Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Right some propositions from me ... I did not read the other posts to see if they were mentionned.

The main issue is that a corp structure needs to be easily adaptable to the environment you are living in.

For me there is a clear distinction between K-space and WH-space corps.
In K-space, you mainly use stations/outposts for interactions with members and hangars.
In WH-space, it is mainly a POS for interactions with members and hangars.

The key problem is setting up titles/roles for HQ, based at and other thingies.

My proposition is quite simple:

Eliminate the skills like corp management, empire control, megacorp management, sovereignity.
They only allow you to recruit more and more toons from different races, nothing else.
Why not change it into other skills for actually managing a corp.

These new skills would be:

wallet management
hangar management Kspace
hangar management WHspace
...

There are lots more of skills that can be added ... there is just a certain logic to it that needs to be unraffled.

Is there any way we could set requirements for an application that reduce the need for all this API back and forth?

For instance you can require certain SP, or character age, or skills trained, or whatever. People that do not meet the requirements cannot apply and instead get a popup telling them what they need to do to meet the requirements.

My biggest issue is with the roles system. It is old, poorly documented, and many of the roles are overloaded to enable multiple things. This creates granularity problems. There are also several things that only a director can do which are annoying. For example, "Personnel Manager" can invite people to the corp, but cannot remove them. This is a giant can of worms, which I am sure you are aware.

My next biggest gripe is in terms of access control and auditing. I don't mind the nature of Eve where somebody can steal your stuff if you incorrectly trust them. However, there is a lack of ability to audit (ie find out who stole things) and the lack of the ability to compartmentalize assets. Let me give you an example. I'm in FW and we have large cache's of ships (not all that expensive, but lots and lots of fitted hulls), that require a lot of logistical work to get into place. We need to give members access to the ships, but in such a way that they will always be available, any thefts can be audited, and a way to ensure no single member can take ALL of them. Everything could technically be done except the auditing via granting different members access to different hangars. However, the number of hangars just doesn't scale.

In order to fix these issues, I would suggest adding (or altering an existing) station container type that has audit logs and is big enough to fit multiple unpackaged (ie fully fit) capital ships. If this is done, we, as users, have a way to define a way to securely lock (via password) and securely unlock (via password). We can now have as many "hangars" as we want via this new container type. We can control access to who can take (unlock) items from the can on a per user basis (via a common password) and we can audit who takes (or unlocks, which if there isn't a corresponding lock is equiv to lock) what. Although an explict log for taking an item/item stack would be nice too.

After this is done, the only outstanding issue would be to identify all the things that a director can do that cannot be done via any existing role and make sure to add a role for that. This way, we won't be forced to give director status to person X who needs to do Y, but there is no role for Y and we really don't want to give person X full rights for everything, just Y.


The next issue is around blueprints and locking them down/unlocking them. The current systemis just not feasible as it requires 20-30 clicks to lock/unlock each blueprint and you must find votes in a "after you edit it, it collapses so you lose your place" screen so you often spend 10 minutes just looking for the next vote to vote on. The entire BPO lock/unlock system needs to be redesigned.

1. Roles descriptions.

Since I understand that roles are not a little thing, how about at least having a clear and accurate description of what each role does?

2. Remote asset management.

As others wrote, make it possible to stack corporate deliveries, distribute them, and generally speaking remotely interact with them the same way (or even better - remote stacking, please?) as if they were in a regular hangar.

3. BPO lockdown.

How about the possibility for a member to drop a BPO in a corp hangar in a "read only" mode? People can build from the BPO or copy it, but they can't take the BPO away. If hangar access is removed for that member, the BPO returns to his own personal hangar.
- No, I can't think of a way to make it work in POSes (though that would be cool)
- Yes, I know one way of abusing it is to have an alt use the BPO and never deliver the job - the BPO remains in limbo. Needs fixing, too.

This is likely not a little thing, but it would go a long way toward making cooperative manufacturing possible.

When assembling a ship, don't include the pilot's name in the ship name, i.e. "Rifter" rather than "Thomasina's Rifter".

When fitting a ship from a saved fitting, include the option to rename the ship to that of the saved fitting (or have a text field for the new name).

Update my post upper from google translate to normal english

It would be really nice if CCP change corp managment, but i think we also need to change interface of alliance control:
probably like:

• Alliance wallet


• Alliance hangar




• Alliance notification

also, it will be good if members can move items from corp hangar to trade window with other character(right now we get message "this item is not yours" and u need to move item to own hangar, then put in trade window.

I understand that i'm naive, but i wanna see logs of corp hangar moves...

The Junior Accountant role allows (among other things like viewing wallets) a pilot to see and access what is in market deliveries but ONLY if they are at the station in question.

The Accountant role is needed to give a pilot access to the assets tab in order for them to see remotely that something is in market deliveries remotely (and hence needs picking up / handling) but it also implies other permissions which I feel are unnecessary such as the ability to disable the auto-pay feature on office rents, and remotely view and search all hangars regardless of their hangar roles.

In a typical use case for me, I have pilots that have roles that allow them to work with items in only one hangar, but that need access/knowledge of the state of remote market deliveries hangars (itself a slightly ugly solution, but that's for another time) in order to move materials from this hangar into those hangars and then run industry jobs.

The current system forces me to give them all Accountant roles and as such breaks the principle of least privilege.

The Market Deliveries hangar is its own can of worms that I won't open here 8)

--
Fang

Please make the calendar a much more powerful tool when it comes to organising corp/alliance ops and events.

• Larger, more visible icon
• When events are created, allow an option to notify corp/alliance members at specified times leading up to the event. (Option to send out a notification at 30 mins, 15 mins and 5 mins before event start)
• Send reminders to members who have not responded to an event invite.
• Add the ability to send mails to everyone who has 'accepted' an event invite.
• Add a 'Corp Calendar' to the corp management window so when members open the window, they can immediately see all upcoming corp events.
• Add a dynamic newsfeed to the corp management window to display recent standings changes, upcoming events, recently accepted members etc. Anything to give the average member an insight into the day-to-day happenings of the corp and give a feeling of community.

I agree with the ability to change wallets in the market window should exist this should also be applied to the industry/research window as well because it is tedious to open the wallet change divisions then go back to manufacture or research to begin the job. Any jobs or market concerns should have a drop down option to change wallets provided the title you possess has access to those divisions of the wallet.

I also believe this will cut down on confusion for corp members when working in market or industry tabs as the titles will restrict access to specific wallets and greatly reduce CEO headaches as to who is doing what with corporate monies.


Orion makes two very valid points in the previous two post above mine and I agree with them greatly as well