I'll come forward and say that I did not vote with any of my 7 accounts.

Honestly seemed like too much effort to first find out who I actually wanted to vote for and then juggle all the logins for such a small payoff so I just put it off until the deadline had passed.

The lineup seems fine to me though; I probably wouldn't have voted significantly differently so I really cant complain.

Did I miss the mass e-mail/skype broadcast by The Mittani that got sent out to every null sec alliance so we could own the CSM and therefore CCP like last year?

Dang.

Lol - how dare they vote as a bloc.

Lol - run out of arguments so will just say I am right.

Good work.

Another reason I will never run.
Any video of the summits would have a good chance of being used in court proceedings.

I look at the industrial redesign coming this summer and wonder how CCP could go so horridly wrong. There is sooooo much to hate about this that I wonder, is every designer at CCP just stupid?


Then I look at CSM. 30K votes out of 300K+ active accounts. 2 goons, several goon pets, nulli, other large mega alliances. NO representation form the casual players or the corps where the majority of the players are... 100 or less players.


Then the redesign makes senses.

Teams: Goons load up a system with all the best teams, crank out vast amounts of goods below anyone else's price, and gank fest anyone trying to move materials into the solar system. HUGE, rich and powerful get larger, richer and more powerful. The majority of players that operate in small corps? Forget about manufacturing post June 4.

Research: Big round up for those with well research BPOs, and insanely long research times for newer players. Have to run billion ISK ships in large batches to get the material reductions.

Cost scaling. 10,000 players running 100K concurrent jobs out of a single small POS, as long as you have the firepower to protect the POS.



CCP, STOP listening to CSM, which only represents 10% of your player base, and start thinking about the 90% of subscribed accounts that ARE NOT in one of these mega alliances.

What cost?

Buddy invite, activate the account with a PLEX, get a PLEX from the buddy invite, repeat....

For the next CSM if I am still playing, I may not bother to vote. The reason is, I don't need the CSM to represent my playstyle. Market forces do that for me already. I vote with my subscription. If CCP makes changes such that my chosen playstyle becomes unfun or unviable, I will be a bit more proactive than hoping that my elected representative raises my concerns via the CSM.

also the argument is flawed on the assumption that the csm are there to push people's personal playstyles rather than to ensure ccp makes changes that benefit the health of eve as a whole.

I expected a more intellectually robust response from a Goonswarm person, but perhaps I have been spoiled by the Economic Warfare members. What you are deriding as 'hilariously defeatist' is simply an expression of what it means to be a rational consumer. I won't respond to your interpretation that what I wrote means 'if you don't do exactly as I say I will unsub' because that is just hyperbole and no reasonable person would extrapolate that from my post.

Why not just have the CSM follow a certain structure to make sure the power blocs don't hold absolute power and vote themselves until they run out of votes?

You could have say, 75% of the seats be among major bloc candidates, and 25% of the seats left to be filled by independents. Meaning the blocs could fight it out for that 75% and the independents would be guaranteed to elect a voice for themselves that is not part of any particular bloc but represents some particular interests (based on platform). Who is that guy who promised to try and fix spider tanking? People like him.
That person who promised all parts of space be equal, and promised to work hard. I want someone like that. (It was one of the Russians.)

Oh, BTW, just what is the over/under on when goons and pandemic legion enhance the BOTlord agrreement to include not attacking each other's industrial cores, plus the industrial cores of the serfs on each other's empires?