So far one person, obviously someone with poor reading comprehension, is satisfied with the two paragraph answer.
Kelduum fancies himself a top-rate politician. Perhaps he is, within the insular little world of EVE University. He's not much of one when it comes to anything outside that sphere of influence.
So it wasn't terribly surprising that his answer was just a bunch of politico-speak -- having the appearance of saying something, but really saying nothing at all.
If elected to the CSM, I will represent every player of EVE, from industrialists and mission runners all the way to nullsec and wormhole players and everything in between, not a single special interest group.First of all, he attempts to cover the broadest base possible. He's going to represent everyone. Which is clap-trap. He's going to represent both the super-carebear and the hardened PvP pirate? Pardon my scepticism if I don't buy that brand of rose-flavoured water. Exactly how is he going to represent anyone when ninety-percent of his experience in this game is sitting in station, chatting with unistas on Mumble, and managing the University? What insight does that give him into wormholes, pirating, hell, pretty much anything outside of market warfare and the corporate UI interface.
CCP have made a good start with Crucible and are moving in the right direction. There is much that can still be improved - from balancing and iterating recently introduced features to replacing long-stagnant mechanics which have been broken for years. I pledge to focus my efforts on ensuring CCP continue down this path, and grow EVE to new levels without sacrificing current players.
The only interest Kelduum is going to represent is EVE University. His goal will be to decrease conflict for his organization, and increase the ability for him to recruit. If you're in favour of the dumbing-down of highsec, as it will suit E-Uni, then throw Kelduum a vote. (It is telling that the first two groups that came to mind, that he then typed, were industrialists and mission runners.)
The second paragraph is much the same. No specifics, because anything mentioned concretely could actually alienate voters. So keep it as broad and expansive as possible. He wants CCP to continue iterating on stuff. He wants CCP to fix broken stuff. Kelduum supports more stuff in the game. He's the Stuff Candidate.
Wow.
What mechanics does he want "fixed"? And what does "fixed" mean to him? Exactly what features does he want iterated? All of them? Or just some of them? Which ones?
Come on. Kelduum. Man, up. Stop creasing your ass on the fence. Choose a side. Decide on some specific issues that you want to bring forward to CCP, and the suggestions that will inevitably accompany them.

Why not just say I'll give you a han job, Vote for me!
ReplyDeleteThat shit might work
@Anon What if he has nasty callouses?
ReplyDeleteGood lord, if he can't even promise to lead off on carebear issues, how the hell does he expect to get traction? He's from EVE UNI for crying out loud, why the hell not just admit it? =/
ReplyDeleteGlad I wasn't the only one who read that statement and laughed.
ReplyDeletePretty pathetic attempt to curry favor while not actually providing any substance. Not going to be an interesting race this year at all.
@anon & Stan: Some of us like it rough?
ReplyDeleteReally, if he REALLY reached out to the TrueBear and the Yogibear (especially the Yogibear, cause there's "srs spaceship hardcore l337 PvP dudes" who're Yogibears too), as the champion of a PvP-free pussified "really truly honest to Gawd safe hisec", he'd probably actually pick up quite a number of votes.
Course he'd be villified and hamstrung by Mittani & Co, but I think that would be a really entertaining thing to watch.
I think I've found my new niche in life: a one-man Force for Entropy.
Seems I've arrived a lil late on this scene--EVE to me appears to already be in the height of its denoument. ;-)
@Hong You may be right, about the denouement. The Summer Expansion will tell the true tale of where EVE is ultimately heading, when they iterate on Incursions and create their new wardec system. Both those systems will adequately state the direction they wish to take the game.
ReplyDelete"The trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."
ReplyDelete@keld , if you actually reads this blog
ReplyDeletestick with managing eve-uni. there no f*way you can represent all aspect of eve game-play.
that's your biggest mistake (lie) there,
also, is that true you have alts running incursion all these time? and personally organized farming agreement with other hisec inc-runner group ?