Massively's EVE Online CSM 6 candidate roundup: New campaigners (p2)

Known best for his fiction and his work on the Capsuleer iPhone app, Roc Wieler is running for CSM on a neutral platform with no specific goals.

Cyerus is a new applicant with no ties to major alliances. His campaign has been focused on industry, research and PvP in high-security space. Like many applicants, he also wishes to rid EVE of botting, rebalance supercapital ships, and revamp lowsec.

White Tree is pushing for some very specific changes to the game. He believes that armour ships have become ineffective in PvP, hybrid weapons have been neglected, Caldari tech 2 cruisers require a boost, starbases need to be revamped, and CCP must continue improvements to the new player experience. He also believes CCP should explore new ideas for the improvement of skills but has yet to elaborate on any specific improvements he would put forward or why they're needed.

Draco is an all-around EVE player with experience in many areas of the game. His campaign is focused on addressing lag, fixing lowsec, getting rid of bots, boosting Gallente ships and hybrid weapons, and boosting black ops battleships. He wishes to hold CCP accountable to the player community and ensure that old features aren't left to die.

Mike Azariah is a roleplayer running on a neutral platform; he aims to represent all players equally.

As one of Pandemic Legion's two entries, Elise brings to the table a working knowledge of nullsec. He is running on a platform of changing local in nullsec, boosting faction warfare, boosting mini-professions, and fixing neutral logistics. Elise also wishes to block former CSM suggestions of changes to station docking during aggression.

Peter Powers is running on a platform of supporting third-party app developers, rebalancing supercapitals, and revisiting nullsec soverignty.

Two Step is a member of Aperture Harmonics, a corporation focused on wormhole exploration. He is running on a platform of improvements to life inside wormholes. As a programmer, Two Step feels his perspective will be valuable to the CSM.

Killer2 wishes to follow in the footsteps of Vuk Lau and Elvenlord to obtain a full seat on the council. He's running on a platform of holding CCP accountable for bugs found in EVE and convincing the team to work through the issues in the CSM backlog.

UAxDEATH is the CEO and Founder of Legion of xXDEATHXx, EVE's largest Russian corporation. Most of his campaign materials are written exclusively in Russian and are aimed at EVE's sizeable Russian community.

Roleplayer Gehen Sealbreaker expects the roleplaying community to be his core electorate. He is running on a neutral platform and aims to represent all players equally.

Prometheus Exenthal believes that EVE is at risk of becoming reserved for players with multiple accounts or large numbers of corpmates. He wants PvP to be less about the number of pilots involved, and his campaign website lists many things he believes need to be tweaked. Prometheus has not elaborated on exactly what tweaks are needed or why.

Ripard Teg is a three-year EVE player with experience in multiple areas of the game. He is runing on a platform of helping small alliances, putting the EVE playerbase's creativity to use, removing elements of gameplay that aren't fun, and promoting iteration on current gameplay.

Strikercity's campaign centres around a very specific wish-list of ideas. He wants the autopilot to warp closer to stargates, allow fleet commanders to cloak their fleets, allow players to opt out of PvP in high-security space, and make wormholes stay open for longer. Strikercity has yet to elaborate on how these suggestions would improve the game, what problems they address, or why they're needed.

Imigo Montoya has been involved in game development and believes he can bring those skills to the CSM. He's running on a platform of getting CCP to report more on bans and violations, asking for more PvP opportunities, and creating more NPC nullsec with low-end moons for small alliances to fight over.

Ms Pacman is running on a platform of reducing the viability of large powerblocks and giving smaller corporations a chance to settle in nullsec. Ms PacMan wants to make all of nullsec more valuable, restrict jump bridges to the owning alliance, and make it harder to maintain coalitions of alliances.

Vile rat is one of two GoonSwarm entries and is running on a platform of restoring EVE to a greatness he believes it once had. He sees that nullsec warfare has become the domain of massive power blocs flying homogeneous fleets and that only a few classes of ship are considered viable in this endgame. If elected, Vile rat aims to work with CCP to resolve these issues.

Goon spymaster The Mittani believes he already has enough votes from corpmates to secure a seat on the council. He's running an aggressive campaign with aims to gain enough votes from the public to secure a position as chairperson. The Mittani believes that every other CSM candidate is lying to us about the issues he/she plans to address, as he suggests the CSM has no ability to influence game design decisions or put forward solutions. If elected, he plans to expose the hypocrisy he sees in the entire CSM process and attempt to fundamentally change the CSM into something he finds more useful.

Krutoj is running on no particular platform. He believes that the CSM should be composed of the leaders of all the major nullsec alliances. On his blog, he stated that he's entering the running alongside an organised voting coalition of Elise Randolph, Seleene, The Mittani, uaxdeath, Vile Rat and Killer2.

Manalapan believes that there have been too many content expansions. He's running on a platform of tweaking the existing game before developing new content. His biggest concerns are currently neutral remote repairing, bounty hunting, and corp taxes.

Arden Elenduil aims to represent the pirates, scammers, and griefers of EVE. He believes CCP has been focusing too much on carebears lately with the introduction of planetary interaction, incursions, and wormhole space.

Tarannus has put himself forward as a candidate for industry and research. He wants to explore fixes for war declarations, macro-miners, and faction warfare.

Serious Internet Politician has taken the unusual stance of running a lottery for players who contribute to a maintained list of issues. He believes this will help gather data on which issues players find most important, which could be useful to the CSM and CCP. He is running on a platform of ensuring that CCP keeps microtransactions to vanity items, ensuring Incarna is kept relevant after release, and promoting live events.

Alsyth is an independent applicant running on a neutral platform. Issues he wants to tackle include highsec wars, lowsec PvP, the lack of small alliances in nullsec, and capital ship force projection.