They are perhaps MORE mad that there was never an NDA leak at all.



Silly, there Are No "Important Goons"

There's no disputing that you violated the NDA. You were just lucky enough that CCP didn't care about what you leaked and they wanted to avoid the negative publicity.

The fact that they are allowing both people involved in the breach to run for the next CSM reflects rather poorly on them, however.

CSM started as a bone thrown to the players from CCP. Us players crave the bone thrown to us and desire to bite it immensely. Darius breaking rules others had to follow and still being able to bite of the bone and slobber on it, pisses off the other CSM and some players.

The bone might not attract you or maybe it does. But be warned its the only bone you will get, so choose wisely.

The CSM system works because the people involved are able to have discussions away from public scrutiny. In these discussions they can talk openly about the benefits or detriments of some pretty far reaching ideas without having to justify positions taken or just playing to hypotheticals.

When a member of the CSM delegation leaks internal chatlogs that have been understood to be NDA protected, they breach the trust of not only the fellow CSM and CCP Development teams that work in the channel, but also with the players who count on the CSM to have those conversations in a productive manner.

D3 broke that trust. While the leak wasn't 'core' NDA material and CCP chose to disregard it as an NDA violation because they were already looking pretty bad and the riots were just around the corner, it doesn't mean that D3 didn't break that trust.

Our job as constituents is to remind future voters that the candidate has a record of poor performance. Coupled with the report of another CSM that he's largely been an absentee representative, the hope is that he doesn't wind up sapping votes away from other viable candidates who would be better suited to represent player interests and maintain adherence to the NDA.

Breaking NDA isn't a reason not to vote for somebody honestly. That's a legal determination and between CCP and the CSM member. Being a CSM who never participated and was largely AWOL for the vast majority of his term is a bigger reason to not consider him.

Easy peasy: Let's say you wanted to discuss changing wardec mechanics. 5 devs and 7 CSM sit down and start talking. They go over existing mechanics and throw out some wild ideas about changes that could be made. if there are 12 people in the room, the conversation can be fairly productive as long as you've got decent leaders keeping everyone on topic.

Now, try to have that same conversation in an arena with 500 people observing who can throw their opinions in at any time and realistically, no one to control the mob.

Which group gets more work done?

Good job implies 'job' which means something was done be it good or bad.

That's what the meeting minutes that get published are for.

Discussion happens outside of the two regular meetings as well. Leaking information is detrimental to the process because everyone has to stop and damage control, which is what happened when his leak was reported, also evident in the 'fearless' newsletter bit from last summer.

Honestly though, the bigger issue is two CSMs pointing out in this thread that D3 basically did nothing this term, which means he's not likely to do much next term either.

Yeah as a gamer, some people do take the game serious, as in knowing what the next flavor of the month ship is early on and training for it would give it an unfair edge. Or if you are industrial knowing of future changes to game mechanics or ships and building them early for many profits.

If you dont mind other players getting unfair advantages over you breaking the NDA doesnt matter at all. Just some people hate seeing people make ISK too easy and get ahead too easy, so they dont like it when the NDA is broken.

Companies dont like breaking NDA cause they lose money and subscribers maybe. Players hate breaking NDA since other players will have an unfair advantage and get ahead to easily.

Spread lies, it is the only recourse you have. Of course I cant defend myself by posting my many suggestions made in the official forums.Future CSM members will be able to see through your cheap veneer of lies and slander.

Lets talk about poor performance. You failed to show at the most important summit, then made poor excuses about it. Unfortunately what you say about me being largely absent is not true. Unfortunately, I cannot link my posts made as CSM that prove just how active I was during that time. With over 120 suggestions made, and some of them implemented as current gameplay, I feel just fine about my level of participation as CSM member.

Regarding the NDA: It is a very important agreement that allows CCP to speak to the CSM about future developments that can not, and should not, be made public until they have been flushed out. There was never an NDA breach, not "an insignificant breach."

The fact that Test and GSF have a CTA to post on my candidacy forum post tells just how important it is for them to try and spread their hate and tell lies in my campaign thread.

Fact is, the CSM don't like me because I was the only one not permanently lodged in the end organ of Mittani's digestive system. The same Mittani who wrongfully excluded me from the Skype discussion and removed me from said discussion three times without cause. Clearly a vote for Darius III is a vote against Mittani and the rest of the establishment.



I think that Lowsec should should get the most love of any segment in Eve. I have a few hundred kills there-and it is a bad place. I did write about lowsec getting a buff via the new deadspace Invuls, but it way too little, way too late.

I think Supercarriers and Titans should be nerfed in Low security space. I think that Fighter Bombers and Titan guns shouldnt be able to fire in Lowsec, or NPC nullsec for that matter. Supercapital proliferation has excluded most small and mid-sized alliances from having much of a chance in nullsec, which is a shame.

While I don't think there is a candidate who wants to remove of local outright, Elise Randolph has some ideas to mitigate the problem.

There is also a guy from NOIR running, who's wanting to improve small gang PVP etc. He might be more up your street.

Neither The Mittani or Vile Rat leaked NDA protected information in even private channels that I'm in with them. In fact more often than not they refused to speak even broadly on a topic for fear that it would approach NDA limits too closely.

Man I'd love to see somebody break our fleet doctrine which is "a bunch of one kind of ship mostly". I totally agree that this is an unhealthy direction eve took a long time ago but it's going to take redesigning the combat engine for this to really be fixed properly.

We did that. If you look at our Delve-era videos and propaganda, we were using Apocs almost exclusively. Now we use Maelstroms and Drakes. Before both of those we favored Rokhs/Megathrons. Alliances adapt.



Local is gone in wormholes. There's also a lot of non-consentual PVP that goes on there. It may be a better fit for you than lowsec.

That said, mittens did pitch an idea for a lowsec revamp a few years ago at EVE Vegas. He wrote about it in one of his early blogs: http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/67950/page/3

Elise is the only candidate to come out with a solid idea for changes to local thus far. Most know that it's a pipe dream to think that it'll be removed completely.

If you want that sort of gameplay, go wormholin'.

Gimme back my Darius III ! Where is the real ~Darius~ ?