Confirming that I am satisfied with the CSM as it stands now. They represent the interests of those who care enough about the game to be bothered to spend 5 minutes voting(that was a long freaking list of candidates)

Why would CCP care about the opinions of those who don't care enough about the game to speak up?

Everything i have read leads me to believe the current CSM is not working in my perceived best interests. I am not convinced that removing the concept of the CSM is the proper solution. I hope Hilmar is clever enough to realize that focusing the future of EVE and Dust on the rantings of the flavor of the month CSM chair is lunacy.

If this game builds it's future on catering to the bitter whiny afraid to undock alone vets of Null it's going to implode once the number of Null alts reach the diminishing number of new players that stick around longer then a few months.

While this self serving CSM tends to their own "sucking chest wounds" they scoff at every injury they inflict to player enjoyment and retention. I sincerely hope that CCP does not actually believe that players are quitting because they are upset that life is too easy for high sec players.

This game will hopefully always have a hardcore contingent of elite pvp zealots but that should not be at the cost of not improving the game and making it more enjoyable for all players.

Newer players and representation based on where most players play not on where CCP wishes they should play needs to be implemented. A reformed CSM could consist of a High sec rep, a low sec rep, a wh rep, a newbie rep, a null rep and an at large rep from each empire.

This could be verified by CCP to make sure Phony Alts of high sec members could not succeed in pretending to be Null seccers and vice versa.

No player owned corp member could vote for the at large rep that would be restricted to players who have remained in their starter NPC a bunch of great people there who help new players get their space legs.

Love Null vote only in Null, Love WH vote only in WH and so on in most Democracies you don't get to vote everywhere you have an interest or a business just where you live. EVE's biggest sucking chest wound is the lack of balanced representation that understands ignoring player apathy towards voting might be a good strategy for winning an election with a large Alliance block of votes but it is a terrible business model for sustained and prolonged growth. Wake up Hilmar!

Gatecamps and station camps on all the major trading hubs? Funny, I keep flying in and out of them all the time, they never seem to bother me.

As to my null sec reps on the CSM claiming hisec guys are leaving because it is too easy ... what I've seen so far has been mittens saying L4 botting is a problem, incursions are good because it teaches PVP-ish behavior (even though I find the wow-speak in incursion channels absolutely ******* atrocious), and Vile Rat wanting more hisec careers to make hisec more interesting.

Honestly, if I were to assume people in hisec left for a reason, I would assume it would be because hisec can be too boring, especially if they haven't found a good corp. Too safe? I think it seems mostly balanced wrt safety as it is. vOv

Aye fair enough guys, I (like the rest of us down in null) would like to see some sort of structured reach out to these guys to get them to at least try null once or twice. I'm sure there probably some of them that have thought about it, but been talked out of it by a corp mate along the lines of : " No way, never go down there, you'll be podded, killed, laughed at, scammed", and all the other nonsense that someone will say. Does the CSM have the capabilities of sending subscribers emails like the EVE marketing dept does? Or sending updates and feedback via the EVE marketing dept?
I'm sure a decent marketing campaign that reinforces the message of the CSM would be a big step to communication and feedback, which (in my humble opinion) is the #1 development point the CSM needs to work on.

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This is how CCP looks to a lot of the player base, past, current and future:

CCP: "Ooo let's make a game where people can scam,steal, be pirates and basically entertain themselves at others expense and let's focus on that player segment at the expense of the others!"
Trolls: "YAY!!!"

CCP: "Damn, we need to get more players into our game. Any suggestions?"
Trolls: *crickets*

There's no mystery here.

[citation needed]

Actually I was quite sure you knew about it but I did want see what "heaps" was.

600 is not too shabby. I hope they stay.