Past statements from CCP suggest that if you were going to vote in the CSM20 election, then you have probably done so already. That people tend to vote in the first 24 hours was the reason they cut down the voting period a few years back. Then again, they seems to have extended the voting period back out to a full two weeks since then, so were they wrong then or are they wrong now?
And this is why we need a CSM, so CCP can ignore feed back directly rather than having to glean and discard it from the forums and social media.
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Anyway, you have just a couple more days to vote as the voting period will close at downtime on Monday, which is 11:00 UTC and zero dark thirty locally for me, so Sunday is effectively the last day to vote.
In order to vote you must meet the following two criteria:
- You account has an active Omega subscription running
- Your account is at least 60 days old
That is it. No Alpha accounts can vote and you cannot roll up and subscribe a bunch of Omega accounts today and vote. This is like voting of old in the real world where you had to be a property owner in good standing.
And, of course, if you have multiple Omega accounts, and I currently have three active, you get to vote with each of them. Money talks.
For a reminder, here are the 55 candidates running for the CSM this year. The links go to their forum post statement. Those with an asterisk by their name are incumbents, those with two asterisks have previously served on the CSM.
As always, my general advice for voting is to go with somebody who has a positive message, who is not trying to promise specific action (CSM members have no such power), and whose plan doesn’t involve screwing over some other play style in the game.
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