Player Features and Ideas Discussion

It's no secret that the community are the content for most of our interactions in EVE. A problem I face many times is in making information available to corp members, corp bulletins were perhaps solution to this problem, but in all honesty the in-game web browser filled the gap for those of us that wanted to make vaster amounts of information available.

Not all information is relevant to the entire alliance and corporation, and instead of making a secure website with an API wall or mailing myself tons of preset documents to send out whenever someone needs it, it would be a much more practical solution to link to "documents" to alliance members or even just to other players. It wasn't much of a problem before because a user could open a web browser in-game thus not breaking the focus from the game itself. (EDIT: Just for the record, I don't see corp mailing lists as a solution. That requires someone with the information be always online to send it.) I propose the following solutions to this problem:

Enhanced In-Game Notepad
For the most part the mechanisms are there. A note can be dragged amongst the interface to be re-positioned to a different folder structure, why not add a flag (like that found in fleet adverts) which say who can view this. That way you could link in local, corp, alliance chat etc... And be able to create targeted information which could contain corp information, details about an event which you may not wish to put in corp bulletins.

Player-manufactured Books
This probably requires more work but would make more sense in the EVE universe, it also is a great political mechanic because it essentially creates an item which contents could be valuable which gives it intrinsic value. In this example it could dangerous for a player to move a book containing critical information about the corporation, though you might choose to use EVE-mail for this. Fleet doctrine emails are scary and often have to be mailed again and again or added to the welcome mail which can be a huge amount to take in for a new player, giving them an in-game item detailing the lot would be a cleaner way of doing it and avoid detracting from the EVE experience, especially for role playing corporations.

Corporation Notepad
Definitely don't think this is a new idea, but I want to put it here for completeness sake. I don't think it's as elegant as an upgraded in-game notepad, but could still be a good way to stop people from getting out of game to be a part of a corp.

I really think this should be visited, if it's been posted before I'm sorry but I believe the landscape is different now. We have a huge influx of newer players eager to try the game and expecting them to jump out of the game to engage in player-driven content to make up for functionality which could easily be implemented seems a cop out and really detracts from the experience. I do hope you consider this.

If they implemented all of this...


...we would still probably use Google Docs and our own forums instead.

Can i share my overview and station book marks in google docs? Serious question

Edit- or share fits for a doctrine so my peeps can just press 'buy all'

I'll look into this, but can't imagine it being easier than making notes and just dragging that note into chats/mails/bullet ins/motd.

Corporations have bulletins. So do alliances. This is a shared notepad with all the functions of the existing one.

It would be nice to be able to save a message field as a physical item though, kinda like how you can save bookmarks as items. I'd like to commit my haikus to item form so I could leave them in space for people.

Just use slack and google docs