... candidates will be notified when they have passed the 200 vote mark.

Terrible Trebor's Terrible Guide.

Not casting a vote for Trebor is saying NO to Theme Park gameplay.

Candidates do not have to notify the playerbase when they hit the quota. It is in the candidates best interests to keep this a secret, so that they can continue to bleed potential primary votes from their opposition.

Any candidate who wishes to alienate his supporters by having them do anything more than the minimum needed to qualify for the ballot (especially when you don't have to get more votes than other candidates, just a fixed total) is quite welcome to do so. I would not, however, recommend it.

Any candidate who wishes to alienate his supporters ...

Iit can't very well do that if you list a bunch of hopeless candidates as your top several choices.

That's the magic of an STV system. You can list a bunch of schmucks first ... and if they don't reach the minimum votes, your vote keeps moving on to the next *******, until it finally reaches a non-*******.

I'll likely list Roc Wieler first. If he doesn't make it, my vote will filter to the next person on my list, maybe that will be Ripard, followed by Psychotic Monk, followed by Malcanis, followed by Unforgiven Storm. At some point, my vote will count.

You're missing the point though. If you can jam as many "schmucks" in as possible you raise the odds of the existence of entirely *******-filled ballots. It's small, but from a bloc perspective, in an election system in which seats are awarded proportionally based on the number of votes "your" candidates receive collectively, every opportunity you can take to create ballots that will be "wasted" increases your voting power.

That's very true.

Twenty people could list Xenuria first on their ballot, and if 5000 people list Xenuria tenth on their ballot, it doesn't matter, because Xenuria will have been eliminated well before that point.

One can assume that the non-organized voters will be placing their candidates all over the place in their rankings, and the more people for them to choose from, the more random and haphazard that becomes.

The strength of the STV system really only occurs in the first four or five rankings. If some dude is ranked in mostly equal distribution from first to fourteenth, they'll likely be eliminated fairly soon in the process. before any later ballots can make a difference for them.

On the other hand, casting a vote for Trebor guarantees another year of you throwing apoplectic fits. I consider this to be a worthy goal.

Terrible Trebor's Terrible Guide.

Not casting a vote for Trebor is saying NO to Theme Park gameplay.

Me too, and its what accounted for about half my votes last election.

Look at you bads pretending that Poetic won't find something or someone to throw an apoplectic fit about if Trebor isn't elected.

One, I strongly disagree with voting for people if you disagree with their platform. If you disagree with someone's platform, they'll give CCP feedback you do not want CCP to get. So put them last or leave them off the ballot.

Trebor doesn't have a solid base. You do.

Trebor will win a seat because he mass evemails again. The effect of that can be diluted.

Your pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking.

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Could you throw out some more nonsense rhetoric?

Trebor and Ripard have similar ideologies. The difference is that Ripard believes highsec is about as safe as it should be (perhaps a tad too safe.) Whereas Trebor believes highsec can and should be made safer as long as it brings in new subscribers. Trebor would have you believe that EVE is in some sort of financial difficulty, and thus themepark game play should be brought in if it means more subscribers. He'll further dazzle you with the idea that if CCP can bring in more money, then they can hire more devs, and finally start working on a POS revamp. This is a complete fallacy. CCP is more than likely going to put extra EVE Online revenue towards accelerating development on its two other properties, DUST and World of Darkness.

Trebor's thinking in a nutshell is that "We can screw the game to improve the game." Which, of course, doesn't work. Except in his mind.

If you need to vote a highsec candidate, then vote Ripard Teg over Terrible Trebor. Ripard doesn't want to destroy the game for a few extra bucks. Trebor does.