Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Referencing up coming structure and security changes:

It would better serve corp security and flexibility if access to corp ships was assigned to actual ships rather than entire hangars full of ships. In fact ideally access controls to ships would apply even to ships floating in space in POS bubble. Actually the best solution extends access controls to personal ships when considering efficient use of limited numbers of POS hangars. Ideally boarding ship is normally transparent if you are authorized use.


To prevent people from storing ships in open hi sec space without a POS bubble for security, you could stipulate that access to ships could be hacked like a data/relic can if no bubble prevented lock on to ship. However several puzzle stages might be involved and double failure probably shouldn't cause no consequence destruction. Maybe ship warps away for random time on autopilot like a disconnect.


Implementation? Borrow lots of code from secured cans current and POS shield access security as starting point. That is set basic security when hull is assembled to either corp or personal modes. For personal mode the master key belongs to the assembler though access can be granted to a short list of individuals or maybe even security groups (contacts label based or corp/alliance based). For corp mode the master key belongs to current CEO office but each ship can also be assigned 1-2 characters (or security groups) as delegated key authorities and access granted to a list of corp members and corp/alliance groups.

Maybe for alliance holding corps access can set to alliance members/groups.




Extra step (might be too complex).

For corps some sort of security probably needs to exist between job completion and hull assembly to allow splitting new ships being built between various directors and commanders of lesser operating groups. The simplest way to expedite commission of new ships to the right groups is to allow manufacturers to assign intended delegate authority during manufacturing job creation. Then job delivery by anyone causes automatic assemble and assigns initial delegate key authority info to initial corp officer manager. Alternatively unassembled items could be delivered to audit secured container with sufficient space (job creation check with virtual space reservation via system destructible item) which is keyed only to assigned only to that delegate authority. Or for ships under POS bubble ships could be ejected into space assembled and keyed. Potentially this access key and delivery system could be extended to other high value corp items.