Player Features and Ideas Discussion

A Much needed change to the Corporate Manufacture Interface.

Ok, this is something that I have noticed for a while and I think it could be an easy-ish fix. With the required rites to access and use corporation blueprints the Risk/Gain is very off balanced. I understand that in this game there should always be a Risk/Gain balance that only makes sense. However the current set up for Corporation manufacturing is very risky with little gain. Under the current setup you have to give someone the “Factory Manager”, rite to even use blueprints, factories, or research assets from a corp. hanger of any kind. This gives that person the ability to literally cancel any job that is being done by anyone in the corporation destroying any materials involved in this process. Further there is no real way to see who has done this that I have found. This is great for demoralizing and creating distrust in an Indy corp. but this goes too far in the risk side. In essence it has most corps with blueprints having only a small band of folks who have access to the blueprints. And this tends to shut out new industry members learning the ropes. What I would like to suggest is an additional Corp Role targeted just for users of corp. assets that add some level of protection for the corp. but does not make it completely safe. What I would like to see is a role like “Factory Operator” that allows a member to use the factories and assets but only allows them to cancel and deliver jobs that they have started. This makes an intermediate level before “Factory Manager” so someone can still work their way up to get that level of access to cause harm and drama.

Please bump the hell out of this 

I mostly agree with this.

It could be added as a separate more specific role for cancellation of jobs. Leave the cancellation roles to one person and if any member wants to cancel that specific job they have to notify the person with the role.