Cap Stable Episode 63: CSM What is it good for?

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This week the Cap Stable talks all about Trucking, Holiday goodies, and the nitty gritty details of the Council of Stellar Management.

Bhock

  • Trucking, trucking and trucking… then some Exploration to refill my coffin (yes, coffins!, my ISK needs to be comfortable) while teaching Google Docs programming
  • Drinking and enjoying holidays with my family

Turbo

  • Supporting the grand scheme of great overlord hoots helping to build his empire by shipping stuff around, mining, and ganking his industry opposition.
  • exploring some new space taking wormholes in chain to yoloing it to wherever it takes me.
  • reading the alliance leadership minds by completing the the skills they want for the new doctrine before its even announced

Hoots

  • Wolf wants his 900b back !
  • being bad
  • working stu to death
  • whipping the miners to keep the industry containers full
  • generally being a proper Overlord by showing authority where needed and rewarding the great staff i have assembled
  • Being Santa Klaus (Barbie?)

Kuda

  • Catalysts! If only I had known what an expensive habit this would be.
  • Naga? How about nada! Bought a new naga on contract to go ratting in. PL got luck and warped to a gate the same time as me. Doh.
  • Mining with the Newbies! EVE is such a big game, so fun to watch them learning.
  • Been a few months now since the industry changes in Crius. I have to say I like the compression changes. I miss making money off Gaze probe compression, but for everyone else this was a good change.

StupidGenius

  • Trucking…but I don’t want to talk about it… because I probably should be trucking right now.
  • Lots of moving between the Evac from PL and the movement of our staging system
  • Diablo 3 RoS
  • WoW Warlords – Orc Barbie Dream House

 

Community News

CSM X Announcement

The Cap Stable podcast crew will once again be performing interviews with for the Council of Stellar Management election. Anyone with a thread in the CSM Campaign forum is eligible.

 

FanFest 2015 call for speakers and events

NOTE: No tickets will be provided, you must pay your own way to iceland and into fanfest

 

London Meet-up @ Meltdown

Sat 31st January 2015

5pm – 1.30am

 

EVE MEET IN NOTTINGHAM UK

7th FEBRUARY 2015

#EVE_NT

 

EVE Tool or Tip of the Week

https://evelexicon.com/

It is a wiki, feel free to add your own if you and your friends use our own terminology
EVE NEWS

Holidays Gifts

20 days of Multi-character training

What does all of it mean? Check out Crossing Zebra’s story

Player Age distribution (CCP Quant)

0.5%     1%     5%    10%    25%    50%    75%    90%    95%    99%  99.95%
17     18     21     23     26     31     36     43     48     59     75

CONCORD statement on Caroline Star

http://www.eve-scout.com/

Coming in Proteus

  • Combat Recon rebalance (including immunity to Directional Scan… not probes)

Null Sec news

GSF Christmas Diplo Update

On the Brave Brave Front

  • HED

Big Talk

CSM Elections !

What is the CSM?

Major Points:

  • CSM = Council of Stellar Management (10th Edition)
  • Player Elected = your votes count !
  • 14 members elected for a year to work with CCP to better the game
  • get previews and can discuss new features before release, to prevent CCP to make decisions opposed by the player base
  • talk directly to dev teams, every day, on direct channels
  • get two summit (summer & winter) where they meet CCP IRL, then provide Summit Minutes about what was discussed (minus the NDA sessions)

Vote:

  • STV = Single Transferable Vote
  • Each voter can vote to up to 14 people, in order of preference
  • You do not have to select 14 people, but the less people you select, the greater the chance your vote will not be used 100%
  • An algorithm elects people in order (or eliminates them in order), loop after loop, until the 14 seats are filled

Advantages:

  • it pushes people with a wide support, compared to ballot stuffing from major entities
  • major entities still get several candidates in, if they manage to get some wider support
  • your vote trickles down on the candidates you select, making your ONE vote working for several candidates
  • candidates can cross-vote each other, by recommending other candidates on their ballot
  • only one election is conducted
  • you do not vote AGAINST candidates, you only vote FOR candidates (a huge difference in politics)
  • you can vote for side candidates without throwing away your vote

Naysayers:

  • CSM is just a marketing stunt
  • CSM only does CCP / NullSec / UncleAlbert bidding
  • CSM use insider information to get rich and bias the game for their overlords
  • Your vote is useless, so don’t vote (because if you vote, our candidates could get not elected)

Update:

We are indeed looking into changing the age requirements for the CSM. More information about this and other changes will be included in the candidacy opening blog, which will be published on January 30th as I mentioned here. Roll

At this point I can assure you that Bobmon will not have any age related issues with his CSMX campaign.

-CCP Leeloo

Summary:

  • VOTE
  • VOTE
  • VOTE
  • VOTE
  • VOTE
  • Don’t listen to the naysayers, only those that vote have a voice!

P.S. – Don’t forget to listen to our interviews!

Kill of the Week

The first confessor dead ! And in Jita of course ! And always the same guy (?)

STOOPID of the Year ! 84 PLEX in cargo… no drop !

Goons loses 1 titan and 2 supers in Carrou (Sinq – Gallente Lowsec) VIDEO

Want to get your friend’s hilarious kills mails on the podcast? Email them to podcast@capstable.net

Feedback

Patreon Shout-out

http://www.patreon.com/CapStable

Bensel and Gabriel C.

Shout Outs

Kuda

  • Mining Newbies! Happy Holidays! =)

Bhock

  • Merry XMas and Happy New Year !
  • Shoutout to my wife for not killing me on that late recording!

Turbo

  • All the new followers on twitter its been soo long since ive been on here are too many to list
  • CCP for making my favorite ships more relevant in the next patch
  • the alliance for picking a doctrine that i dont have to train in to

Stu

  • Don’t drink and drive
  • High Drag Podcast
  • Newbies in Slack!

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