I went and read your blog like a good compatriot but all ya did was waste yet another 2 minutes of my short life dammit reading **** I have read in 10,000 places already!

The NDA argument? I've not read that take on it anywhere

Actually that is the primary reason for NDAs to prevent your competitor from finding out what you plan to do.

This is the exact same attitude all you Icelanders exhibited just before you bankrupted your country.

Should probably read one article about Icelands troubles before you make statements like this.

Wow, i just wrote a giant thing detailing how the Icelandic economic crisis is the fault of international bankers, and all the right things Iceland is doing, just to have it erase itself when i hit "post". And yes, i tried going back a page, there was nothing there.

Happened earlier, too, but it was a shorter post i could remember pretty much word for word. Is CCP trying to force us into only making one sentence replies?

Actually that is the primary reason for NDAs to prevent your competitor from finding out what you plan to do.

With EVE being a single shard server and with a player run economy anything that they might be planning on changing in the future can and will effect the bottom line on the economy. If they were to come out and give specific info on the super nerfs super cap builders would have their bottom line affected. If they were to say that Ice was being removed from Hi-Sec I would dump a spare 5 Bil into Ice and hold it.

Yes. I thought about that and was going to make a mid-sized post much longer, talking about it. What it comes down to I suppose, is whether you believe CCP thinks in those terms? I doubt that's the reason for the NDA, otherwise why give a bunch of ruthless 0.0 corps the recipe to make some easy money (since most of the CSM currently are ruthless 0.0 corps.)

My view on this is the fact that CCP log's everything. If for some reason they made a huge change that would give one alliance a large advantage over other alliances that do not have a CSM on the board all they would have to do is go back and go over trades made by characters in those alliances and look for large purchases of ice/caps/supercaps before they actually publicly announced it then proceed from there.

There are many ways that CCP can check on insider trading way more then there are in RL.

Riggs

What happens if they inform a friend in a different corp and alliance of any incoming changes?

There is no link between them in game so what happens then?

Nothing happens, but what happens in real life when people are doing insider trading dumping stock days before a know'n bad quarterly report. You cannot catch everyone, and you never will.

You will always have abuse when people in power have more information then the general public. Politicians, CEO's, Police, you have to live with it and deal with it to the best of your ability.

Riggs

CSM6 hasn't even discussed ABC in low-class wormholes since May. We do not really care. Most of the 'discussion' is from folks who misinterpret what was said and freak out about it.

CSM6 has a general rule where the people who have experience with a topic are front-and-center on that topic. The guys with w-space experience handle wormholes (Two Step, Meissa and Trebor). The guys with null experience handle null stuff. Unless the w-space CSMs begin spearheading a w-space mineral nerf, it doesn't really matter what my opinions on w-space are. I could truly believe that w-space is inhabited by fuzzy pink bunnies and it wouldn't matter.

As an aside, I'd highly recommend that w-space folks vote for Two Step next election. He has a mastery of the topic and busts his ass on the CSM, he really shouldn't be exiled to 4th alt. Come the campaign I'll be plugging for him.

One of the csm has to be bursting at the seems to tell us something my question is did they read the nda and look for loop holes?

As is usual CSM seem to only be interested in their part of the game. The rest of us scrubs need not bother.

The CSM is not about making your game better, it is about making their game better.

Fixed it for you. :)

There is a self-esteem issue in Iceland. Icelandic men want to be men. They want to be vikings. They want to be taken seriously on the world's stage. Thus, their bravado and over-confidence in international banking

As an aside, I'd highly recommend that w-space folks vote for Two Step next election. He has a mastery of the topic and busts his ass on the CSM, he really shouldn't be exiled to 4th alt. Come the campaign I'll be plugging for him.