Assembly Hall

My alt is the CEO of a small industrial corp. I had ~150 BPOs locked down in my corporate office, then went inactive for about two years. During the two years I wasn't subbed, my automatic bill wallet was depleted and my corp hangar got impounded.

"Oh, that's unfortunate. Oh well, it's only a 14m ISK fee to release the assets, no big deal!"

Yeah ... nope. You cannot recover your assets if there are any BPOs locked down in there. You need to unlock them all first ... which means I need to propose an unlock vote on every single one. It's seven clicks per item to propose the vote (nevermind voting or enacting the vote). I tried asking the GMs if they could do me a solid and at least unlock them, but they were unable to provide me with a resolution (no hard feelings Homonoia & Banana).

I assume the reason this mechanic exists is so a director can't steal BPOs if the office is impounded -- from my understanding, all your recovered assets get dumped in the 1st hangar tab, so they'd have to be unlocked to move and dump them. That's fine, but recovery can be handled so much better. Some suggestions:

• Change the corporate voting system to allow for lock / unlock votes on multiple BPOs. A single vote to unlock them all and then relock them all once I've sorted them wouldn't be onerous.
• Preserve which hangar stuff belongs in when impounding the items, so releasing them doesn't require any voting (or sorting).

I will also point out that if I weren't the sole shareholder, this could cause a lot of problems -- if shareholders aren't playing EVE, you would be unable to recover the entire hangar's contents, BPOs or otherwise.

Thanks for reading.