Eve is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), which pretty much boils down to there being tens of thousands of players all playing the same game, sharing a game world, and impacting each other with their actions. For more information, check the Eve Online site itself, its entry on Wikipedia, or just watch some of its trailer videos.
The Council of Stellar Management
The Council of Stellar Management (or CSM, for short) is an official route of communication between the player community and CCP, the developers of Eve Online. They have an advising role in the development process, providing player feedback, requests, and advice to the developers and game designers.
Last summer, the Eve community exhibited a powerful negative reaction to the Eve Incursion expansion. The (still-current) CSM, led by The Mittani of Goonswarm, also took action and spearheaded admonishing CCP with players' complaints, while striving to find a solution so Eve Online can continue as we all love it.
Since then, CCP has changed direction, restructured their company, and released Eve Crucible, an expansion that fixed a ton of issues both old and new, introduced new ships, and in general was made to the specifications of the CSM as to what the players wanted.
However, a large part of the player base was still disappointed.
The Problem
The CSM as it is now mostly represents nullsec players, and the PvP emphasis of the Crucible expansion goes to show it. Why? The CSM was democratically elected, so why does it not represent the fact that the majority of players live in hisec? Well...
Most people did not vote! And, as the results make apparent, most of those who did not vote were hisec pilots!
Nullsec alliances are based on good communication between members, and it was not hard for them to get the word out. "Vote for such-and-such!" Also, since they voted in alliance leaders or other prominent persons, the publicity these candidates required was basically "built-in".
Hisec pilots do not have this kind of intrinsic structure in their gameplay. The reason most did not vote is left up to speculation, but could it have been they did not know there was a vote on? They did not know who to vote for? They did not care?
The Solution
How do you get great uninformed masses informed and voting? Campaigning, of course!
That is the objective of Elect A Carebear: to aid in getting proper representation of the Eve community via information distribution, candidate publicity, and grassroots campaign funding. The long term objective is to get all hisec wishes accomplished, be they improved missions, improved mining, or whatever you wish.
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