This is the thing, though. There are something like 40,000 players in the Imperium. I’m just one of them. There were multiple other Imperium members who ran and didn’t win. I ended up 5th on the Imperium ballot, but that wasn’t because I was some kind of a celebrity - my commercial is what got me where I was.
Nobody knew who I was before I ran, and most people still don’t.
I think the problem is that there is no non-gameable, rational way of doing this that doesn’t involve massive amounts of resources from the Community team built around simply determining who is eligible to run for what seat. It just doesn’t make a lot of sense. This is, for good or for bad, the best system they can put together and it has been working as it was intended to get good folks on the CSM. I think our group this time was very well balanced full of players who care about the game and bring a lot of knowledge to the table. I know some folks don’t like the political make up, but elections are about who votes and who runs.
Regardless, most of the stuff that Salvos and others have brought up as things they want to reform isn’t really the stuff that could use some reform.
