EVE New Citizens Q&A

Depends on corp size. If small, office might not be needed at all. I suppose the main benefit of corporate office is the hangar divisions, to which you can give members access to. Grude example is; Say, miners mine for ore and throw it to certain hangar to which only they and industrial characters have access to. Indies then take ore / minerals from there and build stuff stuff. No other members have access to said hangar if you wish so.

Offices, if I am not mistaken, allow you to set your clone bay there as well, even if station was otherwise excluded from your clone station list.

But basically. you use corp office mainly to distribute / restrict certain corp assets to / from members you wish to.

Uhm...

Was going to say to read up on what corp's need and what an office does.

But then again, why waste my time. We already gave you good advice multiple times and you ignore it anyway.

Not to sound like a ****... but you are a fool if you do not retain a good amount of paranoia in EVE.


Remember that you are playing a game where...

- a group of people spent the better part of a year working their way into the high-level positions of an alliance JUST to assassinate a certain character in his pimp ship and steal everything that was not bolted down in the corp/alliance hangers (with amounted to some hundred billion ISK or so plus several billion ISK from the person who wanted the character and his ship killed).

- a person started a bank and operated it for a year and a half... all with the intent of stealing all the capital he was entrusted with when it finally hit critical mass (some 700+ billion ISK).

- a group of people literally suicided their pods into the smartbombs of an arrogant person they tricked through an elaborate scheme that took a week to set up.

- if someone you trust becomes disgruntled (or paid off) enough, they can press a button and disband months of effort, resources, and money. Which is what happened with Bob (Band of Brothers), the first incarnation of Goonswarm, and a few others.

- several other directors and I (who have less than 10% of the total corporate shares combined) create a vote for the CEO spot every once in awhile... just to make sure our Glorious Leader is still paying attention. If he isn't... one of us will become Director of the alliance and change all the channel messages to read like a dyslexic who just discovered swear words. At which point we give the crown back to our deposed leader and laugh at his incompetence.


If you become valuable enough to someone (for better or worse) then one way or another, someone WILL find a way to stick a dagger in your back.

In theory, how to replace a CEO with 1 share:
1. A director with no shares can start a vote to create additional shares, so at least double the total shares.
2. Any member or non-member with 1 share can pass the vote if nobody else votes. Only need majority of cast votes to win.
3. The director can create the shares (perform sanctionable actions) once the vote is passed.
4. The director can assign the new shares to anybody, including himself.
5. Whomever gets the shares can start a CEO replacement vote, and vote themself in.

Offices can be used to set up cascading access rights.

Say you have 2 divisions: Newb Division and Veterean Division for the sake of example. Everybody and their mom has access to the Newb Hanger, but only a select few content creators have access to the Veteran Hanger. These individuals can deliver anything in the Veteran Hanger to the Newb Hanger and to corp members' personal hangers, remotely. That means your trusted members can give corp assets to those with fewer rights, place them back into the Veteran Hanger once (and if) they are returned to the Newb Hanger (again, this can be done remotely by those with the proper acces rights).

Example:
Say an FC is killing a structure, you want to help but have no ship. The FC can deliver you a Tornado in a nearby office using his access rights to the Veteran Hanger. You are expected to drop it back into Newb Hanger once the ops is complete and you haven't died.

Lol

You again fail to see that people who want to rob you will take their time.

They first gain your trust, then have their alt made director and THEN steal the corp from you.


ooh and I love your ignorance even more, you just proven you are the 2nd one by blaming CCP that they made an error.

Yeah this is all about hierarchy and expertise. How do you remove all the paranoia very well documented by J'Poll about trust issues?

The paranoia is part of Eve. It's not *supposed* be removed. The mechanics are in fact constructed to make it the only rational response, as has been pointed out to you repeatedly.

Baneken is off course 100% right and I changed my post to reflect this. I didn't want to make the example as complex, but a nice touch is indeed that members can drop stuff into hangers they cannot access, making it a one-way-street.