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Kevall Longstride DUST University Ivy League 1403	Posted - 2014.06.12 17:55:00 - [1] - Quote Following confirmation of my eligibility to stand with the publication of the first CPM White Paper, I'd like to formally announce my candidature for election to the Council of Planetary Management 1. I do not take this decision lightly, nor do I for personal gain but rather to work for the expansion of the game beyond what it is now to what it can be. I want to do this not only for all the players we have now but for the ones we've had in the past and the ones to come. I have always been confident as to the potential of Dust 514 and how it could possibly change the landscape of the gaming industry. I'm also convinced that it can have a hugely positive effect on the universe of New Eden that CCP created for Eve Online, which was how I first came to learn of the biggest sandbox in the world. As the CEO of a training corporation, I of course have certain aspects of the games development that I wish to promote and push for, should I make the final 7 in the ballot. But these are avenues of change to the game in it current form, that I strongly believe will be of a massive benefit to all corporations and players in the game. My corporation, DUST University, is one of the largest corporations not only in Dust 514 but in the whole of New Eden. While size in itself means nothing, it does mean that I have had to stretch the corporation mechanics and User Interface of Dust 514 to its absolute limits, more so than any other CEO most likely and found it wanting. Badly. In order to run a corporation of this size in Dust 514, I've had to use the existing Corp interface in the Eve Client, which in itself has a multitude of problems, most of which are to the detriment of smoothly running a corp in another game. But compared to what we have in the Dust Client... Corporations are key to the expansion of the community in Dust 514. Player retention is significantly improved when they join a social group, both in Dust and Eve. And the cornerstone of any corporate structure is how it can be run and maintained by its Officers and Management. As long as the best way to run and maintain a corp in Dust 514 is through the client of another game then Dust cannot be considered a truely separate entity within New Eden. As long as Dust's UI needs Eve to run its corps effectively, Dust's UI can be considered an utter failure. I hope to persuade CCP as to the dire need to change that during my tenure on the CPM, so that future corps can flourish. In addition to this goal, my role as an instructor of new players as alerted me to serious shortcomings as to the quality of the New Player Experience in Dust 514. While the format of Eve Online perhaps lends itself better to being able to control the flow of knowledge to a new player (it wasn't always as it is now in Eve), the lack of the regular FPS stalwarts such as Campaigns and missions in Dust 514 limits what can be taught by the game itself. While joining a corp can help significantly, a player must first know that they can join a corporation in the first place. I've already presented in the past to CCP, proof of concepts for an improved NPE, some of which did make the game in later patches, either directly or indirectly because of my work but I do know that CPM0 were shown my work at some point. I've also developed something of a reputation as a consistent botherer of Dev's via social media and at Fanfest. I was a noted advocator of Corp and Alliance mail during the closed beta (to the point where I swear CCP included it to just shut me up), I also pushed consistently for Mark as Read and Delete all to the point where CCP Foxfour snapped I think. I also, to my knowledge, remain the only non CPM player directly mentioned in a Dev Blog. I was also at the behest of CPM0 from what I understand, consulted on the introduction and implementation of the Academy matches by CCP. There are still many things that I wish for in the game that I hopefully will have the chance to bring to CCP's attention. Things such as chat admin rights within the Dust Client, Titles and Medals for those players in a corp that contribute to it's running. While these things may not seem as interesting as a new weapon or suit role, their permanent legacy will be to help Corporations to grow and with them, the player base. While these are matters that concern me greatly, I'm not without concern for other aspects of the game and where we are in at the moment. PC has been a disaster in that we have so much money in Dust now in the hands of a few, that any future economy in the game risks imploding before it gets a chance to get a foothold. The constant nerfing and buffing cycle employed over the last year, is diminishing player interest in sticking to a long term training plan and is directly responsible for the FOTM phenomenon, a creation entirely of CCP's doing. A lack of communication, sometimes understandable but nevertheless can create longer lasting problems such as player indifference if not handled better. These are just some of the concerns I share with the community and hopefully, with your help I can be in a position to express them directly to CCP on your behalf. Thank you for your consideration. Twitter DennieFleetfoot Email [email protected] My YouTube Channel Skype optimusfrag You can also read my blog here CPM1 Candidate CEO of DUST University
RAIDER 04 The Exemplars Top Men. 26	Posted - 2014.06.13 20:41:00 - [2] - Quote I'll state two Conerns that I have regarding you? Will you be tough enough to stand up to CCP when the time comes? Do you Play enough to have an Good Understanding of the Game? The Corporate Raiders PAC Endorses Free Tacos Nixon for CPM
Kevall Longstride DUST University Ivy League 1403	Posted - 2014.06.13 21:18:00 - [3] - Quote As to your first concern, I would hope that any Dev's reading this or those that were at Fanfest this year with me would say that isn't the case. It's true that I might not get angered at them as some might like but I'd prefer to make my point with reasoned argument. There have already been several UI changes to the game over the last year, that I was either a leading voice for or specifically asked for because I found it was inhibiting corp growth or admin. I personally have nearly 37 million skill points. I got them by playing the game. I would love to play more but its a common problem with CEO's I'm afraid. I spend a lot of my time running the corp rather than playing the game itself. It's part of my platform that the corp UI needs a complete overhaul so that the corps are easier to run, more admin that is done automatically. A much stronger corp structure is key to player growth in the game and player retention. I've already spoken a great deal with CCP in this area and hope to make even better progress as part of the CPM. CPM1 Candidate CEO of DUST University
Vethosis Pradox XVI Proficiency V. 960	Posted - 2014.06.16 18:56:00 - [4] - Quote You remember the vehicle respec in 1.7 we got? 1. My LLAV fit revolved around my heavy suit. I skilled into a heavy suit and forge gun so I don't get 1 shotted out of my LLAV. Now that the vehicle respec happened, I had no use for this heavy suit, the vehicle respec screwed my heavy fit and forgegun suit up. If and what would you do about this issue.
Kevall Longstride DUST University Ivy League 1406	Posted - 2014.06.16 19:53:00 - [5] - Quote I'm now confirmed as being on the list of accepted candidates. Thank you for the support given so far and that which is to come. o7 CPM1 Candidate CEO of DUST University
Kevall Longstride DUST University Ivy League 1406	Posted - 2014.06.16 20:17:00 - [6] - Quote Vethosis wrote: You remember the vehicle respec in 1.7 we got? 1. My LLAV fit revolved around my heavy suit. I skilled into a heavy suit and forge gun so I don't get 1 shotted out of my LLAV. Now that the vehicle respec happened, I had no use for this heavy suit, the vehicle respec screwed my heavy fit and forgegun suit up. If and what would you do about this issue. There'd have been very little I could've done for you individually. I have to be honest with you on that one. The CPM as an advisory group have to, by necessity, deal with abstractions rather than attempt to micro manage concerns at an individual level. We wouldn't have the time to do that for everyone. That bring said, if you were to gather other players to which this had been a major concern, say by creating and maintaining a thread on the subject, you'd create more weight to your argument which we could then press upon CCP. We've all had fittings or tactics messed up by respec's (part of the reason I'm not in favour of them in general) however small balance changes like Hotfix Alpha and the upcoming Bravo are a far more flexible tool and less damaging to existing play styles. The vehicle changes in 1.7 were needed and its a harsh truth some players would have to rogered in order to fix a bigger problem. Hopefully, legion can avoid the pitfalls that befell Dust and design systems that work from day one such as vehicle balance. To brutally honest, I'd be in favour of there being no vehicles in Legion at all until CCP actually decide what role they play on the battlefield and prevent them from being just better equipped slayers. CPM1 Candidate CEO of DUST University
Soraya Xel Abandoned Privilege Top Men. 2718	Posted - 2014.06.16 20:43:00 - [7] - Quote Kevall Longstride wrote: The vehicle changes in 1.7 were needed I must disagree there. Introducing months of horror for every infantry player in the game is never "needed". I'd like to be your CPM1 candidate
Kevall Longstride DUST University Ivy League 1406	Posted - 2014.06.20 10:42:00 - [8] - Quote I would like post a little bit about what is happening in DUST University and how it pertains to the future of Dust and Legion. Right now, I'd be an outright liar if I was to say that D-UNI was as active corp as it once was. The Legion announcement hit us very hard as I knew it would when I first learned of Project Legion. For those not aware I, along with a select number of community members were told and asked for opinion about Legion prior to Fanfest. The details as to how I was told are covered by NDA. But the fact I knew beforehand became an open secret at Fanfest once the news was out. I knew that new player numbers would drop significantly because people would, wrongly as it turned out, just assume that Dust 514 would have the plug pulled almost straight away. Legion is at least 12 to 18 months away from being a shippable product according to what all the Dev's were saying at Fanfest and Dust is likely to continue for at least a year after that. Many of the CEO's of the other corps do 'inactivity culls' much as I do. I personally kick members that haven't logged on in the previous calendar month on the first of every month. So on the 1 July, I will be kicking members that haven't logged on in the month of June. Why highlight this? Because of the size of the D-UNI membership, the cull's I perform have a statistical value as to the 'health' of the community. I've always publicly announced the level of inactivity as a percentage of the size of D-UNI. For pretty much the last year it has remained a steady 18-22%, meaning that I'd kicked that percent of players for inactivity. But we'd be getting many new applicants to replace them. However the 1 July cull will be different. This will be the first cull that will show the direct impact of the Legion announcement. Many players logged in over the Fanfest Weekend which was the first one of May, so I wouldn't have kicked them in the 1 June Cull. As it stands right now the next Cull will show somewhere in between 40-50% removed for inactivity. This will be because the numbers of new players joining the D-UNI has significantly fallen between the 2nd week of May to the 3rd week of June. However... New Player applicants are once again beginning to grow and while they are never going to reach the heady heights of the 70+ a day we once got till Legion is released, they are giving me cause for optimism for the continued growth of the player base. It will be minimal growth but growth nevertheless. And because I use the Eve Client and are able to look at a players employment history and date of Merc creation, I'm seeing a growing number of veteran players returning, I suspect because of the Hotfixes deployed by CCP Rattati and his team. And this is the main reason that I want to be on the CPM in the first place. D-UNI managed to do a great deal for new players despite the games UI and infrastructure being so NPE unfriendly. But being on the CPM would give me a chance, however limited, to ensure that Legion provides the tools required for ANY corporation to do the most important work they do, which is to provide the chance to create emergent gameplay. I can also help ensure too that the NPE in Dust is not forgotten. Some of that may require UI change, some could be done with server side changes to make running a Dust corp easier in the Eve client. I'm often accused of being the most optimistic of the candidates despite the setbacks that CCP either intentionally or unintentionally hit us with. But I do see much cause for optimism with the figures I'm able to gleam from my corp data. D-UNI can still have a huge part to play in the story of Dust and continuing in Legion and I want to be at the heart of ensuring that all corporations in the in game can grow strong and effect the history of New Eden. CPM1 Candidate CEO of DUST University
Adipem Nothi Nos Nothi 2135	Posted - 2014.06.21 21:08:00 - [9] - Quote Greetings CPM Candidate! You and your peers are formally invited to attend what will no doubt become a provocative debate on the topic of Scouts! We very much look forward to your participation in said rumble, should you take interest and be so kind as to opine. We do hope you swing by and weigh in: Your Summons, Sir or Madam o7 Shoot scout with yes... - Ripley Riley
Kevall Longstride DUST University Ivy League 1413	Posted - 2014.06.24 13:45:00 - [10] - Quote After some prodding of CCP Z and Rouge, we have the 1st screenshots for the player market in Legion.. https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=166274&find=unread CPM1 Candidate CEO of DUST University

Kevall Longstride DUST University Ivy League 1415	Posted - 2014.06.25 09:15:00 - [11] - Quote Adipem Nothi wrote: Greetings CPM Candidate! You and your peers are formally invited to attend what will no doubt become a provocative debate on the topic of Scouts! We very much look forward to your participation in said rumble, should you take interest and be so kind as to opine. We do hope you swing by and weigh in: Your Summons, Sir or Madam o7 https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2226676#post2226676 CPM1 Candidate CEO of DUST University
Lorhak Gannarsein Legio DXIV 3858	Posted - 2014.06.27 16:25:00 - [12] - Quote I think I said this a long time ago, but I'll say it again: you have my vote. Your efforts with D-Uni are unmatched by any other in the community, I think, and certainly I'd likely not be playing the game anymore without the awesome group of people I met there (even if they're all European -_- dat TZ doe). CCP Rattati Best Dev AmLogi 5 GÇó AmAss 5 GÇó AmSent 4 GÇó CalScout 5 CalLogi, you're next!
Kevall Longstride DUST University Ivy League 1421	Posted - 2014.06.28 00:05:00 - [13] - Quote Thank you kindly. I just like to help. CPM1 Candidate CEO of DUST University
CEOPyrex CloneA The Unholy Legion Of DarkStar DARKSTAR ARMY 774	Posted - 2014.06.30 16:17:00 - [14] - Quote Kevall Longstride wrote: I hope to persuade CCP as to the dire need to change that during my tenure on the CPM, so that future corps can flourish. In addition to this goal, my role as an instructor of new players as alerted me to serious shortcomings as to the quality of the New Player Experience in Dust 514. I've already presented in the past to CCP, proof of concepts for an improved NPE, some of which did make the game in later patches, either directly or indirectly because of my work but I do know that CPM0 were shown my work at some point. I've also developed something of a reputation as a consistent botherer of Dev's via social media and at Fanfest. A lack of communication, sometimes understandable but nevertheless can create longer lasting problems such as player indifference if not handled better. These are just some of the concerns I share with the community and hopefully, with your help I can be in a position to express them directly to CCP on your behalf. Hello! Thanks for the OP - was a great read and certainly can see you are keen to demonstrate your value to this process, just wanted to say thanks for the work you have done so far with CCP, its certainly something to be proud of, hence its featuring in your candidacy post. I would like to ask a couple of questions based on your OP and some of the content within. Firstly i was fascinated to read about your views concerning the NPE - this is something that i can only imagine is central to Dust Uni given the role you guys play in teaching and motivating players to be part of the EVE IP - my question would be how important do you feel the NPE is to Dust 514 now? Given that the CPM role is to focus on Dust 514 - how do you see yourself adding value to the CPM on this topic? Should CCP be continuing to market and grow Dust 514? would you say that there is much CCP can do now to the Dust 514 client to enhance the NPE experience? My second question is more based around your comment on being a 'consistent bother-er of Devs via social media' this is something that i think will interest many in the voting process as its fairly obvious that the main issues of CPM0 was the lack of 'edge' in pushing CCP to engage with the office, firstly do you feel that you have actually 'pressured' CCP into action via your previous actions and if so, what were the outcomes of this process? Secondly i would like to get your opinion on what qualities you feel you have in terms of being 'the bad guy'? You strike many as being a really nice guy and your proven ability to engage and also inspire feedback from CCP shows you to be a very personable guy but my fear is that this was the primary issue of CPM0 - lots of nice pleasant people who didnt want to 'risk' their seat at the table by being insistent and forceful to CCP that they were not giving the office its due attention. What would be your reply to the above statement? CEO
Kevall Longstride DUST University Ivy League 1423	Posted - 2014.06.30 17:56:00 - [15] - Quote CEOPyrex CloneA wrote: Kevall Longstride wrote: I hope to persuade CCP as to the dire need to change that during my tenure on the CPM, so that future corps can flourish. In addition to this goal, my role as an instructor of new players as alerted me to serious shortcomings as to the quality of the New Player Experience in Dust 514. I've already presented in the past to CCP, proof of concepts for an improved NPE, some of which did make the game in later patches, either directly or indirectly because of my work but I do know that CPM0 were shown my work at some point. I've also developed something of a reputation as a consistent botherer of Dev's via social media and at Fanfest. A lack of communication, sometimes understandable but nevertheless can create longer lasting problems such as player indifference if not handled better. These are just some of the concerns I share with the community and hopefully, with your help I can be in a position to express them directly to CCP on your behalf. Hello! Thanks for the OP - was a great read and certainly can see you are keen to demonstrate your value to this process, just wanted to say thanks for the work you have done so far with CCP, its certainly something to be proud of, hence its featuring in your candidacy post. I would like to ask a couple of questions based on your OP and some of the content within. Firstly i was fascinated to read about your views concerning the NPE - this is something that i can only imagine is central to Dust Uni given the role you guys play in teaching and motivating players to be part of the EVE IP - my question would be how important do you feel the NPE is to Dust 514 now? Given that the CPM role is to focus on Dust 514 - how do you see yourself adding value to the CPM on this topic? Should CCP be continuing to market and grow Dust 514? would you say that there is much CCP can do now to the Dust 514 client to enhance the NPE experience? My second question is more based around your comment on being a 'consistent bother-er of Devs via social media' this is something that i think will interest many in the voting process as its fairly obvious that the main issues of CPM0 was the lack of 'edge' in pushing CCP to engage with the office, firstly do you feel that you have actually 'pressured' CCP into action via your previous actions and if so, what were the outcomes of this process? Secondly i would like to get your opinion on what qualities you feel you have in terms of being 'the bad guy'? You strike many as being a really nice guy and your proven ability to engage and also inspire feedback from CCP shows you to be a very personable guy but my fear is that this was the primary issue of CPM0 - lots of nice pleasant people who didnt want to 'risk' their seat at the table by being insistent and forceful to CCP that they were not giving the office its due attention. What would be your reply to the above statement? CEO On your first point I would say that of course the NPE is just as important to Dust 514 as it's ever been. While understandably not being the primary focus of CCP Shanghai, it has in fact become as playable as it's ever been right now after the work that CCP Rattati has done with Alpha and Bravo. And at this point it like to remind everyone that Dust is far from dead. Project Legion is at the very least 18 months away from being launched and from the many chats I had with members of the Dev team at Fanfest this year including with Rouge, it is very much the intention of CCP to continue supporting the game for at least another year after Legion is ready. And this is I feel reflected in the fact that our applicant numbers from new toons is beginning to rise again. They won't ever match the pre Legion numbers of course but they're hovering around the 70% mark. With the smaller team on Dust it'll be more cost efficient to do as much as can be done for as long as can done on the server side. And there is still much that can yet be done for the game using that method. Rattati has yet to look at what can be done for corps tools and admin server side. There could be a number of features that could use the Eve client. Not ideal I grant you, but preferable to nothing being done. Despite what can be done at CCP's side alone, I don't think it unreasonable to conclude that at some point a proper 1.9 patch will be required. But only when there is enough to substantially improve the quality of the game and fix what can't be on TQ alone. I would continue to push for this while on the CPM. Here I have to raise a point of order with one of your questions. It is very much my belief that the CPM's main focus is in fact the Community that Dust 514 has pulled together not the actual game itself. It's true that much of the work of CPM1 is going to be within Dust 514 and the players of it but given the level of Dev interaction/feedback on the Legion Forum regarding, progression, UI, salvaging and player market, I find it inconceivable that CPM 1 will have no imput into Legion at all. There are still many concerns that players have regarding Legion and this CPM will have the opportunity to ensure these concerns are communicated in a meaningful way to CCP at a stage of its development that could prevent major problems later. As to your second question there is no real proof I can offer you here other than to relay a couple of things I learnt from conversation at Fanfest with the Dev team and members of the current CPM. I'll leave it them if they wish to confirm what I've been told. Throughout the patching process of Uprising, all the way to 1.8, I've been inforned that my name has been brought up more times than any other player in discussion between the CPM and CCP. The term 'Dennie feature' (my Eve character) became part of the vernacular. Uprising 1.5 was apparently referred to internally in Shanghai as The Dennie Patch. Continued... CPM1 Candidate CEO of DUST University
Kevall Longstride DUST University Ivy League 1423	Posted - 2014.06.30 17:59:00 - [16] - Quote Reserved CPM1 Candidate CEO of DUST University
Kevall Longstride DUST University Ivy League 1423	Posted - 2014.07.01 10:36:00 - [17] - Quote Completely unrelated but my [url]http://letourknaresborough.org.uk/14-activities-front-page/112-knaresborough-is-the-winner-of-the-best-dressed-tdf-town.html]hometown[/url] just best decorated town on the Tour de France route going through Yorkshire this weekend!! Very proud to be a Crag Rat today!! CPM1 Candidate CEO of DUST University
Syeven Reed G0DS AM0NG MEN 709	Posted - 2014.07.01 10:43:00 - [18] - Quote Kevall Longstride wrote: Completely unrelated but my [url]http://letourknaresborough.org.uk/14-activities-front-page/112-knaresborough-is-the-winner-of-the-best-dressed-tdf-town.html]hometown[/url] just best decorated town on the Tour de France route going through Yorkshire this weekend!! Very proud to be a Crag Rat today!! It's a small world! They'll be going through my home town of York too! Although your town has really gone further with decorations... all we have is a few yellow bikes! Twitter MajLagSpike CPM Application
Kevall Longstride DUST University Ivy League 1424	Posted - 2014.07.01 10:47:00 - [19] - Quote It's what the CPM needs. A bit of Yorkshire Gumption. CPM1 Candidate CEO of DUST University
Kevall Longstride DUST University Ivy League 1424	Posted - 2014.07.01 17:03:00 - [20] - Quote Some blue sky thinking as to spawning and uplinks for Legion. https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2236995#post2236995 CPM1 Candidate CEO of DUST University

Anarchide Greedy Bastards 2239	Posted - 2014.07.01 17:26:00 - [21] - Quote Yorkshire?! Home of the feral Yorkmouth? I'm a pretty Princess
Kevall Longstride DUST University Ivy League 1424	Posted - 2014.07.01 23:24:00 - [22] - Quote Aye, that be the place. CPM1 Candidate CEO of DUST University
CEOPyrex CloneA The Unholy Legion Of DarkStar DARKSTAR ARMY 776	Posted - 2014.07.02 20:57:00 - [23] - Quote Hi Thanks for the two replies, very interesting reads indeed. I think that perhaps we are in disagreement over the NPE given that this game has never successfully grown past its initial release and given that the development team themselves are saying that development on Dust is being scaled back, Legion is now the primary focus of Rouge seemingly now. All of these points lead me to conclude the NPE will not or ever be a key aspect of Dust 514 It will however be primary to Legion and that i fear is why you are running. Legion is a great idea and could well be the next generation of FPS gaming, they also said that about Dust 514 and given CCPs mass redundacies recently its hard to see a golden product coming from this developer quite just yet. That ofc is just my opinion. I get the strong opinion from your campaign that you are constantly trying to remind people how 'important' to the process you are, multiple comments like "I've been informed that my name has been brought up more times than any other player in discussion between the CPM and CCP" and The term 'Dennie feature' (my Eve character) became part of the vernacular seem to show a lack of confidence on your own part and the constant reinforcement seems concerning. are you not a confident man? I have this fear that you will be a really nice guy and will get on perfectly well with CCP and the other CPM chaps - you will also then not have the killer instinct needed to transition a community that you are supposed to represent into legion. I worry that you are looking to become CPM so that you can 'tick it off your EVE bucket list' and frankly this isnt right. However What i can pretty much guess will happen is that all of your corp will vote you in (something that swayed me not running at all, why would I when i can simply get my corp to vote me in (1.5k members now in the alliance) when its that easy, i honestly dont see why you are running other than you want to gain another achievement in your CCP journey. Sorry, i think that if you get into the CPM, you will quickly become known as the candidate who is firmly in CCPs pocket and unable to take them on. therefore we the Dust 514 community would lose out through your success. Just my observations
Kevall Longstride DUST University Ivy League 1432	Posted - 2014.07.03 01:46:00 - [24] - Quote CEOPyrex CloneA wrote: My second question is more based around your comment on being a 'consistent bother-er of Devs via social media' this is something that i think will interest many in the voting process as its fairly obvious that the main issues of CPM0 was the lack of 'edge' in pushing CCP to engage with the office, firstly do you feel that you have actually 'pressured' CCP into action via your previous actions and if so, what were the outcomes of this process? Kevall Longstride wrote: As to your second question there is no real proof I can offer you here other than to relay a couple of things I learnt from conversation at Fanfest with the Dev team and members of the current CPM. I'll leave it them if they wish to confirm what I've been told. Throughout the patching process of Uprising, all the way to 1.8, I've been inforned that my name has been brought up more times than any other player in discussion between the CPM and CCP. The term 'Dennie feature' (my Eve character) became part of the vernacular. Uprising 1.5 was apparently referred to internally in Shanghai as The Dennie Patch. CEOPyrex CloneA wrote: I get the strong opinion from your campaign that you are constantly trying to remind people how 'important' to the process you are, multiple comments like "I've been informed that my name has been brought up more times than any other player in discussion between the CPM and CCP" and The term 'Dennie feature' (my Eve character) became part of the vernacular seem to show a lack of confidence on your own part and the constant reinforcement seems concerning. are you not a confident man? Thank you for the response Pyrex. It's made for an interesting read certainly. I would like to highlight a couple of issues here that I feel need clarifying. In your second question you specifically ask of me if I ' feel that you have actually 'pressured' CCP into action via your previous actions and if so, what were the outcomes of this process?' To which I answer above in the affirmative. I would like to extend that answer and remove any equivocation that I suspect might be clouding the understanding of some in regard to it. I don't feel I've actually pressured CCP into action, I know I've actually pressured them into action. I don't say that because I was one of a chorus of voices asking for a feature that arrived, I say this because CCP themselves have told me that I did. As to my need to 'remind people how 'important' to the process you are, multiple comments like "I've been informed that my name has been brought up more times than any other player in discussion between the CPM and CCP" and The term 'Dennie feature' (my Eve character) became part of the vernacular', I would point out that was a direct answer to your question, not anyone else's. As to seeming to show 'a lack of confidence on your own part and the constant reinforcement seems concerning. are you not a confident man?' Am I not a confident man? Are you kidding? I've had a patch in this game named after me internally at CCP. As I've said elsewhere in the forums, I was informed of and asked for my opinion on Project Legion before its announcement at Fanfest. I've been running a corp for two years, while others have risen, fallen and burnt out. The player retention of players who join my corp before moving on to others is high enough to be statistically valuable to CCP for its impact on the games total player retention figure. And all of this, was done, without my being on the CPM. You bet your arse I'm confident. CEOPyrex CloneA wrote: I have this fear that you will be a really nice guy and will get on perfectly well with CCP and the other CPM chaps - you will also then not have the killer instinct needed to transition a community that you are supposed to represent into legion. I worry that you are looking to become CPM so that you can 'tick it off your EVE bucket list' and frankly this isnt right. Yes, I am a really nice guy. Sue me. If you mean by 'not have the Killer Instinct' as not being a complete ******, then I'm sorry to disappoint you. But for me and others I suspect, that says more about your attitude to cooperation in general, rather than anything about me. You are right about wanting to tick CPM of a bucket list as not being right of course. However, If I'd wanted to tick that of my bucket list, I wouldn't have turned down being on CPM0 because I thought that getting D-UNI of the ground a better use of my time in terms of serving the community. CEOPyrex CloneA wrote: What i can pretty much guess will happen is that all of your corp will vote you in (something that swayed me not running at all, why would I when i can simply get my corp to vote me in (1.5k members now in the alliance) when its that easy, i honestly dont see why you are running other than you want to gain another achievement in your CCP journey. I don't expect my corp or alliance [2.8k] to vote me. Nor have I or will I order them to so. I'm sure anyone who has an alt in the UNI, will tell you that I haven't sent an order to vote for me or else. It's entirely their choice as to who to vote for. The most I've done is remind them that I'm standing for CPM and they should join the CPM1 Candidates channel and check out the forums and Votematch when its live. Thinking that every one will vote for you in your alliance and doing nothing to prove you're worth their vote, is in no way a guarantee you'd be successful. Particularly when forum participation is currently less than 10% of the total player base. As to my 'running to gain another achievement', thank you for reiterating my previous achievements. o7 Kevall/Dennie CPM1** Candidate CEO of DUST University
CEOPyrex CloneA the unholy legion of darkstar DARKSTAR ARMY 776	Posted - 2014.07.03 08:34:00 - [25] - Quote Interesting reply, thanks My comments however still stand, you strike me as someone who isn't actually very confident at all with their own 'worth' the fact you constantly reinforce how 'important' you have been the entire process of Dust 514 is disappointing to say the least Quote: I've had a patch in this game named after me internally at CCP. As I've said elsewhere in the forums, I was informed of and asked for my opinion on Project Legion before its announcement at Fanfest. The above quote reinforces my point here quite well, im sorry to tell you this but CCP speak (and continue to speak) to a large number of people behind doors and NDAs and not just you as you seem to think is the case...., citing that you 'knew' about legion before fanfest again just shows you are quite desperate to show your links and engagement with CCP in this thread and throughout your entire campaign. Frankly you are like the guy who keeps telling his mates that hes friends with someone famous / important and showing pictures of you and them together and all the funny things they said last night down the beach bar. I think you would quickly become an empty seat when the conversations switch to in game mechanics, Dust 514 (NOT legion) and balancing issues, this is why i think you are not a good or fit for purpose candidate for Dust 514 CPM1, for a legion CPM, that would be an entirely different matter perhaps but once again to be clear, CPM1 is there for Dust 514 on the PS3. All of this sadly is moot however as regardless of your 'don't vote for me' rhetoric, its highly likely that pressure will be applied to your corp to vote for you in some medium, meaning CPM 1 will really in effect only have 6 seats of worth. Sorry to be appearing harsh here, i really fear that you will just continue CPM0 right into CPM1 and then once again the only people that suffer is the entire community, not just your corp and friends.
NanoCleric the unholy legion of darkstar DARKSTAR ARMY 107	Posted - 2014.07.03 09:23:00 - [26] - Quote wow.. well i gotta say that originally i was on the fence about your campaign as it did seem quite egotistical.. well now that's been proven.. Simply put, i'd rather have someone who spent their time putting focus on the game and community rather than every tidbit that they feel makes them great or important. In a position like this it's important to focus on the community and the dev's and branch that link. I'm sorry to say it appears that you just want recognition for everything you've done and will do.. rather than being humble about it. .. You've dissapointed me Kev, i didn't think you were like this.
Kevall Longstride DUST University Ivy League 1433	Posted - 2014.07.03 12:11:00 - [27] - Quote You're both perfectly entitled as to your opinion as I am to mine. But I think my fellow candidate IWS put it so much better than I could in his reply to you. I do like your video's on YouTube Pyrex, I subscribe to the channel and as a fellow Elite: Dangerous Alpha player I ,like you, are loving the hell out of it. But the simple fact of the matter is that you have a reputation as being a flip-flopper as to your views, having changed your opinion on the CPM at least twice now and flat out accusing them of using the position to their benefit, the word around the campfire being that CCP Sabrewing felt compelled to contact you to point out some inaccuracies. Now some may say that shows an ability be able to be persuaded as to a new argument, a perfectly valid point. But you do seem to get persuaded a rather lot of times. For me, this demonstrates a lack of conviction more than anything else. As to accusations of being egotistical, that could be applied to every single candidate if you were so inclined. You have to be egotistical to say publicly 'I want your vote', or 'what this game needs is me', If a candidate doesn't recognise that in themselves before choosing to stand for public office, the process WILL break them. Do you want a wall flower fighting for you or do you want someone looking CCP straight in the eye and say 'OK, you gave us that but we want this too'? As to listing or wanting recognition for what I've done....... How else is a candidate going to show to an electorate that he/she is someone that can get things done other than to demonstrate to them a past track record of having done exactly that? I'm very pleased what I've managed to achieve so far and don't see why I should be made to feel that I must apologise for it. I very much hope to be able to do more for the players of this game in an official capacity. If they don't vote for me, then thats fine too. I'll continue what I'm doing now and work with both CCP and the CPM to increase the playability of this game. CPM1 Candidate CEO of DUST University
Aeon Amadi Edimmu Warfighters Gallente Federation 6138	Posted - 2014.07.03 12:20:00 - [28] - Quote CEOPyrex CloneA wrote: CPM1 is there for Dust 514 on the PS3. I'd argue that the CPM is there for whatever they're needed for, be it Dust 514, Legion, or Eve Online. The role of representative isn't exclusive to any one medium and I personally feel that if CCP foregoes the CPM's advice on Project Legion they'd be shooting themselves in the foot. Very rare to find someone - let alone seven people - who are experts at a game that doesn't exist yet Useful Links Aeon Amadi for CPM1
Kevall Longstride DUST University Ivy League 1434	Posted - 2014.07.03 12:27:00 - [29] - Quote Anyway's onto other stuff.... I've just performed the monthly D-UNI inactivity cull. This month being very different as it was the first one where pretty much everyone being inactive were aware of the existence of Legion. Now, up to a couple of weeks ago we were heading for a 50% reduction in member numbers, a significant decrease on the normal 20% we've had over the last year. But it was in fact just over 30% this time. Not as big a hit as I feared and with the slowly increasing new player numbers coming to D-UNI I put that down directly to the work of CCP Rattati and the effect of Alpha and Bravo. So Thanks Rattati. o7 CPM1 Candidate CEO of DUST University
Iron Wolf Saber Den of Swords 15713	Posted - 2014.07.03 23:56:00 - [30] - Quote I would like to go on official statement that Kevall regardless of election has proven more than valuable to the community because of not only his unique perspective but his passion and drive to fight the game's shortcomings to make a vision come true; which is extending the concept of a player ran school in a shooter. The first ever I heard of such in any shooter to be honest and the fact that Kevall here has made it work and work well is proof of concept to his ability. Despite some personality flaws he may have I feel he can overcome them and kept in check by any of his fellow council members. He already has a good working relationship with CCP and can easily build on top of that with a more encompassing NDA and more direct line contact with the developers. CPM 0 Secretary Omni-Soldier, Forum Warrior, Annoying Artist \\= Advanced Gallente Logistics =// Unlocked



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