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As a small portion of the community I got to say this is great to hear, planning for living in wormholes is back on the table

Regarding CCPgames expectation management towards it's paying customers about many features in the past,
IF I was making promises at my company without delivering or delivering in time or as stated, I would be fired a long time ago.

If you get the personal SMA working this will be an awesome expansion :) If not however, the most important part will be missing.

There is a major problem with the planned new personal storage system though. Almost every serious player has alts, especially wormhole players. Many alts in fact. We usually keep all our stuff in one place where all our alts can access it because the same roles are granted to all alts of a player. But with the new system each character will have its own storage and no other character can take stuff from it. What this means is that if I deploy my main to another wormhole and then want to get one of my ships with one of my other chars, I can't because my main was the one who stored it in the SMA.

This will be a huge problem and will in fact force me to continue keeping all but the most expensive stuff in general storage.

Please consider other options and make them work if at all possible, like: Grant access to personal storage for other characters based on PERSONAL standing. This way we could set our alts or trusted friends to excellent standing and they could access our storage but no one else could.

Unfortunately the priority of the corp hangars is higher than the prio for the ship hangars.

Personal ship hangars would be much more important for us as a wormhole corp since they hold much higher value stuff.

Maybe u introduce bigger arrays ?

building ammo in 20 arrays really sux

access in pos shield help but it will still stupid


secound why we can`t invent / produce more jobs at once ?

Its hard to satify everyone. I'll rather take cheap solution NOW than a slightly better one in 12 months....

Why not just add 2 checkboxes to this "personal tabs".
1. Allow access for CEO/Directors
2. Allow access for ALL

Problem solved.

That's why you dont want to store all your stuff in a personal hangar. The choice between CHA and PHA is not obvious, and as stated by Fozzie, it's intentional.

Could we have some answers for those questions?

Private Starbase Hangars --

make director access parallel current access to member hangars at stations with offices.

That is allow directors to drop but not take items into private hangars.

Not allowing drops into private hangars can however make distribution of secured corp items (e.g. ammo) to individual players unnecessarily difficult. The most likely workarounds are mandatory logon overlap between directors and each member to receive items. OR setup unsecured areas or cans where less privilege members are simply trusted to take their items only...which takes us back to where we are NOW in many ways.

If you think fumbling items into private hangar space instead of corporate space is more likely at POS - then put a default popup warning which can be disabled by the user.

Frankly I can see NO drawback to allowing directors to drop items into personal hangars. Any issue with undesired items and overflow can be solved on the private members next access where they can just jetcan the unwanted stuff ... or politely drop it back in shared corp hangar areas.

sorry if this is a rehash...but I don't have hours to read all the posts.

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Actually I would make the lesser argument that directors should have take access to private starbase hangars versus the destroy all contents if moved option. The fact is lots of members are not only daily. Vacations and other RL circumstance may have members absent or short logon for weeks or even a few months. Its not unknown for entire POS to be moved to a different moon or system or temporarily stored away during wardec.

I would say the incidence of distrust for directors is generally far outweighed by member preference that directors attempt to save the contents of personal hangars and restore them when the structure is reanchored.

Frankly if you mis-trust any corp director that much you should either keep your stuff in NPC station or change corps entirely. Its not like this proposal would save personal property from loss when CEO or director runs away with all corp assets. Sure director does not benefit from personal gear - BUT he still likely proceeds based on value of Corp asset like POS structures, resulting in your items being destroyed or inaccessible. On the idea that most director thefts are driven by value of personal assets instead of corporate...my counterargument follows along the lines of "You are an idiot if you keep PLEX in POS as there is no location driven need" and in the absence of private ship array your iridium plated ships can still be stolen.

In summary I think Player Owned Station (structure) implies that personal property stored there is vulnerable to theft by directore and CEO -- and therefore there is no need to change director level access but only to improve security distinctions between less members. (Might be different if the new POS allowed Corps to rent hangar and office space to non-corp members like NPC stations do. Then CONCORD internal security measure would overriden

Same problem I envisioned myself, at least directors or the CEO should be given a way to move stuff to a new location. Hell, it would even be good enough to have a shinkwrapped item out of any personal hangar if need be, so nobody can use it but can only move it to the new location so the owner can unwrap it once he's back. but destroying all the stuff (presumably valuable stuff if it's in the personal hangar) if you need to relocate is plain dumb.
I'd never put my personal stuff in a place where it gets blown up if the tower needs to be relocated for any reason, due to the constant danger and the shifting needs of WH life that's going to happen sooner or later.