Assembly Hall

+1 from me

I'm not going to expand my corp, which I'd love to do, until I can lock down BPO's/BPC's/interface so that corp members can use them but not remove them from either a corp hanger in a staion or a hanger in a lab, and lock down jobs so that people can only cancel their own jobs.
Note any member should be able to deliver any ready job .. assuming that invention jobs sucees is determined at the point of instantiation and not delivery. This would prevent slots being blocked because a corp member is on holiday/sick/got other commitments/being a lazy ass..

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I had a couple members that wanted to use the POS, but there was no way to allow them to use it for research without giving them the ability to end a capital job that was taking place at the time.

I believe you can work around this problem in the POS management window by changing the online/offline option to POS Fueler, rather than Starbase Manager.

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It's been a problem for years so I'm not optimistic that CCP will do anything about it

Yeah I read that yesterday, my one concern was that it was a single paragraph explaining the problem, but no comment from CCP if they acknowledge/agreed or such. I hope it gets more attention.

Bumping to get more peoples attention and feedback!

Bringing this up again as it continues to be a major limiting factor that seriously needs attention

I think you're a bit mistaken. CCP certainly likes the cold dark universe and that is how it should be, but this isn't what the issue here is and the change doesn't prevent thefts or betrayals. Even in the current game you still need to gain enough trust to gain those roles and you get them after you are trusted, but thefts still happen. The new system doesn't alter this. It just allows the corp to function better and get more players involved. The added security also helps new players to be more easily accepted in to player corps, which is something CCP certainly wants to encourage, since being part of a player corp greatly increases the likelyhood of them subbing to the game long term.

I think the real reason CCP hasn't addressed this and might not do it until the whole system is redone is because the whole corporation management and corporation role system is old(poorly documented, not designed to be easily modifiable, with the original programmer propably not working at CCP anymore) and full of similar problems. This makes fixing it a large project with very serious reprecussions for the game no matter how it turns out. It's similar to the POS system in many ways. Everyone knows the system needs to be upgraded, but it's a huge project, with a high likelyhood of serious problems occuring and a painful transition period even in the best of case scenario. This means CCP is reluctant to touch the system and will only do it when a total redesign is going to take place.

The current coding that CCP uses for the role interface / corp interface is limited by its original coding. Because of this it is very difficult for them to add more to the interface. I am pretty sure there are plans in order to deal with this and when they tackle updating the corporation interface and completely reworking it - You will be able to do this.

CCP doesn't get off on making it hard for you to do industry.

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