Any word yet on the method of voting?

All of the information I'm aware of is contained in this thread but as to the specifics of the voter interface, no, no word yet.

Alright, just thought as a candidate you might have heard something by now. I'm really curious to see what they plan to do.

From what I can tell, you and Aeon appear to be our top contenders this year. Obviously anything can happen, but I'd say you two are looking the most secure out of all of the candidates from what I can glean from those I know who feel they still have a stake in this game. Keep up the good work.

Voting is in many ways about who votes. In a game or otherwise those who actually vote tend to be a minority.
In this case (unlike IRL politics) there is every reason to represent everyone rather than focus on some select sub-group so in theory (time will tell if this works in practice) being open to communicating with everyone is the most effective idea, not just for votes but for actually doing the job if elected.

At minimum I want to make sure that I'm an effective candidate. If I am then should I not be elected I've done some good work. On the other hand if I'm divisive, deaf to the community or adversarial then even if I am elected I won't be contributing positively to the process.

"Lone Wolf'ing" is often bad practice in Dust, but it's worse practice for a member of the CPM.
Whoever is ultimately selected to fill those seven seats I hope they keep a firm focus on Good of the game > personal play style or preferences of any single player sub-group

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P.S. Vote for me

How is electing you CPM going to effect anything? If you have good ideas, post them in the feedback section and engage in discussions.

CPM is not needed. If you want to do something amazing, get CCP to care for the feedback section like they claim to care about lolCPM.

But, none of the CPM Canadidiates even touch upon that subject, why? Because it makes there desired seat look bad. But, in honestly, if CPM wants to be effective they should be aggressively pointing CCP to the feedback section and having them post the questions there that they give to CPM in meetings.

As Xel correctly points out communicating with CCP is about more than the feedback section. Being sure CCP is aware of threads and ideas within the feedback section is relevant of course, but the forums in their entirety aren't the whole player base and even if they were that lacks first had perspective.

When cats like Soraya and I speak of being a conduit for communication with the community we're talking about more than pointing a CCP Dev to a thread or link and saying "hey guy, read that".
It's about condensing quality feedback from multiple sources and providing a TL;DR (with links) for CCP quick action. It's being in the game playing and then interacting (not just with CCP or CPM members) about what we see first hand to test it.
It's keeping in mind various separate ideas and how they could effect each other to fit desired improvements into the game together and it's pushing all that through the added perspective of the NDA, then back out in as a complete (non-NDA breaking) form as possible to the community.

The CPM, in it's most effective form is about more than a single game aspect, and does more than simply index ideas or ping CCP when a thread pops up. I spend most of my forum time in the Feedback section and have since closed beta. I've always posted and bumped threads that need CCP attention and still do currently (for example) but there are conversations with players which happen in other forum sections, on Skype, via in game mail, in squads, etc etc
There's testing, spreadsheets, videos and more that push ideas. This is all stuff I (and many CPM candidates) are already part of and have been for a long time.

So if we're already doing so much for the game why elected us? What makes any of us as CPM members more effective than what we're already doing?
As Soraya says, it allows us the access and information to have those conversations with CCP that cannot take place in a public venue, ensure that those discussions take place at all, and then bring as much of them as we're able back to the community.

To my knowledge no one running for CPM is avoiding talking about the meaning or function of the CPM, there is simply little point in rehashing what has already been stated by CCP.
Even in your above quote you state that CCP caring about the feedback section would be amazing, that getting them to maintain involvement there would be of value, well, CPMs have a higher than average level of communication with the Devs so being a member of the CPM affords the opportunity to draw CCPs attention to those posts in Features and Ideas Discussion in a way non of the candidates will be able to do otherwise, so even your post asking the purpose of the CPM provides one aspect of the answer to that very question.

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Cross :)

My close friend, I still remember you teaching me the basics of (what I thought at the time was) a complex game. Without your and shade's help I probably would have quit a long time ago.

I hope you win this race bud.

Cross Atu for CPM1.

Cheers Long Evity,
Feel free to keep the questions (and any relevant thread links ) coming. I may not always have an answer to everything but I'm happy to provide my best efforts to field the question regardless (and as to links, well I find the feedback section interesting even when I don't have anything new/specific to add to a particular thread I read significantly more threads there than I have posts to make).

Speaking of boundaries in community communication, each candidate elected to a CPM seat will have vastly more value if they (hopefully we ) are able to earn sufficient trust from the community that we can be active points of community interaction. A CPM that isn't trusted will be vastly inferior in value to one that is trusted, but the office and forum tag do not magically bestow trust that's something each of us has to earn (as much as possible before the elections so we're effective from day 1). Questions like yours allow us the opportunity to present our views and understandings to the community, and hopefully build that trust. So thanks again for asking.

~ Cross

Well, now I know who will get my primary vote. Your ability to facilitate a reasoned, objective and fact based dialogue is probably unmatched in this community. I'm confident you will be an excellent CPM.

You, sir, need to stop impressing me before I start to have hope again. That's a cruel thing to do to somebody in this game.

Which brings me to my next question for you: Do you even have hope for a Dust game we envisioned, or have you, as well, left the fantasies and dreaming for Legion to accomplish?

The only reason Dust will get content update is to beta test for legion, right? Fundamentally, there's nothing wrong with that, and it opens up Dust to be directly integrated into Legion someday, which is still quite possible. CCP changes there minds more often then a tsundere at that time of the month.

But what exactly do you see Dust at by the end of your CPM term? Where will the community, CPM, and CCP stand? As it is now - each of the 3 groups stand on different platforms and are not seeing eye to eye. The reason the community distrust CPM has more to do with reputation as posters then it had to do with there involvement in the game.

A new Biomassed appearance (sorry my voice is a bit rough, I'm a touch under the weather).

*Reads thread* Can I just bribe people to win?

Cross, I think you just decided this week's title. Jaysyn is the official gate of who gets to come on the show right now.

Playerbase,
Emergent Game-play
platform integration.

Which brings me to platform integration. I play on both console and PC, I've enjoyed both experience and firmly believe in the idea of Legion coming to both PC and PS4. While I acknowledge that this is a long term goal as Legion is not even in beta state yet, I do not believe it is too early to keep a dual platform approach in mind even as CCPs choice of PC focused development moves forward.
In short, I hope to foster development choices that are not only good for the game, but support an expanded community on both the PS4 and PC in the coming days of Legion.

Hello!

Great read of the OP - really excited to see your first campaign discussion point is in fact the playerbase (something a lot of other candidates seem to have missed off their statements!) I couldnt agree more than this is the primary concern for a CPM group - i do how ever have some questions about this.

Given the fanfest (some call it the Rouge Wedding) poor comms incident and its subsequent fall out that saw quite a few big playerbase groups quit the game entirely - and not in a very nice way - what do you feel you would have done given that the CPM0 knew about the entire situation well before hand and were bound by the NDA to not release it.

How would you have handled such a large and playerbase impacting 'hot potato'? what more could have been done perhaps by the CPM to reduce / negate the drama this cause to the playerbase?