Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Beating a dead horse here - I know this isn't going to go anywhere

Okay, Shareholding in corp has become somewhat of a pain in the ass for most ppl....

To protect your precious corporation you need to take 50%+1 of the shares so that something ******** doesn't take place... There are those shareholders who logoff indefinitely and are never seen again holding shares or possibly a majority of the shares....

Wouldn't be nice to have an option to lockout a shareholder!

Not so much to keep that loser who quit the grand game of internet spaceships from screwing over the corp but to make those shares obsolete so that there is no impact with current politics like "Run for CEO" or for when you want to pay out dividends...

Some of you might say, "Well, that would be stupid because the CEO who is an active player could get locked out and have his position taken from him!" In this case, it is a trust game. Eve is a game where players build corporations and alliance built on trust sooooooo.... This would be another one of those things that if you distribute shares, be sure that you CAN trust them or that you sell the shares at a price where a corporate take over isn't going to hurt anyone or something to that effect....

The shares mechanic is rather limited and holds little function except to protect the most precious of all items usually locked down in corporate hangars.... BPO's.... Once again, when it comes to share distribution, you want to be able to trust the ppl your handing them out to to not steal anything....

Ultimately, it would be nice to have that one little function.... Corporate Shareholder Lockout - Which should be voted on and require some sort of percentage of shares from shareholders to get the vote passed... Or at least something so you dont have a ex corp member flying around with corporate shares from 100 different corporations....

The corp shares system needs to be completely redesigned really, to be of any practical use.

Considering how impractical it is at the moment a quick fix could potentially be to add a vote type in called "share reclamation" which is enact-able on someone who is either not in the corp or offline for longer than a month where the shareholders vote on whether or not to reclaim that person's shares. If the vote passes his/her shares are moved back into the corp.

At the moment, share ownership is pretty meaningless except for votes. As someone who's disappeared isn't voting I can't see why their shares shouldn't be reclaimed.

The only function they currently serve is to weed out newb CEOs. Which isn't really a valuable function. I vote for simply deleting shares until the system is completely overhauled.