Communication and diversity. A proper platform, not vague at all.

What is your platform and how it affects our way of life? (in w-space)

His platform is communication and diversity! His alliance has a website!

My Fellow Capsuleers,

I am hereby announcing my intention to run for CSM8.

I am the founder and executor of Talocan United, a pure wormhole-based alliance that operates in a wide range of activities (though pew is always our favorite). I personally began playing EVE during the Apocrypha expansion (2009), and I have lived in or operated in wormholes since the second month of my EVE career. I would like to make use of my specific experience and viewpoint in representing both the members of wormhole space and the greater New Eden.

Wormhole space, although at times brutal, is an excellent proving grounds for a progressing player. To be successful, a pilot must be able to use a wide range of in-game skills; and in my development I've learned of PVE, exploration and scouting, mining and harvesting, research, production, leadership, PVP, transportation, marketeering, and planetary interaction. But there's plenty I've learned that isn't reflected in skillpoints. I've also had the unique experience of growing an entire alliance from a one-man corp in a C4 system into a well-known, well-established 650-man alliance. Over the course of the past two years, I've had to learn the balances between patience and action, diplomacy and aggression, leniency and standards, vision and practicality, and EVE and my personal life. I would like to think I've come out on the better end of it all.

Although I think my time spent in wormholes has given me a strong foundation, I do not intend to advance only wormhole-related concerns to the CCP offices. And as the fundamental purpose of the Council of Stellar Management is communication between the player base and CCP, I will also 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 to fellow wormholers.) 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. No candidate can be a strong candidate if he forgets his ultimate priority.

Second is a respect for diversity, something I've made sure my alliance has held from 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 Sleeper NPCs; some like to manufacture and research; some of us even like to mine ABC ore while we talk with friends over TeamSpeak. 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 aforementioned mindset...to promote a wide variety of improvements that ultimately remembers everyone, from the richest, most devoted pilots to those who can only sign in on weekends to run their PI. Because in the end, we all pay for our 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.

If you have any questions at all, such as my thoughts on particular aspects of EVE, please feel free to leave them here or send them via Eve-mail. Also feel free to contact me in-game on either this character or my alt, Thomas Broker.

I look forward to your feedback, well-wishers and trolls alike.

You are just butthurt, go play the piano.

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

Talocan's vaunted communication skills in action!

Perhaps this is how they respect diversity!

Hey Kainotomiu,

Communication takes many different forms, from public speaking to interpersonal communication to forum posts to blogs. My specific experience lies in the realm of drafting reference guides and protocols in a form that should make sense to the casual reader. Simplifying for the common denominator, in other words. This is why I linked the website; I wrote everything on it that's not attributed to someone else.

The blog I'm creating for a similar purpose. It is not so much for daily musings as for organized treatises and theses that interested parties can refer to. For example, I'll have a page on what I feel are the most critical issues in wormhole space (none of which should come as a surprise) and another perhaps for new content I'd like to see, such as random Sleeper triggers. This way, I can go back and edit and further refine on the same page.

For those not subject to my innumerable alliance mails and forum posts, I'll be connecting through other avenues of media. I'm already scheduled to be on Eve Uni's upcoming Wormhole Roundtable, for example (though not as one of the main speakers) and I intend to also speak on EveRadio once details have been sorted. I'd also like to offer an open question and answer session, much like the one I hosted for Two Step when he was running for CSM last year. Beyond this, it will need to be consistent and regular communication to simply prove what I stated.

Does this address your question adequately, or is there something else you'd like me to clear up?

Could you answer Kainotomiu's question about the two specific blog entries he provided?

It seems curious that much of your push for communications beyond the walls of your alliance only seems to have come about now that you're making a bid for CSM. You're going to keep a blog. You're going to appear on some podcasts. You weren't doing any of those things until you announced you were running.

If communications are so important to you for its own sake, rather than as a means to an end of padding your CSM candidacy, why is that?

Nathan is a great communicator and solo's Dreadnaughts. Deal with it.

Nathan rocks that crazy Red Coat better then them.

Sorry, I think I'm going to have to disagree with that.

Well that's cause you got boobs.