Issler Dainze
Tadakastu-Obata Corporation
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Posted - 2011.10.21 21:46:00 -
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So as a person who has consistently ran for the CSM since CSM II (and won 1 and a half times) I support the CSM. I've seen the good it can do. As for the recent CSM, they didn't really represent where I would like CCP to focus on, but they won fair and square.
In the end what this proves is that largely the a big part of the population in Eve either has no interest in the CSM, doesn't believe the CSM has any affect or unconvinced there is any benefit from participating in the outside Eve "Eve" elements, like the CSM, the forums or other RL aspects of Eve.
The last CSM may have been a tipping point, more of the "little guys" as I like to call them might try and show some interest, CCP may have seen how a CSM too focused on the end game could be bad and changes will occur but I expect that is optimism on my part.
Even if the "little guy" did wake up it would still be an exersise in "herding cats" to get alignment on a single candidate.
So as the saying goes "Eve" gets the goverment they deserve. I don't mean that to be harsh to folks that didn't vote other folks in, but unless something changes the large power blocks will dominate the CSM. Is that bad, good, neither? I think it just "is".
As for complaints about the goons in the CSM, why wouldn't you expect them to be a major part of the CSM? They are a huge part of Eve. And everything they do is a legitimate part of the sandbox CCP built that we all celebrate every time we log in. In the end every time you renew your subscription in Eve you are saying you believe that spending time in this sandbox is better than not.
"You have seen the enemy and he is you!"
I'm a software engineer and although I have great faith in the future of AI I have no hope there is a way anytime soon to create a game that could selectively detect and prevent asshatery. Either you make everything possible and you get Eve with all its "good" and "BAD" behaviing players or you start to build social engineering into the game mechanics and you change your sandbox into a slide surrounded by rubber padding and pillows.
Tada O was briefly in the goons, it wasn't a good fit because althought we loved the freedom and sense of fun of the goons we had too many "PC" members that refused to tolerate the manner in which freedom can sometimes manifest.
So I can't say I agree these days with most of what the goons seem to be doing but I also don't see how you would change Eve to stop that and not fundementally ruin the game in other ways. As to whether the goons in the CSM is a good or bad thing, I would say its just one more part of the experience CCP created.
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