Sounds very interesting and very promising, its a feature I know many of the players have been pushing for for some time now.

My only word of advice is to try to avoid having all of your candidates be from major organizations, or just people who post a lot on the forums. There are a lot of players out there from some of the massive corps that like to showboat around on the forums, playing themselves off as a fantastic community members when really they're just trying to draw up community support with a silver tongue and little work behind their words to back it up.

There are plenty of people I've seen around that quietly work to support this game by doing hard and good work that is sometimes left unnoticed by the masses, but is nevertheless invaluable to the community in the long run. It would be a shame for CCP to also let this work go unnoticed, because it really is important and will allow this game to survive and thrive. Because of that, the people working on this stuff really should be the ones on the council because they're more interested in the quality of the game and not just their own personal or corporate interests.

Luckily, we already have access to the posting history of all our internal candidates. We have vetted a number of candidates that were suggested to us and we have reviewed their forum posting history along with a number of other qualifications in order to be sure they live up to the standards we are setting for the beta War Council.

Sounds very interesting and very promising, its a feature I know many of the players have been pushing for for some time now.

My only word of advice is to try to avoid having all of your candidates be from major organizations, or just people who post a lot on the forums. There are a lot of players out there from some of the massive corps that like to showboat around on the forums, playing themselves off as a fantastic community members when really they're just trying to draw up community support with a silver tongue and little work behind their words to back it up.

There are plenty of people I've seen around that quietly work to support this game by doing hard and good work that is sometimes left unnoticed by the masses, but is nevertheless invaluable to the community in the long run. It would be a shame for CCP to also let this work go unnoticed, because it really is important and will allow this game to survive and thrive. Because of that, the people working on this stuff really should be the ones on the council because they're more interested in the quality of the game and not just their own personal or corporate interests.

Well good luck with it then

Expect a backlash if the wrong ppl get picked tho

+1 for this. This isn't about the epeen.

Unfortunately many of the people who would probably get picked by the community really have no right to be representing the players of this game. I mean we have people who have already been running active campaigns to be elected for something like this, instead of actually spending time working on material and helping players learn and enjoy the game better.

Humility speaks volumes, and its a lesson a vast number of players in this game should learn.

Can the councils first point of order be bringing in a send to corp email function.

My life would be soooooo much easier with it.

Corp functions in general.

And a clock, a kittening clock.

Set your PS3 to GMT 0 and your sorted.

I believe they have already looked at players for this council and are doing interviews. They already have the data they need, you should be chosen by your merits, not your ability to woo the crowd. +1

How will we know who is on it? How could we put in a recommendation to be picked?

How will we know who is on it? How could we put in a recommendation to be picked?

Look for a Dev Blog announcing the full War Council some time before the end of the month.

I had the same thought.

Greetings DUST 514 Community,

For those of you that don't know me, I'm CCP Dolan, and I run the EVE Online Council of Stellar Management (CSM). We at CCP have been looking into creating a similar group for DUST 514.

We came to the conclusion that the best group of people to help design the future of this player run organization, which we have yet to officially name, was the players themselves.

I have asked the DUST 514 Development and Community Teams to submit to me a list of some of the most helpful, active, and knowledgeable community members. Representatives from the DUST 514 teams and I will be sitting down and interviewing these candidates to try and identify the best fits for what we will be tentatively calling the DUST 514 War Council (until we come up with a permanent name). We will then be looking at all of these interviews and selecting a council to make up the very first beta version of the War Council.

This appointed council will work closely with us in establishing a voting system, working with teams regarding upcoming features, and generally serving a similar role to the EVE Online CSM.

As this is a beta version of the council, we ask the community as a whole to be tolerant with any growing pains that the council will no doubt experience.

More details about term length, possible summits, council size, etc. will be announced soon. We hope that both the CSM and the War Council can work together towards making the EVE Universe the best it possibly can be.

Please feel free to ask any questions or provide feedback in this thread.

Nope, I vote for Cerebral Wolf or dent308. The rest of these people were doing this first with questionable motives. I really don't trust anybody else, and you shouldn't either. Remember, these people tried to do this themselves to get free trips to Iceland.

Luckily, we already have access to the posting history of all our internal candidates. We have vetted a number of candidates that were suggested to us and we have reviewed their forum posting history along with a number of other qualifications in order to be sure they live up to the standards we are setting for the beta War Council.

Can the councils first point of order be bringing in a send to corp email function.

My life would be soooooo much easier with it.

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?

Yes, we didn't want there to be a whole lot of politics surrounding this beta selection. We will however, likely have the full blown political campaigns seen in the EVE CSM upon the election of the first Full-Term Council.

We had some difficulty trying to decide how voting would work in a free-to-play game, where you can have unlimited accounts. We will be working with the War Council and the community to try and shape what elections will look like in the future.

What's the chances of the beta council being ported over to the first "real" council?

Also, how much of this announcement has to do with me kicking dust in the CPM's eyes and CSM candidates eyes over the last week or two?

probably none :p