Eve ....

I don't want to overestimate the thing and I'm not one of those witchhunters like at the eve o site but the current disbelieve that in CCP to do honest buisness is a bit straining.

Yes it seem they don't have a competent PR person to handle parts of the affairs but and I really got a tired of the constant tinfoil hattery at eve-o.

Anyway it seems like CCP is again taking a step into a very unique direction:

In a Virtual Universe, the Politics Turn Real

- update: this articel is not longer available :(
rather take this: Bericht: Eve Online erhält demokratische Wahlen

In short, they want to have player elections to vote for a group of players to audit CCPs operations.

Now take that "2nd Life hype"! ;) not just a barren empty pr0n deluded 3D chatroom.

Although admirable good intentions, this might lead to a whole set of new problems but the initial idea is a very honorable one, but I have some serious doubts.

So voting ? We already know how good votings in the "l33t" internet is going to work, add in the already highly metagaming eve community with their tinfoil hats and people running multiple accounts, you just see the witchhunters call in "cheaters" since they doubt the outcome of the election to be fair.

As this is not yet "official" announced by CCP we have to wait if and how they want to realize this.