To be honest, I don't think that will be a problem. Should be enough districts to go around.

We need either a boot player from the match function or an invite type feature so people cannot just randomly join a corp match uninvited.

If your in a large corp that averages 30-40 people active daily its difficult to let EVERYONE know not to join a match. Not everyone is a hardcore player that pays attention to every little detail. Some 'casaul' players open their battlefinders and see "corp battle open now" and so they just join in without thinking. This is a big issue when your partaking in tournys and what not. As listed above a simple "kick" or "invite" feature would be fantastic. Or even a more complex system where you could assign groups of players days before the match even starts. I suspect that unless they fix the problem soon the issue is only going to get worse as corps get bigger. But I heard they were working on this so will see how things go.

Less than 5% of players will have an opportunity to fight a PC battle on any given day.

As one of the corps most likely affected by the "spy" situation, I am firmly against a "kick player" option. Being a spy and sabotaging a battle should be a valid tactic, if a corp lets a spy in they should have to suffer the consequences.

As far as organizational skills and communication, there is no magic bullet. You just have to make sure your corporation is set up properly with good fundamentals. There are more skills required for corps in this game to be successful than simply those of the gun toting variety, and the larger a corp gets the more important these skills become. Leadership, organization, diplomacy, training, etc are all necessary to be able to grow and maintain a corp large enough to achieve the results you wish to achieve.

It's relatively easy to build a small corp that's basically equivalent to a few squads of Navy Seals, it's another thing entirely to try and build a large scale empire akin to the U.S. Army. In the first you just pile together some "elite" players and call yourself a corp, in the second you must create programs, guidelines, recruitment channels, organize events to keep players morale high, create schedules that are flexible enough to give every player a chance to be involved and improve, etc.

Well looking at what CCP is doing with eve (they want to make it new again like the first time you played it. A huge unknown to explore) i am thinking they are going to substantially increase the size of the EVE universe.

Also with DUST there seems to be only a little benefit of linking up with a big EVE corp. As a dust Merc the eve pilots can't really hurt us. We die and only lose a little gear. If anything keeping the Mercs in line with what an EVE corp wants will be a drain on them.

I am thinking DUST will not solidify the huge corps but open their flank to an attack.

I am also thinking CCP is doing this by design.

If someone reveals themself as a spy by starting to teamkill or something else in the middle of a match he should be able to be kicked right away. It doesn't make sense that a corp can't do anything to get rid of a spy the moment he reveals himself.

The spy can always just not play up to his best, make teamkills look like a mistake or something else, but there should be an option to kick him right away if leadership wants to.

If the spy isn't playing up to his best he still sabotages the match on a small scale. If he wants to go large scale and try to teamkill the entire team he should do it at the right time because he risks being kicked out of the match the moment he starts doing it.


That doesn't solve the thing with a spy during a match.

Am I misunderstanding something here?

Even if they can get kicked they can still **** up your match right?

I mean they can still teamkill many on your team before they're kicked. They just can't teamkill throughout the entire match, which is just stupid anyway.

What does Godzilla have to do with it?

Now if we just had the tools to properly support an HR / Security effort....aaaahhh CREST might thee arrive some glorious morn and solve all our problems....until we identify the insufficiencies with that tool as well....