Posted - 2010.01.01 23:39:00 - [1]

 

Edited by: ElvenLord on 03/01/2010 14:02:22
The system of Corporate Roles as it presently exists is confusing, frustrating, and overly prescriptive.
As a result it is often misused and abused, gets in the way of corporation leaders empowering their members as it forces to entrust too much or not enough in many cases, and isn't suited to the growing needs for pan/inter-alliance roles. Partially current system is to blame for closing part of gameplay to majority of players (like POSs) and one of main obstacles in doing the much needed overhaul of management tools (like station management tools, corporation management tools, POS management etc).

One of the solution would be to move away from the prescriptive model of predefined Corporate roles bestowed upon individuals, and toward a system of privileges granted to User Groups (UG) defined freely by the players, and applied to in-game 'objects'.
The general spirit of the model is inspired by the permissions/accesses and users management in effect in many forum engines, computer storage file-systems and Operating Systems, all tried and true solutions EVE users (and player organizations managers especially) are more likely to be familiar with than any newfangled 'original' model.
This much more 'sandboxy' approach to player self-governance inside Alliances and Corporations is in line with EVE overall design, and creates a wealth of opportunities for emergent gameplay once players have the tools to create whatever form of social contract they deem appropriate, instead of the current 'one-size-fits-none' corporate layout imposed on them.

Design goal is to provide more flexibility and a finer granularity in Corporation and Alliance governance, and give players the freedom to decide how they want to organize and rule their own groups, as opposed to CCP guessing from the top-down "what's best for them".

a bit more in wiki