EVE Information Portal

First, thank you guys for this, it looks to be a godsend for a lot of small and new corps without the capability to deploy some of their own web assets.

If you're asking for future improvements or things to add, it might be to allow the CEO and maybe certain roles within the corporation to create sub-forums with allowed lists in the corp (I.e. - an industry sub-forum, wormhole, 0.0, sub-forums, etc.)

Another potential area of expansion is to allow certain access to those sub-forums based on standings or allowed lists. So for example, two corps might be really buddy buddy on a certain venture, one CEO might be able to host a sub-forum on that venture and grant access to the other corp. Similar to channel creation and moderation currently in game.

Otherwise sounds great an I can't wait to see how these develop over time.

I have seen bad racial slurs being used commonly on corp/alliance forums.
I have seen "weird" (and depending on jurisdiction - illegal) pornography posted on corp/alliance forums.
I have seen botting discussed openly on corp/alliance forums.
I have seen players selling their EVE accounts to corp/alliance members before leaving the game.

... and I don't think the corporations/alliances I have been a member of were particularly "bad" in any of these regards.

What happens if somebody takes offense to being called a colored candy-ass on the corp forums and petitions CCP about it?
What happens if I link potentially illegal material or conspire for illegal activites (filesharing/piracy, huh) using the CCP-provided forums?
What happens if I organize EVE EULA violations via the CCP-provided corp forums?

I don't think it is outrageous to expect that CCP would take action if alerted to these things (and it just takes one disgruntled ex-member to alert them).

In contrast to what you suggest people do self-censor what they say on in-game chat and OOG communications means like forums, IRC, jabber, ... allow them to speak their mind.
Even if content from some OOG system were shown to CCP its authenticity would always be unverifiable to CCP (e.g. Vuk talking about RMT in genstab chat logs). CCP-provided forums are going to be different.

Maybe better solution would be that killboard is added ingame.
Maybe like a part of WiS with betting office connected to it...

Peni

I have multiple characters in different corporations. I read that CCP is also working on a 'master' Eve account that includes all your accounts and characters. Will it later be possible to view the forums of all corporations you have characters in without relogging?

Will NPC corporations have their own forums?

I don't think NPC corps would have enough interest in forums...

But they may get them automatically.

Oh god, what a cess pit that would be

Question: Every time the website goes down for maintenance, or we lose the API service after a patch, or during a patch, would we lose all Corp Forum access as well???

Please do an official EVE killboard. ♥

I have a few thoughts on this .

1, Every person on here complaining about rights / access management in game etc is ... Absolutely right. The management of member rights is an incredible pain. I use the Titles more than anything, which is nice. The management access setup is garbage and requires nearly a comp science degree to understand. Good thing i have one of them. This extends to the difficulty having an alliance POS where alliance can actually access things in the POS beyond the ship array.

2. Complaints about forum bugs being fixed are a good thing and will hopefully get CCP to fix the forum bugs, especially if they are going to implement corp / alliance forums. Which will likely drastically increase the traffic to the forums.

3. I run a fairly decent sized corp. I have a website with corp forums we havent touched in months. Just dont have time in real life, so this will probably be getting used by us. Alliance forums would be a must however. As i run one of them too, with a forum I also dont have time to manage. I am the IT guy in my corp / Alliance.

4. I would like to see some implimentation into the public area of the forums, say for example the recruiting area. In game there is a mechanic for recruiting. You post out a recruitment add for peeps in game to see. Why not have that duplicate out to the forums. One stop shop for recruiting posts. Maybe be able to bump them from in game. Just a thought.

5. I would also like to see a CCP killboard portion , as this is yet another feature we poorly maintain due to my lack of time. Corp and alliance KB would be best.

6. Can we have alliance bulletins open to alliance corp members and corp bulletins open to corp members . We currently use this to deciminate info instead of an outside forum that i dont have time to maintain. I do have time to maintain stuff in game , while im playing the game.

Negative.

Just had my post eaten by these forums. Again. Silly me forgot to copy and past before hitting "Post." I keep forgetting that these forums are special and neither save a draft of the post nor warn that others have posted new content while I'm composing a response.

I have been spoiled with these features in the widely used phpbb and vbulletin products and must re-adjust my expectations when working w/in CCP's forum environment. Like it or not, this forum is held up to the high standards imposed upon those other forum products and services.

How CCP could ever conceive of offering up a forum service using this engine as it exists today is beyond comprehension.

TL;DR - fix that which you have already published before basing new services upon defect-riddled code.