Wormholes

From the thread 'Wormholes initiate looking for a corp...'

Interesting player perspectives about how wormhole corporations are organized:
"tribes", "generally clannish", while a contrarian commenter says there is "no love for... cooperative".

A wormhole "corporation" is an autonomous association of people united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and PvP aspirations. I think wormhole organizations fall on a spectrum that range from cooperative on one end, to feudal on the other end.

At one end of a spectrum, wormholers achieve their goals through a jointly owned and democratically controlled WH organization. A cooperative. Because current "corporation" and POS game mechanics imposes significant restrictions, imho cooperatives are least common.

At the other end of the spectrum, is feudalism. Wormhole feudalism structures an organization around relationships derived from the very few (CEO/directors) controlling POS residency/all assets in exchange for service or content from acquiescent line members.



Citadels have great potential to shake up wormhole space. My perspective is that high citadel prices (Fortizar and Keepstar) relative to POSs and groundbreaking personal asset security features, should significantly increase organizational diversity in j-space. Possibly shift residing organizations away from feudalism.

To cover high citadel costs and risks, purchasing and ownership of citadels could be shared between members. As well as increased responsibility to run them can be shared, i.e. more collaboration based on fairness and trust, between directors and line membership. For example, more cooperation is required to avoid citadels from becoming loot piñatas that inflate kill-mail losses.

Cooperatives might now actually become popular!

In light of CCP's innovative citadal work, I'm taking a break from j-space and will wait to rejoin after CPP's summer citadel release. I want to see which wormhole corporation are willing to change with the times, and 'think-out-of-the-box' to make the best innovative use of dramatically new citadel features here and in coming releases. CCP made it crystal clear that POSs will be phased out. My previous well-established mid-sized wormhole corp is terribly conservative and desperate to stick to their old feudal ways - the directors even made discussions of citadels between members a reason for banishment lol.

I'll see what happens in wormhole space before rejoining.



What do you think, will many wormhole organizations change with the times or stick stubbornly to the existing feudal paradigm? Where do you think wormhole organizational diversity will change to?

Are you sure you've posted to the right thread? The OP is about the internal setup of corporations. There's nothing written about relations between corps.