Here is the first letter from the CSM letting you know what they're up to, what they would like some feedback on and what they've got planned.

Letter from the CSM:

CSM 7 took office on April 4th, and we are already off to a very good start. We have a much broader base of experience on the CSM this time than ever before, with nearly every play style represented. From 0.0 to wormholes to faction warfare to high-sec (miners as well as suicide gankers), we have people on the CSM with direct experience in every part of the game. Despite this, we believe that direct input from the community is more important than ever before, and one of our first projects will be to improve communications between the community and CSM. We want to make sure you know what we're working on, and make sure we know what you want us to work on.

CSM 7 Officers
Our first action as CSM representatives was to elect officers, as laid out in the CSM white paper. As reported here Seleene has been elected Chairman of CSM 7, Trebor Daehdoow is the Vice-Chairman, Two Step is the Secretary and Hans Jagerblitzen is the Vice-Secretary.

Upcoming Summit
The top 7 voted members of CSM 7 will be travelling to Iceland for the first CSM 7 summit between May 30th and June 1st. The summit will be a major opportunity to provide community input as CCP develops their plans for the Winter Expansion. We will be publishing the list of summit topics as soon as they are finalized and we will create comment threads for each summit topic to get community feedback. These threads are very helpful in making sure we are prepared for the summit, and we would greatly appreciate it if you would participate in them.

One of the topics for this summit will be potential changes to the CSM white paper, including but not limited to changing or eliminating officer positions and improving the election system. This should be a process that includes everyone, and we will be looking for lots of feedback from the entire EVE community.

Communication
One thing that CSM 7 will be doing differently than past CSMs is directly communicating with the players as much as possible. That communication will be taking place in many different mediums, including in-game chats using EVE-voice, EVE Mail, CSM member blogs and Twitter accounts, posting on the official forums and many more. To help you, we have started a thread on the forums listing the means to get in touch with us. Be sure to investigate those links and if anyone has any suggestions for other means to keep in touch, please feel free to suggest them in the thread.

If you are interested in what the CSM is doing, be sure to keep your eyes and ears open. Many of us have already done several podcasts and interviews and we intend to keep that pace going.

First "Town Hall" May 19th, 1700 EVT
We will be having voice chats open to all players to give you a chance to ask us questions and intend to do these on a regular basis. Our plan is to have a Town Hall meeting before each summit, after the release of summit minutes, and also in-between the summits, approximately every month or two. The first meeting will be held in-game using EVE-voice with support from CCP and will be recorded for those unable to tune in. We will have more details as we get closer to the date of the meeting.

We look forward to your comments and suggestions about how to make the CSM a better advocate for the interests of the community.

Fly safe o7o7

The members of CSM 7

CSM7 Elections: The Results!

The CSM election results were announced earlier by the CEO of CCP, CCP Hellmar, at the EVE Online Fanfest here in Reykjavik. This election has been astonishing to watch, with more campaigning and space drama than we’ve seen in any election so far. So, as promised, the fourteen delegates of the seventh Council of Stellar Management are:

10,058	The Mittani
4,150	Two Step
3,714	Elise Randolph
3,329	Greene Lee
3,184	Trebor Daehdoow
3,163	Kelduum Revaan
2,845	Seleene
2,465	UAxDEATH
2,439	Hans Jagerblitzen
2,289	Meissa Anunthiel
2,284	Dovinian
1,561	Issler Dainze
1,533	Alekseyev Karrde
1,282	Darius III

 

Congratulations to the delegates. Alexander Gianturco (The Mittani) has re-won the chairman position having won the most votes of the delegates this election. He is also the first candidate to exceed the 10,000 vote mark. This CSM will take office on April 4^th, and their first order of business will be to decide upon the vice-chair, secretary and vice-secretary positions. The full list of results will be available shortly on this page.

Voter Demographics

There were 59,109 votes cast by eligible voters, amassing a turnout of 16.63%. This means that this election once again saw record voter turnout. Of the total votes cast, 563 (0.95%) chose to abstain. This is the lowest number of abstains of any CSM election so far. The CSM6 election saw 659 (1.34%) abstains.

Female users seem less inclined to vote than male users, with 3.51% of voters being female despite making up 5.11% of the total EVE user base.

The average age of users who voted was 32 years, an increase from 31.3 last election. The average age of accounts that voted was 2.89 years, up from the average of 2.66 years last election. This can largely be attributed to the increasing average age of the EVE user base.

Age in days	Frequency	Cumulative
30	8,447	14.29%
250	8,489	28.65%
500	7,551	41.43%
750	7,721	54.49%
1000	6,105	64.82%
1250	4,970	73.23%
1500	4,503	80.85%
1750	3,244	86.33%
2000	5,061	94.90%
2500	2,073	98.40%
3000	943	100.00%

Turnout by country was as follows:

Country	Votes	% of Voters	Voters as % of subscribers	Subscription %
United States	22114	37.41%	17.36%	35.85%
United Kingdom	6607	11.18%	18.44%	10.09%
Russia	4760	8.05%	13.91%	9.63%
Germany	4237	7.17%	12.58%	9.48%
Canada	3248	5.50%	18.07%	5.06%
Australia	2203	3.73%	16.22%	3.82%
Netherlands	1505	2.55%	22.15%	1.91%
France	1389	2.35%	19.86%	1.97%
Denmark	1143	1.93%	19.36%	1.66%
Sweden	1122	1.90%	18.90%	1.67%
Ukraine	987	1.67%	16.24%	1.71%
Norway	774	1.31%	17.79%	1.22%
Finland	717	1.21%	21.69%	0.93%
Romania	576	0.97%	23.69%	0.68%
Belgium	499	0.84%	20.82%	0.67%
Poland	469	0.79%	13.77%	0.96%
Austria	465	0.79%	14.60%	0.90%
New Zealand	452	0.76%	24.24%	0.52%
Spain	401	0.68%	19.63%	0.57%
Italy	355	0.60%	15.78%	0.63%

These can be compared to the results of previous elections by reading the following developer blogs:
CSM 1 Election Results
CSM 2 Election Results
CSM 3 Election Results
CSM 4 Election Results
CSM 5 Election Results
CSM 6 Election Results

Our congratulations to the delegates of the seventh CSM and many, many thanks to all those who took part in the election process.

CCP Diagoras

 

 

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The voting period for the CSM election has now opened. Head here to place your vote now! Make sure your interests are represented on the council.

If you're interested in following the various debates and campaigning going on, make sure you check out the Jita Park Speakers Corner.

Tonight there will be a debate between two of the candidates in the upcoming Council of Stellar Management elections broadcast live on EVE Radio.The broadcast begins at 00:01 on the 3rd March.

Make sure you don't miss what's certainly to be an entertaining debate!

In the meantime, if you want to mine to some new tunes, head over to EVE Radio and tune in!  They broadcast 24/7 and don't forget to join the EVE-Radio ingame chat channel too.

Continue reading CSM Debate live on EVE Radio tonight! →

The application and nomination stages of this election period have now closed, and as such the listing of the candidates who will appear on the final ballot is now available.

We received 57 candidacy applications, of which we accepted 49. Four later decided to withdraw their applications and five did not pass the nomination stage. This leaves us with the 40 candidates listed later in the blog.

Of the eight we rejected, one was a test application, three were rejected due to recent violations of the EVE Online EULA, one was too young and the remaining three either did not provide passport identification or did not respond to e-mails from CCP requesting information.

Of the accepted candidates:
 - 39 are male, one is female.
 - The average age of candidates is 34 years and six months. The oldest candidate is 56 years and four months old, the youngest 21 years and two months.
 - 14 are former CSM members, 10 of those were members of the sixth council.
 - Candidates from 9 different counties are running.

The final candidate list is as follows, you can click the character name links to go to that candidate’s campaign thread. The list, along with the official campaign messages and web links for each candidate is also available on the EVE Online community website here.

Akirei Scytale - Test Alliance Please Ignore - Ian Sullivan - United States
Alekseyev Karrde - Noir. Mercenary Group - Gregory Russo - United States
Blackberry Bold – No alliance - Michael A Thompson - United States
Blake Armitage - No alliance - Brent Nowak - United States
corebloodbrothers - The Volition Cult - Frans Bovens - Netherlands
Darius III - BricK sQuAD. - Joseph W Morris - United States
Dovinian - Test Alliance Please Ignore - Tyler Lehfeldt - United States
Draco Llasa - Initiative Mercenaries - Rob Weatherly - United States
Elise Randolph - Pandemic Legion - Peter Farrell - United States
Fon Revedhort - DarkSide. - Dmitry Pavlikhin - Russia
Greene Lee - Against ALL Authorities - Dmitriy Vasiliev - Russia
Hans Jagerblitzen - Late Night Alliance - Noah Garaas - United States
Issler Dainze - The Honda Accord - Michele Boland - United States
Kelduum Revaan – Ivy League - Paul Cammish - United Kingdom
Korvin - Best Alliance - Andrey Antonov - Russia
leboe - Rote Kapelle - Samuel Leboe - Canada
Lyris Nairn - Goonswarm Federation - James Conley - United States
Meissa Anunthiel - Rooks and Kings - Stephan Pirson - Belgium
michael boltonIII - Test Alliance Please Ignore - John King - United States
Mike Azariah - Greater Realms - Mike Dawe - Canada
Mintrolio - No alliance - Lee Alexander - Australia
Mu'ad Diib - No alliance - Michael Preston - United Kingdom
Prometheus Exenthal – No alliance - Adrian Mugnieco - Canada
PsychoBitch - Dark Taboo - Timothy Graf - United States
riverini - Initiative Mercenaries - Enrique Jose Rivera Azofeifa - Panama
Roc Wieler - Ushra'Khan - Marcus Dickinson - Canada
Seleene - Pandemic Legion - Mark Heard - United States
Skippermonkey - No alliance - James Tanner - United Kingdom
Skye Aurorae - No alliance - Scott Manley - United States
Sollana - Curatores Veritatis Alliance - Peter Harridence - United Kingdom
StarConquer212 - Psychotic Tendencies. - Douglas James Johnson - United States
T'amber Anomandari Demaleon - No alliance - Paul Alexander Oosterman - New Zealand
The Mittani - Goonswarm Federation - Alexander Gianturco - United States
Tiger Would - No alliance - Jeroen Westerman - Netherlands
Trebor Daehdoow - Dirt Nap Squad. - Robert Woodhead - United States
Two step - K162 - Joshua Goldshlag - United States
UAxDEATH - Legion of xXDEATHXx - Mikhail Romanchenko - United States
Vincent Athena - Comic Mischief - Bart D Hibbs - United States
Voloses - RAZOR Alliance - Jacob Warden - United States
Xenuria - Shadow of xXDEATHXx - Aaron Bongart - United States

We wish the best of luck to the candidates and encourage you all to read and take part in the election discussions taking part in the Jita Park Speakers Corner forum. Voting will open at 00:00 on Wednesday, March 7^th.

 - CCP Diagoras


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Per the election schedule, the list of candidates who qualified for the nomination stage of the seventh Council of Stellar Management elections is now available. The final list of candidates that will appear on the ballot will be made available in a dev blog on February 29^th.

Good luck to all candidates and remember - every vote matters!

The candidacy period for the next CSM election will open at midnight, and if you’re interested in running for a seat on the council you will be able to apply here. A list of criteria can be found in the previous election blog.

With this election we’re introducing the new preliminary nomination stage, where each candidate will have to post a campaign thread introducing the platform they are running on in the Jita Park Speakers Corner forum. In order to be eligible to appear on the final ballot, the candidate must gain 100 “likes” on the initial post in that thread..

In order to facilitate this we will be changing the approval process from the CCP side. Instead of waiting until the end of the candidacy period before letting candidates know that they passed the vetting process, we will aim to provide a final approval or refusal within three working days of the application being made. Upon this approval being provided, candidates can feel free to start their forum thread to work on their campaign without worrying about being rejected during the audits.

On the 29^th of February, we will post the final list of candidates who passed this stage.

Good luck to everyone running; we’re certain that this will be an interesting election!

 - CCP Diagoras

 

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After the popularity of the statistics that I’ve been posting to twitter, I decided to take a look at 2011 as a whole. Some of the numbers are pretty staggering! Many stats, broken down into categories.

Planetary Interaction

There was an average of 64,840 planetary export transactions per day, or 2,701 per hour. Of that, 26,693 were in high sec, 6,936 in low sec, 15,844 in null sec and 15,366 in wormhole space. An average of 64,627 characters exported goods from a planet each month, with the annual total being 195,449 different characters.

The top five systems in empire space for planetary interaction and the average number of export transactions per day were:

Sobaseki	448.77
Perimeter	259.68
Maurasi	193.09
Muvolailen	156.79
Elonaya	153.17

Barren class planets were unsurprisingly the most utilised. Average number of export transactions per day per planet type:

Barren	20,386.70
Gas	11,441.06
Lava	11,072.17
Storm	6,419.07
Temperate	5,267.01
Plasma	4,456.42
Ice	3,473.48
Oceanic	2,323.80

Production

A lot was built! Just under 62 billion missiles. That’s an average of 7.08 million an hour. I’m pretty certain that’s more missiles than the Persians had arrows. 13.2 million ships, too - an hourly average of 1,506.

Average production per hour by hull size and tech level:

Hull size	Tech 1	Tech 2	Tech 3	Total
Shuttle	495.31			495.31
Frigate	391.24	80.96		472.20
Cruiser	110.06	33.79	13.15	157.00
Battlecruiser	105.59	4.00		109.59
Industrial	85.47	6.79		92.25
Destroyer	59.11	6.42		65.53
Battleship	60.61	2.39		63.00
Mining Barge	29.68	12.00		41.68
Capital	5.99	0.29		6.28
Industrial Command	2.72			2.72
Total	1,345.78	146.64	13.15	1,505.57

Average production per hour by hull size and race. This excludes any ships not belonging to the four main races, hence the lower totals:

Hull size	Caldari	Minmatar	Gallente	Amarr	Total
Shuttle	143.54	93.60	144.22	113.95	495.31
Frigate	136.84	144.25	99.62	82.26	462.98
Cruiser	43.75	44.25	32.34	32.05	152.39
Battlecruiser	43.93	38.98	13.84	12.85	109.59
Industrial	19.91	16.13	25.57	14.75	76.35
Destroyer	10.30	33.38	13.67	8.19	65.53
Battleship	13.48	16.79	12.36	16.15	58.78
Capital	1.58	0.83	2.21	1.37	6.00
Total	413.34	388.21	343.81	281.56	1,426.92

Production of ships per hour by sec group:

High Sec	1,346.77
Low sec	34.39
Null sec	120.63
Wormhole Space	3.77

The top 15 ships built in 2011 and their total, excluding shuttles and frigates:

Drake	330,752
Hurricane	262,808
Thrasher	256,829
Noctis	139,330
Retriever	127,981
Catalyst	115,061
Covetor	113,702
Badger Mark II	110,761
Bestower	99,534
Caracal	97,565
Rupture	92,589
Vexor	90,300
Cormorant	81,749
Manticore	80,064
Stabber	76,372

Also, our congratulations to the mighty Dreddit corporation for producing more Rifters than anyone else in 2011! 7,829 of them to be precise.

People blowing each other up

In 2011, 5,381,636 kill reports were generated; that’s an average of 14,744 per day or one every 5.86 seconds. 65% of these kill reports were caused by damage inflicted by a player, whilst non-player controlled entities (from Serpentis to CONCORD) were responsible for the remaining 35%.

Average destruction rate in PVP of the various hull sizes:

	Daily	Hourly
Frigate	2,315	96.48
Capsule	2,291	95.47
Battlecruiser	1,207	50.28
Cruiser	1,016	42.34
Deployable Structure	529	22.05
Battleship	523	21.81
Rookie ship	448	18.65
Industrial	403	16.78
Destroyer	371	15.45
Shuttle	208	8.67
Mining Barge	159	6.64
Capital	27	1.11
Industrial Command	9	0.39

By tech level:

	Daily	Hourly
Tech 1	7,859	327.46
Tech 2	1,574	65.57
Tech 3	79	3.28

By race, excluding rookie ships and capsules:

Race	Daily	Hourly
Minmatar	2,041	85.05
Caldari	1,758	73.26
Gallente	1,172	48.85
Amarr	1,079	44.98
Other	721	30.04

Overall, 576,860 different characters lost ships to non-players in 2011, and 422,801 lost ships in PVP scenarios. 155,087 characters scored at least one final blow, too!
 

The Market

To finish this blog off - If there’s one big thing in EVE, it would have to be the market. In total in 2011, 348,483,735 market transactions were performed with a total combined trade value of 2,692,367,631,609,430 ISK. That’s a lot. To break that down, 2011 on average:

	Day	Hour	Minute	Second
ISK	7,376,322,278,382	307,346,761,599	5,122,446,027	85,374,100
Transactions	954,750	39,781	663	11

Here's hoping for an even more productive and explosive 2012! If stats like these interest you, don’t forget to follow my twitter account and the comments thread of this blog. I’ll try to answer as many of the questions that come up as I can.

 -  CCP Diagoras

 

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The sixth Council of Stellar Management’s term is due to end on April 4^th, and as such it’s now time to start up the machine that is the CSM election cycle!

CSM election results announced at Fanfest 2011

This CSM term will see a change to the election process where upon being approved by CCP, the candidates must prove a certain level of support in order to be included in the final candidate list. This initial nomination stage will be assessed based on the number of “likes” given to the initial post for that candidate’s forum thread; if the number exceeds 100 then they will be included in the final list.

The schedule for the elections is as follows:

February 8^th to 22^nd – Candidacy application period opens
February 22^nd – Publication of the list of approved candidates; nomination stage begins
February 29^th – List of candidates who passed nomination stage published
March 7^th – Voting opens
March 21^st – Voting closes
March 24^th  – Results announced during Fanfest keynote.
April 4^th – CSM 7 take office
April 3^rd, 2013 – CSM 8 take office

The requirements to be able to run as a candidate in the CSM7 elections are as follows:

• You must have an active EVE Online account that is older than 30 days.
• You must be aged 21 years or older as of April 4th, 2012.
• You must provide your address and an e-mail address where you can be reached, which will not be made public.
• You must provide a scan or reasonable quality photograph of a valid passport to verify your identity and that you can travel internationally to the CCP HQ in Reykjavik, Iceland.
• You must be willing and able to sign a non-disclosure agreement with CCP as the CSM are regularly provided with information that is not for public release.
• You must be willing for your real name and country of residence to be made public alongside your character name on the EVE Online website. No other personal details required for candidacy will be made public.
• You must provide a reasonable campaign message stating your reasons for running, in no more than 200 words.
• You must have up to date and accurate account ownership information on all of your EVE Online accounts.
• You should be willing to actively engage in forum and chat room style discussions with CCP and the other members of the CSM.

In addition to the above in accordance with the CSM white paper, any serious violations of the EVE Online EULA may void your eligibility to run. All applications will result in an audit of the accounts belonging to the applicant. In cases where EULA violations have occurred, the application will be assessed on the basis of the severity of the violation and the length of time since the violation occurred. More information on candidate eligibility can be found in the CSM white paper.

Should you have any queries regarding the CSM election process, please head over to the comments thread or if you would like more private issues addressed, you can contact us via e-mail at csm-contact@ccpgames.com.

 - CCP Diagoras

 

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First up, if numbers like these interest you and you’re a twitter user, you may also be interested in my twitter page! Now that my shameless plug is out the way, with this blog I thought I'd respond to several requests that have been received for statistics relating to CONCORD/law enforcement losses. It turns out that CONCORD don't have much free time for eating doughnuts.

From the beginning of 2008 until the end of 2011, excluding rookie ships and shuttles, sentry guns and CONCORD were responsible for destroying 567,304 ships. That’s 11,818 a month, or 388 per day. 16.2 ships an hour, or one ship being removed from service every 3.7 minutes. New Eden is evidently a high-crime neighbourhood.



Month by month you can see spikes from events such as hulkageddon and the recent “Gallente Ice Interdiction” campaign by the Goonswarm Federation alliance. The green line only shows Hulks, but is still a good indicator of what all the people who were getting blown up by CONCORD were doing.

Where are these all taking place? Well, aside from a few sentry gun kills in NPC null security space, it’s of course all in empire space.


The map above shows a bubble chart for the empire regions, with the size of the bubble being relative to the number of losses to CONCORD. Whilst it does look cool, it probably isn’t quite so clear, so here are the top 10 regions for 2008-2011.

The Forge	86,680
The Citadel	82,306
Lonetrek	56,569
Domain	54,121
Sinq Laison	48,494
Heimatar	42,373
Metropolis	31,625
Essence	30,743
Genesis	14,435
Verge Vendor	13,817

What does this mean? From what I can tell, Caldari space must be full of criminals. It could also be due to the vastly higher population, but I think I’ll go with the criminal thing.

Looking into what ships people are using to break the law, the results weren’t exactly shocking:

	Total	% of total
Thrasher	59,490	10.49%
Rifter	30,942	5.45%
Catalyst	27,933	4.92%
Raven	21,923	3.86%
Brutix	17,645	3.11%
Kestrel	17,486	3.08%
Armageddon	17,271	3.04%
Caracal	16,451	2.90%
Thorax	14,369	2.53%
Hurricane	13,060	2.30%

The alliances who have lost the most ships to CONCORD/sentries and the number of unique ship losers (different members of that alliance who lost ships) are as follows:

2011	Losses to police	Unique ship losers
Goonswarm Federation	3,602	832
Test Alliance Please Ignore	3,489	969
Tear Extraction And Reclamation Service	2,551	145
General Tso's Alliance	1,157	80
Important Internet Spaceship League	966	234

 

2008-2010	Losses to police	Unique ship losers
GoonSwarm	6,331	1,518
Pandemic Legion	2,336	485
Against ALL Authorities	2,281	732
Triumvirate.	2,209	547
BricK sQuAD.	2,057	493

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the people of Goonswarm have managed to top both categories. To wind this blog down, I thought I’d take a look at the rate of these losses since the launch of Crucible. I was somewhat expecting a decline due to the change to insurance payouts, though apparently the number of people carrying around high-value goods has been tempting enough to actually cause a slight increase:



Lastly, the number of tier 3 battlecruisers lost to the police during 2011:

Naga	38
Oracle	89
Talos	49
Tornado	1,634
Total	1,810

It will certainly be interesting to see the long term trends in overall losses from the removal of insurance payouts from CONCORD related deaths, as this has a significant impact on the cost of “suicide ganking”. As usual, I’ll watch the comments thread and answer questions that I can.

- CCP Diagoras [Twitter]

No Hulks were harmed in the making of this dev blog.