Sounds like an awesome plan but will people who aren't on the council be able to vote?

Will the Dust community as a whole be voting on the final representation for the beta version of the council?

Any idea when we will know who is on or tentatively on the War Council?

I was indeed wondering how DUST players would be adequately represented on the CSM. So I find it a great idea that you guys are going to give DUST their own group right off the bat.

Will the CSM and the War Council eventually meet together? I would like to feel confident that both groups will interact heavily in ensuring the game heads in a direction that is as conjoined together as I want to see it in the future.

How are members of this council being chosen? I know in your thread that you said it was based on player commitment and helpfulness but those are subjective things at best. I mean not to say anything derisive of this as I think such a system is wonderful and I am quite excited to have such a system in place. CCP's involvement with the player base is one of the big pulls towards CCP games for me. My only concern/question is how will the devs/mods or whoever is doing the chosing insure that the members of the council are not biased towards specific players or groups and or how will the selection process be non-biased if that is possible at all?

What kind of things war council will vote and decide,and will it be balanced with all corporations.are factions kept out of council votes,will there be spokes person in every corporation,and will the bigger corps(bigger member count)get more says in votes?

I was seriously considering searching before making the suggestion. Now I wish I had.

Council for Mercenary Management?

Again, simple, but seems logical enough.

While it seems a good idea on paper the method of picking these ppl do not

Why cant you let ppl who want to be on the war council compete for it, so you make a sub forum and just say for 2 weeks anyone who wants to put forward ther name does so and states why they would be good and what they would campaign for

Basically and election but no one votes and only CCP picks the winners, but also CCP would have access to ther posts and to see if they are full of **** or not

Also you could add rules like only max 2 reps from each corp

So just to be clear: there is not opportunity to do anything from today that could bring any individuals into consideration?

I.E. It's too late to be considered for interview for the WC?

As said before good luck with working out a worldwide voting system. You would need some means of validating a players identity to avoid all the alts.

Perhaps IP address can be used in the first sweep so you can clear all those with only one account and they are the only player in that household.

Next stage is checking those who failed the initial IP address check for legitimate reasons e.g. Other members of the family play the game. For them you could look at activity, if card payments have been made etc

Whatever you do it is gonna be tough.

However, once you have determined your criteria I think that those players you have determined as eligible to vote should be issued a unique number which they enter into the computer to vote. I also think that the future voting system should be integrated into the game I.e a new tab that is active for votes like the War Council but could be used for other things internal to each corp.

funny how my post dissappeared. is it bad to ask for bigger squads or to attleast have the ability to have multiple squads on the same map? Or to ask for the ability to resell useless gear n weapons?

If they don't reply what do you plan to do? Pick more form the community or just run without them?