Mac Dac wrote:Im still kind of confused on the whole thing.
What are these shares?
What do they do?
Does that EVE pilot have total control over the corp?
And des said EVE pilot have control over the corp tax?
from what i read, an EVE pilot can take over a dust corp effortlessly without does players able to do anything. Is this right?
Honensty, i am worried about other EVE pilots finding out about this and using to "pimp" us mercs for the little ISK we have. I mean if they get complete access to the corp tax and corp wallet.
Like any business, an Eve corporation has shares. These can be given out to players, and then there are mechanics in Eve that allow votes to happen. Those with shares are able to vote - one of the items that can be voted on is the election of a new CEO (among other things). Other things include a way to have profit sharing for your shareholders. But because of the danger of votes resulting in the removal of a CEO, 99% of all Eve corps do not give out shares thus keeping them "off the market". Dust players don't have this option.
If one player has all the shares, the can force a vote where only he and the CEO can vote - when the CEO is in Dust, the CEO loses the ability to vote due to a lack of mechanics to do so, effectively meaning that the Eve player can take over the corporation legally - albeit as a hostile takeover. All the Eve player does is to take the shares out of the corp wallet and assign them to himself. He can then initiate a vote (that only he can vote on) and install himself as the new CEO - and the old one has no say whatsoever.
Now, if the CEO had a way to protect himself, or I don't know be aware that giving control of the corp temporarily can result in losing the corp, perhaps then things would be acceptable because then the CEO is taking on the danger knowingly or at least with the ability to fight it.
CCP's stance that this is not a critical item at this time is bull. I respect CCP Nullabar, but he is living in a cloud world on this issue. The players need a way to protect themselves; taking on risks without knowing is stupid. If you have the tools to protect yourself but this still happens - well that is on the player. This however is on CCP and they need to make good on this and revert control to the correct people and implement as a band-aid a warning about giving up control. Long term, they need to implement shares into Dust, no matter the "development cost", as this particular thing can truly be game breaking for someone when they have no control over something that they should have control over.