Some questions and concerns about Zatara may be valid, others, I don't think are so valid. I haven't decided who I'm voting for yet (other then myself, of course), but I urge people not to rush to conclusions. I don't feel being in the dominant landholding alliance is necessarily a capital crime for a CPM candidate. While exploits have been a problem for a pretty large percentage of the PC playerbase, largely speaking, the fault is CCP's failure to create a good game mode, and failure to police those individuals exploiting the system.

If the game is in such a way that allows one to take 100% of it, that's not the player's fault for doing it. Does everyone here expect CPM members to pull their punches in-game? Planetary Conquest is part of the game, and by it's very definition, you're kinda supposed to try and kick people out of it.

I mean, I'm big on PFC, so you know, sometimes I can be a big carebear about getting people into PC and having fun. But it's hard to blame someone for playing the game well.

You hold one point that is true, and can't back it up in regards to Zatara. And that is that you can judge him on choices he's made, however, you're ignoring how he runs his corporation. Are you saying, that by allowing his guys to make the decision to what they've done, that Zatara should take the fall as a person?

In this regard, him giving his guys the option of what path they will be fighting on, was the choice that we wish CCP would give us. This man, has shown that he will listen to you, help you improve your ideas, and then implement them. FA is the proof guys, no one else in this entire game has the commitment to do what he did and make the choices he has. He heard his men out, and made the best moves for them. Even district locking was so that he could keep enough clones so he wouldn't be forced to clone pack - everyone is getting very frustrated with Clone Packs, and many corps have completely burnt out using them - so he did what the cool thing was to do back then, because he had to for his guys.

As a corp leader, Dust is not his concern, but as CPM, it would be, you would see a whole new side of him reaching out to the NPE. This would be a positive move that would help grow the trust between community and CPM. I doubt there are few who take this game as seriously as Zatara. But more then that, he would be a person to break down walls this community has set in itself, such as vet vs casual.

He would also help fix the transparency issue between CPM and Community - not the leakage of NDA, but how well the communication link works. IE. you can expect CPM to reply as best they can to all concerns

Zatara, offers a lot as CPM. To both the community and game mechanics. I implore those judging him on selective track records - ask yourselves - "If I had a competitive team loyal to me, looking up to me to make the right decisions, what would I do for them?" Then ask if it's alright to judge him based on what he thought was right.