Tomorrow EVE Online officially turns 20.  Today, some bullet points.  Also, it is Cinco de Mayo.  Do we celebrate that in New Eden? Go Omega Today to be on the Monument I have mentioned this before, but I’ll flog it one last time just to make sure nobody can ask, “Why didn’t you tell me today was the deadline?”  In order to be added to the new set of name plaques being applied to the EVE Online…

The EVE Online Council of Stellar Management, the CSM, had their summit with CCP in Iceland a couple of weeks back.  This was the first live, in person summit since Covid and saw all but one of the CSM 17 members make it there live. The CSM17 Winners Reports back from the CSM have been positive (Brisc has a write up) and the one member who could not make it, Kazanir, was able to attend virtually,…

Reflecting on the CSM17 Ballots and Voting

We had the CSM17 election results last week, the culmination of a couple months of effort and the results came out about as expected.  Null sec candidates won a majority of the seats.  That they won 8 rather than 7 was probably the closest we got to a surprise. The CSM17 Winners I am being a bit glib with that statement, but only just.  The CSM has changed over the years, but ever since null sec…

Introducing Your CSM17 Representatives

As has become standard practice, CCP did an hour long election reveal on Twitch yesterday to announce the winners of the CSM17 election. CSM17 is approaching For those who want to cut straight to the end results, here are the 10 candidates that made the cut for CSM17 The winners were: The CSM17 Winners Or, listed out in alphabetical order: Angry Mustache – Goonswarm Federation Arsia Elkin* –…

One Day Left to Vote for CSM17

Actually, it will be less than one day left by the time this posts, and probably less than that by the time you read it. The CSM17 election ends at downtime (11:00 UTC) on June 14th, which is tomorrow as I post this.  So your window of time to get in and vote is closing fast. CSM17 election ends soon If you’re like me you long since voted, collected your login rewards, and are hanging about…

The CSM17 Elections Begin Today in EVE Online

The polls for the CSM17 election have been open since downtime.  The voting has begun. CSM17 voting is here Coincidentally it is also election day here in California, with the primaries being decided today to see who will be on the ballot in November for the general election.  And in both California and New Eden, incumbents are likely to win. (Though at least New Eden has fewer incumbents.  I’ve…

CCP Announces the Candidates for CSM17

The road to CSM17 carried on yesterday as CCP did a live stream to announce the candidates who had qualified to run for the next term of the Council of Stellar Management. CSM17 is approaching I did not have the time to watch the hour long presentation, but CCP followed up with a dev blog listing out the candidates with summary cards that link their CSM campaign forum posts. The candidates,…

CCP Outlines the Road to CSM17

It feels like this is coming a little bit late this year… they used to declare the winners at EVE Fanfest back in the day… but CCP has announced the plan for the election of the 17th Council of Stellar Management, which I will refer to as CSM17 going forward. CSM17 is approaching The timeline for the election cycle has been laid out as: 2-16 May – Submissions Open 9-20 May – Application…