Originally by: Grath Telkin

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O.k., everybody take off your game clothes, THEY ARE NOT SENDING YOUR ALT TO ICELAND. They will send REAL, LIVE, BREATHING PEOPLE to Iceland. These people will likely gain no super secret secrets, and EVEN if they WERE part of one alliance or the other, their single job is to MAKE SURE CCP IS ON THE UP AND UP. They don't get to say "do this" or "don't do that". They are simply goin to review CCP's handling of issues like petitions, see how the operations run, and report their findings to us the players.

This means they will see lonely men and women who are spending far too many hours in front of monitors staring at codes that many will not understand. They will see some poor room of souls who are the petition department, who's sole job is to handle the whines of 200K players on a daily basis. If they are EXTREMELY lucky, they may see some of the R&D department for future releases, but IF they are aloud in to such a department, it WILL be accompanied by some form of gag order.

In honesty, i think the group should contain at least one of each of the following: One Carebear, a guy who has 0 interest in the affairs of 0.0 space. One Northern Coalition Member. One Southern Coalition Member. One Alliance Member. One NON affiliated 0.0 member, perhaps from the drone regions, or in general, somebody who has little vested interest in the war in its current state. That should be the bare minimum, perhaps 2 of each of those guys/girls would do best.

Also, in all fairness, if they actually want to present the face of honesty, these people should never make the trip more than twice. The members should be regularly changed out, to avoid stagnation, or any claims of corruption in the group.

Lets all put away our tinfoil hat for a bit and remember that they are observers only, and will have no real say in the events of the game. So long as their makeup is diverse, i will be satisfied with their reports.

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