Patent Lawyer
Civil Defense Bureau
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Posted - 2007.12.29 06:54:00 -
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Edited by: Patent Lawyer on 29/12/2007 07:03:55 My corp recently had an issue where we could not war dec other corps because the original creator of the corp left with his/her ownership shares. This prevents the new ceo from completing a vote to declare war for lack of shares to vote with. This caused me to think about how EVE is structured currently and perhaps ways to improve the current corporation interface. One issue with the current system is it does not take into account the many corp sizes and differences in how they choose to operate their corp in terms of complexity of corp hierachy; socially, politically, and/or economically within the corp structure. in other words there is no customization.
I propose adding a drop down menu that adds the following Corporation Interface options to choose from(please read it fully before flamming):
Sole Proprietor - 100% shares delegated to existing founder / current owner. (Rather than CEO, owner will be referred to simply as "Owner" for purpose of this proposal). If existing Owner leaves or goes inactive for a set period of time, vote is triggered to replace the owner (see further down for voting system and Inactivity Alert). A Sole Proprietorship can have any number of members, however only the owner holds any shares and they are non transferrable unless the owner chooses to upgrade to a Partnership or a Corporation...
Partnership - consists of 2 or more partners with either equal or varying percentages of ownership. New partners can be added or dropped with majority vote based on total outstanding shares (51% +). If they leave or go inactive (see "Inactive Alert" further down) a vote occurs (also see further down). Partners may not transfer shares to any other pilot, only relinquish the shares back to the other remaining Partners which would be distributed based on their assigned ownership percentage.
Corporation - Corporation option can be chosen when a minimum of 2 pilots are active in the same corp. The Corporation option provides for CEO and a CFO. Shares of the Corporation can be distributed freely within the corp by the CEO/President to any or all Officers or regular members. These shares can be sold, gifted, or transferred to any person inside the corp or if voted upon by at least 51% of the outstanding shares the corp may sell shares outside the corp to other saavy pilot investors (or not so saavy ) Shares in a corporation would be sold on a Stock Market (additional function of Contract system to beadded to sell/buy shares). CEO can be voted out of office with at least 67% of share votes in favor of removal. Dividends can be paid out at the discretion of the CEO at any intervals chosen or set to payout automatically weekly or monthly. Dividends can be paid out of any wallet desired at at any percentage of available funds chosen.
All corps would be formed initially as a Sole Proprietorship. Corp creator can then choose to change his corp structure to either a Partnership or Corporation from a drop down menu. New Partners or Corporation Officers can then be assigned their roles and a percentage of the shares. Roles and share ownership cannot change unless 100% vote occurs of the outstanding shares in favor of the change or unless someone leaves the Partnership or chooses to give his/her shares away (shares then become re-allocated automatically to the existing parters based on their assigned ownership percentage or until the Partners choose to vote in a new Partner).
in the case of Owner/Partner/CEO inactivity for a long period of time or quit game without notice forces a vote for new ownership. Completion of the vote would transfer shares in full to new Owner/Partner/CEO.
a new option in the Corporation Interface that allows the corporation Owner/Partner/CEO to set an Inactivity Alert for each Owner/Partner/CEO and is customizable to any numb
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