I think it is important that everyone only set wormhole candidates on the list and no other CSM candidate.
If there is a case where votes are close the other choices you would put on the list gets an extra boost.
Wich could cut of on of our reps... .

No one will elect Nathan Jameson. he's in AU TZ and will be asleep when everyone else is bitching on the forums and tryig to convo him about "zomg POS's are broken" or "wormhole stabilisers, do it nau, farghot."

I had a fun chat with the other wormhole candidates this weekend. The Pre-Election has been delayed, and as a result we had a bit more time to do some collaboration. I kicked things off, and after a few evemails we all spat in our hands and shook on an agreement. Each candidate only needs 200 votes in the pre-election. Any votes above and beyond this are just cake, but if youGÇÖre short those 200, you may fail to be listed on the final ballot. There will be no public count as the votes come in, but we were told that Xhagen would let us know when we passed the threshold.

Therefore, as soon as I hit 200, IGÇÖll be calling for anyone who was goign to give me their pre-election vote to pass it on to another WH candidate. In particular, Ayeson and I have mutually endorsed each other. After that, Chitsa, Cipreh, and Nathan round out the Wormhole 5. This may skew the GÇ£front-runnerGÇ¥ count when the pre-election results are posted, but itGÇÖs more important to keep all our cards in play. The wormhole candidate field is very strong this year, and I think it speaks volumes that weGÇÖll happily kill each other in game, but weGÇÖre all in agreement that when it comes to the CSM we need to work together to get the best odds of winning a seat for wormhole space.

The Pre-Election should be going live any hour now on the CSM website, so go out and get your vote in!

Whereas i see the lower classes of wormhole space being the last, true, bastion for small corporations, many feel that these wormholes are too difficult to invade. What are your thoughts, specifically, regarding smaller corporations in wh-space? Do you agree with other peoples suggestions regarding this, such as the reduction of ECM effectiveness, or the quite mad idea of tower-size limitations?

The closest i could find to these opinions was in the article Shaking up the Snowglobe, you hinted at possible effects of changes to smaller corporations. Whilst i'm not against the prevention of self-destruction within a force-field, as the spoils of war should be the right of any successful attack, you did raise a good point regarding the potential stratification of wormhole space. Of all my many concerns, my primary is that wormhole space is the only place in all of new eden where a single corporation can effectively "claim space", and imo anything that ultimately seeks to allow wh-space to be completely dominated by larger alliances would kill one of the best aspects of EvE.

Greetings,

You have met the 200 vote endorsement thresh-hold in the CSM8 pre-election. You will be included in the full election ballot.

Best Regards,

CCP Dolan

I am strongly against nerfing ECM on POS's, as deterrent is the best defense against invasion in C1-C4s.

I also wouldn't mind seeing the ECM bonus on the Caldari Tower changed from a time cycle bonus to a lowered CPU/PG need specifically for ECM batteries. There is really no good way to fit a Caldari tower for anything useful in WH space...either it's all ECM and no guts, or all industry and no defense.

Do you think that even the off-racial jamming strength is satisfactory/acceptable? In other words, is the ability for a Grav ECM battery to easily jam an Amarr ship is the way things should work and should not be modified?

Different tools have different purposes. A Caldari tower has high CPU for the CPU-heavy industry. The current ECM bonus makes up for this as you're more likely to be jammed due to the faster cycle time. You also don't need to run three polymer chains just because you can :)

The jamming strength IS different if it's off-race. ECM mods shouldn't be AS effective, but they shouldn't be a complete wash-out against an attacking force that fits against them. Most small corps either will not have the people online to man their weapons or will not have enough online with Anchoring V + POS Defense (a tough train) to make them really count. Groups like mine know how to take advantage of it.

Faster jam cycles only matter if the POS mods cycle through targets more quickly, which they won't. Remember, fledgling corps either won't be online or won't be able to man their defenses. Which means they'll be relying on the automated POS defenses. I'd rather give automated Caldari towers more ECM mods to play with than change target cycling time for ALL towers. Smaller overall change for the same effect.

It does sound like, though, that the POS mods on Caldari towers need to have the potential to cycle targets faster to keep up with the ECM bonus. That sounds like a small change worth supporting on the way to incrementally improving the situation, rather than throwing one bonus away for something new. Caldari towers need to keep the risk: you're getting improved industry capacity, but you can't fit the defenses that you could in a Minmatar tower.

I am responsible for a (large) Caldari tower, and I'd love to run three+ polymer chains and research and manufacturing together with a full suite of defenses, but I know that's not balanced. So I make trade-offs to achieve some sort of acceptable equilibrium.