Where's my experience in PC you ask?

How about when NG/PI held 16% of molden heath and we didn't discrict lock.

Yes, I was in NG/PI.

Yes it was in the past, I was in PC from the start or EoN till disctric locking occurred. The reason I'm not in it any longer is the carebear bullshit that happened and the lack of interest given because of it.
PC in its current form needs scrapped and in my opinion discrict lockers need to have their 'hard earned ISK' removed.

They are one of the main problems with this game, npe and general experience of the player base.

None of them should focus on the people who purposelly **** the game up.

Sota - Do you actually care about the CPM or is this just another troll thread since the War Room is boring right now? Aside from me, I know that Appia is running as well as Radar (thought not sure if he meets he requirements posted by CCP)

Its not only PC they play.

Actually, he did gave up for quite some time. When EON was at its peak.

Oh my, SoTa, a forumite who thinks too highly of himself and can't seem to keep a character unbanned, doesn't like poor old me? Whatever shall I do!

What are your requirements for a PC vet CPM candidate then?

I was actually quite active in the community prior to the CPM0 Selection, but that is not a topic for here, as you yourself have pointed out.

As it stands, I participate in Planetary Conquest. I join forces with many people, generally as a Tanker since that is my primary skill set.

My 'goals' with accord to Planetary Conquest. CPM wise, they are laid out multiple times in my CPM thread, my Feedback Threads, I want PC to be much more... well, just more...

But with regards as to my, or League of Infamy's 'goals' in PC, you'd have to ask the leadership. I stepped down as CEO of The Southern Legion to run for CPM.

How about this, SoTa. I've been doing PC from May 2013 to April 2014
My corp history is pretty well known and can be seen by anyone with an EVE-character.

But this? "So I do not find any excuse of care bear acceptable to the abandonment of PC. "
Who was it that blue'd up with the only competition? Oh, right, you did.
Who was it that removed heir EVE character from corp and publicly announced the RA/N-F deal before anyone had a chance to make it sound pretty? (then got Infantry forcibly removed)

The only 16 person team that could reliably field a competitive team, and even the corps that had regularly used ringers, have been absorbed into a single Alliance. Those that left PC early can have objections to the terrible lag-which is now present in everyone's public contracts- or the simple idea that a small corp can dominate the game and the only counter to them is to wait until they get bored or switch systems or buy a new game so their numbers dwindle.
Only you've all protected yourself from the dwindling numbers problem by huddling up.

Please, Mr Pop SoTa, explain how that is not being a carebear and protecting yourself from anyone that could challenge you?
Instead of the people that left the ****** system before the preeminent carebear example alliance took hold. Are you saying you'll vote for anyone in a corp that was removed from PC or is it you just won't vote for anyone outside DNS?

Appia I just plain don't trust. She claimed loyalty to AE then back stabbed it the instant it made a move she didn't like - that's not a person I will accept representing me. It is a concern that whoever is elected will shape things there way, and she's shown that it's her way - or the high way. Regardless of how she shows herself off as CPM candidate - actions speak louder then words.

If she can separate her game persona from her CPM one then I have no problem with her candidacy.

As far as my views. You can see my general points in the link in my sig. However, it is for general players as I have not gotten many questions from PC players as f yet.

For PC
- CCP needs to focus on game stability as far as lag and frames-per-second
- Introduction of Skirmish 3.0 to make PC something more than a competitive pub match
- Faster fixes for exploits/glitches

CCP has always said that PC matches represent the ultimate form of combat and a good example to use for balancing weapons and equipment and yet it take months for them to make adjustments that have a positive impact on PC matches. If PC is going to be their halo gamemode then they need to treat it as such.

Aside from that, it would be nice to have some vanity points in PC such as corp logos on flags around the district. Things that give a feel of immersion and that you are defending 'your turf'.

I've been monitoring the thread for bit and this is my first opportunity to post so forgive me for being late to the discussion.

@SoTa... I appreciate your passion and they way you quite directly attack the issues or questions you are posing to the group. That said, i'm struggling to find out what exactly is that type of candidate you are looking for. You are pretty clear on what you don't want or what doesn't interest you but can you list the qualifications or experince level that you are looking for? What facet of PC most concerns you and that you don't think can be properly addressed by many of the candidates?

I've looked into all the current candidates, played with most of them, and done some basic forum research and I don't think any of them don't want PC to be what it was billed as...the persistent, meaningful aspect of Dust that gives high level game play and attracts people to Dust and New Eden. Look at some of their work and see if it's something you can get behind. Example would be Pokey Dravon's PC 2.0 concept.

I'm not trying to derail or disrupt your line of questioning...simply trying to understand more about the context of your statements. That might generate some more informed answers to you.

To be clear, I'm obviously not a CPM candidate, however, I am someone that is working to raise awareness of the CPM, it's actions, and inform the community about the election and candidates. Liked or hated, you are a well known personality in the Dust community and no once questions your desire for the game to be sucessfull in the long term...you just have a thorny way of showing it sometimes. For the record, you would clearly be the sensei i would seek out to learn Troll-Fu from if I every decided to go to the dark side.

The game needs candidates who can range from NPE all the way through PC. And the range of candidates we have definitely covers that scope. Personally, I've been in roughly one to two PC matches a week with my alliance for the whole year, ending only with DNS' takeover of PFC. (My alliance has done a lot more, but I try not to lock out other players from getting a spot.) Our alliance has owned and defended territory on Altbrard, Hrober, and Oddelulf.

Fair points, SoTa.

I think all but Kevall (who I think is very solid candidate for CPM) have a very solid backgrounds in PC competition and many still play periodically in PC. The practical answer is that there just aren't that many folks invovled in PC any more - which is a huge shame. If they are a member of a Corp or Alliance that isn't active in PC (for any number of reasons) it's pretty tough for them to be ringing and deploying regularly while being in a leadership position. The thing that you might be overlooking is that many of the candidates truly want PC to work and make it competitive. The mechanics now have snowballed baseline issues to the point where many corps and players can't even get on to the field.

You do have a good point about where the focus of the candidate is. I think its a great idea that we have one or two candidates with a deep understanding of PC and they have to be able to relate PC to the rest of the fabric of the game and help CCP understand how to synchronize those facets so the gamemodes themselves don't become imbalanced.

I think you're initial approach was taken as "none of the current candidates can support my subset of the community well enough so they don't belong to be CPMs". It appears that that's clearly not the case and you've pointed out several very viable candidates from the group running - I appreciate you engaging on this and keeping the discussion moving forward.