Would you say trust, including risk of theft, is (or ought to be) part of the game, or not?

You join a group of explicitly self-described griefers - and then ask the devs to develop bureaucratic tools so you can cooperate with your treacherous corpmates? I think even the notorious troll Jelan would agree this sounds like QQ.

I'd rather the devs worked on player-built outposts, terraforming, new bots and more equipment, more special effects and more mechanics, more assignments and more content, not more bureaucracy UI to fit a niche need.

Lupus is just trying to make it more of a challenge for our spy's to steal all your stuff....

Good on ya Lupus... man of the year award!

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Hardly.  CT is installed for corp, but run at the players skill set levels.

Irrelevant and nothing to do with the concept presented.  People still have to log in to run jobs, CEO/director's still have to log on to move raw materials, etc.  This merely aids organizational flexiblity, risk is still involve, and people still have to play the game.

Also not within the realm of the concept, no remote control implied in the concept.  Discuss the facts and the concept, instead of spamming irrelevant extreme extrapolations that are not stated or implied.

I believe this concept has some merit but I also think that it is far too powerful as stated. What you are suggesting is actually a drastic improvement of a corporations efficiency, yes, but it is also a removal of a key role and market limitation for the industry-oriented character. The "niche" that has been pointed out as being usurped is referring to the role of logistics. Transporting the sometimes vast amounts of ore and materials needed to have an efficient production line forces the player to carefully consider the cost/benefit ratio of every production to see if those seemingly high profit margins are in fact worth going after. If this feature were removed, it would severely depress the prices of goods because the effort involved in production would be drastically decreased, especially for well organized corporations; This would also limit new players ability to jump into an economy where the opportunities are few and far between.

However, despite the downsides of a fully integrated corporate production line, I do think that a partial implementation of the features would be a good thing. For example, perhaps delegating ownership to CTs or at least enabling them to be traded would allow players to specialize in reverse engineering. Also, an option to only output the production lines into the corporate hangar would not have to much of an overall destabilizing effect but it would allow players to interact with their corp mates in different time zones. Anyways, that's just my two cents.

My point wasn't that the overall effort of production was reduced, just the individual effort required by an agent (and costs associated with that effort) due to the distribution throughout a corporation.

Well, I do think that restrict-able corp access to a CT is a good idea. This would make it much more convenient to manage the "intellectual property" of the corp. However, I'm not too sure about multiple corp members being able to run a manufacturing cycle on a previously installed CT. This would basically render the CT extraction extension useless.

Well I mean normally they would have to extract it for someone else to use it, right?