I think it will be interesting to see how the CSM evolves or even survives going forward.

For example, I think next election results will be very similar to the last elections. The large alliance powerblocks have a much better mechanism for motivating voting blocks than anyone trying to gain the support of the indepentent high sec or care bear voter. Even if the "silent majority" of high sec care bears get motivated to vote it isn't clear how one candidate is going to reach them to gain their support. Ther forums definitely don't work.

The other factor is that I believe CCP is taking the CSM less seriously after finally realizing the huge bias the current CSM has exhibited. I think they realize that a power block nul sec focused CSM will not produce a game that could ever climb out of nitch status. Down that road madness lies.

So I'm not sure there even is a next CSM. I posted asking CCP to clarify the role of the CSM or even its future existance in Jita Park and never got a response.

If you want the CSM to evolve it will require finding a way to engage the current high sec crowd and to get them to support a slate of candidates to balance the CSM. The votes are there if someone can find a way to reach them. If CCP sees that the CSM is more representative of the true cross section of Eve they may continue to value thier feedback. However if the CSM stays a null sec tool for power block alliance influence I doubt CCP will continue the Icelandic periodic shark eating parties for a power elite to smooze. They will slowly back away and finally pull the plug on the CSM experiement.

It is kind of funny because it looks like in the end CCP got exactly the kind of CSM that their game, which encourages such bad behavior would create! A sort of Eve meta-scam! CCP must have seen this in Jta local, "Game companies! Send me free trips to Iceland and listen to me about your game design and I'll contract you a million new subscribers!!"

Can't wait to see how it turns out.

Issler