EVE General Discussion

my 2c of advice: after joining a new corp you should be really active during the first 2-4 weeks.

by that point most people that matter should have noticed that you are a "bro" and you should have developed a pretty good sense for which directors and which mails/orders you can safely ignore.

afterwards just play whenever you feel like it and ignore all alliance mails you don't like - but continue to show some presence on jabber/irc and maybe get a few corp/alliance-mates to play other games with you on a semi-regular basis.
If you get kicked for inactivity don't get stressed out over it, just ping one of your LoL/HoN/BF/CoD:MW/... bros to re-invite you.

Sometimes there's ugly stuff in your inbox that you can't safely ignore - but that's maybe 1% of total mails. Most of the orders, rules, deployment schedules, drama, ... is not that important (and tbh most players don't read alliance mails anyways).

tl;dr make some friends that will speak up for you and don't think you have to follow every order some megalomaniac director comes up with

Look at Verite's sov map, then don't join any of the alliances you can see on there.

To be fair, your best bet would probably be joining some renter alliance, and with that I mean renter, not pet. No one will care if you join, as long as they get their 10% or whatever taxes from ratting.

Sov alliances and alliances engaging in sov things ultimately mean CTAs, there's no way around it. The moment I hear "sov" and "CTA" in an alliance is the moment I leave, no matter the friends I made in it.

I guess the final advice is: join a corp of people who like doing things that you like doing.

If you don't like doing mandatory fleets then join a corp that doesn't have to engage in such activities (ie: don't join corps in sov-holding alliances).

OP, it sounds like you'd be happiest in a corp based in NPC 0.0 or maybe even just a renter corp. Renter corps will generally ask little more than that you pony up some ISK (usually in the form of ratting taxes).

EDIT Were you in IRC by any chance? That alliance is a notorious scam that exploits its memebers for the massive benefit of a few leaders.

I refuse to bot. I realize that puts me at an extreme disadvantage...but on the other hand I'd lose all respect for myself if I gave up my credibility for something as stupid as a game by cheating.

As far as ratting in 0.0...yeah, it's nice, but it's also boring as hell and I can make more per hour doing lvl 4 in hisec easy. Unless you're doing the 10/10 plexes you're kind of wasting your time in 0.0 if you're there for the ratting. The ISK is in hisec unless you RUN an alliance (at which point you're getting rich from moons).

I like PvP and am right there doing it until people start telling me I HAVE to all the time. I do my best and break my back for alliances and corps I'm in when I'm in game. I don't ******* leach, but when people start acting like I work for them, or owe them something and start threatening and other bullshit though it starts to **** me off... and that's all I can seem to find anymore (perhaps always). Why does it take garbage attitude to keep people fighting for you?



And they'll all tell you they don't have a lot of mandatory fleets unless there's an active front...but no matter how often you're in fleets your going to have to hear people bitching and yelling about getting in fleets or else.