Styphon the Black wrote:You guys are really complicating something very simple.
All that would need to be added it a "Link Account Page" on the "Account Management" section of the EVE website. You would input the User Name and Passwords of all the accounts you have and hit submit. Just have an "Add Account" button and it gives you two new fields for each additional account. You would then verify this by doing the same thing in with the other accounts. That is how verification of who owns what accounts (and toons associated with those accounts).
Then in game now every linked toon can see and has access to take from and put item in every other linked toons hanger. Problem solved.
This would be very easy to do.
No API or other weird abusive methods. You could not exploit this because you would have to have the account user name and password. Which means if you already had someone else's user name and password you could exploit them regardless of this ability.
You are missing the point on the abuse...
Prime example of a possible abuse/exploit
Here I have gone and snuck into a Providence Block Alliance - I meet the people, I build trust and I work my way up the ranks.
Now, I have shared hangers and Providence is NRDS, (Not red don't shoot). Under the linked accounts, with no security of APIs etc, I could steal every blooming thing I get my hands on, and slap it in a hanger for another toon, who is neut or blue via being in another Providence Block Alliance.
All my Alliance mates would see is that I took all their stuff. I would then have an easy time setting my medical clone to my NPC starter station, and let them clean clone me home. And they, the players in the alliance and collation are none the wiser that they still have spies, which are then capable to easily sneak the stuff out or sell it for ISK.
---Having this shared hangers overly simplifies the possibility of abuse.
---You have to have checks and balances dude. Yeah, It might only be my accounts linked - but all my accounts are in the same corp. What if your a player who purposely has like 30 accounts, just for the sole purpose of spying and stealing from other players, you just made it supper easy for them, because with out the information being supplied via API to corp leaders and security officers, on who is sharing hangers with whom, you'd see a massive drop in large corps b/c they wouldn't be able to trust anyone. And trust in EVE is all ready a thin and nearly dead subject.