Test Server Feedback

Afternoon perfection passionate pilots!

This thread is for feedback and issue reporting on a small change team Five 0 have done for Rhea to the way joining a corporation works.

Until this change the process for joining a Corporation has been as follows:
1. Character applies to corporation.
2. A corp member with appropriate roles invites player to join.
3. Character accepts invite.
4. The Character is entered into the corp.

Restrictions: Step 1 is restricted to station only, all other steps are unrestricted.

With this change implemented the above functionality still applies but a second method is now available:
1. A corp member with appropriate roles invites player to join.
2. Character accepts invite.
3. The Character is entered into the corp.

New Restrictions: Step 2 is restricted to station or pod only, all other steps are unrestricted. Sending invites are restricted to 6 per inviting character per minute.

Finer Details
The option to invite a player is available anyone who has the roles required to perform step 2 of the previous process, and is visible in the actions menu (right click menu or menu in top left of show info window) for any invitable character. In all other aspects this feature work identically to the previous functionality. Players should not be able to receive an invitation from a corp when they previously have an open invitation or from a corp they are already a member of.

TL:DR: Corporations can now directly invite Capsuleers.

As usual, I will update this thread with a list of known issues.

Happy testing!

Yeaaay!

So does this signal the start of Corp mechanic overhauls or was this just something found to have an expedient fix?

There is a block invite toggle?

You probably still can't invite people while in space, so the popup wouldn't appear unless you're docked. Also CCP could still punish such disruptive behavior as it's clearly not meant to be used that way.

I like the change, although I probably won't be using it for quite some time. But probably a nice addition, also to those requiring some kind of out-of-game application as well. You'd no longer have to sign up twice and could simply wait for an invite or decline.

^ This - with this functionality included, I love the change. Being able to block invites is critical though. Even if there is no popup, the notifications spam would be annoying from predatory or opportunistic open recruiting corps.

As it currently stands there is no auto-decline option for this feature. It is however, entirely tied in with the notification system, meaning that its easy to limit the amount of spam you can receive from this (For example you can stop corp invites appearing at all, or limit the notification stack size so that only 1 or 2 could appear at once.)

Even if you didn't do that, the notification system is reasonably unobtrusive and is not going to get in the way of a fleet fight.

You're going to have to be more specific about exactly what the problem is. I'm happy to look into it though!

Lebowski; would this be an appropriate time to address the 'invisible corpmembers' wardec method? This allows one-day-old alts to generate wardecs, invite people to corp, and then log off-- allowing the invisible corpmembers to accept the invite only when a juicy target presents itself, eliminating the utility of scouts, watchlists, or even the possibility of trying to hunt wardeccers. In brief, it negates virtually all risk involved in wardeccing.

Something like a 30 minute non-aggression timer for before shenanigans would blunt this tactic.

Please no invite spam option.

CSPA charges is not the solution, because it applies to other convos too.

A seperate ticker to turn it off? Why implement a function that requires an option to disable it?

Please for the love of god, no!

Edit: Also, please tell me, that the player does not automatically leave his old corp, if he clicks on the invite.

Sorry, this "little thing" adds nothing except the ability to invite spam. Its great to hear that you're working on the corp interface, but please remove this feature ASAP as it is simply going to be abused.