AWOXING
A pretty big topic around these parts and something a lot of people have different opinions on. To be clear we don't want to make this kind of gameplay impossible. However we want to give tools to corporations to help better manage these risks.

In the long term we want to build upon the roles system adding roles to restrict who can enter a battle, who can invite others to battles, and those types of things. That is going to take time but we feel something needs to be added sooner rather than later.

So in the short term we will be adding the ability for a corporation's CEO and directors to kick players on their team from the battle while in the warbarge. Once in the battle the kick option is no longer available.

District state upon capture
With the release of planetary conquest when you conquered a district it would immediately be locked and you would have to wait 24 hours before you could do anything. There were several reasons for this including helping deal with the release of all the empty districts and giving the people who just lost the district a bit of a better chance to attack back; the purpose being generating more battles.

Upon monitoring how you guys use the system since release however you have proven there are ways to avoid the second reason and the first reason is... well not much of a concern now.

So we will be changing it so that when you take a district it is in an unlocked and online state instead of locked and online.

When we eventually add a new region we will come up with a better (hopefully :P ) and different way to handle that specific problem.

Just a quick update for you guys. You will however notice I didn't include any dates for this stuff. Basically we will get it out when we can, but these are things we are actively working on.

So basically everything the blue donut coalition didnt want.

I'm buying you sox and beers.

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I would rather see the status quo maintained than a hot fix that doesn't fix anything; that historically runs the very real risk of becoming the new normal.
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Edit: Holy blue posts batman, foxfour beat me to it

No worries, the donut shop will be out of business soon(tm)

So in the short term we will be adding the ability for a corporation's CEO and directors to kick players on their team from the battle while in the warbarge. Once in the battle the kick option is no longer available.

Bandaid covering a gash that requires over 500 stitches.

Lag is the 1st concern for PC not AWOXing, well that is what I believe.

Be careful with this CCP.... You can't kick spies from a battle in Eve Online, you can only destroy them...

I don't have an issue with the AWOXing non-sense... I think it's a viable tactic that eventually will force corporations to own up to their mistakes and actively look at who they're recruiting rather than freely accepting everyone, which a lot of the bigger corporations do.

You should be focusing on implementing API keys instead of allowing directors/CEOs to up and kick someone from the battle

PREVENTION, not REACTION. The entire premise of New Eden being dangerous is that you only trust the people who are at arms length and that should never change.

IMHO, your comparison is flawed, and will be flawed, until such a time as DUST becomes an open-world sandbox. If that day comes, then I can see your point that a corp can only limit someone from entering the battlefield if they can fight them off.

Currently PC battles are like gentleman's duals. Two sides agree to fight at a specified time, location, with a limited amount of mercs and clones, for a limited amount of time. Both sides agree to abide by the results of the dual until the next dual is arranged. All other corps are prevented from interfering. After the dual is arranged, the corporation supplies the clones, and the clone spawning mechanism that allows mercenaries to join a battle. So it makes sense that a director in the corporation can prevent someone from entering the battle, or cut them off from more clones once the battle starts. This is very similar to having access controls on corporate hangers or on the Player Owned Starbase. Would you argue that an EVE corporation should not be able to restrict access to corporate assets? Because that is honestly what it sounds like you are saying.

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While you did mention it, CCP Nullarbor, it wasn't definitive which is where my disappointment with just 'kick' ing as a 'temporary' solution in the warbarge comes in. At the moment, it is already a minefield and requires immediate API release as well as Director and Corporation Management protections a la EvE Online. Having come to appreciate them when I played back in 'the day.'

To exemplify how much of a danger Dust Created Corps by Dust Characters are in because of this minefield and because of a lack of API and real delineated Director Roles here's an example.

Dust Merc 1 creates a corp within Dust using his Dust Character.
He is now CEO and can create Directors. However, you cannot create a Director without making them a Full Director from Dust.

There is no way in which a Dust Character CEO can claim the Shares of a Corporation from Dust; something only Full Directors can do. .

Dust Merc 1, invites Eve Player 2 to his Dust Created Corp and, because he doesn't have access to his corp through an EvE Character, is forced to make the EvE player a Full Director.

EvE Player 2 is now a Full Director and, because of how much more intuitive it is in EvE he is able to claim all the shares of a Corporation and, effectively steal it from the Dust CEO, seizing control. Just because Dust Side Corporation Management is anemic.

This is something that needs immediate attention.