Elsebeth Rhiannon
Minmatar
Gradient
Electus Matari
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Posted - 2008.05.17 16:58:00 -
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This might sound harsh -- but the thing EM mostly gives us is identity, and the ability to screen people who join so that we know we get the kind of people we want, to contribute to the alliance spirit. Our alliance chat and all our fleet operations are IC at all times and we enforce that. People who do not like that kind of stuff simply do not join the alliance or leave very soon.
Joining an alliance where we lose that control and just simply anyone can join up -- I am sorry, but that is not appealing at all.
I find the idea that the RP alliances should or do not exist for anything but sovereignty quite offensive and clueless, to be honest.
Elsebeth
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Elsebeth Rhiannon
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Posted - 2008.05.19 10:56:00 -
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 Originally by: Arkady Sadik
This is the only valid, sound and good reason for the exclusion.
Every other reason that has been brought up - most commonly the "alliances are big, corps are small, we only want small groups" fallacy and now the "alliances are only for claiming 0.0" - are just attempts to justify the technical decision with some design reason.
Don't. It's not helpful.
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The long-term goal should be that there will be, eventually, a container for alliances that is only the "faction." This should be part of a major refactoring and re-design of the whole corp/alliance thing, allowing long-wanted features such as alliance roles so that people other than the executor corp's directors can set standings, the ability to give other alliance members access to ship hangar arrays, that everything can set standings to everything and it's not guesswork which one will "override" when they conflict, etc. This re-design will take time and work, but it will be quite worthwhile, as it will solve a lot of feature request and most likely also bugs.
/signed
And while you are at it, pls make it so alliance members can shoot each other without CONCORD action.
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