CobaltSixty
The Night Wardens
Viro Mors Non Est
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Posted - 2011.11.28 21:37:00 -
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This is a bit of a summary of the points brought up by previous replies however, you continue reject it as insufficient justification for podding someone. Allow me to paint a more complete picture of the dynamics involved.
First off, corporations don't often pod their members without a very justifiable reason (like say, you screwed some/all of them over) and if you or anyone you know is experiencing frequent corpmate-on-corpmate podding I suggest you/they seek new employment and/or stop making trouble for folks who are allowed to shoot you. This would only serve to protect those who have committed an act of screwing-over and limits like that aren't really what EVE is about.
The issue here is that the current system works quite well. If you have a problem with a member and they're not docked, it's necessary to pod them so they become docked. To alter the system to allow people to be removed from corp while in space would open up an ugly can of worms, to say the least. Imagine being in a fleet fight or out on a roam and suddenly becoming neutral. While this probably wouldn't (shouldn't) kick you from gang automatically and thus not be terribly noticable to others, you could be a situation where you're working with another blue gang they would suddenly see you, a brand new neutral, on their overview and likely blow you away... pod too.
"Oh well that's just a 0.0 scenario and doesn't affect high-sec. I would be safe as soon as I'm kicked to noob corporation."
Not so. Imagine now that you're with your corporation in high-sec, in fleet and at war with an active group and you are kicked from corporation. If they opt not to kick you from the fleet, you remain a war target for your former enemies until you leave gang and could very well end up shipless and podded anyways.
Consider then how entertaining this might be to twisted folk (see: PvPers) and how easily it could be abused and you very well might start coming across corporations that hire pilots just to take your membership away at an "opportune" moment and then pod or have you podded you anyways. Does it really make a difference what corp you're in when they do it? No.
Then your argument reverts to a simple "I don't think people should be podded, it would seem to me the only reason to do so is to screw people over." Yeah, it is.
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