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.

In other words, if any of your posts ever contained "HTFU", "scrub", "newberry", or "QQ", you are not WC material.

I imagine what they meant was that they checked through for people trolling or breaking the forum rules rather than using really quite common terminology.

Let's see.... gotta have quickgloves, icy tiger, iron wolf saber, g slizz (if you can find him) OH and sleepy zan :) oh wait.....

In other words, if any of your posts ever contained "HTFU", "scrub", "newberry", or "QQ", you are not WC material.

I think my son might of had an idea with merit:

"Why not just only allow PSN accounts that have actually logged into Dust and played some matches in the last few weeks to vote? That should weed out almost all of the dummy accounts."

Food for thought.

I love the amount of passion in this thread. It shows that this game already has the rabid fanbase CCP games are famous for, and that Internet Space-marines are serious business, even at this early stage. I personally am not worried: The WC is all about credibility with the player base. Without that, it's useless, both to us and to CCP. If CCP has picked a group without the credibility necessary, we'll let them know, and then ignore the WC until a new one is selected.

All that means is that you have to sink a couple of hours if that into each account, it wouldn't change anything,

Let me point out that hardware specific ideas are a bad idea because DUST 514 will probably outlast the PS3 system. So suggesting things like MAC addresses is just setting up a problem a few years down the road. Any idea needs to be inherent to the game itself, not to the system that runs the game. Technology changes.

Let me point out that hardware specific ideas are a bad idea because DUST 514 will probably outlast the PS3 system. So suggesting things like MAC addresses is just setting up a problem a few years down the road. Any idea needs to be inherent to the game itself, not to the system that runs the game. Technology changes.

No. You should know who is representing you or threadcrapping your votes away for their own agenda. They need to have a reason to do the job rather than be all "Look at me I'm a game dev! HI MOM!"

As someone who's been the subject of out of game harrassment I disagree with you breakin.

I think what matters most is that you only put in people who have plaid the game from ever view point

although I nominate me myself and I as well as protoman. protoman used to play the game a while ago and he drew every one's attention because he was really good at the game for some reason. He would probably know the most tricks about the game.

If DUST 514 ever came to PC and MAC address was used as a unique identifier, I could vote hundreds of times.

It's historically been possible to spoof a MAC address from a PS3, too. I can't speak as to whether it's currently viable because I haven't had cause to do so (some quick searching suggests it might be).

While I'm not one of them, many of the people who play this game have kids and for that reason DON'T have a credit card linked to a PSN account that their 10 year old can get onto. That's just one of the issues. Think about HOW you'd run that system and you'll realize that requiring a credit card opens up a few problems.

Lame.

You make this sound like there are hundreds of thousands of these situations. That maybe a % of a % of the number of players here.

You cant spoof a Credit card. I say you buy AUR you get the right to vote!

While I'm not one of them, many of the people who play this game have kids and for that reason DON'T have a credit card linked to a PSN account that their 10 year old can get onto. That's just one of the issues. Think about HOW you'd run that system and you'll realize that requiring a credit card opens up a few problems.

You can very well register the CC for the moment you vote and then delete it when you're done or you could imagine the game asking for you CC data without it being linked to your PSN account. Game then register this credit card has already voted and you're good. As for the "not everyone owns a credit card", i'm pretty sure this is only a very few % of the people that could vote. I'd even go with less than 1% tbh. Acceptable loss ? To me, yes.

As for the "buy aurum" suggestion it has two problems :

1) either it's cheap and some people will transfer small AUR amount to activate 100eds of voting accounts.
2) Either it's too expansive and you sink into a pay-to-get-elected situation. (which is kind of the case for any IRL election )

Credit Card identification without payment is something i really think could work. You could multi-accounts but not by an infinite amount. And you dont need to pay. Beside it has adress, name etc... with it so it eases deleting multiple voters.