...nah...I'm voting for Skippermonkey.

um, apparently, im running for CSM so like, vote for me?

Chribba!
Un-nerf caps, supers and the veldnought!

Sigh, I don't know why I bother trying to start a discussion on these forums.

Erm, who are you?

Simply because if you are a member of the CSM you shouldn't neccesarily expect any in game benefit or advantage as a result of that position?

Or are you saying that the existing CSM members use it to suplement their power of course? You see how complacent the existing political climate is that it has made you in fact, revealed within your expectations, to how biast or corrupt the current CSM is. What a fool.

Chribba gives every indication of being a grey suit known mostly for making 'first' posts in devblog threads. I don't think I've ever seen him express an opinion on any part in Eve. If that's who highsec chooses to represent them, great, since that means he likely won't interfere too much in actual CSM business.

No

I'm saying that if you like Chribba so much why didn't you help him when faced with a genuine threat in game? There was plenty of huffing and puffing on the forums, but ultimately we took his sovereignty in 9UY without any resistance. You can blow smoke up his arse on the forums all you want. 'Oh Chribba you're so great you should run for CSM', but nothing will come of it, just like nothing came of everyone's sycophantic fanboyism during our invasion of his system, which we only did because we were bored and angry with CCP and wanted to stir up a ragtag pubbie army to fight.



Oh no! You caught me! Checkmate! I'm so silly for letting the cat out of the bag... or maybe you're just a dumb pubbie who knows nothing.

You guys are so cute with your conspiracy theories. Firstly Test doesn't even have a CSM member (White Tree left to join ESG, 4chan's alliance). Secondly Goons and Pandemic Legion are on the CSM, massive holders of Tech moons, yet the CSM still asks CCP to address the Technetium bottleneck in T2 production thereby inevitably decreasing the value of those moons. CLEARLY IT'S ALL A CONSPIRACY.

Do you want to know why nullsec alliances (representing ~10% of the players in the game) dominate the CSM? Because it used to be run by highsec players, and during that time they got it into their sweet little pubbie heads to remove our jumpbridges because they were concerned about 'force projection'. CCP went with their requests. How quaint that they'd feel the need to dictate how nullsec should live while knowing anything about it. There was a large backlash from nullsec, and CCP compromised by allowing one jumpbridge per starsystem.

So ever since we realised that the CSM has the power to screw us over we've simply started paying attention to it, nothing more. There's no conspiracy, it's just by the nature of nullsec you have to be organized to live in it, which is why nullsec produces candidates and actually votes for them. Highsec dwellers don't need to be at all organized so they don't produce candidates and they don't vote. Ivy League is probably the largest highsec voting bloc in the game, besides maybe Red vs Blue's combined consentual PvP alliances. Ivy League used to hold CSM seats but now do they even have a candidate? I'm not aware of one.

In any case it's far more likely that someone living in nullsec has more experience of the game as a whole than someone who has never left highsec. I've never seen Chribba voice a serious opinion on gameplay before, it's ususaly "lol veldspar, mining lasers, I have mining titans, lololol I'm the nice friendly Emperor Publord of all Pubdom" - Just because you like him (or it's fashionable to like him) doesn't mean he wants to do it, or is even qualified to do it.

Ivy League is probably the largest highsec voting bloc in the game, besides maybe Red vs Blue's combined consentual PvP alliances.

I would be very surprised if the Incursion channels would not bring forth a candidate for CSM7.

RANT RANT RANT

No

I'm saying that if you like Chribba so much why didn't you help him when faced with a genuine threat in game? There was plenty of huffing and puffing on the forums, but ultimately we took his sovereignty in 9UY without any resistance. You can blow smoke up his arse on the forums all you want. 'Oh Chribba you're so great you should run for CSM', but nothing will come of it, just like nothing came of everyone's sycophantic fanboyism during our invasion of his system, which we only did because we were bored and angry with CCP and wanted to stir up a ragtag pubbie army to fight.

Oh no! You caught me! Checkmate! I'm so silly for letting the cat out of the bag... or maybe you're just a dumb pubbie who knows nothing.

You guys are so cute with your conspiracy theories. Firstly Test doesn't even have a CSM member (White Tree left to join ESG, 4chan's alliance). Secondly Goons and Pandemic Legion are on the CSM, massive holders of Tech moons, yet the CSM still asks CCP to address the Technetium bottleneck in T2 production thereby inevitably decreasing the value of those moons. CLEARLY IT'S ALL A CONSPIRACY.

Did I just get talked down to?....I think I just got talked down to. You speak of "We". Does your alliance even know you? Do they offer you homecooked meals and a place to stay in times of trouble?

I have a special tinfoil hat for your kind Mr. Mister. ;)

Erm Yes, because maybe the role of the CSM is to ensure the overall benefit of EvE with a measured view to improving gameplay for all. It shouldnt be a medium for any form of IG benefit or MetaWin. Something you seem to be unable to grasp.

So using this example, even if a mutual nerf (and not removal I might add) of tech moons occurs for which these alliances have been amassing assests over time, they are now equally going to remove the opportunites for anyone else to make use of any opportunites in the future on an equal footing. If that isnt just tactical manipulation in favour of themselves I don't know what is.

Chribba... yeah
But..
I rather see that CSM goes away....
from this game..

If you pubbies like Chribba so much why didn't you come to save his station hen we invaded Providence?

The CSM is top heavy with the Null Sec alliances Eve needs a high sec representative to balance out the sov holders. Over the past year High Sec has suffered from the CSM that we currently have.

I live in highsec. Vote for me.

chribba is an established part of the game itself, and as such doesnt allow himself a public opinion on anything other than Veldspar.

VOTE SKIPPERMONKEY

I'm sorry, I should have more sympathy with you as it's not your fault. It's normal human behaviour to fear what you don't know or understand, and you don't know or understand anything outside of your little highsec comfort zone. So you come up with conspiracy theories about the big bad griefer boogymen in nullsec controlling CCP and ordering them to nerf your mission running Drake tank just because they hate you. I'm afraid that I can't bring myself to respect people with opinions like these, They're just utterly ridiculous, and I know most of the people who hold them aren't open to reasonable argument. So forgive me if I come across as condescending.

Also, I'd think that Chribba's work on 3rd party tools could create a potential conflict of interest with his duties as a CSM.