That is one of the reasonable postings on that matter. Given how dominating goons are, they surely have a lot of knowledge about NS, but at the end of the day, it will most likely only be intimate knowledge of NS and not much more than that.
Enforcing a broader perspective within the CSM wouldn’t be a bad thing, really, but then again, the real issue here is that other spaces can’t work together even if their life’s depend on it, so what would most likely happen is that the results wouldn’t be favorable either.
The problem I’ve always seen with this kind of breakdown in positions, is how it’s enforced.
Because not all players who have an alt in nullsec, can really be described as nullsec players.
It’s putting a large load onto CCP for enforcement.
And how do you break up the votes? Because many players have alts who spend all their time in highsec, mission running for ISK to fund their fun in lowsec/nullsec. (wormholers, I suspect, are less prone to this. but that’s just a gut feel.)
Fair point really. How do you protect the system from a goon that candidates for Highsec CSM, yeah, I get that. That would be the point where, ideally, the HS community would step in and overrule whatever Goons do with their own power.
Then again, that doesn’t happen and probably won’t happen…
In the end, it all boils down to “if you want a different outcome, you have to organize yourself”, so any further regulation from CCP is pretty much either completely pointless, or a huge Juggernaut of rules and restrictions that can only be enforced to some degree.
Ive read twice more posts than him.
Hows that for quality.
He also cant get his story straight on whether he has earned $40 or $23 dollars per month, on his 3rd party service, from which CCP earns nothing whilst we pay with our subs for his CSM trips/accommodation/meals.
In your dreams maybe, in reality you’re a pedantic nitpicker with entirely too much time on their hands and not enough knowledge to utilise it properly.
I know a $40 average is more than a $23 average, per month.
I also know that either one is false.
I also know this is money paid to him, from which CCP earns nothing, and which can be a point of paying for privilege with a CSM.
Steve is not the problem; the echo chamber that CCP has fostered and nurtured through its actions and designs is the problem. Steve is one of the few non aligned, intelligent people we have had on the CSM. His knowlege and experience in his field has helped prevent even worse design ideas in regards to industry by CCP. The main problem we’ve had with the CSM is that too many past and present members hold the idea that their own corp/alliance,style of play, and section of EVE space needs to be rationed the largest amount of CCP’s development assets, overriding any other argument or evidence that this strategy is causing huge decreases in players either joining EVE or other areas outside of null sec. Combining this thinking with the echo chamber community where all liked members hang out (as in discord,twitter, fleet channels,fests,etc), reinforces their mind set and mutes voices outside their way of thinking.
I want passionate,knowledgeable people helping guide CCP’s development of EVE; all CSM members could be Imperium or any nullsec group if i felt that they held that every area and style of play of EVE was as important as the others in maintaining the overall health of the game. It has become apparent in the recent years through released Dev blogs,posting, and CSM meetings and posts that this no longer is true. After 10 and a half years in EVE, my characters are going into hibernation starting in November; my friends and family already gave up over the last few years. I’ll hope for a rebirth of EVE with its purchase by Pearl or a change in EVE’s developers mind set, but with the indications of a seige mentality/refusal to address outside “their” community specific issues becoming the established norm, I am not optimistic. My friends and I hope to return when we see a sea change in how EVE’s development is done and guided. I wish all calm seas and fair winds.
