Good afternoon, my name is Ceema.
This EVE Life is a stream and podcast on a mission to talk to 100 pilots from every corner of EVE Online, Vanguard and Frontier. I'm also running for CSM 21 as an independent, to carry what those pilots tell me to Fenris.
Voting runs Oct 22 – Nov 3.
Beyond the Shit Post
I started playing in 2007, after getting chased out of my World of Warcraft guild for trying to mediate a marital dispute on Teamspeak.
I came up through Highsec, moved to Nullsec, and worked my way from line member to recruitment manager to HR Director, always trying to get pilots more content. Along the way, through propaganda, memes, and shitposts on Reddit, I've crossed paths with nearly everyone in this game, on every side of it.
As a community voice long known for propaganda, memes, and shitposts on Reddit I plan to use my reach across the community to help provide Fenris the feedback you provide both via my work on the CSM but also on my Twitch show “This EVE Life” to really dig into the problems and pain points that plague this awesome game.
After 16 years of on and off gameplay and 41 interviews, I want player feedback to reach FC as honest, evidence-backed input rather than as noise. I want to carry that feedback from every playstyle and region to FC, and bring clear answers back when I can. I am doing it as an independent so you don't have to pick a side to get a voice.
“You folks are why I'm running.”
— CeemaWhy I should be on your ballot
I'm running for CSM. And no, it's not a bit.
I want to represent all of New Eden: Nullsec, industrialists, PvPers, Lowsec pirates, Highsec grinders and the Wormhole hermits.
When I started This EVE Life, I set myself a goal: talk to 100 pilots by the end of 2027, from every corner of EVE Online, EVE Vanguard, and EVE Frontier. I'm 41 in: new players finding their feet, streamers, guide writers who taught half of us how to fly, third-party devs, Frontier pioneers, Nullsec alliance leaders, Alliance Tournament legends.
My goal is to ask the hard questions on the tough topics. I won't just be asking my own echo chamber, I will go into hostile territory and extend a hand, and a microphone.
I'm running for CSM 21 to represent you, whatever bloc you fly with.
“In EVE, it was never about the ships. It's about the people flying them.”
— CeemaWhat I'll Advocate
We as the CSM should be reaching out to all players regardless of what side they're on. My outreach to you all won't stop once the podcast tour all the CSM Candidates do on various Twitch Streams is over and I've won the seat. I'll set aside time of my day on Saturday to do an “Office Hour” Stream where you're welcome to come on and chat w/ me and the rest of new Eden about your ideas and feedback.
I may not be a subject matter expert on the game, but I know you folks are. Let's chat, so I can take your data points and get them to the right people.
Beyond a few posts here and there, I saw little communication and discourse. I'll be posting the question to Fenris Creations if we can't improve upon this in the form of CSM Minutes as much as the NDA allows, shared with you all and an AMA hour etc. on my stream or others with my peers if they're amicable to it, and if allowed. We represent you, not our alliances.
That's it. I want to see more bi directional communication between the CSM, and the players. If Aang, the last airbender was the bridge between the spirit world and humanity, I will be your bridge between Fenris and Players. If elected, I'll encourage my peers on the council to do likewise. This way we're not “a one bridge having city” as is Philadelphia, according to Bill Burr.
As a non bloc/region/playstyle candidate, I will seek to work with all parties to build an equitable consensus approach to game changes when proposed. As one of my favorite people in EVE explained, a lot of actions often are driven by bitterness and I agree. I'm going to see if I can't step in between groups of people and find a common ground where all of us can build a solution to game problems, without defaulting to insults and trolling on the EVE Discord.
Either that or you'll all hate me, but I'm willing to try.
I will advocate that the phrases “TEST Is Dead/Next” be a violation of the EULA and punishable w/ a 3 hour suspension per use.
TEST has suffered enough for their past. Let's all move on and let them grow and have fun.
Ask that Fenris Creations declare July 4th every year “Dark Shines Day” in celebration of the Initiatives Leader who, on a visit to the US, saved my life from a runaway donkey at the pumpkin patch I took him to show him the most October of American things to do.
Ask FC Overload to allow FC Swift to upgrade EVE Online to Python 7, because 6 is afraid of 7.
Ask that CCP loan their very best Viking to KarmaFleet so that we can utilize their talents in the search for Wade Ambraelle, lost in the woods while hiking with Tachypnea Starhop.
Ask that Fenris Creations assign CrashNaps to the UN as their permanent Diplomat for New Eden.
Implore Fenris Creations to add a hidden nerf to Ansiblexes so that 25% of the time you use one, it destroys your ship instead if there is no energy left for use.
On anything Pochven I will vote simply how Drake Iddon advises me to, as long as it frustrates 7.62.
Implore Fenris Creations to ban anyone who has commented negatively about the Ansiblex nerfs more than 3 times a day in any Discord, for life.
If you want more, or you want me to have a 41 page manifesto of promises I can't actually keep, nor should I even have going to represent you to the Space Vikings we all pay $20 a month for to play this game, then I'm not really your man.
And for that, I am sorry.
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This EVE Life is a stream and podcast on a mission to talk to 100 pilots from every corner of EVE Online, Vanguard and Frontier. New shows every weekend on Twitch, with every episode archived on YouTube. I will use this to reach out to the entire EVE player base and get your feedback to Fenris Creations direct.