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Oldest active corp / alliance?
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Rordan D'Kherr
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2012-10-18 09:09:52 UTC
I'm kinda curious what the oldest active corp in New Eden would be. And the oldest active alliance.

Does anyone have a clue?

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Tobiaz
Spacerats
#2 - 2012-10-18 09:14:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Tobiaz
Taggart Transdimensional and Evolution are good contenders for that title. Both a poor shadow of their former glory, but still active I think.

edit: damn! to think it's close to a decade ago Ugh

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Viziam
Amarr Empire
#3 - 2012-10-18 09:14:22 UTC
I know both my alliance and corp are pretty old, but I doubt either are the oldest active corp or alliance in the game.

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dethleffs
Immortalis Inc.
Shadow Cartel
#4 - 2012-10-18 09:19:38 UTC
tundragon is quite old too i think, one of the oldest active pirate corps
Rich Uncle PennyBags
EVE Online Monopoly
#5 - 2012-10-18 09:20:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Rich Uncle PennyBags
Imperium Technologys was around in the beta and as far as I know, are still active.
Most of the original members went off to Sodalitas XX I believe.

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S'Way
State War Academy
Caldari State
#6 - 2012-10-18 09:34:23 UTC
If they're still active then oldest corp would be Colossus Technologies. Oldest alliance not sure, I know Ushra'Khan have been around since about '04 though.
Sephira Galamore
Inner Beard Society
Kvitravn.
#7 - 2012-10-18 09:40:18 UTC  |  Edited by: Sephira Galamore
At first I thought earliest date recorded for any corp is 2003.05.30 - Both PIE Inc. and Imperium Technologies had been founded then..
Now I saw MASS (founder corp of the Stain Empire) is one day older.. but they look inactive.

Interestingly, the alliances CVA and Stain Empire were founded at the same minute (2004.11.30 11:39) .. so I assumed thats some technical reason.. until I saw Ushra'Khan was founded 5 days earlier.. oh well.
Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
#8 - 2012-10-18 09:56:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Chribba
The reason CVA and SE are created around the same time is because CCP introduced Alliances (as we have them today) in the Exodus expansion (November 17, 2004). Before then the concept of "alliance" was purely a word of mouth kind of thing.

Ran some queries in my databases, and the first corporation to be formed not counting NPC is Game Masters and C C P.

First what looks to be player corporation is Caldari Inquisitors which was formed 2003-05-07, however it looks inactive.

Both of the next two were founded 2003-05-12 20:19 (I don't really know how creation worked back then with the dates etc)

Next up is Harbinger Heavy Industries which actually do have pilots with faces so that looks active in some way.

And after that Matari BackBone which has a lot more members and seem to be active.


As to these days in general, it could also be that information from back then is a bit distorted so they might not be 100% accurate, I know that employment history of pilots are known to be screwed way way back when there was many corporations involved.

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Sephira Galamore
Inner Beard Society
Kvitravn.
#9 - 2012-10-18 10:03:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Sephira Galamore
Chribba wrote:
The reason CVA and SE are created around the same time is because CCP introduced Alliances (as we have them today) in the Exodus expansion (November 17, 2004). Before then the concept of "alliance" was purely a word of mouth kind of thing.

/c


Aye, I tought as much... Were the changes during downtime? Would explain the same minute.
Oosel
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#10 - 2012-10-18 10:03:33 UTC
nightmare holdings must rank as one of the oldest corps out there.......is my old friend hardin still going in the cva
Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
#11 - 2012-10-18 10:36:58 UTC
Sephira Galamore wrote:
Chribba wrote:
The reason CVA and SE are created around the same time is because CCP introduced Alliances (as we have them today) in the Exodus expansion (November 17, 2004). Before then the concept of "alliance" was purely a word of mouth kind of thing.

/c


Aye, I tought as much... Were the changes during downtime? Would explain the same minute.

I would think something was done during DT for those two, seeing as their creation date is during what would be normal DT period back then. So it could have been a manual creation for them in some way.

Or the same alt spy that created them both haha it is possible to time values if you do it well - like how I did with my two first Alliances Lol

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Andski
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#12 - 2012-10-18 10:39:48 UTC
i'm #490 in lowest sec status according to eveboard global :(

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Val'Dore
PlanetCorp InterStellar
#13 - 2012-10-18 10:59:37 UTC
The CVA was an alliance before there were alliances. Ushra'Khan didn't exist until alliances became official game mechanics. UK was formed by the corps that made up the PRM (People's Republic of Minmatar)... horrid name I know.

If the Curse Alliance was still around, it would be the oldest nullsec alliance iirc, followed by the Stain Alliance, Xetic/Immensea Federation, and CFS.

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Rodj Blake
PIE Inc.
Khimi Harar
#14 - 2012-10-18 11:25:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Rodj Blake
PIE Inc. has been around since day one and is still going strong.

There's a devblog about the oldest corps and characters here.

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Jack Miton
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#15 - 2012-10-18 11:27:21 UTC
Aharm is the oldest WH corp still around (AFAIK)

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Skilldefizit
Memento Moriendo
#16 - 2012-10-18 12:39:52 UTC
Val'Dore wrote:
The CVA was an alliance before there were alliances. Ushra'Khan didn't exist until alliances became official game mechanics. UK was formed by the corps that made up the PRM (People's Republic of Minmatar)... horrid name I know.

If the Curse Alliance was still around, it would be the oldest nullsec alliance iirc, followed by the Stain Alliance, Xetic/Immensea Federation, and CFS.



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Othran
Route One
#17 - 2012-10-18 15:59:40 UTC
Val'Dore wrote:
If the Curse Alliance was still around, it would be the oldest nullsec alliance iirc, followed by the Stain Alliance, Xetic/Immensea Federation, and CFS.


There were a couple of northern alliances before xetic was thought of.

Stain and Curse are the alliances I remember in Summer 2003 - when HED-GP wasn't where it is now, then again nor was anything else down south :D
NemoThrax
NemoThrax Mining Inc.
#18 - 2012-10-18 19:44:03 UTC
This toon was born 5-11-03 but my info doesn't reflect my "birthday" properly, even though I have tried several times to get it fixed CCP says it is not possible to do so, but if I do an info on myself my proper birthday is shown.?

This toon also still holds the corp it created 6-02-03, my corp is still active (but very small) it's not the oldest but it has to be in the top 1000.. Right..?? :D

P.S. CCP fix my damn birthday already..!! :p
Skogen Gump
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#19 - 2012-10-18 20:11:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Skogen Gump
My corp is pretty old too

Corp founded: 2003.06.01 12:44 Shocked
Warde Guildencrantz
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#20 - 2012-10-31 14:27:23 UTC
dethleffs wrote:
tundragon is quite old too i think, one of the oldest active pirate corps


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