I recommend the following options for base security (for client 2):

A base has 3 security settings: Docking, Construction and Mangement. Each can be set to "Me" or a team rank, or "Any" in the case of Docking. Management can only be set to Operator or higher.

Docking privilege allows you to dock at the base and trade in the trading bay, as is the case now.

Construction privilege allows you to transfer items/money to the base, transfer unequipped items (not money) from the base, with the exception of rations and nukes, and to start - but not cancel - construction tasks. You can only transfer items to your ship; you can NOT toss them directly.

Management privilege gives you full control of the base.

Each of these has its own activity log; an action is entered into the log of the lowest privilege that would allow that action.

Please discuss.

-Slicer

2. Which control level should each activity belong to? Activities include
- Docking at base no need, if one is docked then it only matters if they do anything, but if anything, make it docking
- Viewing base trading bay no need, but management
- Viewing base logs, inventory & control info no need but management
- Viewing base colony info no need, but management
- Trading at base put in any
- Moving items to/from base management
- Tossing items from base management
- Moving credits to/from base management
- Equipping/unequipping gear management
- Installing BPs construction
- Starting construction tasks construction
- Pausing/resuming construction tasks construction
- Cancelling construction tasks construction
- Setting base description any
- Changing commods traded by base, their prices, and buy/sell limits management
- Making base aggressive / non-aggressive management??????
- Changing base name any
- Changing base privileges management
- Transferring base (this will always be owner only, of course) no need, because im sure this was planned and both parties know what is happening, but "any"

3. Which log should each event be logged in? For the most part, activities should be logged in the log corresponding to the control level they belong to, but there might be exceptions (and "viewing" activities won't get logged at all). In addition to the above activities, a number of other events need to be entered into some log:
- Completion of construction tasks
- Worker strikes due to lack of rations
- Unequipping items due to lack of workers
- Base kills/takeovers
- Trades with colony

4. Should the different logs be displayed one after another or all together (chronologically)? Currently, they are displayed one after another when you first enter the base; any subsequent events are displayed chronologically.

5. Anything I might have forgotten.

- Docking at base no need, if one is docked then it only matters if they do anything, but if anything, make it docking

1. Is there a need for more than 3 control levels? Less? i think three might do fine.

2. Which control level should each activity belong to? Activities include
- Docking at base trade log
- Viewing base trading bay any
- Viewing base logs, inventory & control info management
- Viewing base colony info management
- Trading at base any
- Moving items to/from base management
- Tossing items from base management
- Moving credits to/from base management
- Equipping/unequipping gear management
- Installing BPs construction
- Starting construction tasks construction
- Pausing/resuming construction tasks construction
- Cancelling construction tasks construction
- Setting base description any
- Changing commods traded by base, their prices, and buy/sell limits management
- Making base aggressive / non-aggressive management
- Changing base name management
- Changing base privileges owner
- Transferring base (this will always be owner only, of course)

3. Which log should each event be logged in?

I have started updating the server to make it ready for improved control of bases for client 2. The following suggestion seems like a good point to start:



I have now implemented 3 separate logs of base activities, corresponding to the 3 privilege levels suggested above. Each log is as long as the current log. This change will probably be included in the next server patch.

Before I start the more serious work of implementing actual separate control levels, I would like to hear more opinions on how people would like the base control interface to be. Things to discuss include the following:

1. Is there a need for more than 3 control levels? Less?

2. Which control level should each activity belong to? Activities include

- Docking at baseanyone can dock, it is annoying when i am being attacked by aggro ai and can't dock at the only playerbase/base in the gal because the owner set it to "team" or "me"
- Viewing base trading bay"Docking"
- Viewing base logs, inventory & control info"management/construction"
- Viewing base colony infonone, i think this should be left with the base owner to manage.
- Trading at base"Docking"
- Moving items to/from base"management/construction. possibly another option a "transfer "to base" only
- Tossing items from base"only player should do this"
- Moving credits to/from base"management" and a "transfer to base option" included in the items moving, eg a:

"Transfer Money/Items To base only" tab to choose.
- Equipping/unequipping gearItems should be set individually for this, eg. a box when you rightclick giving the owner the option of "unequippable by others"
- Installing BPsConstruction
- Starting construction tasksConstruction
- Pausing/resuming construction tasksConstruction
- Cancelling construction tasksBase owner only, people have been threatened with this by directors counc officers etc. in the past
- Setting base descriptionBase owner only
- Changing commods traded by base, their prices, and buy/sell limitsManagement, or a new tab called "Trade list"
- Making base aggressive / non-aggressive"Management"
- Changing base name"Base owner only"
- Changing base privileges"Base Owner only"
- Transferring base (this will always be owner only, of course)"owner only :p

3. Which log should each event be logged in? For the most part, activities should be logged in the log corresponding to the control level they belong to, but there might be exceptions (and "viewing" activities won't get logged at all). In addition to the above activities, a number of other events need to be entered into some log:
- Completion of construction tasks
- Worker strikes due to lack of rations
- Unequipping items due to lack of workers
- Base kills/takeovers
- Trades with colony

4. Should the different logs be displayed one after another or all together (chronologically)? Currently, they are displayed one after another when you first enter the base; any subsequent events are displayed chronologically.

have a subtab where you can choose to view "only contstruciton log" etc.

5. Anything I might have forgotten.

- Docking at base anyone can dock, it is annoying when i am being attacked by aggro ai and can't dock at the only playerbase/base in the gal because the owner set it to "team" or "me"

Regarding setting base aggro, I don't think it should be LOGGED as management: it's not an important even that should be kept track of, and it can be done many times without anyone even being docked at the base, thus old log events would be erased unseen.

-Slicer

a "player privelage" option.

allow other people to use these option without joining your team, or having base team base.

command line.

/privelages "thebattler36"

a popup window will appear similar to the slave window.

options are:

"Construction"
"Change Trading"
"Equip items"
"Transfer cash/items"
"equip bp's"

anything i might have forgotten also goes in the list.

a command line

/remove privelages "thebattler36"

will remove ALL the privelages of a player for ALL of your bases.

Thummper, I think Historical Records keeps the logs on the base for a longer amount of time, just like it keeps Black Boxes from disappearing for a longer time. IIRC