Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Corporation hangar access log!
Corporation hangar access log!
Corporation hangar access log!

Why every f**ing secure container has access log and the huge corporation hangar at the station hasn't ???

The more you over think the plumbing the easier it is to stop it up. This is a time-honored ability civilization developed thousands of years ago - waaaaaay pre-computer; organizing division of labor. Why folks jump to recreating how permissions are granted on server networks as a "simple" solution to a simple problem is beyond me.

My suggestion to whomever will undertake this effort is the KISS rule - Keep It Simple, Stupid. Think of it in terms of layers and layers of bureaucracy - or NOT. A lot of ideas here involve having an organizing tool provide them with fool proofing. The problem with that is, the only way to fool proof managing an organization is to not have a fool run it.

This panel shouldn't be insurance against CEO's stupid decisions at the expense of being an easy to use tool.

I'm just SAYING <----- very loudly.

Roles,role division.Both giving and removing.Corp management needs an overhaul of everything from small to huge!!

im concerned that addressing low hanging fruit is merely work that would become obsolete as i cannot envisage a redesign that keep a large part of how corp management is now and therefore would keep the changes you'd like us to suggest.

if you want to know the direction you should be taking with corp management you should ask and look to the large mega corps and how they deal with managing their members. Above and beyond that alliances have become the de facto large scale management arena now and you should be thinking of how CCP and Eve Online can replicate what a well organised alliance offers their members with their myriad of services.

if you want Eve Online to be more inclusive of the activities that happen in a modern alliance you need to close the gap that small alliances and corps can offer members in terms of services compared to that of large alliances and coalitions.

Another thing - make it easier to lock down or unlock a large number of items.

I don't mean in terms of "security" - having to vote locks and vote/sanction unlocks is ok, what isn't is the sheer number of unnecessary clicks that are involved.

If you want an experiment to try, take a dozen blueprints of any sort, drop them in your hangar and count the number of clicks involved in first locking them all down, the unlocking them and returning them to your hangar.

Why can't we mass lock/unlock things?

A feature where you could send out "corp invites" would be cool. Just click and you're in!

If we're replacing legacy features then this is a winner. Also.

Make poco's transferable remotely. :D

STANDINGS TAB
Please add "Date Added" and "Added By" columns on the Corporate Contacts tab so I and the people with the ability to set standings can see at a glance when standings were added and who did it. Labels are a good start to being able to track the reason the standing was added, but it would be nice if the labels or an equivalent kind of field was visible to regular corp members so they know why, too. Please ensure labels (or future iterations of labels) are a 'set once and forget it' thing--I hate setting them and then coming back a few days later to see that only some of them stuck.

If someone other than me sets a new standing or amends an existing one, as CEO I want to be automatically notified about that. Actually, I would really like it if everyone in the corporation (or alliance, if it's an alliance-level standing) was automatically notified about any standings changes no matter who makes the change--this would save having to send mails or make forum posts.

Please also add a way for a Corporation to automatically draw its standings from the Alliance instead of having to set its own. For example, if I set Corporation X as +10 at my alliance level, I don't want my member CEOs to also have to set Corporation X as +10 so that Corporation X receives the right tax privilege at our POCOs. I'd rather have a checkbox that has the alliance +10 standing filter down automatically to the corporation level, and then have a checkbox on my POCOs that allow it to read my alliance standings rather than corporation standings. Having said this, if a corporation is drawing its standings from the alliance level it should still have the ability to set separate standings if it needs to--it just shouldn't allow duplicates (if the alliance has set +10, the member corp shouldn't be able to set the same entity as -10, that kind of thing).

WARS TAB
Please move the Kill Reports tab from this part of the interface, or have one here that is only specific to war kills/losses. All non-war kills/losses should not be listed under WARS.

POLITICS TAB
I'm really not a fan of the voting system, period, and would be happy if it got trashed. When I took over as CEO I discovered a swath of locked blueprints and had to endure the pain that was having them be unlocked so I could move them. That whole process and the massive amount of clicking required probably gave me carpal tunnel. Honestly, there should be better ways to deal with corporation issues than using a voting system--I think most corporations in EVE probably don't run that well on a democratic system anyway.

ASSETS TAB
Please give CEOs the ability to remotely trash items (whether just in an office, or impounded, or in lockdown), especially if they are old items located in places I cannot now get access to (such as player-owned stations in 0.0).

On the In Space tab, it's all well and good to see I have X number of POCOs in a given system but it would be infinitely more useful to know what planet and moon they are positioned at so I can tell the difference between them if I'm changing settings or transferring ownership.

ALLIANCES TAB
The alliance portion of the interface should be completely separate, with its own Alliance button on the UI. If a corporation is not a member of an alliance, that UI button should either be automatically hidden or should take them to an appropriate tab in People and Places to find an alliance they can join.

I want to have an Alliance ad so I can recruit new corporations just like I have a Corporation ad to recruit new players.

Bulletins: See comments under HOME TAB above.

Under the (alliance) Home tab, one of the Details attributes says "Dictatorial" with "No" under it. I dug around on Google about this once and to my knowledge, all alliances say this. If this is never going to be developed, please remove it. But since voting is godawful it would probably be better if this attribute was actually used for something and could be editable by the current executor.

Just like the Edit Corporation Details window, the Edit Alliance window is also not resizable and does not have rich text options on it.

I'd like to nominate the Rankings tab as another portion of the interface that should be moved to People and Places. Personally, I don't really care where/how my alliance ranks but if someone is curious about that stuff they are probably going to look in P&P.

The Applications tab needs to generate a notification to the alliance executor CEO at a minimum about new apps to the alliance. There is no category in either the old or the new notification system for this, and in writing this post I have discovered that an app to my alliance has been sitting on this tab for who knows how long that I didn't know about. There is no date for this app either so I have no idea when it was submitted. This is really, really bad!

The My Applications tab in this portion of the interface should be moved and renamed. After all, it's not "my" application--it's the corp's application to join another alliance. Just as how I think the corp interface should be about just the corp you're in right now, the alliance portion of the interface should also be just about the alliance you're in. Move this kind of thing to People and Places, or maybe even make a whole separate Recruitment window for corporation and alliance searching, etc.

On the Members tab, it would be nice to see when the members joined the alliance so I don't have to look it up on their Show Info windows individually.

Alliance Contacts: See comments under STANDINGS TAB above.

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little thing: "notes" tab for the corp show info window. Same functionality as for chars.