Many of you know that I previously held up my hand for candidacy in the CSM8 Elections representing DUST 514 and it's impact and Integration on EVE Online (as well as the reverse). I'm here to announce that I have begun my campaign, and I hope that I can win your hearts, and your votes in the coming weeks and months, so that we can get representation on the CSM, and hopefully, become so much more than an 'add-on' to New Eden.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=197255&find=unread

Here is the link to my EVE Forums Candidacy Announcement. Along with the current replies, and some of my responses.

I trust that all of you with EVE Accounts will at least consider me for a position based on my platform, and we can cast off the EVE disapproval of having this game affect game in any dramatic way, and have them WANTING us to be there.

The Black jackal
aka Hunter Blake

I like your platform but I can also say I've nothing to base my judgement around (seeing as I honestly don't care about eve politics) But at the same time I'm interested in faction warfare. But in the same way that Faction warfare is completely and utterly broken because of the Gallente minmatar destroying everything, and caldari Ammar getting craped on.

But in other news, fighting on stations would be a pretty cool attack/defense game play. security drone's, automatic turrets, that random civilian getting in your way.

Basically what i'm trying to get at is that if you want to have deeper eve/dust relation's you're probably going to want to make faction warfare more appealing and less of a one sided beating.

Well there's not much I can say here.

Then why did you post?

While in your case you just seem to want some attention.

You make a post that doesn't contribute anything (a bit hypocritical I know) and then tell me I just want attention, for asking why you bothered to post, as it seems to be a waste of your time? Are you serious?

You might want to explain WTH CSM is in the OP.

You handled the heat well that was thrown at you eve-side. Definitely interested to see someone who is both in eve and dust that can guide CCP toward the correct direction of implimentation.

Its going to happen no matter what, thats what some eve folk dont seem to realize, they practically wish this game to fail but resources have already been committed to such an extent that resources WILL be spent on the game, now its about how they do it. They need a dust representative who is also a eve representative, hope they are not too blind to realize this.

many of the people I've talked to in the EVE Community

I disagrre wholeheartedly that DUST needs it's own CSM... We need to be represented as a single Universe.

One War / One Universe.

CCP goals, full steam ahead. We may be separate games, but it's not the GAME itself that the CSM represents. It's the universe, and we co-exist with the Capsuleers in New Eden.

And this is the core of your issue, really. I've said this before, and I'll say it again here. Your enthusiasm is nothing short of fantastic, and your persistence is fully admirable. That being said, this is the wrong time for Dust 514, the wrong place in the CSM, and the wrong way by not talking to community members on a more personal level of doing what you're trying to do.

You have the backing of none of the major organized entities in Dust 514 right now for this CSM position, and in no small part because you just haven't talked to any of them. The first place you've put your thoughts or ambitions to the CSM is right here, on the forums. If you had talked to anyone in the organized part of the community, they would have told you what so many others have expressed. Your potential demographic in seeking a CSM8 position on a platform centralized on Dust 514 is small. It contains:

(1) Primarily Dust players who have recently taken Eve subscriptions

(2) Eve players who are more concerned about Dust 514 than they are about Eve



These categories are small in and of themselves; if you were somehow able to instantly mobilize everyone in them you MIGHT be able to scrape into a CSM position. The thing is, these are merely demographics where you could potentially find voters. In reality, the second category of players doesn't actually exist, and the first don't know you well. Our best interactions with The Black Jackal, from a community standpoint, have all been here on the forums. That just doesn't cut it.


If you could take this energy that you're devoting to a campaign destined to fail at even getting the required number of forums likes to pass it off to the proper CSM candidacy process and redirect it to lobbying CCP to fix important issues: Grouping, corp voice, presentation of Fac Warfare status, and other things besides...that energy would be well-spent and would make a vastly more positive impact on the Dust community. We need all the help we can get here on the ground floor.

i hope you know what you are geting into, best of luck!