... will not be going to an advocate of one portion of the game. If you are "The Scout CPM", "The Tank CPM", "The Infantry CPM", or any other sort of variant, then you are what is wrong with this game. Not one person on these forums is willing to compromise on their own playstyle, instantly shooting down any ideas that may slightly shift the current meta, quickly escalating to name calling and threats.

I know the voting system is going to boil down into a popularity contest to see who can farm more likes by stating the obvious, but I just wanted to throw my two cents in there. If you have tunnel vision for one game aspect, then I do not want you, and your appointment to CPM will only be detrimental to the game. Quite honestly, I don't think the CPM is as powerful as people make them out to be, and your advocating for one aspect would be a promise that, by design, you probably won't be able to keep.

My view on how people are running for CPM1

The important thing about having a "platform" as a CPM candidate, is to demonstrate your view of what is/isn't wrong with the game, and where CCP's focus should be, in the event you get a chance to push for one way or the other. It is both a display of competency and an indication that you see the same issues as the voter in question does. I have opinions on balance, but I didn't feel they were worth making a dramatic point of, because I'm focused on the overall game. How to make it suck less for everyone. But sure, the CPM can't do as much as some people might imagine, but indicating what you would do demonstrates how you represent the people who choose to vote for you.

The community will most likely vote in the most incredibly inept but popular folk. Months later they will then turn on their CPM and tell them how horrible they are at their job when it was actually the community's job to make sure they don't suck.

Pretty much every political election in the history of elections.

It is going to take a while for the console crowd to get used to have people represent them to the developers. Most are used to going to forums or YouTube writing a snide, one line comment to troll. Few of us have passion for the game and evenless have respect for the people playing and developing it. I hate to be so cynical but there seems to be little evidence otherwise.

It is going to take a while for the FPS crowd to get used to have people represent them to the developers. Most are used to going to forums or YouTube writing a snide, one line comment to troll. Few of us have passion for the game and evenless have respect for the people playing and developing it. I hate to be so cynical but there seems to be little evidence otherwise.

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Because had we had a Scout n Cpm 0, he'd would have so far 0 instances to directly contribute. As with a logi CPM, tank CPM, and myriad other roles. The very very few instances where such role would have been useful most of the cpm supported the changes.

Now an FW CPM is far far far more useful, as is an NPE one, and general sociable game play type of persons. CEOs would qualify over the 'game play' cpms.

Essentially if I was CCP and you're an assault player who never flew a vehicle in his life let alone not kill them, and bring you a whole host of changes involving vehicles? what use are you?

This scenario can happen far far far too often and if you shoehorn yourself into one corner of the game you're going to miss the massively big picture.

Your platform should be neutrality, nothing less. The devs will decide the patch of the game, the CPM (as I see it) are more of a control group to say "That's great", or "You should kill yourselves for coming up with that".

Everyone, of course, has their opinions, but saying that you are "going to fix the tank problem" (as an example) is an outright lie, and that person running for CPM is getting in the way of the people that actually should be in there.

I agree completely. to me a platform represents an agenda. CPM candidates have no idea what to expect from the experience aside from the awesome open letter published by jezna and added to by the rest of CPM 0. on the technical end nobody who isn't the current CPM or a dev knows what the next CPM will be tasked with. having a scout who knows nothing about the rest of the game is less than optimal.

... will not be going to an advocate of one portion of the game. If you are "The Scout CPM", "The Tank CPM", "The Infantry CPM", or any other sort of variant, then you are what is wrong with this game. Not one person on these forums is willing to compromise on their own playstyle, instantly shooting down any ideas that may slightly shift the current meta, quickly escalating to name calling and threats.

I know the voting system is going to boil down into a popularity contest to see who can farm more likes by stating the obvious, but I just wanted to throw my two cents in there. If you have tunnel vision for one game aspect, then I do not want you, and your appointment to CPM will only be detrimental to the game. Quite honestly, I don't think the CPM is as powerful as people make them out to be, and your advocating for one aspect would be a promise that, by design, you probably won't be able to keep.

My view on how people are running for CPM1

Selling yourself on a platform of "I am going to get you a new game mode and a pony" is flat out being dishonest with the playerbase. You don't know whether that's within your power (and all indications are that it is not).

You make a good point, but there are not a lot of Generalists in DUST. How many people do you know, aside from me, who have played almost every role?

We might have to settle for people with an ability to see things from another personGÇÖs point of view. Ok, so some days it seems like there are not a lot of them in DUST either, but I know there are a few around.

Selling yourself on a platform of "I am going to get you a new game mode and a pony" is flat out being dishonest with the playerbase. You don't know whether that's within your power (and all indications are that it is not).

Your job as CPM is to try to prevent CCP from totally pwning their own game and most of the time they're going to ignore you. Too many people seem to think they're running for class president.

... will not be going to an advocate of one portion of the game. If you are "The Scout CPM", "The Tank CPM", "The Infantry CPM", or any other sort of variant, then you are what is wrong with this game. Not one person on these forums is willing to compromise on their own playstyle, instantly shooting down any ideas that may slightly shift the current meta, quickly escalating to name calling and threats.

I know the voting system is going to boil down into a popularity contest to see who can farm more likes by stating the obvious, but I just wanted to throw my two cents in there. If you have tunnel vision for one game aspect, then I do not want you, and your appointment to CPM will only be detrimental to the game. Quite honestly, I don't think the CPM is as powerful as people make them out to be, and your advocating for one aspect would be a promise that, by design, you probably won't be able to keep.

My view on how people are running for CPM1

Isn't the problem the same as in any election, that the people running are the last people who should be elected?