learn english please.

That's not entirely true. There's no longer a way to farm industrial packs. What are newer corps to do if they want to work on the industrial tech tree?

Thanks Doek! I decided to drop my own DB since yours is more "efficient".

I believe all perpet tools coders should create a public space (possibly on google code or something) so we could share this stuff and maintain it as patches and whatnot come out.

probably the best next thing to getting an actual API.

Plenty of room for personal interactions. Matter of facts, its when the guys are swamped with industry tasks that they have less time for enjoyable interactions with the rest of the guys and gals. Giving them tools to expedite what they essentially do with a headache and bad mood would just make their gaming time more interesting. imo. Plus I fail to see why a bunch of guys able to telecontrol alien robots on an strange planet through a blackhole can't figure out JIT supplying and production tools to manage a supply chain... fedex has done it 20 yrs ago ffs   

And yes, like i said in my post, production tools should go in the corps first.

aaaand a minute has passsed. play ball!

There are a lot of non-aligned, hard working smaller corporations out there and we believe they could use these tools to band up with politically or otherwise like-minded fellow corps in order to create some ripples in the established order much more easily.  Alliances are part of the game wether we like it or not: It allows corporations to retain their identities while playing a significant part on the greater political scene. Why not give them tools to make such endeavours more efficient?

So here's what we would like to see in new alliance features in order to help smaller groups work together in order to become relevant on the planetary-level political landscape
(some of these suggestions have been made already,  credits to whoever posted them already):

• Proper alliance entity. (It has to exist first and be recognized as so by the game mecanics).

• Alliance management dashboard (Member corporations, rights management, vote / share structure, officer roster, alliance wallet, Chairman,  etc.

• Production depots (ability to provide resource access to industrials in a safe and automated way). This also needs to be done on the corporation level, ie.: "click here to use minerals/commodities from corp/alliance depot" checkbox in production/refining dialogs. Output of those activities should aslo work in a similar fashion (output of production runs gets dumped in corp/alliance depots).

• Alliance market. One of the things that could help smaller corps get off the ground would be the ability to pool production resources and an alliance wide market would help greatly to that effect. Many say that the corporation internal market is killing the public market but the fact remains that most corps will simply not sell there before they can supply their own soldiers.

• Alliance level control on Outpost and service usage&revenue sharing. Allowing each members of the alliance to get their share of the pie would be great... they all work for it.

• Alliance level control on corporation admission to defense ops. If an OP owner can lockout enemies from docking (as per the announced intrusion changes) shouldn't he have the capacity to enable SAP defense for allies?  Lore rationalization: op managers gives out to allied officers the secret station codes for interacting with the SAPs in the field or in some sort of electronic FoF device manner...

• Alliance hangars.

• Alliance chat channel with restricted entry to alliance members.

• Alliance wide message distribution.

While many argue that having these mecanics (which are really an extra level of federation over corporations) would empower already large political blocs, we do believe that this would in fact help smaller groups emerge and compete more readily against the established super-powers. By looking at gargaj's corp infographics, the first thing that comes to mind is how easier for a bunch of the smaller dots it would be to make good progress if they could get together in a way that doesn't require them to leave all their ideals at the door or lose members to overwhelming bureaucratic tasks.

Thank you all for reading.

Very nice work Mitix.

1 note: It doesn't seem to accept non english formatted KMs.

Edit: Keep it relevant and civil please. - DEV Calvin

I like the announced decision.

If I may offer a point: Those new stealth oriented bots shouldn't be just a renamed Arbalest with moar stealth. In my opinion, light or assault classed stealth bots should be more expensive or complicated to build and less effective at DPS while being more effective avoiding detection or a designated specialty.

Oooohh  we already have this bot: It's called an ewar... it was fine before the assault became the flavour of the month...