#Guest - member - status would be nice

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sudden crow
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I would like to propose introducing a new status, Guest, in addition to the existing status levels Member, Senior Member, Officer, and 1st Officer.

If permitted by the alliance, guests should be able to join without a request. Guests do not count as members and therefore do not contribute toward the member cap. They may participate in RS games.

The following restrictions apply to guests. WS is not available to guests, and ongoing WS-games of the alliance cannot be visited or viewed. Guests have no access to the main alliance chat and cannot view it. Instead, an additional chat for RR will be introduced, which guests may use. This is also beneficial for the alliance itself, as only members will be able to post in the main alliance chat. The guest chat (RS) should be configured so that anything older than 1 hour is automatically deleted.

Guests also have no access to the new alliance star.

Guests do not receive any credit bonuses, H-bonuses, or credits for cooperation events.

If someone returns to their original alliance after having been a guest in another alliance, they should be able to return directly to their previous status (Member, Senior Member, Officer, or 1st Officer). This could be implemented via a permanent invitation, for example: “You have a permanent invitation as a Senior Member in alliance XYZ.”

Guest members are automatically logged out after 30 minutes and are not subject to a return cooldown.

grim fossilBOT
worn vortex
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it feels a little complicated. just have a white list? you can bypass invitation process, auto get your rank back (exclude FO) and thats it.

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Could mainly serve to give a way for the inactive players to get back into corp when they return if kicked.
not to mention corp hopping, but thats a contraversal topic

sudden crow
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its not complicated. It would make live easier for the corps, officers and the members. And: No crystal-"stealing" in rs-events.

little edge
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They may participate in red star games? The highest level bonus shouldn't really be freely accessible to everyone (which it would become if you have guests not counting to member limits)
I don't know, it feels like an exploit of the artifact bonus.

sudden crow
little edge
# sudden crow The leading corps ( BSO, HM, Conti, Nearland....) do exactly this. They allow rs...

My concern is there will always be more than 1 corp who would let practically anyone join for a RS, and I feel this is will become an unintended exploit of the bonus, as literally every player in the game can join that corp and stay there with no consequences.

Yes, this is happening now as well, but the inconveniences of member cap is what becomes the balancing factor and keeps the artifact bonus from turning into an exploit.

sudden crow
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You dont have to allow it. But for us jnd BSO. And for many oghers it would make live easier.

little edge
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I do consider universal access to the highest bonus as an exploit because if it isn't, and if everyone with discord access is meant to have it, then just remove the bonus altogether and reduce the research blueprint requirement accordingly.

little edge
sudden crow
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You have that already. You can fly all your rs games at BSO, HM or Conti and many others.

little edge
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It's very different having ~20-30 max capacity for RS runners, juggling and micro-managing the other 20 people waiting in queue, as compared to having 200+ guests who just camp in a top corp because there is no incentive to ever be anywhere else apart from when you WS. (Which itself has no incentive to play the mode, because you no longer have level your corp for any reason as you get art bonuses from just being a guest).

I'm not deliberately asking for people to have a bad time here but I am worried about game balance.