Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Looking over some information on alliances in-game, I noticed something odd and a little off-putting. To form an alliance, you need 1,000,000,000 ISK and Empire Control V. The latter is what is going to be the topic here. Some alliances are merely High-Sec alliances, or corps that aspire to have an alliance in high-sec. That being said, why is there a requirement for that, when all Emp. Control V gets you is Sovereignty.

My suggestion is to give the corporations the option to go for what they want. So, that being said, lower the Emp. Control base requirement to either 1 or 3 while retaining the Level 5 requirement for Sov. That would give people the option to do as they see fit without the training time for an additional skill they aren't necessarily going to use. Some corporation's have absolutely no desire to go into null-sec, and even if they do, they don't necessarily even need to have Sov because they can rent on a need-to-use basis without placing TCUs.

This one's for GM Prometheus, who suggested making a post. So, here's towards any support.

EDIT: I also forgot to mention no change in the current dynamic of Empire Control where each level adds the ability to have 200+ members in the corporation. Simply lower the requirement to Level 1 or 3 for forming the alliance will keeping Level 5 as a requirement for skilling-up Sovereignty.

Supported for consideration.

There are in fact multiple alliance creation services, aren't there?