Character Created: 2011/07/22
Corp/Alliance: Drieger Industries Inc./Phoebe Freeport Republic
Crossing Zebras: Staff Writer
Twitter: @DianaOlympos
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CSM Watch Interview (English): Link
CSM Watch Interview (French): Link
Declarations of War, Round Table 1: Link
EVE-Guardian.net: Link
Hello, my name is Diana Olympos.
I am here to announce that I’d love to represent you on CSM XI.
TL;DR-
I’m seeking a seat on the CSM to help empower community builders and all the players that make New Eden a living place.
The Detail
I’m a relatively new player in New Eden. I first tried to get into Eve a few years ago, I initially hooked up with a French mission running corp, but studies took priority and I eventually drifted away from the game.
However in February 2015 I felt the call of Internet Spaceships once more and returned to New Eden. Looking for something a little bit different I joined the 3 month old alliance PFR (Phoebe Freeport Republic) and I was hooked immediately. The atmosphere within the alliance and the buzz around the game was compelling.
I’ve made friends and over the next few months I’ve become an active member, running part of the PFR Academy program, helping to seed the main Freeport of Nullsec (Obligatory propaganda reference!) and learning to PvP in what’s become one of the most active constellations in Null Security space.
Just after it’s launch, I joined the new Tweetfleet Slack (if you’re not a member, sign up now - it doesn’t cost anything or need an API key!) – As a result I was exposed to what I realised was the most active, vibrant and interesting community I’ve ever encountered in gaming. It’s also there that I was recruited by Crossing Zebras and offered a place as a writer.
All that activity brought me here - I’m passionate about the game and I’m announcing my candidacy for CSM XI, to put help put that passion to good use.
Let’s tackle the obvious point first; If you ask to a group of people what the role of the CSM is, you’re likely to receive a different opinion from each group member. With that in mind, I believe that the function of the CSM is to:
Hey Diana, you’re a really new player, why do you think you’d be good at this?
Few years ago, I was one of the leading members of the Wargame serie community and was asked to participate in a very similar scheme proposed by the game developers. I learned a lot about game design, how to be an interface between the players and the devs, and vice-versa. I learned fairly swiftly that members of these groups should not try to be Junior Game Designers. Most is achieved through rationalising and summarising community feeling and communicating that back to the developers and then providing the same service in the opposite direction.
That’s nice Diana, so what can you bring to CCP?
In the past few years, we’ve had a dominant presence from established Nullsec coalitions and Blocs on the CSM. They’ve helped CCP engineer and rollout the current Nullsec changes over time to address a large number of the perceived issues. However, now this program of change is fully underway, it feels strange to have almost no representation from the “New Nullsec” alliances which are (hopefully) building the empires of tomorrow.
Being an active member of PFR, I have gained a lot of experience across fields that are involved in building a nullsec alliance - PvP, teaching, developing markets, building diplomatic relationships, interactions with different parts of space etc. I am confident that I can translate this experience into meaningful discussions about upcoming proposals.
I obsessively follow what is happening in Eve and in the game design community around it; Reading devblogs, opinion site, snippets of dev talks, which way the wind is blowing at CCP are all things I try to track. I believe that there is a considerable scope for extending the methods for communication between the players and devs and exploring that aspect of the CSM would be one of my main goals.
Finally, I represent one of the many sub-communities in New Eden that extend outside of Corp/Alliance boundaries - Being French, I’m in contact with the French community and living in the active South West of Null I see a lot of them, small alliances striving every day to realise their objectives, as well as staying in touch as a group on community sites such as Slack. I hope to be able to provide a mouthpiece for that community and prove that I’m the right person to help represent them.
Cool, but what would you bring to the CSM itself?
In real life I’m a Data Scientist – This means diving into mine of information and uncovering meaningful data. My specialist area is data IT surround IT tool usage. I’m used to collaborating with diverse groups of people and leveraging their skills and knowledge for my projects. I like to think that this would hold me in good stead as CSM member with the remit of extracting ideas and information from the community and CCP alike.
I also have experience as a moderator and a writer for a French E-sport company. That’s given me further lessons on how interact with people, how to write informative and useful pieces and has granted me some insight into game design. It’s a skill I’ve had to polish during my time as a Marshall for the Wargame serie. In this role I’ve had to work with people from many different communities and playstyles and act as a soundboard and a communication point for all of them. I’m firmly of the opinion that the CSM will have to evolve towards this model during CSM XI and that this previous experience will help me fit that role.
But Diana will you have time to do all of this around your normal life?
Yes.
You can find my view about nullsec and its goal here
For an history of PFR, there is a little piece on CrossingZebras
If you’d like to ask me questions, post them here and I’ll do my best to field all of them.
You can also grab me on TweetFleet Slack for a conversation if you prefer.
Or contact me on Twitter @DianaOlympos
Or ingame by evemailing me or joining the DianaO4CSM channel.
Fly like you earned it !
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