I hope you guys realize that I am the most untypical council member to come along in a very long time. Most CSMs when elected disappear from the forums almost entirely.



During my interview I asked additional duties the council would have, CCP Dolan was nice to answer basically saying I would basically on top of that post's outline would also be fulfilling the CSM's job for the Dust 514 community. I knew before I said yes that this was going to be the hardest term of all CPMs and felt I was up for the challenge.

It was all fine and dandy until uprising 1.0 hit the fan that the game somehow got far worse than what the CPM enjoyed at the fanfest.

The Charter is still being drafted and passed around the office. It's probably waiting on some big folk signatures because the actions within that charter WILL be expensive to the business.

The White papers haven't passed even a first showable draft to the CPM yet.

Let me then finally say any sort of election is going to likely require a patch into the game to make it work and right now that is not on the foreseeable burn logs of things to do but near end of CPM 0's term i can see it being possible.

While the election system is very easy to understand and implement and most of it is rule policy such as qualified to vote or not; I am far far far more interested to hear what you guys come up with for a nomination process. How does a regular joe say he is up for election, then him saying to him getting to be on the ballot? How would that process handle out? Who nay or yeas his nominations?

This is where I would have opt for some handholding until the CPM's tasks are made much clearer to the Dust 514 community, expectation setting for the people getting involved to be become members. That anyone running would need CCP approval after meeting minimal requirements which includes a cadre of things from having a passport and being legal over self. This is however my opinion and I already know the drawback is that voters would still feel disenfranchised because they're still ccp picked heads and it could remove any sense of 'freedom of the vote' and ultimately takes a lot of time out of CCPs own hands. CPM 0 originally had 200 candidates selected give or take which is very similar to CSM election nominees in which a large number can get filtered out due to failure in qualifications (not old enough, no passport usually). One has to wonder what merits each one had, I only know of a small handful of people who did turn down the CPM 0 positions and for the reasons I have cited before, They knew the CPM is not fun and games and was very serious business.

But anyways come up with your own nomination process, pro and con it and debate others. I would like to see the path of least harm most good emerge.

They're still doing their job their own way which is very similar and more CSM like.