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When will we see an improvement in player-corp icons?
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Sol Weinstein
Lunatic Warfare Federation
#21 - 2013-02-28 17:28:21 UTC
Some of these responses bring up a whole new mess of situations people might want a smaller corp.

The big one is a POS and corp security. And if my "4 man corp" happens to have fun running with another "4 man corp" and the idea of a merger is brought up, the one big thing that is going to be a deal breaker is having to share those assets with other players. Some people form corps to interact with their RL friends because they know that 99% of what they do is going to be safe from the internet grief squads.

Now, I suppose you could say that perhaps some of those characters should remain in one corp, strictly to handle the POS and keep it safe. But then you don't have a true merger. You now just have the same scenario: two corps. Except that one is now a 6 or 7 man corp and the other is a 1 or 2 man corp just to operate the POS. If this is happening more often than not, actually forming an alliance is the better option. This way, both 4 man corps can still interact with each other, even use the POS, but not have to compromise the security of it, or the corp hangar assets in stations.

What this topic really needs to be about is fixing the corp security. Adding more features into corps. Going beyond the 7 hangars in a station. And taking a hard look at the idea of "launch for self" when it comes to a POS. Otherwise, the high industrials will ALWAYS opt to make a small corp simply because of the game mechanics.

Thank you. Oh, and...

Respect the EVE.
addelee
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#22 - 2013-02-28 18:52:40 UTC  |  Edited by: addelee
TheBlueMonkey wrote:
[quote=addelee]

The ability to "play dress up" with your corp, be that though "more pretty colours" or custom logos will do little more then encourage more people to start more pointless corps.

Which I think is bad.

Small corps are ok if they have a purpose beyond "I wanna feel important times" BUT there are entirely too many "ego corps" in game as it is and those corps who are purely there to make the CEO feel important as he sits in high sec, pulls in new players with no idea bout the game and indoctrinates them with "you can't do x until you have y" attitudes, in my mind, is a terrible thing.

A CEO has a responsibility to make the game fun for those in his or her corp. Push the players to try\experience new things and try and facilitate as many options as possible.

Not cling to their flimsy veil of power at the expense of their corp progressing.


I don't think it would encourage people to form small corps, no more than now anyway.
CCP are stealthily promoting small corps by the implementation of the isk hole that is NPC corp tax. If they removed that, then there would be far fewer 4 man corps.

How many people really care about playing dress up for the sake of a logo?
TheBlueMonkey
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#23 - 2013-02-28 19:45:10 UTC  |  Edited by: TheBlueMonkey
Sol Weinstein wrote:
Some of these responses bring up a whole new mess of situations people might want a smaller corp.

The big one is a POS and corp security. And if my "4 man corp" happens to have fun running with another "4 man corp" and the idea of a merger is brought up, the one big thing that is going to be a deal breaker is having to share those assets with other players. Some people form corps to interact with their RL friends because they know that 99% of what they do is going to be safe from the internet grief squads.

Now, I suppose you could say that perhaps some of those characters should remain in one corp, strictly to handle the POS and keep it safe. But then you don't have a true merger. You now just have the same scenario: two corps. Except that one is now a 6 or 7 man corp and the other is a 1 or 2 man corp just to operate the POS. If this is happening more often than not, actually forming an alliance is the better option. This way, both 4 man corps can still interact with each other, even use the POS, but not have to compromise the security of it, or the corp hangar assets in stations.

What this topic really needs to be about is fixing the corp security. Adding more features into corps. Going beyond the 7 hangars in a station. And taking a hard look at the idea of "launch for self" when it comes to a POS. Otherwise, the high industrials will ALWAYS opt to make a small corp simply because of the game mechanics.

Thank you. Oh, and...

Respect the EVE.


I agree corp and pos security settings do need to be looked into a hell of a lot more that corpdressup.

That said, if you want a pos and your in a corp and you dont want others to access it.
Password it? Uncheck the allow corp/allow alliance options?
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