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Dear MD.

I just finished listening to Soundwaves interview on TenTonHammer.

This made me ponder if there was not some rather great reasons to consider his idea for micro corporations. I would call these Partnerships, as I am prone to try and use RL inspired concepts. Basically inspired by something like this Link

So what I would expect was that Partnerships would be doing much of the same things that corps do now, with the difference that they would ofc not have shares. Roles would instead be used for voting rights and similar features.

No Shares. (No dividends, no risk of hostile takeovers)

Only npc Faction (Alliance) affiliation memebership. (Can NOT be war decked)

No excemption from npc pricing.

Only access to npc building and research slots, these would get changed to use a dynamic pricing model based on how much they are used. Thus making location more expensive. Same with office space. There should be quite a lot more office and building slots available, in practive infinite, but the price change impact should motivate people to spread out or shift business type.

The other type would ofc be REAL Corporation.

These would function mostly like they do already, but with added features.

Shares tradable on scc markets. (Dividends payouts, hostile takeovers, voting, etc)

player to player facility renting. Research slots and Building slots from POS.

Alliance affiliation granting excemption from docking fees and hangar fees.
Ideally these fees would be paid, with a huge reduction by the Alliance or as corp bills.

Access to player to player billing system.
Corp Taxation. With option for monthly wealth isk taxation. (Yes work around by hiding isk would be expected.)
Statements of Tax from each member would be generated to corp and or alliance accountant. Thus making tax avoiding a reason for kicking members. Taxation should be possible to set for corp to members and from alliance to corps.
Same with Billings.

Just a few of my thoughts on the topics..

Micro corps? Why the heck would we need those? If ccp would fix current corp roles system first, we could actyally run corporations safe way, without fear of massive corporations thefts. That would scale from single person corporations to massive corps with thousands of members...

And any CEO knows that first thing you do on new corporation is take all shares for yourself -> no more hostile takeovers throw share loophole.

Sounds like wardeck shield in new name. Didint ccp plan some changes that remove some wardeck shields? Why the need to introduce new one?

And people in npc corps allready can work together if they so choose. No need for micro corporations for that either.

Building slots on pos? Maybe ccp could actually fix the damn pos mechanic so that structure management option: public, actually works... Heck you cant even rent me slots from lab to someone outside your alliance.

So fix corporate roles and pos system and need for micro corps fades away.

IF you read the post, you would see there was a huge gameplay and economic incentive to not be war dec shielded..

Also the current npc corp shield and strawman is much worse, then having an actual RP and useful game mechanic.