Player Features and Ideas Discussion

How would this work in the Employment History tab? Erased or tagged as a "Legacy" corp, which may indicate this so and so is a successor?

So if this has been went over a million times before, what committee elected you to rehash it for the million and oneth time? Or do the bullet-points make that much of a difference?




Hey now, watch your mouth, and no being a ****. If I gotta be politically correct, and nice, everyone's gotta also.

Oh you!

Yup, recalled into a hell of biomass and tax bills.

Let's deal with the easy ones first.
1. Why wait so long? Personal opinion, but if someone hasn't subscribed within a week of their trial ending the odds are they're not going to, personally I'd delete them a week after the trial ends, even in 21 days (I believe the longest trial period available) most genuine trialers are not going to have amassed any significant resources anyway. Not to mention the fact that they won't have contributed anything towards the cost of the game.

4. I'd go one further, these POS are attackable yes but only with the twin costs of ISK for a wardec (and most likely a few mercs) and time to chew the tower down. Since POS can be fuelled for up to a month at a time and can be deployed and more importantly to this discussion undeployed in an matter of hours the only reason for one to go offline and sit in space is if it has been abandoned. So, give it a week's grace, if it sits offline for a week everything unanchors and first come first served.

For 2 and 3 your primary issue seems to be with one man corps, now as someone who has and still does (at least when I'm active) run a one man corp (me and my alts since giving up on nullsec a long time ago) I can tell you there are two reasons I created D-14:
1. I wanted to run a POS in empire to support my manufacturing base, this requires a player run corporation with the appropriate standings.
2. I had no intention of watching 11% of my income siphoned away in NPC corp taxes for nothing, I'd just left one environment where a sizeable chuck of player's efforts were appropriated for little to no return, I was not about to tolerate another.

The second of those reasons in my opinion is why we see so many one man corps these days and is a perfect example of the law of unintended consequences, people bitched and moaned and whined so much about players "hiding" in NPC corps that CCP finally acted against said players by slapping a tax on the NPC corps. What happened next was exactly what everyone who stood opposed to that said would happen, players started "hiding" in one man corps, dodging the tax in the process and changing absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things.

Player corporations already have operating expenses, office rents, taxes on corp sell orders, usage charges for corp factory/lab jobs on NPC stations and so on, adding more on top of that may well "free up IP" from corps that don't run POS but you'll be straight back to square one as far as people in NPC corps go as people will simply go back to them if it's more expensive to stay outside of them.

Set that aside for a moment and your proposal still doesn't work. Deleting corporations (and their remaining assets if any) when the corporation has been abandoned (ie. membership = 0) makes sense as does deleting trial players who never subbed and unanchoring abandoned POS. But, as long as there is even one character who has at any time held a active subscription as part of a corporation it can't be done. That player active or otherwise has paid their way, their accounts and everything therein including any corporations they have created are just as "valid" as an active subscribers' unless and until CCP says otherwise. Even if you manage to find a justification for freeing up the names deleting the assets of someone who has at some point paid real money into the game and may come back at some point is hardly likely to encourage them to do so and to be fair serves no practical purpose anyway as the assets are inactive as it is.

Yes it is

The current system is:

You arent allowed the same name as another entity

And you can't, its mechanically impossible

No problem with this.


You could try using some creativity and coming up with an original name instead of trying to copy names from books/movies/other. Also; Names have reputations attached to them, even if the corp in question has been dead for 8 year. Letting random mongoloids reuse old names because they're too dumb to come with a new one would be a waste.


How exactly do you attack a high-sec pos belonging to a deleted corp that cannot be wardecced? You thought this through real well...

Including only alphanumeric characters there are 916,132,832 possible tickers available.

Day 1: Spy alt created, infiltrates target company, AWOXes everything in sight. Tears collected, alt is biomassed, as per standard ritual.

Day 366: CCP resets name so that it can be used again. New player grabs the name. Gains ten billion bounty before ever undocking because that name has been on an Alliance executor's watch list the entire time, finds self hounded through all of low/null by "vengeance fleets" and has no idea why.

That would be HIGH-larious but yeah that would be bad