Market Discussions

Unfortunately, only you can modify corp orders you have placed

Being able to see them alone would be SO nice .

Kind of a silly mechanic as it is..
People with the proper roles should be able to work market orders for the corp imo.

Not sure you mean this exactly but you can see all orders of the corp under the Market Orders tab in the Market window.
Not exactly the most obvious place. And even if you did know that it took me 3 years before i found that tab :)
I am sure others do not know about it either.

I dont agree with you, based on what you wrote that?
It only makes things easier to manage, plus it is TOTALLY logical that someone with the right role could check and modify all the orders.
Lets say the corp have a logistic section, the pilots are able to haul all the stuff to their destinations, once there they make them assets of the corp. Then the trade section comes in and open a sell order with the itens.
Not only does it make sense but it also encourage people to specialize on their professions. Each one doing its job.

And that is not all, what if I put some orders for the corp and then I am expeled from the corp? Then the corp CEO needs to wait until every single order is finalized before expelling that trader? Or he is going to ask nicelly to cancel and give back everything?

This just doesnt make sense. What is corp assets remain corp assets unless it is give, and while it is a corp asset it may only be sold by someone with permission for that, once that person loses that permission he/she can no longer manage/modify any order. In my opinion thats how it should be.

Skills define how many orders each character can place. If corp members could modify orders this would be redundant (or at least less important).

You would need a new set of skills to define how many corp-available orders you can start.

Sure. I didn't mean your idea was rubbish but rather just identifying an implementation problem (which could be overcome).

Remember, anyone with the capacity to modify corp orders also has the capacity to steal the entire corporation wallet (or at least the entire division wallet).

The mechanism by which you do this:

Corp has a buy order up. "Buying 1 Hyperion, 155m ISK". Let's assume this is the highest buy order, and the lowest sell order is 175m ISK.

Dodgy member posts a sell order for a Hyperion, making sure they have the lowest one (say 165m ISK).

Dodgy member then adjusts the corp buy order from 155m ISK to 155b ISK. As it exceeds the lowest sell order, it's matched with that one, and 155b ISK leaves the corp account, and (after 0.75%-1.5% tax) the rest is dumped into Mr Dodgy's wallet. Mr Dodgy is down a Hyperion and up 152-153 billion ISK.

A few thoughts....

1. A 'Corporation Market Orders' skill would be appropriate. There is already a 'Corporation Contracting' skill so why not?

2. Quite a few traders operate multiple accounts/characters so having the ability to manage market orders for the corporation without having to do the log in/log out dance endlessly cycling through every single trading alt would be very -very- nice.

3. CCP could easily enhance roles for this with an isk limit. E.g. a player could be limited to no more than x amount of isk in transactions per day. So if I were limited to 10b in isk per day then I could not possibly steal more than that. I could put up either 1 sell/buy order for 10b (tax & fees included) or 100 market orders that total 10b. But until some of those orders are filled/sold there would not be enough 'room' in the cap for me to do anything else until the next day.

Characters at Contracting 5 and Corporation Contracting 5 only have 81 contract slots.