Alliance & Corporation Recruitment Center

Are you tired of flying the same old boring ships? Is your-faction fit Daredevil getting too many kills while you’re falling asleep at the keyboard? Do Gallente players with their pompous lives of luxury make you want to punch babies and fly through space like a giant freight-train from hell, shooting at anything and everything that moves? Then Crimson Serpent might be for you.

Who are we?
Crimson Serpent is a PVP-focused faction warfare corporation based in the Black Rise region, fighting on the side of the Caldari militia. We've just merged with White Talon Enterprises, another faction warfare corporation, giving us FC support and the base required to build a great corporation. Beginning 6/10/2013, we're opening recruitment to both new players and experienced veterans. Drop by the "CSSYN Pub" channel to meet us if you're interested in learning more.

Why join us over all the other corporations in Caldari faction warfare?
We're filthy rich, that's why! Joking aside (we really are filthy rich, though), here are the most compelling reasons to join:

• Trolling isn't just a reason to whine on the forums. We fly unconventional ships, preferring to load up on neuts and bore the enemy until they self-destruct rather than fly around wet between the legs in fear of losing our cookie-cutter ships. We are the Harbingers of the EWAR apocalypse, fueled by blood and frog tears.
• We provide ships for scheduled fleet operations. Seriously, who does that?
• Assistance with fittings. If you keep losing ships and don't know why, hit up one of the officers in the corporation and we'll help you figure it out. If you still keep losing ships, make sure it's a prettier ship than the other person's, that way you still win.
• Training courses. Want to learn how to fly interceptors? We have interceptor pilots that can teach you how to do it. Overview broken? Can't figure out how to use a kite fit? We'll get the classes scheduled that the corporation members need.
• Multiple FC's. At this time we have 3 very skilled FC's in corporation, and one terrible but motivated one (myself). This will allow us to run fleets nearly every day. Seriously though, don't fly in fleets I'm in charge of unless you want to explode. Prettier ship than the enemy rule still applies.
• T1 ship focus. Most of the fleet ops and thrown together roams will be done with T1 ships. The goal is to get you trained and flying as quickly as possible and we can and will pick up people from general militia in these fleets to fill out roles we can't fill. No corporate elitism here (who am I kidding, the militia is full of spies, this way we get fights though).
• NA time zone (mostly 4pm-10pm Pacific). There is a severe lack of activity in the later hours for American players in Caldari FW and we hope to fill that gap. We are looking for recruiters and FC’s in other time zones as well to encompass a wider range of activity.
• Basing in low sec! Stop spinning ships in Nennamaila and Ichoriya scared of pirate gate camps. Ship up from behind the gate camps and go straight to what faction warfare is all about, blowing things up. We have a freighter to help you move things. We call her Betsy.
• Family friendly.

This all sounds great, what's the catch? What are the requirements?
To join us, you need:

• 5 million SP or trusted referral. This is a rigid requirement, as if you can't fly the ships we fly without at least decent competency, you won’t be able to fully take advantage of being in here.
• A drive to do things on your own. This corporation struggled in the past because people played spin the ship in station refusing to undock unless there was an FC available. We do not want players in the corporation that can't be self-sufficient. Corp members with proven self-sufficiency can also take advantage of the corp reimbursing them for losses of ships on their own time.
• Fly with us in public fleets a couple times. Our primary method of recruitment will be via fleets. It will allow us to figure out if your personality meshes well with the corporation, and if your schedule doesn't mesh with our fleet ops time you probably won't gain much from our corporation anyways.
• Full API submission. No exceptions.
• Don't argue with the fleet commanders and instructors. Let the lesson finish and if you disagree with something send a mail to the instructor/commander with your thoughts and something can be worked out. People who derail corp operations will not be tolerated.
• TeamSpeak 3. We use this over EVE Voice because it allows control, such as requiring people to request voice and only allowing the people that need to talk the ability to do so. Also, text is for sissies and the keyboard is for playing space commander, so we'll be talking mostly in our lobby chat.

How to apply?
Please send an eve mail to a recruiter regarding your interest in joining, or simply jump in our public channel "CSSYN Pub" and have a chat with us. Do note the recruiters are likely not paying attention to that channel during operations. The information we are most interested in aside from your personality are the following:

• Your PVP experience, preferred ship types, what you can fly, what you are training in to.
• Disclosure of alts (or main). This is faction warfare, everyone is a spai. We might want limited API keys on alts depending on the circumstances.
• Why you want to join us.

All pilots upon joining will be on a trial period. During this time you will only receive ships that are manually given to you for fleet ops and will not have access to the hangar or strategic discussion threads on the forums. After a set period of time and/or or impressive kill board stats, you will be accepted as a full member. Make our kill board pretty and we’ll throw ships at you until your hangar collapses.

Recruiters: Subsparx, Avenner, Bren'hin

Kicking to the top. Still recruiting, lots of interested players have been dropping by the public channel. Come hang out in "CSSYN Pub" if you are interested.

Over 20 members now, pretty high activity and some of it ouside our standard operating hours. If you were hesitant before due to the time zone, don't be. We've also joined the Templis alliance so there is plenty of activity around the clock.

Did a huge fleet last night consisting of working with the borg alliance and our own as well as general militia. 65 person BC/Cruiser fleet with everyone online minus one corp member in fleet. Lots of kills, T3, BC's and BS's, flipped 3 systems and our corp itself came out with only two losses (one of which was me as distraction while the rest of the fleet went home due to overwhelming odds). If you want to be in something great, with fleets running daily, respect from not only our own but other alliances, and the ability to do great things like flipping 3 systems in a single night working with other major corps, sign up now. We have our own and an alliance TS3, forums, a website and are currently helping corp members move ships into the alliance FOB.

Welcome aboard Cyberin. We just made some major movements last night. We worked with BORG to cap another 4 systems, bringing the total in a single week to 17. We also destroyed a QCATS POS, a Dreadnaught, Archon, tons of Guardians and more. We posted a blog about it (there are many other posts about previous ops as well). http://crimsonserpent.com/?p=795.

We are currently still recruiting. Going to be largely open recruitment until we hit 30 members, then the restrictions are going to clamp down. If you have low SP and want to try getting in, now is the time to do so.

Didn't get any big fights last night but we flipped another 12 systems. Corp is up to 31 members now so we are tightening up recruitment.

We are out of our war and back to focusing on faction warfare. Recruitment is now open again.