Well, there's always tomorrow! He'll just have to spend his weekend hanging out in the forums answering questions, NBD.

Every single candidate for CSM is required to (and readily volunteers) their personal name when they decide to run for the council. My real name is Noah Garaas and I live in Seattle, nice to meet you all. See? It's that easy.

This has always been a requirement for CSM candidacy, and I'd be really surprised to see CCP change their policy for the Dust WC. We run as normal people - and represent the players as normal people. CCP takes on an immense amount of legal risk by sharing NDA information with players, and thus the entire process is done with a greater degree of transparency that is necessary to simply play the game and be a community leader.

This is not for the sake of retribution against people's real lives if something unpleasant is done in-character, harassment is harassment and will never be tolerated or seen as acceptable by the community as "part of the game." However, by putting my real name on the line in exchange for the privilege of representing you, the players, I know full well that a betrayal of CCP's trust and a legal breach of contract is something that other people wishing to do business with Noah (Not Hans or Heinrich) will know about my personal integrity.

http://community.eveonline.com/community/csm/candidates/

You could always petition their web team for violating privacy laws too.

By definition, the requirement to publicly divulge my name when I ran for CSM is also a waiving of my own right to name privacy. You have that right, and your information cannot be divulged, but I gave my name up when I ran for CSM. It's a matter of public record now.

If you really want to short-list who is in the WC, just start a "Who is going to fanfest?" thread. The WC candidates will be in that list.

Of course, they may not be able to admit it. I'm just going to wait until they announce the group at fanfest.

(No I haven't read anywhere that they'll be announcing the WC at fanfest, but I'd bet AUR on it).

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

To be honest I thought captain awesome would have made it to out of all the people I've asked. So I am at a total loss who could be on the list.

Ok.. following up my previous post, it still stands about the Data Protection act, but you are right that yes, you do have the right to waver that right too. So from the link i see it does look like all those candidates have permitted them to share their name.

However.. i still think that it should be hidden away when on the site. The main reason i believe in this is that i think the community should comment based on what the application has to offer, rather than the name alone.. It's easy to be bias when names are involved. I just think this would lead to better quality candidates...

of course there's always room for error too... but the panel would then be able to see what people comment on regarding the nature of each application.. then can assess the applications again taking into account what was said in the comments... then they are the ones who choose who are the most appropriate candidates based on the information they are privy to.

I'm not saying 'this is the way it has to be and all other ways must die ten times over' by any means :) ... I just think it's a less bias way of selecting a council than any voting system. Voting has always been about a combination of who is the loudest and can gather the most friends(supporters).. That doesn't always equate to the right person for the role. That's the reason i have proposed the system.

Two problems with this theory:

1.) CCP doesn't pay to fly the incoming CSM members to FF, there is no reason to think they'd fly the incoming WC members either. They could, but it shouldn't be expected.

2.) See below:

I think it'll be up to the War Council to make it as interesting a position as possible :) great position for meta game :)

Perhaps one could say...it's ideal position for creative and slightly eccentric visionaries who have a keen (O.C.D) eye for detail, great analytical prowess and unrestrained imagination...Where...where can such people be found...?

You know how we should do the voting system?

We should make it so that each PSN account gets 1 vote. (ppl can have multi chars, but they stll get one vote...)

I think it would be great for this so that people cant vote x3 on what they like :) (if you really like something, get your corp to vote tooo)



just some thoughts, thanks....

What if we give ten votes to the CEO of each player corp in Dust? Requirements would be something along the lines of having a specific number of members in your corp and a percentage of those members would have to be @ 2mil SP. This would promote more players participating in corps and would keep people from being able to create a corp just to get extra votes. Any input?

I wasn't aware you could be a member of multiple corps.

And congratulations on being part of the problem! Perhaps next time you post something you'll actually provide some input instead of pointing out how tools can take advantage of any situation and use it to completely ruin things for everyone else. I thought we were here sharing ideas.

Criticizing is not helping.

I am sorry I'm not a regular on the forums but I'm trying to help how I can.

Criticizing is not helping. You in no way suggested an improved way of doing you only pointed out that it was flawed. If I had a fool proof system I would've typed up ten pages explaining it in detail. I am sorry I'm not a regular on the forums but I'm trying to help how I can. Now if you see a flaw in it you could simply point it out, and as was stated help the process by suggesting a better approach. And I was referring to the actual vote not who would be a candidate, perhaps I was off topic there. But I had an idea that a pseudo electoral college system might be an idea worth at least exploring.

And I don't feel like I'm being picked on at all, I just feel like you are kind being an ass for no reason, but that's your right buddy, have a good one!