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Epic…

Kudos to CCP Charlie & Prawn who I’m sure worked their asses off for this one.

That’s a Galileo quote and it’s pretty apt considering the nature of this entry. Yup it’s about the recent CSM meeting with CCP regarding the POS Exploit which was held on Sunday night. If you came here thinking I’d be naming names, you can stop reading now, I’m not. This is going to be a long post, so if you make it through, please let me know what your thoughts are.

Here’s a quick summary of the situation for anyone that hasn’t been following the latest Eve: Online drama:
a week or so ago someone posted a thread on the Scrapheap forums claiming to be a player who was banned for an exploit. He went on to detail that he had been creating moon materials out of thin air for 4 years and CCP had finally caught up with him. A day or so later, CCP posted an announcement on their website stating they had plugged an exploit regarding POS. The forums then proceeded to go into meltdown with people demanding to know what was going on. CCP promptly decided to give out a little bit of information which included the statement that they had banned 70 accounts from 2 alliances. Forums continued to heat up like a reactor in Chernobyl. CCP contacted the CSM and organised an emergency meeting to discuss the issues in an attempt to cool things down. This is the part where my story begins…

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What do you feel the CSM should be, in respect of it’s intended role and how it interacts directly with CCP?

Based on the documents released, to me the CSM is about a group of players elected by the rest of the community dealing directly with CCP about concerns, issues, and suggestions from the player base rather than the devs having to spend hours trawling the forums trying to understand what everyone wants. Through the filtering of the CSM panel, the most relevant and requested topics will be focussed into a proper discussion and CCP can then look at those issues and either deal with them or not, and if not, explain why.

What do you feel are the types of concern and idea that should be brought to the CSM to relay to CCP? Potential Exploits? Game Changes? Content Ideas? Concerns for Internal Affairs? It’s your choice.

If anything has enough people concerned, no matter what type of concern it is (as long as it is game related) then the CSM should look at it. There should be no limit, other than common sense.

How much power do you think the CSM should have, with regards to being able to audit what CCP do on a day to day basis, as was originally proposed when the CSM was first announced as a work in progress?
Moreover, there’s a lot of concern about “yes men”, and the CSM not being able to look at certain aspects of how CCP works.

The CSM should have no power other than mentioned above. They discuss what are the most relevant concerns and suggestions based on how many people are affected and present those issues to CCP. Asking delegates who may have absolutely no background in security or business management to audit a highly successful game company is ludicrous. The CSM to me is about ingame or meta-game concerns not business practices.

How do the community think that the CSM could be structured to prevent the likes of favouritism, and biased opinion?

The only change I would recommend at this point is during the voting stage in that people are required to rank their top3 (or 5) candidates, rather than just pick one. This will give a more balanced voting system rather than powerblocks voting through their corp/alliance mates.

Favouritism shouldn’t be an issue, the delegates are there to serve the community, if people have serious issues with delegates those concerns can be raised with CCP who I believe have the right to remove delegates that are corrupting the system.