These forums have been archived and are now read-only.

The new forums are live and can be found at https://forums.eveonline.com/

Player Features and Ideas Discussion

 
  • Topic is locked indefinitely.
 

Fleet change - Ability to take boss.
Author
Previous Topic Next Topic
BogWopit
Star Frontiers
Brotherhood of Spacers
#1 - 2016-10-22 08:25:43 UTC
Hola,

I am suggesting a change whereby an alliance member with a given role may take fleet boss from whoever it currently rests with.

Locally run, long standing fleets appear to be pretty common these days and nothing breaks my heart more than seeing a fleet boss who has either fallen asleep at their keyboard or gone to do real life stuff. Worse than this is a player who is active and somehow disconnects / accidentally leaves fleet and its is passed to someone who is afk.

Now, I'm sure there would be a way in which this could be opened up to abuse, if it was deemed a requirement to stop this abuse my suggestion would be to make this an in fleet vote, requiring 2 or more WC consent or 5 SC's consent. I don't think that would be necessary but its an option all the same.

Could also be useful for an FC who is commandeering a fleet to re purpose it.

Cheers

B
Renfus
Bloodhorn
Patchwork Freelancers
#2 - 2016-10-22 10:50:23 UTC
Yeah we run into this issue a lot also..
It helps to put someone who's active in WC1 position incase the current fc DCs..

I think a simple 60 second vote system would help..

((( Alliance Creation ))) Corp Update Service available ( 10,600 Member limit ). ++ Free with Alliance Creation ++ Contact me In-Game.
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#3 - 2016-10-22 11:35:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Ralph King-Griffin
Still left with it falling on an neutral alt.
In principle I agree with this, it's a pain in the arse.
in practice I fear it's going to be waaaaaaaaaay to easy to abuse.
What might help is if you could set it to delegate to specific people i.e. in alliance should you lose connection
And from there have a "vote boot boss" to let someone else with sufficient roles take it.

That said you can just lash out a new fleet so ...

Murderers of Negotiable Motivations

=]|[=
Donnachadh
United Allegiance of Undesirables
#4 - 2016-10-22 12:25:44 UTC
There is no point in time and no circumstances under which I could support this terrible idea of voting to remove a fleet boss (FC).
The time to vote is when you ask to join a fleet, or when someone else asks you to join a fleet. Once you are in a fleet the boss is the boss if you do not like what they are doing do not fly with them again.

With that said I do agree that the game needs to make a provision for situations like the fleet boss experiencing a DC. Even in that case I cannot and would not support a voting process, it needs to be something that happens automatically.
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#5 - 2016-10-22 17:06:57 UTC
Donnachadh wrote:
There is no point in time and no circumstances under which I could support this terrible idea of voting to remove a fleet boss (FC).
The time to vote is when you ask to join a fleet, or when someone else asks you to join a fleet. Once you are in a fleet the boss is the boss if you do not like what they are doing do not fly with them again.

With that said I do agree that the game needs to make a provision for situations like the fleet boss experiencing a DC. Even in that case I cannot and would not support a voting process, it needs to be something that happens automatically.

fair enough, not entirely on board myself either.

Murderers of Negotiable Motivations

=]|[=
Atomeon
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2016-10-22 19:48:22 UTC
Or we could have a Co-FC which is assigned by FC (when the fleet is forming) and "applies" to take the lead, if FC doesnt respong to 3mins he takes over and must assign a new Co-FC.
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#7 - 2016-10-22 19:56:24 UTC
well to be fair ,
come the booster changes thers going to be little reason to have your booster anywhere higher in the chain of command so
you can have your squad commanders actually be commander rather than booster alts.

might alleviate some of the pain

Murderers of Negotiable Motivations

=]|[=
FT Diomedes
The Graduates
#8 - 2016-10-22 23:29:53 UTC
Just have a button to "flag exempt from Fleet Boss" and have it turned "On" by default.

CCP should add more NPC 0.0 space to open it up and liven things up: the Stepping Stones project.

Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#9 - 2016-10-23 08:57:37 UTC
FT Diomedes wrote:
Just have a button to "flag exempt from Fleet Boss" and have it turned "On" by default.

Shocked that is fantastic

Murderers of Negotiable Motivations

=]|[=
Old Pervert
Perkone
Caldari State
#10 - 2016-10-24 20:20:35 UTC
FT Diomedes wrote:
Just have a button to "flag exempt from Fleet Boss" and have it turned "On" by default.


And this is why CCP pays Diomedes the big bucks.
BogWopit
Star Frontiers
Brotherhood of Spacers
#11 - 2016-10-25 14:31:41 UTC
FT Diomedes wrote:
Just have a button to "flag exempt from Fleet Boss" and have it turned "On" by default.


I actually like this idea a lot!
FT Diomedes
The Graduates
#12 - 2016-10-25 21:54:09 UTC
Old Pervert wrote:
FT Diomedes wrote:
Just have a button to "flag exempt from Fleet Boss" and have it turned "On" by default.


And this is why CCP pays Diomedes the big bucks.


I actually like this idea a lot.

CCP should add more NPC 0.0 space to open it up and liven things up: the Stepping Stones project.