Doesn’t have a clue of mechanics of the game and what the issues actually are. The whole ‘nice guy’ routine is kinda boring after he has been completely useless on multiple csms.
So, when you guys say that Mike isn’t “interacting in a meaningful way” what you’re actually saying is, “Mike isn’t interacting in the game the way ‘I’ interact with the game”.
Here’s the thing guys. There are hundreds of new players coming through the game a day. It’s been proven having an engagement with another player is more likely to keep someone in the game vs. them just doing the NPE, career missions then eventually stopping because they don’t know what to do next.
Each one of us that engages with new players can only touch so many players a day, a week, a month. However, EVERY interaction in the first 30 days of a player’s life cycle is important. It helps them decide if they’re going to continue the game and it helps shape them as a player.
BECAUSE of players like Mike, when I come along and try to get a rookie into a fleet, the wall I have to scale is much more manageable. In other words, I’m much more likely to get the player to engage with me and my community and get them active in the people part of the game.
And, as far as taking a seat on the CSM, Mike has been around a long time. He’s like a CSM archive and has been able to give us valuable back history. And, if you guys aren’t aware, we do have to be diplomatic so having someone sitting next to us who is experienced and respected goes a long way with some conversations. Food for thought.
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He has said absolutely nothing of any value in the past several one of his CSM campaigns he is running because he is bored and people are just sick of him when the game is consistently getting worse.
Like mike is the whole ■■■■■■■ reason you think the game is going to hell?
Why dont you join the csm then if you think you can make a dev do something
I dont see you running down any other current csm who is running again? Why is that? Becaise mike isnt nullsec?
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You can get more with honey, than you can with salt and vinegar. Case in point surfacing today: One of the few Devs at Valve who will type about what he does: (Mike isn’t a Dev, but the psychology of not getting any replies to questions is similar.)
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What are you going to do about Slaves / emancipation of slaves ?
A perennial question, I know.
Mike’s CSM Updates has always kept me on the edge of my chair and left me more informed on CSM-CCP goings on. Much appreciated!
Also plz make CCP to make the stack multi-split happen 
…when you get those votes ofc 
@OP do you support hiring (EVE Vanguard) Warclone Mercenaries as an attack/defense vector in Capsuleer conflicts? Like attacking/defending Planetary Infrastructure, Skyhooks/POCOs and Upwell Structures?
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It’s because that place is mostly the home of bittervets and people who no longer play the game. Just ignore the noise there.
Mike is definitely an important factor in new player retention. Also, I asked him one thing, and he delivered: to convince the devs they really needed to do something about the referral link spam in NPC corp chat and career systems’ local chat. This also affects new players’ enjoyment of the game.
He’s got my vote.
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Yesterday I managed to get Mike into yet another Discord so he could come talk about his CSM19 campaign. This one is slightly different when it comes down to the “lets pretend you get a seat on CSM19” questions since he’s serving right now and many times before.
And, I have no apologies for the intro. Mike’s CSM19 Interview
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Nullsec candidates like Dujek are also a waste of space.
Mike continues to run despite not playing the game, he has no value to add to any discussion on EVE you can see that by his awful replies to questions and criticism.
Crossover for Eve to other games has a checkered past, shall we say. But every damn time I thought it was a cool idea. From dust Planetary bombardment on up. So YES I think a warclone crossover would be a good idea.
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mike did you quit playing? as per the above poster, or do you log in regularly like almost every day and play?
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I will readily admit I recently took 10 days off for a holiday in Nova Scotia. Aside from that? Every day twice a day (most times). Their issue is likely that I do not play the game their way and in not doing so I obviously do not play at all. I mean I don’t have any kills, any losses, so I must not be playing, right?
They are welcome to their opinions (wrong though they may be) as I am allowed mine.
In MY opinion I still play.
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Feature request: ‘multi-fit’ expansion. Please pass this on, or around 
I’d like to saved ship fittings to remember every possible item in cargo, or find out why CCP has restrictions. (Perhaps enable Multi-fit to work with containers (storing all items) and not ships, bypassing reasons for item restrictions in ship cargoes) Every time they’ve added another item to the permitted list for saved ship fittings, the change has been met with celebration by affected players.
Players could use this to make sets of odd items, pulling from containers which have multiples of these items.
Use cases:
- BPC packs
If someone wants to build a Dread, they can shop on contracts for a BPC pack which includes all the needed capital ship component BPCs. A player has to tediously pick through their container of BPC’s to assemble the set. Multi-fit could assemble any number of sets with a few clicks. Might be developer complaints that each BPC is a unique item, they don’t stack: but for this, set assemblers know their run counts and ME levels, they just want multifit to pick out same-named items from the container.
- Collectible items (Special Edition Commodities)
I have containers with stacks of special items, sorted by event, going back years. If I want to gift or sell “themed” sets, I have to peel one item, in some cases, out of 30 stacks of related items. And move these to the gift or sale container. This is carpel tunnel / RSI waiting to happen. My wrist complains when trying to assemble 10 sets of 30 items each… I did it once, years ago; Multi-fit could solve this problem.
- SKINs
CCP sells sets in the NES, bundles delivered to redeem queue all at once. Players have to do a lot of clicking to assemble their own sets for gift or resale. The spirt / glacial drift / exoplanets (to name a few) skin lines are HUGE.
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O7 Mike Azariah,
I’ve been watching your you tube updates
Last year I asked eight questions and then compiled the answers into a huge mega-thread. It was massive. With the exception of MILINT_ARC_Trooper, no one had a thread bigger than mine, to be fair MILINT_ARC_Troopers’ thread was so weighty and knowledgable it teetered on the edge of collapsing into its’ own core.
That catalogue of replies is now a time-capsule and encapsulated within are the hopes and disappointments that CSM 18 candidates considered worth speaking about during the year of EVE’s 20th anniversary.
The responses gave voters en masse an opportunity to test and compare each hopeful CSM 18 candidates commitment to their claims of being community oriented, knowledgable, responsive and representative of player values. Given that the CSM does not directly control any aspect of EVE’s development and that the successful candidates are those that can identify existing and future consequences, co-operate with other CSM members, and communicate issues -from a player perspective- to CCP staff one-to-one, I’ve formulated a set of questions designed to seperate the compressed ORE from the Long-Limb Roes in this years election race.
Year-on-year the Independent Representatives, Solo players with single accounts, Worm Holers, Triangle People, Semi-nomadic Role-Playing Sandbox Explorers, and Salvagers, have been organising and gaining traction against the self-secure Null-Bloc Empire Candidates and their vast hordes of leather-skinned, evil, flying-monkeys. More-and-more players are choosing to vote in members they believe can positively impact CCP’s approach to the game regardless of their in-game affiliations.
Exposure matters, who are you, what is your clue?
As was the process last year I will post each candidates reply in a super thread, first-in first-served.
This years questions:
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What ONE identifiable consequence requires CCP’s attention?
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What PROVABLE evidence can you supply to support your belief in this situation?
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What practical, and balanced change can be made to support a solution if any?
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What support do your observations have from other CSM candidates?
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How will you present your findings to CCP?
If you have already identified and spoken about a problem in your CSM candidacy bio at the top of this thread feel free to copy pasta that response where applicable. I’ll copy paste directly from your response to this post. Choose your goblet…. wisely.
Let the games begin, and may the odds ever be in your favour.
Mike Sorry but I voted for you last year cos I didn’t know about Kshal but this year you are not getting my vote.
We only need one newbie focused CSM rep and Kshal is better placed to be that person.
If there is time, please consider withdrawing your application so we don’t end up splitting the vote.
Thank you for the magic bus and CSM services.
Ha, lol. And you berated kshal after posting this.
So 5 from nullsec is ok but 2 from hisec isnt?
Id rather have more that care about hisec not less
Kshal was not voted in last year, but was a ccp pick for the 2 additional csms.
Voting for both could ensure the same happens again
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I didn’t berate her. I just asked not bother with the anti-toxic thing cos it just isn’t an issue. I never come across it, do you?
She said no. I will still vote for her.
Don’t get what your saying about 5 from null 2 from hi-sec, sorry. I want one newb focused, 1 WH, 2 industry, gonna give the Deepwater guy a shot, OZ and then 3 anti-projection, if it helps.
We had 5 from one alliance before
Crazy huh? It’s almost like it’s a coordinated effort.
Oh wait… Pretty sure it is.
Yup… definitely is.
Stand strong
o7