Assembly Hall

Hi everyone,

I am here today to bring you an important message regarding the removal of a CSM member – Gorga.

The reason for his removal is the unacceptable level of participation that we have witnessed in a past few months. While we understand that real life issues can interfere with CSM duties, we expect every member of the Council to participate actively in our internal discussions.

His inactivity was brought to the attention of CCP by the CSM and after discussing the situation with them, and agreeing with their request to remove him from the council for inactivity, he will be removed today.

As per mechanism that we established last year, we are replacing Gorga with the next candidate in line. We have already re-run the STV script and according to the calculations UAxDEATH is your new CSM representative.

I would like to point out that this is not an exception and we will continue replacing inactive members in the future. You will be able to read more about these rules in the updated white paper that will be published before the next election.

CCP Leeloo

Good call, although it is a shame to see him replaced by someone who has been nearly as inactive ingame the last 6 months or so as Gorga was when he ran for CSM. Xdeath's a good dude though. Don't necessarily agree with his viewpoints on sov, but you need the full gamut of positions to voiced.

Slightly off-topic here. I just bumped on this



I don't pretend to speak for a lot of people but frankly, the CSM-related stories, the "joys" of nullsec politics and so on may not be followed by the majority of EVE players.

Yes, breaking news, there are carebears living in highsec and perfectly fine with it, some even enjoy it! My point being, I browse EVE forums (and the excellent /r/eve) and see LOADS of alliance/nullsec content, taunts and stuff being posted and I don't think this is really helping the necessity to open the game to as many new players as possible. Right now, it looks like some weird secret brotherhood of people systematically crushing newbies.

Now let's have the -1 or equivalent rain, I guess...

First of all the Eve forums are not a great place to actually discuss stuff going on in the game. The vast majority of sub-forums are infested by trolls or just totally clueless people who have no idea of what is going on and the ISD are doing a subpar job curtailing it. There are a a couple decent subs, for example the WH forum. There is a reason CSM dudes and other noteworthy persons (the ones creating content for others) mostly post on r/eve (which you already read), FHC, twitter and the like.

The reason you see posts about happenings in nullsec, nullsec and wormholes is because those people are making **** happen. They organised themselves into communities that provide content and thus enjoyment of the game. They are the ones posting about battles happening because guess what, ain't no **** happening in hisec apart from suicide ganks and market failures.

I would also argue that newbie friendly organisations such as Pandemic Horde, KarmaFleet, E-UNI and such are much better for the game than a random mission running hisec corp that no one has ever heard of, has no significant internal culture, no voice communications etc.

Im sure there a plenty of people who mostly play in hisec and enjoy the game that way. While there maybe aren't many "jesus features" (like the new sov system) for hisec to point to, the vast majority of game changes affect hisec too. For example, UI changes, ship balancing and corporation management improvements.

We have had a dedicated hisec CSM representative in the past and it sucked.

Looking forward to working with UAxDeath!

I believe Fuzzysteve has already put something in fuzzworks for this?

Regardless of who is affected, I'm very glad to see action being taken to remove inactive, non-responsive CSM members. Those elected should take the work of the council seriously and actively contribute or GTFO.

UAxDEATH Congratulations!

Fantastic I very much look forward to this.

Congratulations, UAxDeath!