I have seen this first hand during my term. There are ideas and concepts that never see the light of day because some goons on CSM give examples of how horribly wrong it would go.
I was under the impression, listening to Imperium candidates, that they are interested in the overall health of the game,not in shallow goon short term interests.
Are you suggesting thatâs not the case and goons would contribute to the death of the game in the interest of short-term isk gain?
That doesnât make much sense to me.
I would especially vote for Merkelchen. My ballot was lowsec, party line to TMOCC. But I dont mind goons being in charge.
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No. I got the note in-game and I went to the CSM webpage and from there did I read through all the things the candidates wrote. Frankly, yours I found to be worse than the guy who managed to enter no info at all. After I read yours all I knew was that it was just about you getting into the CSM and that you tried so hard while you knew you had a low chance with your âMe Me Me!!â-strategy. I could go as far as saying that such an attitude as yours is more lilkely to blame for people not voting than anything else. And yes, I did not vote for you.
The CSM is about what players want and not what you want. The least I expect to read from a CSM candidate is what they want to do for us. I sure wonât vote for anyone who writes only about themselves.
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Come on. Everyone knows Xenuria.
Certainly not everyone knows him. I know Xenuria, and I still have hope he gets it one day. So you come on.
Then you probably voted for him. Never not vote for Xenuria!
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You mean âprobablyâ as in âyou cannot readâ? Start taking the job of a CSM serious or stop cluttering the candidate list.
Oh my, I can see you already scribbling another reply. Letâs have itâŚ
Donât tell me what to do. Xenuria never tells me what to do. He only asks for my vote.
Or what?
Or Iâll vote for Xenuria next election.
I wonât stop you.
You CANT stop me.
Are you sure?
I always top vote Xenuria. If just for the sheer chance of chaos or comedy to follow. Besides, you might not like his delivery but everything he pointed out is true.
Itâs not just that people in high sec donât care about ânullsec bsââŚitâs that they donât care about the game at all. By and large they are loners that engage in a single activity to the total exclusion of all else. You could remove 98% of the game and they wouldnât even notice. Likewise, you could remove them all from the game and not really notice. They come and go all the time. They are irrelevant, by choice.
The Golden Serpent is correct that Imperium CSM members have the health of the entire game in mind because the Imperium is involved in all aspects of the game. Weâre about the only ones that are, and weâre incredibly successful at it to boot. To think that the Imperium is solely focused on sov is silly. We have everything from market moguls and high sec gankers, low sec pirates and FW alt corps, wormhole dwellers, and of course null sec which pays for it all.
We have miners, mission runners, incursion farmers, explorers, newbies, bittervets, builders, breakers, and of course thousands of friends to make this game a little less terrible.
Null sec would LOVE for Fozziesov to either get fixed or get deleted because it has sucked for years now, and the rest of the game has stagnated as a result. You get some new baubles and ships but major chunks of content like FW need overhauled completely but donât because CCP is still trying to polish a turd in FozzieSov years later.
The reason Eve is so sov-centric is a basic feedback loop. Lots of players do sov, so sov is a priority to get right and balanced, other parts of the game stagnate and players have to choose either join sov or miss out on content because sov gets all the attention, so more people end up in sov, which means it gets unbalanced and needs fixed moreâŚand so on.
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Itâs an interesting thing when an opinion is converted to fact.
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Was there voter apathy? Iâm not sure. I donât really careâŚ
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I guess you didnât bother to read my thread, the previous meeting mins, the interviews, podcasts or anything other than the âWould you like to know more?â stinger. Thatâs fine. If you are a voter but you donât want to invest the time to learn about candidates I can respect that. My contempt is reserved solely for those who CAN vote but choose not to vote only to gripe about the outcome.
Edit: There is an inherent issue with the availability of info though. If you donât already know about all that stuff it isnât going to jump out at you on the candidate page. So I suppose a case can be made that any new page should have integration with all these media sources.
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You need to work on what you write on the candidatesâ page. Seriously. Only those invested deeply into CSM work will go to the extend to read your entire story. People do judge books by their cover, and I do, too. There isnât enough time in this world to read every book. Youâve got to work on how you present yourself. Donât write about yourself nor write about meta politics. Write about what you think matters to those whose vote you want to have, but donât write as if you wanted everyoneâs vote.
Thatâs the best advice I can give you right now.
Reading your edit now⌠Donât expect voters to read more than a page. There are many candidates out there and most players donât want to spend more than an hour going through them all just to learn what theyâre offering.
Donât try to convince the whole world of yourself. Just be better than the others, thatâs all you need to do.
Fair Point
I vote every year, Iâm in HS and I can honestly say I have voter apathy. Just my thoughts on this whole thingâŚ
I donât feel that many people running represent me and my activities. We know that voting blocks win, itâs a proven method. So it is hard for an individual that is unaffiliated to win a seat at the table. I firmly believe that the CSM can be valuable, but I think it needs to be revamped. I still think that it should be restructured so that people are running for specific slots.
If you have 10 members, I think there should be 2 Null, 2 Low, 2 High, 2 WH, 1 Industrialist (mining, manufacturing, invention, etc.) and 1 PVE (missions, anomalies, incursions, events, etc.). Then candidates would run under a specific ticket (i.e. Null Candidate) and they would have that platform as their focus.
True representation across all of the game is essential in my opinion because the player base is very diverse.
Again, just my .02 ISK.
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