Ok one of the hardest posts I have ever had to frame in my mind. Why would I support a candidate from Null sec.

Well let us start with some of the standard things most Null candidates say. (Well how it comes across to me anyway)

Q: What do you think should happen to Hi-sec Industry
A: Hi-sec is only a starting area, so Hi-sec should be nerfed and they should have to move to lo-sec or Null sec.

Q: What about small corps that don't want to join a large Null alliance.
A: Oh they need to go to Null so we can have target practice.

Q: Do you think the CSM should be a body for the whole of EvE.
A: No it makes a better lobby group for Null sec.

Q: Where do you think CCP should spend its resources?
A: Null

Q: Ok after Null where should it spend the rest of its resources?
A: Null

And so on.

There are those who still want the CSM to be a Null sec lobby group and a title for their alliance but little more than that. But CCP will never take a Null sec lobby group seriously. Now the balance of CSM 7 has helped but other factors have hindered it.

Malcanis, well he does not fit the profile of someone who is all for Null, his approach seems to cover the who game. This approach has now become more valuable with CCPs theme approach as I like the idea of having a CSM member who actually seems to understand the game and how it interlocks.

In a recent thread I learned Malcanis's views on a lot of EvE and his views for the future are similar to mine. Not the same but similar.

My future view of EvE is actually very simple it is Risk vs Reward and works kind of like this
Lowest risk to highest risk.

1. NPC corp member
2. Hi-sec player corp member
3. Lo-sec player corp member
4. NPC Null sec player corp member
5. SOV Null sec corp member
6. Wormhole player corp member

Now I can hear people say but an Null NPC corp member is risking more than a hi-sec NPC corp member. Well they are not really, they are risking what they are flying and nothing else.

NPC facilities should be the lower bracket in any space, Players in corporations risk POSs, Outposts and infrastructure such as logistics that NPC corps just don't have.

With this Dangerous space needs to grow, for example I am in favour of a usage based Sov system so it removes the structure grind but actually means to keep the area you just forced someone out of you must use it yourself to get Sov or just keep it empty to make it go back to unclaimed space. But the whole thing comes back to risk vs reward, Null players should be rewarded more han hi-sec ones but at the same time players spending hundreds of millions of isk on a POS in hi-sec should be rewarded more than someone just using NPC facilities.

So as I said risk vs reward and Malcanis seems to know risk vs reward better over the whole game than any candidate I have ever seen before so I am voting for him. It really is that simple.

Yes rambling a bit in this one sorry.

So while you say you agree with 90% of what I have said (which is great btw) and that most of the CSM probably would as well is also great. So it comes down to this. Why didn't I know? I read these pages everyday, One of the CSMs I think it was Trebor hinted he has similar ideas in a Null sec thread, then later joked with me (which I took the wrong way and attacked, then apologized) but at the end of the day, I did not know the views of the current CSMs given EvE as a whole approach.

At the start of CSM 7 their was a thread in which it was suggested CSM take a greater role in these forums, some did like Seleene's AMA but again that was an ask not the CSM member is involved, yes some things are NDA but your personal views cannot be nor should any member be silent for the sake of unity. You are all different people elected for different reasons, yes you should be seen to ***** argue and fight for the sake of those who elected you. This harmonious front has just caused a lack of information about what you actually stand for.