Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Ship maintenance arrays are a required tool for corporations that operate in lowsec, null sec, or wormhole space when stations are not available, and thus their security measures need to be fixed .

The deployable structure allows pilots to fit their ship with different moduales, but while it also offers pilots the option of storing their ship, there is really no major advantage over ejecting from your ship and leaving it at the center of the control tower force shield. The only small gift a ship maintenance array offers in terms of ship storage is the removal of clutter from pilots ejecting and leaving their ships at the the center of the control tower force shield.

Ship maintenance arrays do not offer the level of security a pilot would expect from using a corporately owned storage asset. While CEO’s and DIRECTORS can assign roles to individuals inside a corp this does not guarantee the basic assurance of property not being stolen or misused. Although this may not sound all that bad, it is detrimental to corporations who require a Ship maintenance array to operate in low sec, null sec, or wormhole space.

For example: if CEOS and DIRECTORS are concerned with the growth of their corporation (which is normal for the majority of CEOS and DIRECTORS) and if these CEOS and DIRECTORS run a corporation in low sec, null sec, or wormhole space, then, they are limited by their ability to protect assists from new players they hope to recruit and have flying in the space they operate, because, ALL PLAYERS in the context of using low sec, null sec, or wormhole space, MUST be granted access to a ship maintenance array in order to properly play in low sec, null sec or wormhole space. Thus all players run the risk of having their stuff uncontrollably stolen from other players while offline.

I would like to propose that ship maintenance arrays have:

(a) a (right click) “lock ship” function that allows a player to set a password on their property while it is stored in a ship maintenance array, therefore protecting it from other players with role access to a ship storage tab.
(b) a option of sending an automatic eve-mail to other corp members with ship maintenance roles, which gives them the password, for sharing purposes or in case of an emergency while the property owner is offline.
(c) a auto “unlock all” function that unlocks all ships when the Control tower force shield goes into reinforcement mode and drops bellow 50%, therefore allowing possible removal/rescue of all stored ships in an emergency.
(d) a auto “unlock all” function that unlocks all ships when the Control tower runs out of fuel and the force shield goes offline, therefore still allowing dismantlement of the structure for a move or change in control tower setup.

This would also allow capital ships to be safely stored in a ship maintenance array while other corp members are also using the ship maintenance array to store capital ships, and without worry of anything being stolen. It would allow CEOS or DIRECTORS to ensure their stuff (capital ships) dont get stolen from CEOS and DIRECTORS.

I would ask someone to put stations in wormhole space. Man, why didn't anyone come up with the idea to put stations in wormhole space?

oh.

Thanks for the sarcasim.


Stations are not in all lowsec systems for a reason, they are not in all nullsec space for a reason, and they are not in wormhole space for a reason. However, it makes conducting system based corporate operations very difficult when all players cant store/change ships because of trust, therefore I just propose a small tweak to security.

If CCP wants more industry or market development in lowsec they should consider this to help players operate in lowsec.