Welcome

So the first question right off the bat is what do you think of the new voting system, the reduced power of an individuals vote and subsequently do you feel the system needs to be altered once again?

Also the stock standard industry Outpost, POS, NPC facility and Sov balance questions?

How will you have time to do CSM considering you explained that you don't have time to do 'that' Eve stuff?

Mike, you have said you want to represent high sec. Can you give us some specifics of what you think are the major issues regarding high sec, and how you hope to work with CCP to address them?

In the case of this election, it is what it is. Complaining about it won't change a thing. That said, I think the 200 preliminary vote is still just a hoop like last years 100 likes, something to get through but not really a part of the election proper.

The transferable vote system is set so that votes are not wasted and you are allowed more than one opinion. We are electing a council, not a president. Multiple winners means that the voter should be able to make multiple choices, not just 'pick one'. Giving the voter the ability to influence more than one persons campaign enhances their vote . . . if they use it properly. I do not think the individual vote has been reduced, just altered and the responsibility of knowing what you are doing has fallen more on the voter.



Go ahead ask them. Please try to be more specific than waving a hand at a pile of issues.

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Ok so having seen that you seem to have no idea about the current concerns of people on these forums, failed to answer on the question of loss of voting power

so oh well.

The most basic question:

You are most famous in EVE as a strict roleplayer, and your blog posts are in character. If serving on the CSM, will you continue in-character RP communication with CCP? Other CSMs? Player facing communications?

Ok so having seen that you seem to have no idea about the current concerns of people on these forums, failed to answer on the question of loss of voting power

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Giving the voter the ability to influence more than one persons campaign enhances their vote . . . if they use it properly. I do not think the individual vote has been reduced, just altered and the responsibility of knowing what you are doing has fallen more on the voter.

You are a person on this forum. Some other people might share your concerns about "loss of voting power." This does not mean, as you subtly imply, that all people share those concerns.

You are completely correct

I am sure there are plenty of people around who do not care about the CSM, I think the voting stats prove that pretty well.

The voting stats do not prove that there are plenty of people who do not care about the CSM; the voter stats prove only that there are plenty of people who do not vote, and offer no insight into the reason why. I know it's kind of your "thing" but let's try to limit the spurious leaps of logic around here, shall we?

Nope sorry.

Can't be done.

Especially not when you are arguing directly against the comments of major Goonswarm posters on these forums.

Strange they use that logic and it is all good. I use the same logic and it is a "spurious leaps of logic"

The voting stats do not prove that there are plenty of people who do not care about the CSM; the voter stats prove only that there are plenty of people who do not vote, and offer no insight into the reason why. I know it's kind of your "thing" but let's try to limit the spurious leaps of logic around here, shall we?

If you asking whether I agree with Jamie-boy in regards to nerfing hisec incursions to the point of removing them from hisec completely, hell NO

Trying to improve the game by depopulating the most populated part of it is the act of an idiot.

Out of curiosity, are you James 315's alt or just campaign manager?

But while where here maybe you would like to support the rest of my arguments on the CSM
like the fact that player education is what is needed, and alterations to the voting system are completely unnecessary while the percentage of voters are so low?

Oh and that accounts should have to be active for 90 days prior to the election to vote, to close that old account loop hole.

You don't agree with James, thanks for bringing that to our attention.

That's not what I asked though. Let's try this again. Since you are presenting yourself as a high sec candidate, what are the major issues facing high sec and how do you plan on fixing them.

Out of curiosity, are you James 315's alt or just campaign manager?

I am James 315's alt, like everyone else in New Order Logistics and all the shareholders and gankers.

I do not see as hisec needing any huge fix, not to the extent that the other parts of Eve do. Tweeks, here and there, balance issues, yes, but I disagree with your assertion that hisec is broken.

Please, enlighten me as to where you see it being bad for the game overall? Does voilence upon ships happen in hisec? Yes, look at a map and check pods or ships destroyed in the past 24 hours. Do wars happen in hisec? Yes. griefing and scams and trade and mining and all the rest of it? Yes

Is it safe? No.

Should it be? No.

If your goal is to get people to go to other parts of New Eden and away from hisec then give them a reason to do so by improving the content elsewhere. Making the most popular part of the game uninhabitable could kill the game, not push us to create content elsewhere. THAT I am against.

I seem to have missed where he posted that he is running, here in Jita Park. Now if you would kindly point me to the thread where HE has announced his candidacy and platform, here in Jita Park, I would appreciate it.

You want to represent high sec, but you think it isn't too bad right now. Would it be fair to say you are the status quo candidate (ie, keep things as they are)?

James 315 has outlined his problem with Jita Park here.

It's a good example of how James doesn't fit in and would be fairly useless on the CSM. Heir to Darius 3, I would say. He could have announced here and the Miner Bumping site as well, but no, can't do it in a way that cooperates with any one else. Does not bode well for his effectiveness if he be elected.

Jita Park has it's problems, some of which Mike Azariah pointed out in his interview with Xander. The sense I got from James' criticism was that the forums are split too much, and this makes them less populated and they get less traffic for it. It's consistent with the piece he wrote on the rise and fall of the CAOD, and how he has kept his own websites forum uncategorized for the most part.

I'm pretty sure James holds the record for the longest (and indisputably greatest) EVE-O post ever, so if you think he'll be useless for engaging too little, I don't know if we are talking about the same James 315.

Mike's a good candidate,and I find some things agreeable. However we don't share the same opinion on the risk/reward imbalance.

Mike's a good candidate,and I find some things agreeable. However we don't share the same opinion on the risk/reward imbalance.