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Bam's a great chap, worked stupidly hard during EDU 2014 while the rest of his corp were getting drunk around him. That's some dedication.

+1

More than four years ago, I began playing eve.
Fast forward 12-18 months, and I joined the same corp as one BAM STROKER.
He mentored me in all aspects of internet space vessels. He showed me all the aspects this game has to offer, and showed just how immersive and amazing eve can be. Because of the PEOPLE that you fly with. The COMMUNITY.
I have forever held him in the highest of regards, and would even call him friend, after drinking many, many beers with this fine gentleman.
I can only reiterate those statements already made; This man is one of a kind. Enthusiastic, passionate, hard working, well spoken, intelligent, easy going... the list goes on.

He is the man that all of you WANT AND NEED on CSM.
He is the man that will do his OWN PERSONAL BEST in everything he strives for, and then TRY AND ACHIEVE MORE.
He is the man that YOU ALL NEED TO VOTE #1 FOR.

Bam Stroker. Your most important CSM Vote.

Yey for community! \o/

Bam has my vote for sure.

I've been around for over a decade and I've met no one more passionate about Eve than Bam Stroker. His personable demeanor, enthusiasm and overall helluva good dude vibe drives me crazy at times. The Eve COMMUNITY cannot be represented any better with Bam Stroker on the CSM.

BAM FOR CSM X!

As a player that runs meets, I know how hard it is to get the voice heard.

The time is now right for a Community CSM who represents Community needs and values, yes its all fine and well for Null/WH/Lo/Hi to have there CSM members, what about when you step away from the client?

That last Post Bam, that should be what you try and get done for this time next year, yes it will take time, but nobody puts a road down without making plans and getting around bumps on the way.

Now my meets are at the smaller end of the scale, but its been built on a solid foundation. A good number of players know about the Glasgow eve meets, but there are still a lot that have never herd about. This can be said for every meet, things are getting better, but this is the time were those that like a drink and a chat face to face leave the keyboard behind.

As someone who has an involved interest in managnig an NPSI community, my question to you Bam is twofold

- How much experience do you have flying with the mainstream NPSI communities?
- What tools do you feel would be beneficial to social groups that exist solely for in game purposes (specifically spectre fleet esque NPSI fleets and incursion communities)?

+1 for Bam. A man who is this genuinely passionate about the community can only be good for the CSM.

Also, EDU videos fulfill my longing to vicariously attend EVE meetups.

I was introduced to NPSI communities a couple of years ago by Greygal when I began participating in Agony’s public roams. Later when she left Agony and founded Redemption Road I was involved early on helping to promote her AUTZ fleets and would occasionally FC them.

Although it’s been some time since I’ve done any actual FCing for RR I still go on their public roams whenever I can. In fact I flew in their 100th anniversary roam just yesterday (RIP Dickslapper 2000. :( gf HERO, I hope you enjoy the complimentary signed copy of my book). I’d say I participate in 2 - 3 NPSI fleets each month (not always on my main).

I’ve never flown with Spectre or RvB but I can attest to having lost several ships to the latter while they’ve been out on their Ganked roams. Bastards.


Right now a chat channel and a mailing list is the extent of services the client provides to someone running a society. That’s clearly not sufficient when you realise that societies (which includes NPSI communities) are often more complex organisms than many corporations.

Since you’re mostly concerned with NPSI communities I’d say the main thing is standings. If societies were a formalised entity within the game an NPSI community should be able to set their own standings to other societies and corporations. Whenever a player joins an NPSI fleet the player’s standings would be temporarily overridden by the standings of the fleet commander. As well as now making them true NPSI fleets it would also be hugely useful when two or more NPSI communities are cooperating temporarily, such as recently when Spectre and RvB formed up like Voltron to kill Nashh Kadavr’s titan.

It would also be really cool if killmails reflected that a ship was destroyed by an NPSI fleet, similar to the “Killed on behalf of…” message that appears on KMs generated after a kill right was used. “Killed by Spectre Fleet” or “Killed by Bombers Bar” at the top of an NPSI fleet’s KM would be really cool, and people would know who was truly behind it when the KM gets passed around.

While we’re on fleets, stop the client from treating the fleet window as just another chat window. Let FCs save and reload MOTDs or fill out a pro-forma message when they create a fleet. Let the FC set up the MOTD so it displays the fleet comp to all members if he wishes and his requirements for hulls which updates dynamically as people join or leave a fleet. This way someone coming into an fleet can see what they need to get in at a glance without bugging the FC or XO for the 15th time on comms or waiting for someone to answer them in chat.*

Finally, to give you an example of when I’ve spoken up for NPSI communities before:

When I was at Fanfest last year I attended the nullsec roundtable and during the discussion ex-CCP Greyscale floated the possibility of removing fleet warp. Reactions around the room ranged from dismay to indifference to approval. When I spoke I told Greyscale that I felt it would have a serious negative impact NPSI fleets since they rely on the FC being able to warp the fleet to his tactical bookmarks. Corp bookmarks are no help since by their nature NPSI fleets attract random people from all over. I said if they must remove fleet warp at least add some other functionality so that NPSI fleets don’t become a nightmare to shepherd, such as allowing FCs to broadcast BMs to their fleet so that fleet members can warp to his tacticals manually.

Now nothing I said at the roundtable was actually that revolutionary. The point is that when Greyscale put the idea to the floor the other guys in the room began thinking about the impact on their own organisations. My first reaction was to ask myself “How will this affect others?”

That’s the attitude I want to take to the CSM meeting table and not just a Fanfest roundtable.

* To be fair that would be a great help to everyone, not just NPSI communities.

Bam is probably one the most enthusiastic people around when it comes to EVE, in and out of game.

Given how much time he has devoted to participating and organising community events, I am confident he would be a capable and productive CSM member.

Will not hesitate to vote for him.

Bam has a rock solid track record in the community already, it's impossible to go wrong with him on the CSM. I'll go one step further: it'd be downright silly to not include this man on your ballot. A definite asset to the CSM.