CSM Campaigns

Now that CCP has done a dev blog on selling skill points and we know it is coming in February, what is your position on this?

My CSM XI endorsements post is now up.

Cap Stable published my CSM XI interview

I will vote for you.

Let's have a CSM XI free of Null Sec blocs influence!

If you want a CSM that is not driven by the Null Sec blocs' dramas, leakages, conflictual relations with CCP and influence over the game we all share to promote their own interests, here is the list of the players to NOT put on your ballot.

The null blocs canno't influence independents candidates once they are elected, as CSM members can communicate directly with CCP with internal tools like Confluence.

But with the STV voting system, they can influence the number of independent candidates that will make it to the final 14, via their bloc votes and via their players that run for CSM XI under other guises, acting as decoys to spread the votes and control the CSM composition better.
I also believe Eve media personalities should NOT be in the CSM, as there are too much potential for conflict of interests. They should keep their focus on their media.

So here is the list of the candidates to not put on your ballot if you value independence. They will be on blocs votes anyway, so why give them any of your votes? (for a fully independent CSM check my endorsements)

Aiwa

Annexe*

Apothne

Aryth "The New Sion"

Bilbert

Bobmon

Chiimera

Commander Aze*

Fafer

Innominate*

Kane Carnifex*

Kyle Aparthos

Mining Forman

Mr Hyde

Nashh Kadavr

Noobman

Sapporo Jones

Sogor

Sullen decimus

The Judge

Tora Bushido*

Viceran Phaedra

Wyld

Xenuria

* Updated after the official list from the goons was made public

yeah, it is better when campaigning without having any support from the establishment to have a clear message. I am campaigning against the establishment you represent as you guys are twisting the CSM role to your own ends, and depriving independent players from a voice. Something you would know but not say as you are on a null sec power group bloc vote endorsements. You are either a puppet or a decoy, and I can't even say you put much effort into your own campaign, this post is certainly noteworthy in that regard. D- for effort!

commander aze isnt naturally part of a voting bloc... he is part of the leadership for an upstart high sec alliance. Im somewhat biased but I think he is a great high sec candidate.Its nice seeing established players take an interest in us new folk

The latest CSM election result is probably as meaningful as the results of the latest parliamentary election in Syria. The ruling party of the PLooNS have trusted 10 of the 14 seats.

CO2, NC. and Provibloc each got their candidate in (CO2 possibly timed their defection to milk goons votes for their representative), and the API/third party tools' guru Steve Ronuken easily kept his seat.

Only one candidate I endorsed made it to the CSM, probably because of the support of the cohesive RP focused Amarrian Provi bloc. 11 out of the 14 candidates that were in my no-vote list got elected.

The biggest surprise to me is that Joffy did not get elected, despite being supported by low sec pirates. I am waiting to receive the detailed vote count from CCP to see how he fared exactly. On my side, I got 152 votes last year for my first campaign and I am curious to see how I did this year, as well as the other candidates that did not make it. I am sure this data will tell stories of its own, once it is released by CCP.

This CSM XI ends up being the most Null Sec centric CSM I have ever seen since I started paying attention. But outside of the PLooNS, the main success of this election can be attributed to those independent voices pushing for not voting for CSM.
This election ended up with a very low turnout. 22345 votes. The only lowest turnout were for CSM 2 and CSM 4 way before my time in Eve. From last year this is a drop of 40% and 73% less than the highest turn out ever (CSM7)

So this is a success for those independent voices, like Gevlon Goblin or Luobote Kong, that openly campaigned for not voting. Too bad they both decided to abandon the game, despite an influence wielding that has been proven this year.

The PLooNS will rule player's feedback and Null Sec for this coming year and "actively represent all play-styles" to CCP.

Is it already the effect of their influence at work when CCP announces today that jump fatigue could be moved to ships instead of pilots? if this happens, the richest will just need to multiply their expensive toys and store them across all regions and with the magic of uncatchable interceptors, 1 second tick servers, and jump cloning, have pilots ready to go anywhere, like good old time (for them).
Having not heard any significant announcement regarding citadels' passive income making, or any economically viable siphon-like feature to curve it, we can also listen to Gevlon's warning about New Jita once the current World War Bee outcome decides who will be in the dominant position to create it (my bet is on PL which is why I chose to write PLooNS the way I do).

It is hard to know what CCP really will get out of this CSM. I chose to believe they wanted as many different opinions from varied play-styles as possible but they obviously chose to not interfere with a process they knew was being gamed, and end up with a skewed representation of play styles despite a candidate field that had a fairly broad range.

If CCP truly wants diversified view points on their game they could easily have half of the seats filled by elected candidates, and then "select" the other half from the remaining candidates.

Here it is, with me wrapping my campaign this year on these notes. Thanks to everyone that voted for me - keep up the good fight and value your independance. Oh, and btw, if you are not plexing your account(s), you are just being taken advantage of by the PLooNS so *they* can do it. Keep that in mind!

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