Corporation ships update complete

I've been very busy the last week testing the corporation ships and the permission system.

We now have corporation ships!

To buy a new ship, a corporation needs a ship license that can be purchased from Corp->Finances.

After you have the license, you can purchase a ship from Corp -> Finances -> Buy new corp ship.

Now the fun begins. You can view the corp ships in Corp -> Corp ships. There you can Assign / Revoke ship command to a member of the corporation.

A very important note: There is a new permission called "Can view corporation ships".
This permission has to be assigned to any member of the corporation war staff, so they can see where ships are. This is not a requirement for a corp ship captain, he can be assigned command of the ship even if he can't see the corp fleet deployments.

The leader of the corporation is responsible in setting up corporation ranks for Corp Fleet Manager, Corp Rookie Captain, Corp Full Captain, etc. those are just examples of ranks. The leader has to define the ranks if he wants members to command the corp ships.

Corporation ship combat:

The corp ship has a very important role in corporation members defense. The corp ship is seen in orbit view with and additional blue color [C] in the name. For example, a SOL corp ship will show as [SOL][C] Captain name.

Rules of engagement:
- When parked in orbit around a moon / planet / belt, a corporation ship will join in any aggression against a corporation member. This is useful to protect several corp members in a location.

- When the corporation ship is attacked, all corporation members in that location will join the fight. This is called a full corporation battle. Every unit in the corporation will join this fight if the corp ship is under attack!

- Corp ship captain can not attack fellow corp members using the corporation ship
- If corp ship captain has an owned ship and a corp ship / units, if he attacks fellow corp members using his owned ship, the corporation ships under his command will join battle with the corp members, turning against the corp ship captain. This doesn't lose him command of the corp ship though. Command can be revoked via Corp->Corp Ships->Revoke by a member with the required permission or the leader.

- The most important role of a corporation ship is to provide protection against attack to fellow corp members, it's basically a corp patrol boat.

- When the corp ships join battle, there are more defenders. Each of the defenders will get a combat report after battle. The attacker may get several combat reports, depending on how many defenders there where, but the reports will be the same.

Other uses for corp ships:

- A lot of uses I can think of. A corp ship can be used to manufacture a module, then transfer command to another captain and that captain can complete the manufacture task. The corp ship with all cargo is transferred between captains / corp members.
- A corp ship can be used as a mobile supply depot, it can hold supplies. The supplies can be transferred to owned ships from corp ship cargo anywhere in space if the owned and corp ship are at the same location.

- There are endless possibilities. With permissions set correctly, a corp ship can be loaned to any member of the corp, for example a rookie captain that will not be able to modify the ship modules / layout and only purchase fuel cells and jump it around to cover / defend specific areas.

How to activate the corp ship:

When a new corp ship is bought, it is placed under the command of the member who bought it. Provided this member has permission to assign / re-assign command or if he is the leader, he can then assign command of the new corp ship to someone that will activate it and use it.

Assign / Revoke commands are available in Corp -> Corp Ships. A "corp ship manager" member will need "Can view corporation ships" and "Can assign command of a corp ship" / "Can revoke command of a corp ship" permissions.

To activate the corp ship, click on Ships in the left menu. After owned ships, you will see the corporation ships that use can activate. It's as simple as using your own ship, but when having the corp ship active, you will be restricted by corporation permissions. Unless gives specific permission within the corporation rank or being the corp leader, you may find you getting a lot of "You do not have permission to do this" messages. If you want to do something with the corp ship and get this messages, please contact your corp leader or the corporation ships manager.

Other notes:
- As an expansion to this update for later on, I'm looking into corporation stations, deploy station for corp and members could have access to the corp station cargo for resupply. Will need permissions for corp stations as well.