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

You can literally FEEL the heat from the drool dripping off of this wolf's fangs.

I'll just continue without them. I will do all I can to get in contact with everyone on my list, but I easily have enough people to form a War Council.

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,

How will these players be contacted ???

I have e-mailed all of the selected players using their registered PSN e-mail addresses. Tomorrow, I will send an eve-mail to all those who have not responded to ensure that their registered e-mail address is still actively monitored.

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.

So I take it the limit to 1 account per "person" has been re-written to one account per PSN account?

As to voting, would it be possible to create a voting system based on the MAC address of the Playstation? The hardware will have a unique code that can only be found once on the entire planet so I believe it would make logical sense to use it as the identifier that the votes would be cast by. Kind of like your driver's licence, the unique ID registering to vote would get one vote available when the "Poll" opens through an update to Dust and allow the user to cast their vote only once.

ie:

if voted==true:
load Dust()
else:
load Poll(MAC Address)

This could be a hardcoded booleen value file attached to the program itself through the update or could just send CCP the mac address that the vote belongs to and invalidate any voting after the first ballot cast. CCP could then ascertain if a person is attempting to vote more than once. This could cause a bit of grief to some users who share Playstations due to a lack of the ability to cast more than one vote, but would ensure that unless a person has more than one PS and more than one account, they wouldn't be able to vote more than once.

That don't take into account situations that a person can have multipple PS3's and PSN accounts.

Translation Were are not going to give you a CSM

Translation:We will pick our favorites this wont be Democratic at allTranslation:This is all misdirection and smoke and mirrors because like we already said your not as important to us as EVE players not only that those people give us enough headaches and we dont want that from you guys.

All though we have never put anything to a vote until we saw the player count drop when we had our brainy Idea of going to a daily SP cap.Which only Wang had the for site to see that that would've been a major catastrophe.

working with teams regarding upcoming features, and generally serving a similar role to the EVE Online CSM.


Awesome(sarcasm) we get no CSM .....thats what I read

My biggest question here is are these players representing all aspects of the game? We have players like Iron Wolf or Nova Knife who work with the community as a whole which is good. But there representation of a vehicle player or a assault ground pounder will vary from that of the majority in those areas. I have a feeling if your council lacks dedicated players to each area of game play it could end up being counter productive.

As a avid vehicle player myself I know they're very few outspoken vehicle users who are well known through out the community. This brings up a concern that did you guys get representation in this area. To me I personally want someone who will support vehicle game play and also I want someone who is driven to make a better balance for this type of game play.

I am sure any other type of player can agree that it is important to see players on the council who support there style of play weather it is a ground pounder or a logi backing him up. I just used vehicle's as a example because that is where I have dedicated my time into.

You do not need to have players from each single area. Someone can have multiple backgrounds, they just need to understand that type of game play well or understand community relations well. I know you want to cover areas outside of game play to. AKA your lore and community activities. Which is equally important for this game.

Thanks listening to my concerns,

Caeli

Would love to be apart of the War Council if of course the community and the DEV's think I am worthy of this awesome title. Built a corp from nothing and have grown to become a loving CEO but cruel punish-er of those that oppress me.

Might also be the tank pilot who kill them all till there were none.

In the Top 100 corps so let the decisions begin!

Would love to be apart of the War Council if of course the community and the DEV's think I am worthy of this awesome title. Built a corp from nothing and have grown to become a loving CEO but cruel punish-er of those that oppress me.

Might also be the tank pilot who kill them all till there were none.

In the Top 100 corps so let the decisions begin!

Considering that I on a regular basis have more than one PS3 in my house at a time I understand your concern, but consider the fact that some of us go to college and may share IP addresses with others in a dorm or office, the one vote per PS3 still makes sense to me. The alternative being the honor system or using the one vote per IP system, I still favor MAC address as being the best way. The main reason being that say party A has a Dynamic IP address and votes at X time. Logs off. Gets his or her Dynamic IP reset by his or her ISP. Votes again. See that still sounds like a bad situation. One vote per PSN ID would amount to whoever can make the highest number of PSN IDs wins. Where would the fairness in that be?

A MAC address seems, to me, the best way sir. It is unique. If it means that much to someone that they feel they need to cheat the system and buy PS3s to do it then CCP has succeeded in creating one of the most popular games in the world and I am happy for them. I enjoy Dust, I hope everyone else playing enjoys it as much as myself and hate to think that those people would want to ruin a good thing like player representation by foolishly vote tampering.

Perhaps Playstation could help us in this by verifying that the PS3 IDs voting don't belong to the same named individual, considering they do, I believe have access to their records and the IDs when created ask for your name, address etc. it would be easy for them to single out who has voted twice or three times or once.

You've checked everything they've ever posted on the forums? That seems a little much.

Than you shall be delighted to know that all chat logs per character are recorded as well, and completely fair game for "vetting" prospective War Council representatives.

I am uneasy with CCP picking the people to represent the player base. Whats to stop them picking people who have agrred with everything they have done and just using them as puppets?

Having CCP pick the war council may look good on paper but its a bad idea.