Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I don't think small corporations are a problem (neither does simukz if I'm reading it right). The problem is that lack of ability to "share" resources between characters leads players to set up small corporations to solve those problems. And that can to withdrawl from interaction with other players. At least that's how I'm reading the original post.

I can vouch for this being the case to a small degree with me. This character is well established in a player corporation as part of a player alliance, but I find it difficult to share between this character and my others who are primarily dedicated to making isk. The rest are holed up in a small corporation because that makes it VERY easy to share between characters even on the same account because I can just store everything in my corporation hangar; this becomes very important when you're dealing with expensive resources like those necessary to keep an industrial group running. And because it's all me, I don't have to worry about stealing from myself. There are even a few people who are not me that I'd probably share this with if I was able.

However, if I could share between my characters without this silly shell corporation, they would all be in player corporations. If I could rent a "shared hangar" where I could drop stuff and isk instead of renting a corporate office I would do it and pop all of my (at least those that make sense) into a player corporation.

I think it's a great idea. I don't know if it's a high priority, but I think it would cut down on these types of factors limiting involvement.

If I was to design this feature (I'm not a game designer), I'd probably make it so that one player could rent an office for himself instead of for his corporation, and then invite others to use it, or a specific division of it.

Exact same situation right here.

There is no problem with being in a small corp if that's what you want to do. The problem is when people stick with that corp because the mechanical constraints make it more attractive even though they would otherwise be glad to be part of a larger player-base.

It's a shame that people have to choose between larger groups of friends and the ability to share freely. However, there could be some serious technical hurdles to fixing these problems. In my mind's eye I can picture friend's hangars showing up in a similar fashion to corp office hangars, based on access control lists which are customizable by players. Easy to see, but could create some serious friction with database calls, and, for all we know as players, the concept might be completely barred by some restrictions already present in the code.

I made my corporation so that me and my alts can be bad-ass griefing pirates together.