I am still waiting to get dragged around a bit by the community and get my nosed shoved into some waste pile on issues I might have missed and someone yelling bad wolf.

Anyways

Nomination Process I would still like to hear about from the community.

I was wondering how many seats should the CPM have? current roster is 6 seats should more be added?

Shotty Go Bang on behalf of scouts/stealth has my vote.

I don't know... if the people who get on the panel take their position seriously then you'd have discussions concerning how doing one thing may impact another group for which the proposing party does not have any background. The people we need on the panel can have the qualities you suggest and still have a specialization for which they are most knowledgeable.

If the people we get on the panel don't take their role seriously, to represent the community for the greater good of the game, then it really won't matter how it is structured.

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.

I'll be honest and without using vulgarity, I along with lots of others disagree with you on lots of subjects. However YOU DO at least have a presence on the forums.

This DUST council thing is the biggest load of crap. To go along with a lacklustre game I suppose. So much talk, so many promises and so little action.

So they are being our reps, by not representing or communicating with us? Ha JOKE of a game.

It is really hard to see the action though, its there but I cannot share most of it. It's slow, its methodical, things have to be nearly planned months in advanced around here and that itself is a problem in its own right. Its terrible turn around time is very bad but it cannot be really helped and the studio is still evolving to adapt far better into making a game. Console environment makes this far more difficult, had we been first on pc we would be experiencing probably patches as fast and minorly as they can crank them out. Instead of oh say 1.3 launching with a bad bug and having to wait until 1.5 for it to get fixed because 1.4 locked and is off to QA for trimming.



Sit down and talk with one of them. You'll be pleasantly surprised and no you're not by far the only person that ever talks to them by a long shot.

Meh it does not matter how you do it, the leaders of the mega corps are going to take over for a little while, accomplish absolutely nothing because its just a popularity contest, everyone will say the CPM is a massive fail. In fact many are already saying that. Then after a year of recovery some smaller people who are actually intelligent instead of just being able to get masses of braindead minions to vote for them will get seats, CPM will be successful and then the megacorps will take over again because the prestige is back. Its the cycle of the csm after all.

I'd love to sit down and talk with quite a few of you, understand your processes and what you propose...no idea how to do that though.