Try reading the post first....

So you want the organizational benefits of a Corp without the downsides.

Gotcha.

Your sarcasm makes no sense and is of no constructive use.

I have no clue why you're obsessing with comparing this with a corp, this is a simple "shared" inventory. This has nothing to do with offices, taxes, roles,alliances and so on... nor do I want to leave my corp to create another. I just want to make it a little more easy to share modules between characters so you don't have to trade modules back and forth all the time.

It's simply a matter of time saving in a game that gets more and more complex for every expansion that's released and creates more and more logistic tasks.

No they are not, that's the whole point. If shared hangars were only permitted for alliances, would you argue the same point if they weren't for corporations?
If people create corps just to make their inventory handling easier, my suggestion just seems more noteworthy.

I didn't say this was the one and only solution,constructive arguments are very welcome....however blindly attacking it just to win an argument doesn't help anyone.

Benefits in EvE have drawbacks, like the Corp has drawbacks. What is the drawback to your idea?

Corp drawbacks otherwise are arguably present for reasons outside of shared hangar opportunities.

Corps can hold SOV, so they were balanced by being open to War Declarations.

Corps normally involve multiple players, who behave in an organized fashion. Since multiple players can collectively be at odds with other corps or individuals, the ability to set standings to recognize them exists.

No they can't, and if they could, Wardecs aren't useful in 0.0

There are tons of Corps made up of one person and their alts for various reasons.

It only takes one corp to form an alliance.
http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Alliance

Assuming a single corp wanted SOV, they could simply upgrade themselves by paying their ISK, and go from there. A single corp alliance effectively is the Corp itself.

Who cares if war decs are useful in null sec? They were made for the other regions to be treated like null in the conflict, it is the trade off to the corp / alliance ability to hold SOV.

Of course their are. Some players want to place a POS just for themselves, others just want to put a cool name onto their character. The minor benefit of a corp hangar being shared is hardly the most compelling reason to form a corp.

It is, however, a benefit unavailable to those without at least a corp shell at this time.

This would be a database nightmare and only serve to support a very few people who aren't organized enough and need to shift goods between players a lot.

edit: I have several characters, none of whom are in the same corp. I'm able to easily move goods between them with minimal effort using the existing system. Setting up "shared hangars" all over the place and shoving off your own disorganization on Eve's database servers just isn't necessary.

When you need to move something from one character to another on the same account, use contracts.

...we already have players creating corps just for the purpose of that shared hangar space.

Since they can only belong to one corp at a time, this means they lose out on the social benefit a genuine multiplayer corp brings.

Sure, they can have their mini-corp brought into a functional alliance, but how often does that really happen?

Being in an NPC corp means you're missing out on a ton of features, a shared storage space being one of them. I see absolutely no point in giving people even more incentives to stay in NPC corps, which means that if you want things like shared storage space, create or join a player corp.

In fact, if creating a corp to have a shared inventory is enough to get someone out of NPC corps, then that means that things are working just as they should.

I sympathize with your obvious goal here. NPC corps give protection from war decs that players in normal corps must endure.

That being said, there is no carrot or stick of enough significance to make someone leave their comfort zone in all cases. We have great numbers of players who want no part of PvP, and do not care if the game is centered around this or how many people try to tell them that.

We need to just accept that many players have made a choice that their game play experience in EVE will be exclusively PvE.

And this is still no argument to add shared inventory functionality. If they don't want to go outside of NPC corps, then they're going to sit there and miss out on a few features of convenience. Sucks to be them. vOv

And my point is that if we are denying this purely to create an incentive for them to join player corps, we are wasting everyone's time by doing so.

It's not "denying this purely to create an incentive", it's "there are no mechanics for making a shared inventory between two or more specific players which doesn't involve corps. corps have this functionality, if they want it they can go there, but there's no reason for CCP to expend the time to create this functionality for people who'll probably just use this between their own alts anyways".

That's the whole idea.

I know several players with multiple accounts. I have seen pics of playing rigs with 9 monitors each logged into a separate EVE account.

Everyone in a real player based corp has lost the ability to have shared hangar space unique to their own alts. The guys I mentioned above need to shuffle materials around through contracts and trades. This is tedious, and hardly a way to reward them for contributing that much to the game.

Even if you have just one account, you still need to transfer materials around if you have alts on it working together.

Why would CCP do this? They are trying to get people to have multiple accounts already. This would incentivize that.

If the big fear is players in NPC corps, then make it only available to players in non-npc corps?
And if there needs to be a cost, sure...make it X amount of ISK every month, a hangar rent. I have no problem with that.
My point is, I can always trade the modules back and forth so the "feature" is already there, only with a shared hangar you simplify the task.

Isk isn't the cost we're talking about. Corps provide convenience in exchange for increased Risk.

Where's the increased risk from sharing things with your alts?

How about this:

Meta Corps: Give you shared hangar space, but if anyone in the meta-corp is involved in a Wardec, everyone in the Meta-Corp is.

That way, you can share space with your alts even if you're already in another Corp.

If you want the added safety of using alts to avoid the repercussions of Wardecs, you have to take the inconvenience of the occasional contract or station trade.