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Last thread about CSM was closed for not being constructive... Take 2 on the CSM

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Samillian
Angry Mustellid
#141 - 2011-12-05 14:43:28 UTC
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
Point One: the CSM as it is now is composed by members and heads of nullsec alliances, and there are no hisec dwellers. This is quite different from EVE demographics, were a majority of people dwell in hisec and a big minority are scattered between WH, lowsec and nullsec space.


True but that is the voters fault not the current CSM's

Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
Two: the current CSM received the votes of, roughly, 15% of the player base, a record compared to previous elections. Anyway this means that 85% the players didn't vote, which casts a reasonable doubt on how representative is the CSM as we really don't know what 5 of each 6 players think of it.


No it doesn't, it casts reasonable doubt on the ability of 85% of the players ability to give a damn about what happens to EvE.

Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
Three: despite that the CSM 6 has been very vocal and effective in the latest troubles, there is one point about the CSM as a concept: CCP has undergone the infamous "18 months" as planned and no amount of CSM chatter changed that. CCP only has used the CSM to control damage after the failed Incarna release, and that damage control has consisted in pleasing certain players with Crucible and swear to keep pleasing them in the future.


Wrong, FiS refocusing has a great deal of support amongst more than a small group of "certain" players, WiS is an interesting idea and should be explored but not at the cost of the core of this game. The CSM was responsible for bringing that to the attention of an already disaffected playerbase.

Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
Four: some players, who are not represented in the CSM, and likely didn't vote, are NOT pleased with Crucible nor any of CCP's PR going on as CCP esentially has done nothing for them and does not listen to them neither. With the additional outrage of seeing a minority (nullsec dwellers) catered by both CCP and the CSM.


Wrong again in my opinion, I see widespread approval of Crucible not only on the forums but in local chat in HiSec, LoSec and in chat channels in Null. If some players are not happy with the way that things have gone they should have been bothered to take the 30 seconds to vote for a candidate when they had the chance. As to the Nullsec minority being exclusively catered to I should like to point out that HiSec dwellers had the majority on many of the previous CSM's and they did almost nothing but provide us with great amusement with their backstabbing and infighting, Crucible is the beginning of this FiS refocus which will I and many others hope bring us changes across all sec spaces.

Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
Five: it is a time that the CSM really represents every player an not just those who can rally a few friends to gang together and reach to speak for 5/6th of the game who likely don't know them, neither the candidates know or likelly care of them.


You get the representatives you vote for, if more players voted then perhaps the CSM would have a wider demographic spread.

NBSI shall be the whole of the Law

Samillian
Angry Mustellid
#142 - 2011-12-05 14:43:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Samillian
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
One: voting the CSM must be compulsory, at least until people gets used to do so. Every player who logs in during election period must be forced to vote, either won't be allowed to reach the character selection screen. An option to vote later may be added, but only for a limited amount of chances. That certainly should increase total vote and the representivity of the CSM.


So you want CCP to deny paying customers access to the product they have bought to vote for an advisory body that the majority have already proven they dont give half a damn about?

Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
Two: the election system will be a preferential one based on the Single Transferable Vote mechanics. Details here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote

That would prevent candidates with a lot of friends but poor reputation to be elected, as would gather low ranks, whereas moderate candidates would score higher ranks.


Got no problem with that, works for the Australians.

Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
Three: the list of candidates will be randomized for each display, so random voting to "skip the page" will tend to cancel itself as every candidate wil have the same chances to get the same random scores. Anyway, by forcing the people to SEE the list of candidates, some candidates may collect high/low rankings which otherwise wouldn't: Compulsory vote always tends to increase effective vote.


Still that compulsion problem. I'd let you have that if every page had an abstain option same size as the candidates on the list.

Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
: if CCP wants to listen more to the CSM, then the next CSM should represent every player, and not just those who know each other and are corp buddies and have a shared background within the nullsec minority.


If CCP want to listen, this is pretty much the first time I can remember they ever have. Just remember you HiSec dwellers had you CSM's packed with delegates and they achieved very little as I recall.

NBSI shall be the whole of the Law

Sir Patrick Moore
Doomheim
#143 - 2011-12-05 14:50:26 UTC
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
So what is left for us to do? Leave in silence? Or make some noise before leaving?


In your particular case it doesn't really matter, as long as the end result is you leaving.

Sir Patrick Moore CBE, FRS, FRAS Hon. Vice President of the Royal Astronomical Society

Fix My Lasers
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#144 - 2011-12-05 14:59:01 UTC
Sir Patrick Moore wrote:
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
So what is left for us to do? Leave in silence? Or make some noise before leaving?


In your particular case it doesn't really matter, as long as the end result is you leaving.


It's like sitting on a branch and sawing it.

The more people leave the less money CCP gets.
The less money they get the less things they do.
The less things they do the less people play.
And fianlly with no people game dies.

I think you should help or at least hear out others in order to keep this game healthy.
The OP is quite right at some points, so why troll others?

Bring back Blaze and Lux crystals! http://eve.battleclinic.com/item/i12812-Blaze-L-details.html http://eve.battleclinic.com/item/i12832-Lux-L-details.html

SMT008
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#145 - 2011-12-05 15:01:00 UTC
The problem with the CSM is "Why don't those empire dwellers vote ?"

The answer is : Because they don't know/don't care about the CSM.

Then : "Why does 0.0 headmasters control the CSM ?"

Answer : "Because 0.0 alliances care about their game."

Then : "How can 0.0 alliances get peoples to vote for someone."

Answer : "Because they are an organized group of peoples with common interests."

This brings the answer to "Why can't highsec have the same number of representative as nullsec ?"

And this answer is "Because Empire dwellers don't care/don't know/don't want/can't organize to vote for someone."

Then, this brings me to "Then why should Empire dwellers have representatives, if those representatives are promoted in the CSM by something like 3% of the empire peoples votes ?"

A representative is someone who have the support of the peoples. How valid is a representative if he is elected by 3 guys, and the 97 other guys just did not care and didn't vote ?

Every CSM member have the support of an alliance/a group of peoples.

There is no "group of peoples in highsec" (I mean, no significant group of peoples) because there is nothing that requires a group to be formed. Because there is no "Highsec endgame".

Lord Zim
Gallente Federation
#146 - 2011-12-05 15:06:08 UTC
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
I can't talk for other people. In my case, it was that the CSM cared to push forward the ABC issue on their own, without popular demand nor forum debate, right before the Incarna crisis. That broke my self-service-o-meter and made me wonder WTF was going through their minds.

Oh, you mean the issue that I believe everyone backed down from as more data was made available?

Unlike, say, the anom nerf which, combined with incursions, made people flee from nullsec to run highly profitable incursions in hisec? Or the hilarious idea that "jumpbridges cause alliances to project power well beyond their borders", when the reality was that it was mostly used by people who actually tried to live in nullsec, not fleets?

We kind of have titans for that. vOv

Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
It is not to prioritize hisec's interests. It is TO PUT THEM ON THE BLOODY TABLE.

I have been reading almost every devblog for months, waiting to read something that gave me hope, and there is no hope. CCP is not even considering to add new content outside of nullsec. They are not even ASKING wether players would like to have it.

What has Vile Rat and Trebor done, if not try to put hisec matters on the table?

I'm afraid that you're just going to have to face the fact that EVE was put on the back burner for 18+ months. Not just hisec, but also lowsec, WH, nullsec and factional warfare etc etc etc. And right now, from my POV, nullsec's state is something which has to take priority for one simple reason: nullsec is the basis of the majority of the allure of EVE. I didn't join up for "epic mining ops", or "epic freighter hauling ops", I joined up for the fact that EVE is a cold, hard place with awesome fleet fights and back and forth wars lasting more than a year.

Let me tell you a bit about what happened during the last two wars I was in on.

1) Goonswarm got evicted from delve/querious. We lost SOV because of SOV bills not being paid, so we left. This after 2 weeks of defending 49- against a lot of enemies. Just poof, gone. I'll bet that felt like a hollow victory.
2) GSF invaded fountain. 1-2 weeks of fighting, culminating in IT dropping supers and them getting counterdropped, then camped into one station. Just poof, gone. Talk about unsatisfactory end to the war. Here I was expecting, from the advertisements CCP gave out, that we'd gone up against one of the bigger groups in the game, and we'd have at least 6 months to a year of full-on constant fighting, and all I got was blueballs. They even left delve/querious, but kept paying the SOV bills. Apparently we were done grinding the SOV structures mostly unopposed a few weeks later, and IT's SOV in delve/querious didn't drop for several months because nobody could be arsed to grind them down.

Long story short, nullsec after dominion was in an awful state, and it still is. Crucible makes some things better and does add a few new ships (which hisec can make use of as well), but the core of it, the SOV system, still remains, and is in a desperate need of a metric fucktonne of love.

Can you say hisec has had such dramatic changes the last 2 years?

Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
And certainly the nullsec CSM is not going to worry about it, they are working to nerf hisec and WH (no ice, no ABC) in favor of nullsec as if the RMT and botting stemming from nullsec weren't bad enough.

Moving ice to nullsec does have a few enticing side effects of making ice worth fighting over because it helps fuel capital and supercapitals. However, this has such a knock-on effect on things like hisec POSes that I would be highly surprised if it was something CCP did actually make a reality. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm fairly sure it was Soundwave who suggested it, not anyone on the CSM or the other guys who were on camera during the last alliance tourney.

As for ABC, last I checked, the opinion was that this was mostly provided through gunmining from the drone regions, not wormholes, and they all dropped this idea.

And as to botting, while there's probably ratting and mining bots in nullsec, I think you should have a look at how many bots are running level 4's.

Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:
So what is left for us to do? Leave in silence? Or make some noise before leaving?

I could suggest putting forth (and vote in) a hisec candidate (or more, I don't care) which would do nothing but put forth hisec issues, if you think that would help.

Cyno's lit, bridge is up, but one pilot won't be jumping home.

RIP Vile Rat

Lord Zim
Gallente Federation
#147 - 2011-12-05 15:15:06 UTC
Samillian wrote:
If CCP want to listen, this is pretty much the first time I can remember they ever have. Just remember you HiSec dwellers had you CSM's packed with delegates and they achieved very little as I recall.

Actually, they did achieve two things.

1) Anom nerf. This caused tons of people to leave nullsec for L4's or incursions instead.
2) JB nerf. They were going to remove JBs in their entirety "to promote small-gang PVP" because some people were too incompetent to camp JBs so they had to resort to camping gates. Thankfully the current CSM got that changed to the change where it was 1 JB pr system, restriction on non-jumpdrived ships, and an increase in the LO storage, so the only change is that fuelling the JBs is more of a chore, travelling is more of a chore, and getting caps into a cynojammed system is now not possible.

Cyno's lit, bridge is up, but one pilot won't be jumping home.

RIP Vile Rat

Roosterton
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#148 - 2011-12-05 15:20:02 UTC  |  Edited by: Roosterton
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the griefer Orca nerf. This is directly helpful to hisec mission runners.

Of course, this is the part where you'll come in and claim that it wasn't the CSM's idea, or that it was a bad change, or not even knowing why it's useful.
Lord Zim
Gallente Federation
#149 - 2011-12-05 15:22:37 UTC
Actually, I'll just point out that it sounds like more or less the same mechanic as the one where you can't board a ship which is targeted.

Cyno's lit, bridge is up, but one pilot won't be jumping home.

RIP Vile Rat

Samillian
Angry Mustellid
#150 - 2011-12-05 16:01:08 UTC
Lord Zim wrote:
Actually, they did achieve two things.

1) Anom nerf. This caused tons of people to leave nullsec for L4's or incursions instead.
2) JB nerf. They were going to remove JBs in their entirety "to promote small-gang PVP" because some people were too incompetent to camp JBs so they had to resort to camping gates. Thankfully the current CSM got that changed to the change where it was 1 JB pr system, restriction on non-jumpdrived ships, and an increase in the LO storage, so the only change is that fuelling the JBs is more of a chore, travelling is more of a chore, and getting caps into a cynojammed system is now not possible.



I hadn't forgotten those two little "gems" I'm afraid I was trying to find positive achievements, my error.

NBSI shall be the whole of the Law

Jonathan Malcom
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#151 - 2011-12-05 17:34:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Jonathan Malcom
Andski wrote:
Fix My Lasers wrote:
Andski wrote:
Psychophantic wrote:
Andski wrote:

"I'm a badposting forum alt and I'm too dumb to get a proper hisec voting bloc, the CSM should be disbanded instead!!!!!!"

Look. It's a a goon. Shouldn't you be playing sticky biscuit?


hybrid rebalancing, supercapital balancing, time dilation are all things that only benefit goonswarm and nobody else at all anywhere lmao


I'm not trying to be rude or anything, but "hybrid rebalancing, supercapital balancing, time dilation" sounds to me like "nothing happend".
For a carebear like me those changes didn't help at all.


i'm sorry that you want ABCs in highsec or soloable incursions or whatever but lol


I guess that's what I'm confused about. People keep going on about how the current CSM doesn't represent the interests of high sec. I've yet to see anyone give examples of what in high sec needs to be fixed.

Someone enlighten me.
Jaroslav Unwanted
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#152 - 2011-12-05 17:38:34 UTC  |  Edited by: Jaroslav Unwanted
Khanh'rhh wrote:
Andski wrote:
Khanh'rhh wrote:
Highsec bears outnumber null players by 4:1


So what?

Hey, read all the words I put in that post, man!


He i hate to admit actually got point. I ve been there, done it.

And at least for me being in null doing stuff be recognized as part of some coalition feels good. Much better then be some nobody recognized by no-one forever alone in high sec. Sad

More people forced to grouping up, contacting "big players" and contributing for their cause more fun for everyone. Your friends today will certainly become your enemies in few years. And the circle of violence would be never broken.

Just my thoughts tho.. .

edit more importantly.

For those truly interested in high sec dwelling there would be quite peaceful high sec. Since all the players would be fighting elsewhere not having time or/and resources for some high sec "shenanigans". Big smile
Jaroslav Unwanted
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#153 - 2011-12-05 17:43:09 UTC
Jonathan Malcom wrote:

I guess that's what I'm confused about. People keep going on about how the urrently CSM doesn't represent the interests of high sec. I've yet to see anyone give examples of what in high sec needs to be fixed.

Someone enlighten me.


Well played. There are some tries, but they are mostly put down, because the original thought is flawed and not objective, alas Someone is doing it wrong and thing its wrong..

As far as high sec changes goes.. Its probably about aggresion timers and consequences for neutral Remote Rep/Boosting..
Ai Shun
#154 - 2011-12-05 17:45:50 UTC
Fix My Lasers wrote:
It's like sitting on a branch and sawing it.


You could equally argue that it would be removing a person with "Why should I keep paying to play this game?" in their signature from the forum and the game. A negative presence is removed which may equally have a positive effect as people interested in the game or who are new subscribers are not confronted with that level of blame / negativity / laziness.

So no, I think telling somebody who's primary purpose appears to be to spread misinformation and negativity to bugger off is perfectly okay!
Prince Kobol
#155 - 2011-12-05 17:46:47 UTC
Its threads like this that make me not hate the Goons but have respect for them.

I might disagree with some of the things they do but I have respect for the way the (when they are in the mood to) put across well reasoned and educated arguments.

As I have stated before I would like to see CCP put an option of "None of the Above" come the next election.



Jaroslav Unwanted
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#156 - 2011-12-05 17:48:42 UTC
Prince Kobol wrote:
Its threads like this that make me not hate the Goons but have respect for them.

I might disagree with some of the things they do but I have respect for the way the (when they are in the mood to) put across well reasoned and educated arguments.

As I have stated before I would like to see CCP put an option of "None of the Above" come the next election.





Waiting for character named "None of the Above" .. soon
Myrdraeus Keaunt
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#157 - 2011-12-05 17:54:09 UTC
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:

Proposal One: voting the CSM must be compulsory, at least until people gets used to do so. Every player who logs in during election period must be forced to vote, either won't be allowed to reach the character selection screen. An option to vote later may be added, but only for a limited amount of chances. That certainly should increase total vote and the representivity of the CSM.


Forcing people to vote will only result in more ignorant people voting. People that don't give a **** can't be made to. In fact, too often people care enough only to get in the way and cause the rest who really do care to rush along so that these others are not inconvenienced.

Nothing can make you more cynical of the democratic process than getting involved.

It seems to me it's working as intended. Those who care enough to vote should have more voice than those who don't.
BeanBagKing
The Order of Atlas
#158 - 2011-12-05 18:13:46 UTC
At first I wondered if OP really was that ignorant, or maybe really somehow believed in what she was saying. Then I realized it's all just a troll, one that's gone on for 8 pages of bad arguments and contradictions.

Roosterton said it all on page one already. That was the end of the thread, I don't know why it's still going on.
Jaroslav Unwanted
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#159 - 2011-12-05 18:15:02 UTC
BeanBagKing wrote:
At first I wondered if OP really was that ignorant, or maybe really somehow believed in what she was saying. Then I realized it's all just a troll, one that's gone on for 8 pages of bad arguments and contradictions.

Roosterton said it all on page one already. That was the end of the thread, I don't know why it's still going on.


because you posted ?
Jenshae Chiroptera
#160 - 2011-12-05 18:19:08 UTC
This whole thing is based on the assumption that democracy works.

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.