@Iron Wolf

Surprisingly, I never heard about that. What happened?

Okay the story is a bit old but here goes.

back when CCP was first starting and recently lost their publisher they where looking for another publisher to take eve online up. EA and Activision both scoffed at the idea and graphics at the time saying they where crazy, and impossible and single shard servers where going to be impossible all sorts of things.

I believe this was the trailer shown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryJZnXfvKNo

Enter world of warcraft, until this game came out MMO where something everyone in the industry disregarded for trueblood nerds only. World of Warcraft was nearly an instant hit.

EA saw this and got real jealous. The simple fact that Eve was going on ahead without them was scrambling to find a foot into the market.

Observe Westwood studios, the developer of Earth and Beyond who had a pretty ambitious space game. EA bought Westwood studios for EnB (contrary to the belief they where bought for CnC) Within a year EnB was declared dead.

Eve online seeing a mass exodus from that game pounced on the opportunity to offer every EnB player a discount for swapping over.

EA never forgave CCP for that insult.

Currently EA is working on a game that has 'persistent progress' where if you where to start a game there today they would copy your progress from other games and 'instant vet' you.

Typical of EA. I hated them the moment they became so caught up with money they completely became drunk with power. I remember when Plants vs Zombies was such a success that EA felt really insulted so they managed to buy out the developer and shut them down.

Congratulations on your selection. I haven't read much of your work other then some comments in the RP threads. I'm sure the NDA part will be extremely difficult to deal with. I've always been a open book type of person and if I ever had a posistion like that I would probably be kicked out and sued immediately because the next day I would reply to some random thread. "Oh yea we are fixing hit detection, not this patch but next patch" followed by an attempted fast ninja edit.

Well then, to that definition and to your earlier question combined.

I know whatever hell system I help come up with, is going to be abused no matter what by future CPM. I will purposely look for flaws in systems when they're presented and bring them to light. After all i love tearing things apart. None the less it won't be perfect, it will never be perfect, and no matter what I do, it cannot be perfect.

All I can hope for is to move the entire process to a more prefect representation, to make it known perfection will always be out of reach.

I know the above statement sounds like alot of BS, but honestly until I get more information from CCP I have no idea how to make a good voter system without it.

This single post has won me over Iron Wolf.

Now i need to talk you away from a democratic/republic style system and onto communism.

aww...
There goes the fun.

BTW are you going to get you own forum tag?

I honestly think communism is a government by machines for machines of machines.

I had experience in that regard, Secret Clearance for 8 years. Terminated(not revoked, that's a really bad thing) on departure from the military but the background check should be much cheaper to refresh if any future corporation wants to up me on it again.

I have been here since e3 and I read all this and understood none of it but if it gets ya recognized keep it up

Great another radioman I know too many radio guys, ahhh well.