Assembly Hall

Everyone knows that corporation roles and how they work are flawed and have been for a very long time, but I want to highlight the single biggest flaw which has a negative impact on game experience and social interaction, which in-turn hurts subscriptions and player retention.

Simply put:
With the current corporation roles, you can only give a player entire access to Factories/Labs, or nothing, there is no inbetween.

Problem:
Player A and Player B are trusted friends who start a corp together and start producing things, they put up a POS, start researching their blueprints and doing invention. Player A is making Stealth Bombers and Player B is making Jump Freighters. Both players have known each other for years, they are both directors in the corp and have full access to everything.

Due to current mechanics, this corporation is basically ****-blocked from ever trying to recruit and expand with new members, this is why you see very very few successful industrial corporations in-game and most you do find are very small.

They cannot recruit a new player to their corporation, and let the guy build ammo and frigates as he learns manufacturing in-game, because to give him the role to build Tristan's, will in turn give him access to cancel 7billion isk of in-build Jump Freighter, or multiple freighters, stealth bombers etc.

It's impossible under the current mechanics to have an industrialist corporation with 30 players, all using shared POS to build ammo, ships, tech 2, tech 3 etc.

Solution
Allow the Roles "Rent Factory" and "Rent Laboratory" to enable a player to rent and install jobs in corporation facilities, to see other jobs, but only to be able to cancel/deliver THEIR OWN jobs.

This would up corporation recruitment, create more social bonds and greatly increase the chance the players who's primary drive is not PvP to remain playing the game because of those social bonds.

Totally agree with everything you say. I'm sure all of this has been on the 'backlog list' for years and is planned as a huge review of these mechanics, but I really think its gone on too long, and a quick fix like mentioned above in my OP would atleast bandaid the problem until they get a chance to really review all of the roles.

I've been director of two corps, and see no problem with this proposal.

edit: You *can* use more than one POS to solve this problem. One with its own password for the "trusted" guys, where high-end production is done, and at least one other that will allow anyone in the corp through the shield.

I'd really like to be able to configure a POS to allow blues access to labs...

Yep. Something like that happened before. I wasn't burned too badly, but others were (I wasn’t a CEO in those days).

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Ohh Yes Roles need to fixed!

Trolling to ask for something that's been broken for so long to be fixed?

Yeah I get your point, I think this change listed for the reasons mentioned though outways the 'omgcarebear eve' if corporations recruit people and get them involved in game mechanics like research, production, invention etc, said player is more likely to keep playing for the game.

CCP does love it when corp treachery makes the news. That said, it only makes the news it it was a huge theft and a trusted individual. Small corp theft and manufacturing job hissy-fits do not make for an interesting read.

To be honest i'd give CEO's/Directors the ability to 'Lock Down' in progress jobs so only CEO's/Directors can cancel them.

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I dont think CCP will do anything about it. Although this would be the best change in Eve Online I ever heard of. Im also sure that if CCP supports our progress we would support them greatly.