The CSM can't promise to get anything changed, they can only promise to ask CCP to get it changed. I really have no desire to go back to their election posts and/or blogs to see if they promised to get spod fixed. If they did, then go ahead and keep holding their feet to the fire about it, but if they merely stated that they'll push for it to be changed with CCP, then you need to let it go. He's already said he's brought it up with CCP, so either you think he's a liar, or well, since you keep going on about it, you think he's a liar.
Stomping your feet screaming "BUT THEY PROMISED!" isn't going to get CCP to change it any faster.

Well that's a far cry from CSM 6, which happened to be exactly that. In the aftermath of the Jita Riots, wasn't it determined that CCP asked the CSM for input for their future work and how relevant it was to the playerbase ?

If you can't ask them to do things, then I suggest telling US that you can get certain things done is an obvious blunder on your parts. Saying, "We will get X changes done" in a system where you can't suggest to CCP that particular things need priority over others, is again - your mistake.

This stuff is all fact, and irrefutable.

The issue is that there's sufficient documention all over the web regarding their platforms for much of the CSM. NONE of it has come to pass for the next expansion, let alone these tiny fixes like the spodumain issue that was also promised.

Please if you're going to attack me, have something concrete at least to attack me with - I at least give you and them that same respect.

Is there room in amongst all this to make suggestions about interim fixes for things that may not be slated till summer expansion? Sure! Will CCP listen and oblige us? Maybe, maybe not, depends on whether your idea of a quick fix is the same as theirs, and what resources human or otherwise it takes to accomplish that change, and it depends on whether CCP even agrees that your idea for a fix is good for the game at large.

How is the release planning going?

Sorry bad question. NDA slapped

It's gone well and I'm hoping to see more information pushed out to the community sooner than usual. The CSM has more visibility over the team we are stakeholders on (more about that as soon as we can talk more) but everything else seems to be moving along fine.

In the spirit of getting back to AMA questions.

Do you still see visualize Eve code when you are thinking thru issues players raise or has it mostly faded away.

By low end do you mean plagioclase and scordite? An ore chart has them as the third and fourth best ores. Yes lets put hi sec ores in low sec, so they make more money, and the pvp and getting ganked is worth it.

One of the usability issues that recently cropped up was the merger of chat windows with the neocom making it harder to keep track of channels. I'd love to have a dedicated chat window bar added in to take care of that, but any UI changes that make it easier to keep lots of chat windows open would be a very welcome improvement. Can the CSM put some pressure on CCP to fix this, if it hasn't already?

http://i.imgur.com/K8Xk1.jpg

It also screws up the interdependent nature of Eve.

Can you please explain the difference between a producer, game designer, a game developer, an artist, a sysadmin/support role, and a stakeholder? Ideally, you should include how each one is able to influence what makes it into the game.

-Liang

Initially I was going to just wing this question and put down my impressions of each based on past experience, but I don't want to put out something that might be mistakenly taken as ~gospel~. So I'm going to poke a couple CCPers and see if I can get something a bit more 'official' and correct. I'll send the email tonight and post the answer as soon as I get a reply.

Q1: Aggression mechanics
It's mentioned in the CSM Summit minutes that low-sec gate guns will engage players for any offence, including "suspect" flagged-offences (currently the equivalent of Yellow aggression timers). Since that includes things as minor as can-flipping, is this likely to be reconsidered, and if not would it also apply to high-sec guns?

Q2: New POSes
With the new modular POS system, will the option for a true POS, as opposed to a COS, be available? I'd like to be able to set up a small hangout to keep a few ships and emergency supplies.

Q3: [General not just Summit] Can anything be done towards getting V3 skins sharpened up? As it stands, they're painfully blurry when zoomed in (the most obvious example I can bring to mind is the Raven).

Q4: [General] What's the CSM's opinion on Asuka Solo's PI 2.0 suggestion?

Q5: [Requisite humour] How likely is my CSM8 campaign, "What's a CSM? (from the team that brought you Operation Dread Intrusion)" to succeed?

Case in point: There's 100-page threadnoughts about Incarna - and that's not coming in winter.

Yeah, that writing's been on the wall for a while. At this point, the thread's primary concern is whether anything Incarna related is coming at all.

Can I read you between the lines here as saying that something is coming, but not this winter?

Nope, can't guarantee that, either.

Nope, can't guarantee that, either.

Can you undertake to press CCP more strongly for a "State of play" report with respect to the Incarna project? Let us at least know where we stand.

Can you undertake to press CCP more strongly for a "State of play" report with respect to the Incarna project? Let us at least know where we stand.