all, I'll accept my answers off the air.

Cheers.

Jaun,

How would you like me to answer your post? Did I mention my qualifications based on my real world experience to help address what skills I can bring to CSM to help resolve issues EVE. Yes, I did. Would you have preferred that I say I have a vast background of mining, clicking PI chains, clicking manufacturing and research jobs, spamming the F1 key when my FC tells me to fire? I really do not see how the second could possibly help you determine my qualifications in delivering the best EVE performance you want and deserve. I will however apologize for relating I'm a person with real life experience first and an EVE player second. Thank you for your feedback and I wish all the CSM candidates luck in the upcoming election.

Regards,

Einear

this may be a worse platform than xenuria's

like that second paragraph is basically "i know nothing about what the csm does and have no skills to offer that would be useful to it, and don't even realize how clearly i'm communicating that to everyone"

what inferences would you draw about another candidate who could not be bothered to risk the effort of making a single forum thread before getting approval, specifically about the likelihood of him putting in any amount of effort whatsoever if elected

seriously that is a mind-boggling answer: "well i could not create a thread because maybe that thirty minutes of effort would be wasted"

if ccp presents an idea without telling you that it is guaranteed to make it into the next expansion, will you also not be willing to spend thirty minutes of time to review it and offer feedback?

Are you web scale

you're only reinforcing that you have no clue what the csm does here. like at what point in the csm process do you think csm reps are polled on if lag is a good thing (a question with an answer that has been known for years) and then at what point do you think they let you go poke in the code and pontificate on how they should fix it

you're not running for a job at ccp, you're running for the csm

Hi Einear, thank you for your email.
I am new to Eve, but as i said in my response, I like it that you are supporting the High Sec. And please if you get elected try to consider helping new people a bit. As many it seems are not treated so well and I see people leaving all the time.
Not speaking about myself, as I have met a nice folks in the game and my npc corp is great with helping people out. However it s seems not everyone is having a good experience when they start.
Anyway, good luck and thank you again for your response to me.

Thank you again Einear. I do like your responses and it is nice to know that someone actually do care. The problem is that the questions are not those that would worry me much as a new player. Most seem to deal with isk, some of them I do not understand what they mean, like for example what is +9 implant.
I do not know about other new players, but I personally do not have any isk problems, at least at my current level.
Maybe the question #4 is more or less close. The most problems I see are how the new people are dealt with when they get emotionally upset. That, of course means ganking and scamming and also new people forum section. I actually do believe that I have seen a few people who did quit over the responses they got in that forum thread. They seemed to be decent people and did like the game, so it is not a good thing that they had to go. I do not really know how to deal with that, maybe you or other more experienced people can find solutions as there seem to be a group of the same people that come up each time someone has a complain about their game experience. maybe limit the number of people that can post there or something similar.
Well, most of all just talk and listen to new people and what problems do they have.
Well, anyway, I do not want to hijack your thread -). And again good luck and I do hope you would be elected, as you seem to care.
Also I would take this opportunity to again thank you and all the people in the newbie forum section and in my SAK corporation who were really helpful and find time and most of all, have patience to deal with us newbies. I know it could be annoying at times, so thank you all and keep up good work :-)
Again, good luck to you and all other candidates :-)