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Secure Blueprint Library How-to?
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Sam Redshift
PCG Enterprises
#1 - 2012-03-15 08:15:37 UTC
Hi fellow industrialists,
I am wondering what are good strategies to organize a "secure" blueprint library for corp member access (research, copying, manufacturing)?

What solutions do work for your corporation?
How do you provide an up-to-date inventory to members?
How to organise access to BPOs / BPCs?
Do you use roles or titles to organise access to the more valuable BPOs or the different corp hangars and pwd-secured containers?
Do you ask for a fee, etc? For example, if you take a copy you put another one back into the library.
How do you track the whereabouts of BPs on loan?

You will notice I am not very familiar with the topic, hence so many questions What?.
But our indy division is growing and BPs are piling up in the shelves. We need to organize this properly from the beginning.

Thansk for any feedback.

Sam
Whiteknight03
Trilon Industries and Exploration
#2 - 2012-03-15 12:06:27 UTC
I believe the only way you can actually keep BPO's safe is to lock them down in a station corp hangar with a vote. People with remote research skills can then use them at the POS, the BPO's themselves are safe.

However, this whole setup looks pretty shaky. If you're serious about industry, you'll need your own BPO's anyway. If you're not, then simply putting some cheap BPC's in a corp hangar tab will satisfy.
Velicitia
XS Tech
#3 - 2012-03-15 12:19:54 UTC
Yeah, access to corp BPOs is nice ... but only to the trusted people (i.e. directors) ... and that, only after you've locked them down in a hangar.

We run kinda like Whiteknight -- corpies have access to any BPC that they want (well, that we have a BPO of), but no direct access to the BPOs themselves. Since they're already helping fuel the POS (PI, ice at times), we have effectively a "if it takes less than x time, copies are free" policy that has a few additional caveats along the lines of "Corp comes first".

One of the bitter points of a good bittervet is the realisation that all those SP don't really do much, and that the newbie is having much more fun with what little he has. - Tippia
Bublim
Gone Fission Munitions
#4 - 2012-03-15 13:05:35 UTC
I'm sure there are a number of solutions to blueprint sharing but the system we've used involves using two corp hangars - one with view only access, and the other with take access. The blueprints go in the view only access hangar. The take access hangar is left empty. Producers are given corp production roles.

A producer begins a production job by installing it using one of the available blueprints, but sets the input and output to the hangar with take access. Attempting to install this job will bring up a summary that will tell you exactly how much of each material is required to complete it. The producer moves the materials in to the shared take-access hangar, refreshes, and installs the job. The resulting output ends up in the shared hangar when delivered.

Some notes about this system:
  • A degree of trust is required - you can't give producers anything less than total control over every production job your corp does. This means other players can deliver your jobs and steal the output. Or, more commonly, deliver your jobs and not tell you so that you forget and leave a stack of stuff in the shared hangar for a week or more ;) They can also cancel your job to burn the materials if they want to be destructive.
  • It may be handy to have more than one shared take-access hangar (e.g., a "standard" hangar, and a trusted "VIP" hangar for bigger ticket production).
  • If you have a POS with lab slots in the same system you can make BPCs for personal (more secure) production or sale. The process is the same but the BPCs end up in the hangar of the particular POS lab you installed the job on, not in the station.
  • Directors can steal your blueprints. We lock down expensive BPOs but leave cheaper blueprints loose. We also don't have many directors ;)

    • To answer your other questions:
  • Inventory: All the blueprints end up on the floor of the view-access hangar (can't use containers or you can't install jobs). An up-to-date inventory is available by consulting the Science and Industry window (note that you have to check current jobs to see blueprints that are in use)
  • Fees: We don't ask for a fee. We consider the shared access to a blueprint library a corp "perk". Nice even if you just melt loot to build ammo. Players seem to be willing to "give back" even though we lack a formal structure for doing so - Production Efficiency 5 members don't seem to mind building hulls for other players, for example
  • Loans: We don't loan out BPOs. If a producer needs to take a blueprint somewhere then they make a BPC and move that.

    • Hope that helps

    -Bublim
    Tau Cabalander
    Retirement Retreat
    Working Stiffs
    #5 - 2012-03-15 15:36:20 UTC  |  Edited by: Tau Cabalander
    There are few methods:

    1. Put BPO in a hangar with only QUERY access. Everybody with QUERY can use them, and only the directors and CEO can take them.

    2. Lock them down. This requires a vote for every BPO, and is a slow and tedious process. BPO are also known to come unlocked for no apparent reason. Whomever holds the majority of shares can unlock them.

    3. Both #1 and #2.