Comments on: Eve Online Elections

By: Nachshon

Nachshon — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:51:11 +0000

My bet is this:

The 0.0 alliances will vote in major representatives. However, they represent a minority of players, so they won’t necessarily control the council.

I have few doubts that Chribba will be on the council. If he were still alive, INNOMINIATE NIGHTMARE would also be there. I, for one, am voting for Hardin of the CVA, in order to get a roleplayer on the council.

Hardin for the CSM!

By: Blackhat

Blackhat — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:01:45 +0000

For some reason, this is the most recent post I can read. Anyone else getting this, or did RPS writers suddenly die, or what?

By: davidAlpha

davidAlpha — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:36:06 +0000

well its a good idea but in the end the members of the big alliances (GoonSwarm, RA, IAC) are going to vote their representatives.

By: FaceOmeter

FaceOmeter — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:32:28 +0000

If the EVE players democratically elect some crazy fascist dude who vows to destroy CCP and take over the galaxy for his evil army, what will happen?

I know it sounds ridiculous, but this open-end MMO stuff gives one to think…

By: Devin

Devin — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:05:47 +0000

You’d be surprised, there are some pretty famous empire-side players. Chribba’s probably as famous as anyone this side of Sir Molle, Tyrrax Thorke, or Seleene, and without the major disadvantage of losing every politically-opposed vote.

By: YouMeanMe

YouMeanMe — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:51:56 +0000

I played eve for about a year before cancelling my subscription. I found that after a while I was only logging on to start new skills learning (you learn while offline just as fast as you do while online). After a while it became obvious that I was paying to not play the game, it was basically a $15 a month version of progress quest.

Making ISK I found very easy using old school elite style trade goods ferrying between systems, I had far more ISK than I could actually use even within a short time. This is part of what I didn’t like about the game. It didn’t matter that I could afford better ships. I could build them but had no way to fly them. In effect I very quickly ran up against an artificial barrier to progress. When you have no option other than to stop playing for three weeks so your skills can catch up with your finances it becomes a bit of a joke.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:46:36 +0000

Like most elections this will come down to popularity, the Empire players will inevitably be under represented due to them being a lot less organised than 0.0 space holding alliances.

I would not be suprsied if the entire council is taken from PVP orientated alliances.

I find one part interesting about the whole election process, you’ve got to run under your actual name. This I don’t understand.

By: cannon fodder

cannon fodder — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:35:32 +0000

Jim,

You should stand for election.

Seriously.

By: Jim Rossignol

Jim Rossignol — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:03:45 +0000

@Nuyan, I’ll put the CCP GDC stuff up during Space Week.

By: Tak

Tak — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:08:15 +0000

It loses some of the dramatic flair when you can just enter a database query and delete the rebellion, though :p

By: Janek

Janek — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:02:05 +0000

I like the idea of sort of “trusted representatives” bringing up issues with the devs, but I don’t see what surrounding it in red tape and making them wade out to Iceland every 6 months will accomplish that, say, the occasional MSN discussion won’t. Except then you’d get all the morons coming out saying “zomg zomg Alliance X are devs” and all that rubbish.

And I guess the playerbase is too large and too loud to properly hold forum-based discussion like what used to happen when TomB and Hammer did all the balance stuff.

The thing that also potentially worries me, is that since it will probably be ignored by most of the general Eve public (i.e. a majority of the votes will come from territory-holding alliances) we’ll just end up with a one-sided block of candidates being voted in because they have the most friends.

But yeah, idea of CCP taking more notice of the playerbase: Good. Execution: Potentially wobbly.

By: Will Tomas

Will Tomas — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:59:36 +0000

Second Life, unlike Eve, is free, and is played by a wider demographic. I agree that Eve doesn’t get the mainstream credit it deserves for its persistent world, but it’s easier to explain the concept of Second Life to non-gamers, who then will have the chance of playing it without having to pay subscription.