EVE Information Portal

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Awesome - a forum to moderate on - weee

But, to grasp for the hand when given a finger, how about the following:
An additional public announcement forum within a corps group, which can be fed by Directors and PR people, and read by someone who knows the link to them (simply not visible to any outsider on the list of forums). I'd then put this link in a (new) PR property field of our in-game corp-info page and voila - you have a channel for public press releases!

This is a great feature for smaller corporations, or for those who don't have the means for a private forum. Although it probably won't help me at this point, I will be looking forward to Alliance forums.

A very good step in the right direction. /golfclap

Well it's about time if I might say so myself. Does this Feb 8 date also have anything else to do with DUST 514?

Excited!

Straight off the bat though ... I would like to make this one request.

CCP Guard/CCP - PLEASE ALLOW CORPORATIONS TO MAKE THEIR OWN CATEGORIES.

A less important suggestion. Link the Corp Forums with in-game mail. So when an announcement is made, it automatically posts it to mail? It saves time/hassle having to post stuff in more than one place.

Anything that you guys can do to make running a corporation/alliance easier will result in greater subscription retention.

More suggestions to follow I am sure.

Is there a way we could get roles ingame to control access? So for example I may not want to give someone full director roles, but want them to see and reply to stuff in the announcements and board room catagories.

and i bet you will get your EVE account banned if you post splendid pictures in your corps forum

so thanks but no thanks, i will continue to post splendid pictures where they are appreciated

(well done anyway, its a good idea)

Some flexibility in roles would be nice, but corps who actually need that likely have their own private forums.

Announcements could be linked to communications officer perhaps?

Nice. Thank you.

I see two things that would help as you iterate. One is alliance forums. When a corp joins an alliance its forum gets moved into an alliance forum structure.

Another is Wiki pages for corporations and alliances, that is pages only members of the corporation or alliance can see and edit. Purpose: Say you are planning a project and want members to sign up for various roles. If all you have is a forum, you post the topic and let people sign up. Then some poor soul has to go through all the posts, build up the table of filled roles, make sure no one signed up for an already filled role, inform those that did make a mistake, coordinate changes, and so on. A large amount of tedious work that almost no one wants.

Or you make a Wiki page with the sign up list. People just edit it to put in their name on the role they want. The system is now self maintaining, so long as only your corp or alliance has access to that page and not the evil enemy.

Another way to to it would be to be able to make forum posts in these new corp forums that anyone in the corp could edit, not just the OP.

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