I'd just like to re-emphasise this. Even if you don't particularly agree with Trebor's ideas, he will be immensely valuable because he has the experience and background knowledge that CSM8 will require to function with its full potential.

What if these alumni just decide not to bother? They have no responsibilities, no accountability, no access to the CSM forums after they've left. Come now, it's a useful backup, but it's no substitute for the real thing. If you weren't so caught up in your own rhetoric, you'd be the first to point out that weakness.

I draw a different moral from Trebor's Churchill anecdote, specifically: once you've shown that you're ready to sell out what you believe in, then there's nothing to stop people from dragging the price down as far as they like.

That wasn't the context you provided though: it was doing something you'd find morally repugnant for a sufficient incentive, not having your belief in whether it was repugnant changed. Once you've shown youre willing to do it at all, then what leverage do you have to keep the price high?

I draw a different moral from Trebor's Churchill anecdote, specifically: once you've shown that you're ready to sell out what you believe in, then there's nothing to stop people from dragging the price down as far as they like.

I'm well aware that deal making and compromise is a part of the process.

Malcanis, Ripard Teg, and Trebor Daehdoow for CSM 8

(I have three accounts, so why not?)

Well, they are a company, so you shouldn't expect any more really. But it is kind of sad too though.

Personally, I've generally found CCP's blunt communication style to make a refreshing change from the bland, anodyne, responsibility-evading, passive-voiced, corporate-approved bullshit we see from most companies.

See my personal take on this is CCP should be trying to encourage people living in highsec to value their corporations and to stay in them during wars. I had an interesting (if brief and offtopic) discussion about the possibility of corporation skillpoints which give greater benefits to pilots who stay in corp longer and allow corps to specialise over here.

Rather than skillpoints, a better vehicle for conveying loyalty bonuses might be LPs earned and refine bonuses derived from corp standings.

I'd like to see players able to choose their own NPC corp, and I'd like to see that choice actually mean something wrt to game mechanics - advantages, disadvantages, bonuses, penalties, drawbacks and opportunities. This NPC corp should be a natural choice for people who like mining, that NPC corp might attract haulers, and so on. As this would encourage people with similar interests to be in contact with each other, they'd be forming communities with a common outlook, and this in turn would also provide a good solute for more player corps to crystallise from

Now I'm actually curious about your opinion - what about cosmetic microtransaction type of stuff? Buy ship skins/decals/etc with aurum (which could then be sold for isk on the markets as well). Essentially the same thing as the clothes already in the NEx store, but for your ships.

CSM7 has been a failure

Accomplishments during CSMs 5-7

As vice-secretary of CSM 5, secretary of CSM 6, and vice-chairman of CSM 7, I was a primary author and/or editor of almost all CSM Blogs and Summit Reports.

In CSMs 5 and 6, I raised, championed and pushed through significant CSM proposals aimed at benefiting broad groups of EVE players (in particular, User Interface related issues), such as the Removal of Learning Skills, the User Interface - Big Wins, Fan Favorites and Low Hanging Fruit Proposal, the Planetary Interaction Omnibus Proposal, and the Possibly Practical POS Performance Proposal. Elements of many of these proposals have found their way into the game.

I created, developed and managed the concept of Prioritization Crowdsourcing, which was used to poll the players and determine what items on the CSM in-process list should be given the highest priority in negotiations with CCP. When CCP shifted their focus back to Flying-in-Space development in the Fall of 2011, these lists helped determine what got developer time.

Furthermore, I have steadfastly pushed for CCP to deliver on their promise to make CSM a full stakeholder in the development process. I spearheaded the production of CSM 7's Development Strategy document, which influenced the creation of CCP's new development model, and resulted in CSM becoming intimately involved in the Release Planning for new expansions at the earliest stages. Slowly and methodically, I have expanded the ability of the CSM to influence the evolution of the game in directions that reflect the wishes of the community.

Note: My main campaign info page contains a version of this document with extra details.

If any one CSM member ever takes credit for an addition, bugfix, feature, modification, or whatever, call bullshit on them. No one person has in my memory been responsible for the inclusion of something in Eve, not even me. It has never been a case where one of us wrote down a stone tablet, laid it down at CCP's feet while being jealously watched by the other CSM member, their eyes filed with silent hatred at not being able to say "I did this!" should CCP pick it up. We theorycraft, we mention problems, possible solutions, relative priorities, explore alternatives, we go back and forth between ourselves, with different people at CCP. If an idea has traction, it gets worked on, elaborated, refined by all, and sometimes it gets implemented, sometimes after a couple of years, sometimes fairly directly. A side note to this is that the first half of the stuff CCP produces during a term is after the output of the previous CSM, not the current. Be very wary of people taking credit with "I did this"...

I will pass over the obvious "the graveyards are full of people who put their faith in the kindness of goons" troll and address this "mandate" thing. I believe you over-rate it. Mittens' vote total may have impressed some people in the community, but inside CSM you are judged by the quality of your work and your effectiveness at influencing CCP, and the size of your ballot has nothing to do with this. For example, one of the most influential members of CSM7 was Alekseyev Karrde, who came in 13th.

I beg your pardon, but it isn't. Trebor had a year to observe first hand whether the "mandate" converted to any additional influence within the CSM-CCP relationship. You didn't. His opinion clearly counts for more than yours because he has better access to the data.

14. To Be Determined. I am really undecided about who to put in my final slot, and I want to sleep on it. Think you know who it should be? If so, post in my EVE-O thread and tell me why.