Jack... normally I like your posts, but you're making it hard...

Confirming that TLost and Talocan are NOT large alliances that live in wormhole space.
Also confirming that no one else is allowed to announce that they'll be running now that we have 2 guys (3 guys if you read the first page of this thread).
And confirming that no one ever votes for their corp mates just because they're in the same corp.

The CSM is a popularity contest where the most votes wins, and the most votes will come from those large alliances. Just like how there's a very large proportion of nullsec members, because those alliances have large numbers.

I live in hope, but let's be realistic about this. Anyhow, I'll stop crapping up this thread and ask that anyone who wants to continue this please PM me.

...and pay!

I'm a whore. I would vote for the candidate that decides to remove nullsec scumm from wspace!

We tried that once. They just stayed in a pos and logged when we blew up too many of them.

We tried that once. They just stayed in a pos and logged when we blew up too many of them.

Till we fix the prices of wspace good, we should continue to do that.

And in this sentence, the word "fix" actually means "re-inflate."

My questions to the CSM candidates:

1. What features do you consider requirements for any "fixed" POS system?
2. What is your stance on the changes to T3s? What changes would you make?
3. Self destructing inside POS force fields, allow/disallow and why?

I'm sure I'll think of a couple more, but these will do to start.

Should you really be posting in a CSM8 WH candidates post with the following taken directly from your JPSC post "I do not intend to advance only wormhole-related concerns to the CCP offices"

or from page 2 of this thread "I actually live in Jita."

I will be running for CSM8 this year. I have been waiting to publish my platform based on whether we will have wormhole primaries or not (still waiting on word from CCP). However, I can at least state my intentions in this post.

As the fundamental purpose of the Council of Stellar Management is communication between the player base and CCP, I will not be running a platform based on broad, sweeping changes to any particular element of EVE. (Well, except maybe POS's, but this is nothing new.) I will instead be focusing on two elements that are important to me.

First is communication, as it was the entire reason the CSM was formed. Communication of one kind or another has always been vital to me (and is, in fact, one of my IRL degrees). To give an example, our alliance's website conveys a large quantity of information that has helped many incoming pilots adjust to wormhole space. And wormhole space can always use more pilots. No candidate can be a strong candidate if he forgets his ultimate priority.

Second is a respect for diversity, something that my alliance has respected since the very start. We do not all roll in large deadspace-fit T3 gangs (although some do). Some of us like to camp systems in stealth bombers; some like to farm PI; some like to manufacture and research; some of us even like to *shudder* mine (which I have done my own fair share of). Sometimes we blob, when we feel the situation warrants it. In most cases, however, our fleets are perhaps a dozen, if not far fewer. We hunt wormhole space, low-sec, and null. We live in systems ranging from C1's and C2's to higher C5's. We are an alliance founded on diversity and mutual respect for the playstyles of others, and we have shown more than one corp the door that has breached this sacred trust.

While any specific change to EVE's mechanics will always advantage one group over another, I believe it is my job to represent this mindset...to promote a wide variety of improvements that ultimately remembers everyone, from the richest, most devoted C6 pilots to those who can only sign in on weekends to run their PI. Because in the end, they all pay for their subscription.

I appreciate your consideration for me as your candidate for CSM8. Win or lose, I firmly believe it is important for me to run.

I have served on the board of Talocan United and worked closely with you and your leadership and I will not be voting for you.

Please stop asking these open ended questions "like are you going to forget about the little guy when youre voted in" These don't help, any person with a 6th grade education would know how to answer that question, whether genuine or not, in order to improve their image.

WH alliances are not large enough that any one alliance could push their candidate like goons could with Mittani (who got also one of my four votes :p). And there's plenty of rivalry between the larger alliances.

If someone from a small wh corp would run and present a sensible platform and prove that he/she is dedicated and competent, I'm pretty sure he'd have a good shot at winning the nomination and a CSM seat.

So you were saying?

You asked for it.

http://eve-kill.net/?a=pilot_detail&view=kills&plt_id=509306&m=1&y=2013


Not a single WH kill or loss during the month of January.

AAAAAAND Not involved in the fight against us, aquila and adhoc today. In fact your last WH kill was in october against a pos... and you were flying a raptor.

So you were saying?

Tower spinning
Jita

=Same thing (paper pusher) pp

There's a lot of truth to that. And a lot of paper pushing to be done in the CSM (mails, meetings, CSM minutes, JPSC threads, etc.). I think I have my Tedious Paperwork Specialization up to at least IV by now.

It's going to be tough to sort through all the BS, but when we do decide on a candidate. For better or worse..we need to back them fully with the entire WH community as a whole.