Corp thefts are happening left and right. The story is simple: someone who has access to corp assets gets pissed off with the corp and takes it. Some joined exactly to take it, but they are minority. Corps want to limit it with various "no drama" drives and API checks, obviously without results, as thefts are still happening.
The solution is pretty simple: you can't steal what's not there. Can anyone tell me why should a corp have any assets? No, I don't go full objectivist here, denouncing all public services. However a public service like fleet reimbursement doesn't need public property. The reimbursement officer can have that money in his personal wallet. The best is to have a dedicated alt as officer who does nothing else, so his wallet is not trashed up with ratting ticks and sales. Sure, he can steal the wallet, but only the reimbursement wallet and only him. It's much smaller risk than "any officer can steal all wallets". Also, the reimbursement waller can be limited to the daily costs, there is no need for him to have tens of billions rotting there, the CEO can send him a few bills whenever the wallet is running low and any member can check that characters API. The same can go to everyone who does public services: he gets access only to a weekly amount of resources needed to do his job.
Several cases the CEO himself stole the goods. How can this be prevented? Simple: he also has to have access to a weekly amount of resources needed to be redistributed. If the cash-flow is properly designed than the wallet of the CEO alt is always low, despite the large amount of money coming in and out.
The worst thing is community owned non-money assets. For example the corp owns a moon that the logistics guy manages with the corp-owned JF, using corp-owned fuel and filling it to the corp hangar where the market guy jumps it to Jita with the (other) corp owned JF and sells it for the corp wallet. No need to say that any of them can take the JF, the moongoo and the money. Alternatively: the corpies mine for free, supported by the corp-owned Rorqual, fill the minerals to the corp hangar where the manufacture guy makes corp-owned ships and modules using corp-owned BPOs and then later give out the "free" ships to members. This will end with a bunch of Megacyte jumping away in the Rorqual along with all the BPOs.
This is completely unnecessary. The correct way of doing this is: moon-guy owns the tower, manages it with his own JF, sells it to the market guy who pays with his own money. The corp gets a monthly rent fee for the moon from the moon-guy. No one can actually steal anything besides one month worth of rent. The mining guy should owns his Rorqual, pay the miners for their minerals (lower than Jita of course, but they would surely sell to him instead of hauling it themselves to Jita). The miner guy sells the minerals to the manufacturing guy who pays with his own money, makes the ships with his own BPOs and sells it to the members.
Finally we have to address emergency funds. Having low asset prevents theft but also prevents adaptation to emergency. If a whole fleet of faction battleships needs to be reimbursed, having a wallet with only a few B in it is bad. A corp should have enough money to cover such unforseen expenses. But it doesn't mean that the leader or any officer needs to have it. It can simply be ordered that every member must have X billion emergency fund in cash in his own wallet. The CEO can check it via APIs. So when the rainy day comes, he can just say: emergency time, everyone please pay 1B to cover the expenses of the current crisis.
Please note that by the above changes, I did not actually change any corp activities: the same guy fuels the same tower and the same people are flying the same ships funded by the same people. Only the money routes were re-planned to avoid money or assets collecting in places where people can steal or waste it.
"I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand "I have a problem, it is the Government's job to cope with it!" or "I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!" "I am homeless, the Government must house me!" and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then also to help look after our neighbour and life is a reciprocal business and people have got the entitlements too much in mind without the obligations."
The solution is pretty simple: you can't steal what's not there. Can anyone tell me why should a corp have any assets? No, I don't go full objectivist here, denouncing all public services. However a public service like fleet reimbursement doesn't need public property. The reimbursement officer can have that money in his personal wallet. The best is to have a dedicated alt as officer who does nothing else, so his wallet is not trashed up with ratting ticks and sales. Sure, he can steal the wallet, but only the reimbursement wallet and only him. It's much smaller risk than "any officer can steal all wallets". Also, the reimbursement waller can be limited to the daily costs, there is no need for him to have tens of billions rotting there, the CEO can send him a few bills whenever the wallet is running low and any member can check that characters API. The same can go to everyone who does public services: he gets access only to a weekly amount of resources needed to do his job.
Several cases the CEO himself stole the goods. How can this be prevented? Simple: he also has to have access to a weekly amount of resources needed to be redistributed. If the cash-flow is properly designed than the wallet of the CEO alt is always low, despite the large amount of money coming in and out.
The worst thing is community owned non-money assets. For example the corp owns a moon that the logistics guy manages with the corp-owned JF, using corp-owned fuel and filling it to the corp hangar where the market guy jumps it to Jita with the (other) corp owned JF and sells it for the corp wallet. No need to say that any of them can take the JF, the moongoo and the money. Alternatively: the corpies mine for free, supported by the corp-owned Rorqual, fill the minerals to the corp hangar where the manufacture guy makes corp-owned ships and modules using corp-owned BPOs and then later give out the "free" ships to members. This will end with a bunch of Megacyte jumping away in the Rorqual along with all the BPOs.
This is completely unnecessary. The correct way of doing this is: moon-guy owns the tower, manages it with his own JF, sells it to the market guy who pays with his own money. The corp gets a monthly rent fee for the moon from the moon-guy. No one can actually steal anything besides one month worth of rent. The mining guy should owns his Rorqual, pay the miners for their minerals (lower than Jita of course, but they would surely sell to him instead of hauling it themselves to Jita). The miner guy sells the minerals to the manufacturing guy who pays with his own money, makes the ships with his own BPOs and sells it to the members.
Finally we have to address emergency funds. Having low asset prevents theft but also prevents adaptation to emergency. If a whole fleet of faction battleships needs to be reimbursed, having a wallet with only a few B in it is bad. A corp should have enough money to cover such unforseen expenses. But it doesn't mean that the leader or any officer needs to have it. It can simply be ordered that every member must have X billion emergency fund in cash in his own wallet. The CEO can check it via APIs. So when the rainy day comes, he can just say: emergency time, everyone please pay 1B to cover the expenses of the current crisis.
Please note that by the above changes, I did not actually change any corp activities: the same guy fuels the same tower and the same people are flying the same ships funded by the same people. Only the money routes were re-planned to avoid money or assets collecting in places where people can steal or waste it.
"I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand "I have a problem, it is the Government's job to cope with it!" or "I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!" "I am homeless, the Government must house me!" and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then also to help look after our neighbour and life is a reciprocal business and people have got the entitlements too much in mind without the obligations."
Rest in peace, Margaret Thatcher
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