Replacing the CSM with another model?

Given your posts, I’m not entirely sure that you understand the CSM. And I truly don’t mean this as an insult.

Yes, the forums have a lot of people who dive to personal attacks far too quickly, but you’ve other ways of interacting with the CSMs. Eve Online is a game with not just one community, but many communities and each of the CSMs are active in a number of communities. I know you’re on both the Talking in Stations discord which has a number of active CSMs on it as well as the Roleplay is Primary Discord which is pretty much where I am the loudest. (I know I don’t have the fancy forum tag, but as you can verify, I am the glorious ascended loser of CSM 16.5). You’ve got a lot more ability to chat with more CSMs than you think.

So, in my personal experience, I think that more of the voters outside of blocs tend to multibox harder than those in blocs. Blocs definitely have their share of multiboxers, which is something you’ll find all over the game, but the fact of the matter is that adding more accounts is just a bigger boost of power for those who field fleets of 20-50 than it is for groups that fill up fleets and you’ll probably find that the average account size reflects that. Though I admit, there’s likely a lot of very casual high sec oriented players who work on a single account, I expect that they’re also often the type who doesn’t pay much attention to the elections. Changing it to per-player would not make Null blocs have fewer seats; it would mean they get either the same number or more, I expect. They get them because they’re not only larger, but better organized than the rest of us (which isn’t to bash us, it makes sense because they’re ‘blocs’ and we’re organized into smaller groups who won’t be agreeing about a lot of things). At the present moment, though, we’ve multiple non-bloc candidates on the CSM.

So this one basically comes down to representing the players. I concede that it’s entirely within the realm of possibility that Eve Online could change and become a dramatically different game and end up with more players. But neither myself nor the people who (eventually) elected me want a different game. We want the one that we love and we all either want to prevent it from losing the things that we love or fight for it to get back to a state in which we love it. However, one thing that’s almost a universally held opinion among Eve players (CSM or not) is that we do indeed want the game to have more new players and we want the new players not to be limited, but treated well and very importantly, not exploited.

It’s certainly not a perfect system, but do you have any proposals of what you’d want to replace or fix about it? The one idea I got from your post is that you don’t like how accounts are what votes, and I do truly think trying to change that would not change the things that you think it would.

Regards!

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