tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post6154406280832748592..comments2024-02-27T14:44:07.868+01:00Comments on Greedy goblin: CFC: bad implementation of meritocracyGevlonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07072766785893313616noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-51937350737866778852012-12-09T09:41:28.346+01:002012-12-09T09:41:28.346+01:00"Yet HBC conquers regions much faster than CF..."Yet HBC conquers regions much faster than CFC"<br />"The problem with the CFC implementation is that it doesn't motivate pilots at all. "<br />When you start with half of your premise wrong, you can hardly manage any meaningful reasoning. The first reason the CFC had a harder time conquering Tribute was that their ennemies at that time, Black legion and NC, were actually defending it, whereas -A- and ROL did not oppose much of a fight to HBC, contesting much less timers and winning much less fights.<br />The second reason is that the number of pilots doesnt matter as much for grinding sov as what they're flying. Alphafleets in themselve will be slower to take a timer than foxcats, but whereas the HBC had Raiden and PL, two of the most supercap intensive alliance, to drop a few supers or a bunch of dreads on uncontested timers, CFC was always under the threat of BL, another supercap intensive alliance, which would have liked nothing more than counter dropping half a dozen super carriers on a deathstar POS.<br /><br />TL; DR: if the CFC grinds sov slower than the HBC, it's not a motivation/participation problem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1461700565722278823.post-82257201594566246492012-12-07T09:18:11.128+01:002012-12-07T09:18:11.128+01:00I think you misunderstand the dynamic here - if th...I think you misunderstand the dynamic here - if the corp CEO would try to coerce his members into being more active his corp would be removed from GSF even faster. While the corp CEO does face certain activity requirements he is not expected to pass these on to the individual pilot.<br /><br />The accepted means of increasing activity on the corp level are reward programs, propaganda and most importantly recruitment policy.<br /><br />Low corp activity is a sign that something is going wrong within the corp - GSF does put out professional propaganda on alliance level, offers comprehensive ship replacements on alliance level, has great alliance and bloc-level FCs, ...<br />In theory the corp CEO should be able to lean back and let the alliance do the whole "motivating people to log in" thing for him.<br /><br />If the alliance-level propaganda does not reach his corp members (when it is obviously working for the majority of the corporations in GSF which is a very important point) then something unusual is going on within the corp - maybe the cause is internal conflicts within the corp (people stop logging in because the CEO is a dick), maybe the corp is pursuing its own goals before the alliance goals (e.g. doing corp level fleets and deployments instead of sending pilots to alliance-wide operations), maybe there is a cultural mismatch between the corp and the alliance (which causes the alliance-level propaganda to appear unappealing to the corp), ... <br />GSF leadership does not have the time to monitor the internal ongoings of every single member corp - simple metrics such as corp participation in stratops serve as early warnings that something serious is going wrong within a corporation. <br /><br />But why care about deadweight at all? It doesn't hurt anyone to have a few lazy pilots around, does it?<br /><br />It does hurt:<br />* Each pilot is a security risk. If (s)he doesn't contribute anything useful you're better off purging him/her.<br />* Many resources are limited, especially the number of good ratting sites (Forsaken Hubs, Havens, Sanctums) is massively limited. Why let deadweight clog up the best sites causing your active pilots to struggle for isk?<br />* You don't want corp CEOs to craft a recruitment policy that only seeks to maximize tax income. Allowing this leads to a plethora of issues - corrupt leadership (ask your TEST bros about OWN alliance and the events leading to the UN Aid Fleet), botting/RMT infestation, (cultural) conflicts with members of other corporations,...<br />* You don't want carebearism to spread within your alliance. Tales of how some deadweight pilot earned more than X billion ISK on a single weekend can contaminate other pilots and corporations.<br /><br />I also think you are massively overstating the differences between CFC and HBC in this case. Just because activity requirements are usually not talked about openly does not mean that activity metrics are not monitored and acted upon.<br /><br />-A- does exercise individual meritocracy :3Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com