#Inactive FO loses corp. New FO with rank, then WS experience preferred

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burnt torrent
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This issue is a bit sensitive and some discussion would be nice to let the devs know which way to go.
On the one hand, an inactive F.O. is not good for a corp. In those circumstances it probably is better to hand the reigns over and let the corp live again under new management.
On the other hand, real-life can cause lapses of prolonged periods and if an FO returns after a long loooong time to their previous corp, they shouldn't be punished by losing all their white star progress, or be punished in any way for that matter. I can imagine that there's quite a few old-HS people still thinking hard about "should I or shouldn't I dive into DN?". Losing their old corp would just put them off even more.

Furthermore, I believe some people have inherited corps, and then started doing new ws runs, taking the corp exp further - which is an okay thing to do. However, in most cases that I know of the corp goes to a high level account that has logged in within a space of time - overlooking the rank of the other players. So, just leaving your corp "Open to all" means you can lose it to a random player if you go offline.

What process is the best to follow?

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My suggestion is that when an FO goes inactive, to give preference as follows:

  1. Corp Rank: If there is an officer in the corp who's last login meets the inactivity setting of the corp then that person gets selected. If there's more than one, then the corp isnt inactive and any of those players would be selected based on other criteria. Currently, it seems that anyone can become FO even if they've got no rank. Also,

!!-> Only the FO would be allowed to promote a player to Officer. No officer can promote someone else to the rank of officer.

!!-> Control of the flagship for a particular ws gets designated to a player in that team when the scan is initiated. And they can get designated regardless of their rank in the corp.
IE the FO wont be pressured into promoting someone to officer just to control the fs for a ws. But,
!!-> A criteria for scanning a white star is that the corp has at least 1 ordinary officer. To help break the process from going into #2.

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  1. Previous WS experience for the corp: I'll regard previous ws activity as the next-best criteria to select a new FO. So, If there are still no possible choices, or there are multiple options from #1 above, then look at the number of previous white star runs that each of the currently active players have done in the corp. If there are players who have previously participated in ws matches, rather give the corp to them as opposed to one of those random corp hoppers.
    This means that if the FO and all the officers are offline, then the corp goes to whoever has put in the most ws effort for that corp, and is still active.

If there are still no choices left, regard the corp as truly inactive, and change the status to "Closed" and automatically boot everyone expect the inactive officers and FO

round bear
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Huh? Doesn't the game already choose a new FO if they go inactive?

And is there a corp deleting mechanism in the game that I'm not aware of?