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Delegating Duties: Corporation Roles in Uprising 1.5 Sep 24 Reported by CCP FoxFour | Comments
For those of you who are running a corporation in DUST 514 or are planning to do so in the future, this dev blog should be of great interest to you. So without further rambling, I present to you: Corporation Roles within DUST 514. NOTICE OF GREAT IMPORTANCE!
We want to make sure that if you participate in Planetary Conquest, you read and understand the following: With the introduction of the Terrestrial Combat Officer (TCO) role, only CEOs, Directors, and TCOs will be able to join Planetary Conquest matches. Anyone who does not have one of those roles will be required to join a squad led by someone with the correct roles. Please ensure you understand this and are suitably prepared when Uprising 1.5 goes live. Why in New Eden would we add corporation roles to DUST?
As it stands in DUST 514 right now, any member of a corporation can have one of three roles:
A regular member of the corporation, with access to corp chat and the ability to join corporation battles. A Director, with access to everything, including but not limited to: approving applications to join the corporation; changing the corp tax rate; withdrawing money from the corp wallet; and managing corporation-owned districts. A CEO, who also has access to everything (as any Director does), but with the added ability to appoint new Directors or remove the directorship of other members. There can only be one CEO in any corp.
This seems pretty simple. But in a game as deep and complex as DUST, having only three roles presents a few problems.
To appoint someone to recruit new members, you also have to give them access to the whole wallet. To appoint someone to handle financial matters on behalf of the corporation, you have to trust them with running the military operations in planetary conquest. It is an all or nothing choice.
As DUST continues to grow and the capabilities of corporations expand, it is important that the leaders of a corporation can run it with confidence. If corporations are scared to recruit new members because having more members would mean having more Directors, and you don't trust someone enough with that power, it hurts the game. Corporations therefore need a way to more gradually and granularly distribute power and grow their numbers. What exactly are corp roles?
Corporation roles are designed to allow corporations to distribute power within a corporation with more granularity. When this feature hits Tranquility, a corporation's CEO or Directors will have the ability to grant roles to their members that confer specific abilities. Here is a list of all the roles included in this release:
CEO: No change. The CEO can do anything any other role can. The CEO can also assign or remove the Director role from others. There can only ever be one CEO in a corporation at a time. Director: No change. Able to do everything a CEO can, except the ability to assign or remove the Director role from others. Accountant: This role has the ability to transfer ISK out of the corporation's wallet, as well as monitor the corporation's wallet transactions. Personnel Director: Personnel Directors are charged with growing a corporationGÇÖs membership. They have the ability to accept applications received by the corporation. Terrestrial Combat Officer (TCO): Charged with organizing your corporationGÇÖs ground fighting forces, Terrestrial Combat Officers can join all of the corporationGÇÖs battles, bringing members of their squad into the battle with them. Those being brought into battle with the squad do not need to be members of the TCOGÇÖs corporation, nor do they need to have this role themselves. Terrestrial Logistics Officer (TLO): Terrestrial Logistics Officers are responsible for managing a corporationGÇÖs terrestrial operations and logistics. This includes things like managing district-reinforcement windows, district surface infrastructure, and clone stocks on corporation districts. TLOs can also initiate attacks by either moving clones from an owned district to one held by another corporation, or by purchasing a clone pack from Genolution.
The roles chosen for this release are the result of extensive discussion GÇö internally, with the Council of Planetary Management, and on the forums. I wanted to give a quick shoutout and thank everyone that participated in those discussions, they were of great help.
this is of great importance to us ares. ps. this is dani |