Some house keeping is essential and I have had the unpleasant job of releasing some inactive pirates from The Bastards. It is one of the reasons why I was elected as CEO. Our recruitment officers are doing a fine job fielding new candidates and I leave them to it now but we have to make room for the newer recruits in this organisation. I have drawn an initial list of seven candidates that fulfil the following categories:1. Been inactive from corp for over 3 months (i.e. haven't logged in) or more.
2. No forum activity in the last 3 months or more.
3. No email, evemail or post stating their unavailability to anyone.
4. No activity on kill board.
5. No activity on the ransom board.
6. No activity on the EVE-O forums.
Real life is more important and The Bastards is as much of a community as a well as an in-game corporation but it is time to prune and remove some dead wood.
Their roles have been removed from corporation now and some have already been transferred over to a rather innocent organisation going by the name of 'Garoun Investment Bank'. Hope the new-found corp mates are friendly. As ever, as these pilots get transferred, I leave them an explanatory note with an offer to re-apply if the urge for piracy returns.
I would be greatly interested to find out from some of my readers how they handle such inactive pilots. Should they be retained? Kicked sooner?
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Myrhial Arkenath 60p · 806 weeks ago
We do basically the same but the limit is on one month without reason given. I do always make sure they have a message waiting for them when they come back if they have been contributing in the past. Trial members usually don't get these.
I consider it fair and most tend to be very understanding about it. Sometimes there is drama though. But that tends to confirm you did the right thing.
Helicity Boson 50p · 806 weeks ago
If they do leave a forum message, there's no problem and they can stay away from the game as long as is needed.
We recognize that EVE is a game, and sometimes people might not feel like playing or have more important things in need of their attention.
Sometimes kicked players return after a while and can explain why they went awol like that, and we will usually just let em back in, as we are a small corp with close personal ties to everyone in it.
Flashfresh 70p · 806 weeks ago
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Myrhial Arkenath 60p · 806 weeks ago
Perhaps going a little off-topic here but it is my experience that people having alts in other full-blown corporations are not the ones that will stick around for the long run. And that is not even to start on the issue of conflicts of interest arising. The way we do it, they just get eliminated before they can even start.
Flashfresh 70p · 806 weeks ago