Now I am sure this is controversial for some, but I'd nominate The dark cloud. You may not agree with Cloud all the time, but Cloud understands the game.

o.0

Really? CPM is 2 months old and you're already putting up caniadates?

I vote RegNyM

Mind sharing with us your workload so we can see that fact for ourselves? :)

Mind you all this is a lot of work.

and Last Night I got reminded why my familiarity with Eve Online was important as the discussion with the CSM on a number of subjects concerning the Dust Eve link came into question.

Players leaving everyday because of slow respecs, terrible communication and overall terrible FPS mechanics, and CPM are talking about the Dust - EVE link, I think I just found our problem.

I would suggest you to talk about this later in time once you can constructively review how the current council has done for the DUST community and ultimately have an objective view on what is needed as a council member to be pro active. It is still all new and very recent, so let's give it all a bit more time before even thinking about what's next.

Mind you all this is a lot of work.

and Last Night I got reminded why my familiarity with Eve Online was important as the discussion with the CSM on a number of subjects concerning the Dust Eve link came into question.

Do you guys have to just look for any reason to ****post on the CPM? Wait, never mind, it must be in the rule book somewhere.

Anyway, there certainly was discussion on the forum about the EVE/Dust link the other day. Strangely, can you imagine, maybe some parts of CCP are looking at future items while other parts are working on current issues. No, can't be.

I really wish some of you numskulls could stop taking it so personally when your own particular hot button topic is not the only thing that other people think about.

It's pitiful to watch.

You know what is pitiful to watch? This game DIE.

wait a minute, can we elect people to this thing? I was pretty sure it was going to remain "as is" until someone resigned or something :P

...But in that case, I hereby nominate Arron Rift to become a member of CPM, simply because he's awesome :D

:P

Do you guys have to just look for any reason to ****post on the CPM? Wait, never mind, it must be in the rule book somewhere.

Anyway, there certainly was discussion on the forum about the EVE/Dust link the other day. Strangely, can you imagine, maybe some parts of CCP are looking at future items while other parts are working on current issues. No, can't be.

I really wish some of you numskulls could stop taking it so personally when your own particular hot button topic is not the only thing that other people think about.

It's pitiful to watch.

I would suggest you to talk about this later in time once you can constructively review how the current council has done for the DUST community and ultimately have an objective view on what is needed as a council member to be pro active. It is still all new and very recent, so let's give it all a bit more time before even thinking about what's next.

Lol future items... that's all this game runs on. Dreams of what can be done 2-3 years from now.

lol...DUST / EVE link...

yea that's the problem with the game guys! Connecting them would save DUST and stop people from leaving

To be frank, the majority of DUST players don't care about EVE at this point. People just want the game to play at 30fps, to be able to hit what you're aiming at, and not play a slide show of a game cuz you didn't reset.

Are we gonna get an update on those issues mr CPM?

Lol future items... that's all this game runs on. Dreams of what can be done 2-3 years from now.

lolCPM0

presentation meant more to CCP than actually gettin the right ppl the 1st time.
only good ppl on there atm is Kain and Caz

Funny thing is though I get to see all the problems not just one or two or few full, the entire damn picture and you are looking at this problem the entirely wrong way, to bring things closer to context lets use a favorite tool the developers love using.

Player story.

"I feel nothing significant or when I participate in Planetary Conquest"
-Dust 514 player.

Is a very terrible story I would not like to be true but it is currently.

Here is another story

"Dust 514? What's that? Why should I care?"
-Eve Player

is another terrible story that needs rectifying.

So how do we fix that? We write a better story than currently and pursue that though various means.

"I feel I am apart of something bigger than myself and this game when I participate in Planetary Conquest. That my efforts means something for myself, my friends, my allies, and my enemies and they have a lasting impact beyond the borders of this game."

While a fantasy it's a dream worth pursuing, after all Eve has done this countless of times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/07/arts/07eve.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Is one example. As it stands now there is no reason to do factional warfare and no reason to do planetary conquest as a Dust 514 player and furthermore there is probably not any reason to continue playing beyond SP cap and the newer story I am getting now a days people are no longer hitting their caps. Fixing controls is not going to make this game fun or worth continue playing, there have been dozens of shooters that had controls just right and never got anywhere worth of mention.

I also cannot worry about the core at the moment because CCP is very committed to that and that the CPM, are not game designers. We cannot fix that for them or for you. CCP will have to do the fixing and the most we, the community, can do is remind them it is still broken or less than stellar. In other words why waste so much time beating CCP with a dead horse? There are afterall, there quite a few fish to fry though many are not particularly bigger.

Either way its one of the many things and issues facing Dust and CPM has to tackle all aspects of the game and the CPM cannot just simply twiddle its thumbs while CCP fixes one part of the game at a time so like a hydra we have to branch out an attack every issues on every front when possible.

As you put it, nobody in Dust cares about Eve. A counter story to tell you back is nobody cares about Dust carries a far heavier weight. The link needs to start being built in some form or fashion quicker, the earlier you guys start getting hired by Eve players the quicker eve players can start affording to do our logistics the better your lives are all going to get.

They went to the IRC and picked all the suckups, with the exceptions you mentioned.

I'd vote for you, Mavado/Numberz, any day of the week.

Do you guys have to just look for any reason to ****post on the CPM? Wait, never mind, it must be in the rule book somewhere.

Anyway, there certainly was discussion on the forum about the EVE/Dust link the other day. Strangely, can you imagine, maybe some parts of CCP are looking at future items while other parts are working on current issues. No, can't be.

I really wish some of you numskulls could stop taking it so personally when your own particular hot button topic is not the only thing that other people think about.

It's pitiful to watch.

I disagree with the separation clause and I am trying to get CCP to see as well.

Now couple sad facts I know in my heart to be true.

1. If Dust dies and well who gives a damn right?

2. If Eve dies somehow, Dust in itself is effectively dead to that end.

This is why the link should be pursued and not be that feared and I think Team Gridlock is beginning to take bolder steps based on what I have seen. Quite a few options are on the table and the thing we must be careful about is not to kill eve. It doesn't take much to destroy the economy over there.

If DUST dies, it has no effect on EVE. If EVE dies, then why bother with DUST... but EVE is nowhere near to dying though.

I don't know if you're implying that connecting the 2 games will save DUST somehow, but if that's what you're saying, I disagree.

It won't hurt DUST, but it's not gonna be the saving grace of it. Not by a long shot. If people don't wanna play the game, what difference is connecting them going to make.

I sense this is going to be a conversation that will end in circles.

I'm just gonna say that long term goals is well and good, but at this point, right now, nobody cares what's coming 2-3 years from now man. People wanna know when the rest of the suits coming, will the aiming ever be fixed, are dropships gonna be fixed, when are proto tanks coming, when are other racial weapons coming.

Short term goals CCP needs to communicate with people cuz guess what, PS4 is right around the corner. Thousands of people are absent cuz they playing TLoU... imagine when next gen games come out.

From a business perspective, you can't entice a rabbit without a carrot on a string. What do you think a rabbit will go for? The carrot a mile down the road, or the one that's dangling right there.