The CSM have finished up their latest round of prioritization crowdsourcing, here’s what they have to say:

Several times a year, the CSM enlists the aid of the community in helping us prioritize the issues that CSM has raised with CCP. The results of this crowdsourcing effort helps guide the CSM’s efforts during not only our regular summit meetings, but also the all-important CCP release planning process. This is your chance to tell us which CSM issues you think are the most important and deserving of CCP’s attention.

To make your voice heard, look at the list of issues on the Prioritization Wiki Page and then cast your votes in the associated Assembly Hall thread. Complete instructions on how to vote are available in both places.

Please help us push for more improvements by voting for what you think is important. We greatly appreciate your time and attention.

Sincerely,
The Members of the 6th Council of Stellar Management

Jita, The Forge - Capsuleers involved in trade have been offered a dedicated sub-system channel to discuss all matters related to New Eden’s markets.

The channel, named “SCC-Lounge”, was created by Caleb Ayrania. He revealed what goes on inside the channel: “A lot of rather serious talks about New Eden’s market often go on, and we do try to offer a lot of help to upcoming merchants when they decide to try their legs in ‘the seas of maritime’ trading.”

Caleb also told of his future plans for the channel, indicating that he wants to make it an “actual physical location within New Eden”, enabling “capsuleers to come and hang and talk market business”.

Chevalleis, a regular visitor to the channel, described a friendly atmosphere within: “There are a lot of other traders here, and we can exchange ideas… it’s useful to hear older opinions.”

The CSM 6 and CCP had their first summit from Wednesday, May 18 to Friday, May 20, 2011. During this summit they discussed Flying in Space with Team BFF, the future of EVE with CCP t0rfifrans and CCP Zulu, the EVE-Dust 514 link with CCP TomB and much more. Full meeting minutes are available at this link. A table of contents are as follows:

CSM Intro

Team BFF and the ‘Little Things’

EVE: Flying in Space

EVE Future

The EVE-Dust link

EVE Marketing

Quality Assurance

Game Masters – Policies, Petitions and Large Fleet Lag

EVE Security Task Force

Team Gridlock – The War on Lag

ISD and Community Matters

EVE User Interface Issues

Starbase Issues

Feature Abandonment

Nullsec Industrialization

Incarna and the NPE

EVE Art

Meeting with Hilmar

EVE Economics

Ship Balancing

We understand that there is a lot of information in one document and there are sure to be a lot of comments from players on many of the issues. We would ask that you place your comments in this thread as it will be actively monitored by the CSM and CCP.

BREAKING NEWS - Sansha Nation vessels under the command of Slave Ation09 are currently attempting to invade the system of Altrinur.

At approximately 19:15 New Eden time, Slave Ation09, piloting a Revenant Nation super carrier, invaded the solar system with a fleet of supporting Sansha Nation battleships and cruisers.

At 20:00 in New Eden, a fleet of over 40 capsuleers warped to the hostile vessels and engaged the Sansha forces.

More than 100 capsuleers and rising from across New Eden are forming up in fleets in an attempt to destroy the hostile Sansha forces. Slave Ation09 mocked the capsuleers as they arrived in the system: “It’s going to take more than a fleet of half a dozen pods to challenge me.”

Capsuleer Ammzi, who is currently fighting the Sansha forces in Altrinur seems upbeat about their chances of victory: “We have gained experience from previous attempts, we will do our best…”

At the time of publishing the battle is still ongoing.

Brapelille, Sinq Laison - 40 capsuleers that entered a fiction writing competition hosted by Max Torps have since had their stories published for all of New Eden to read.

The competition asked capsuleers to look at a provided image from New Eden and write a short story on how they interpreted the picture.

Max Torps explained why he organised the competition: “I’d seen some competitions before but felt that they focused more on capsuleer thoughts, opinions and feelings. I wanted to see another aspect to their creativity, their fiction writing.”

Max also revealed his delight at the number of entries he received: “What really made it take off was when it was announced on the New Eden News Network… 117 capsuleers took the time to sit down and write a story based on one image. I felt rather humbled but also very excited. It also made me determined to see the project through. I spent days reading each entry, many of them I read more than once!”

With permission granted from 40 authors to use their story, he is seeking permission from the remainding 77 as he believes that “it’s only fair to allow those that have been out of touch a chance to be published too”.

Arcana Mortis, author of “Inspiration Strikes”, one of the 40 so far published, expressed her delight at having the piece published: “It’s pretty awesome, if I’d known that was going to happen I probably would have written something better though!”

Kail Toronus, author of “Inner Thoughts of a Vanquished Soul”, another of the 40, revealed the need to submit his story: “I just love to write, I’ve been writing fiction stories for a long time now. So, when I saw the competition I knew I wanted to submit something.”

The winners of the competition were:

1st prize of 100 million ISK and 2 PLEX – Ichikhan for his story “On Rails of Golden Fire”.
2nd prize of 75 million ISK and 1 PLEX – Lady Ariona for her story “Freedom and Slavery”.
3rd prize of 50 million ISK and 1 PLEX – Neologia for her story “Concientious Objector”.

On the back of the success, Max Torps also wished to announce that a similar competition will be revealed in the coming weeks, with the winner receiving two Pilot Licence Extensions, and one for each capsuleer who wins 2nd 3rd and 4th places.

GalNet References

Original competition
Stories published so far