EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hey there folks,
I just started this week and have been watching ALOT! of tutorials and Vids on Eve, I recently watched one video about joining corporations. And after wards something stuck me as a little odd and left me with a question. The Tutor was saying something about joining a Corp and after a while he'd been kicked and had all his assets stolen. Which makes me wonder, When you join a Corp do your assets automatically become theirs? If not then I guess it makes perfect sense having shared items in a Corp or guild is always a risky proposition.

If you join a corporation (or even make one) your stuff still stays in YOUR hanger. The same applies to your money.


The only way a person can steal your assets through a corporation is if...

- your assets and money are in the corporate hanger/wallet (which must be placed there by YOU).
- the person stealing has access to the same hanger/wallet you put your stuff in (which must be granted by the CEO or someone with access granting abilities).

Both conditions must be fulfilled.


Unless you COMPLETELY trust someone (see: you can potentially blow them (or their alts) up and/or you are in RL "leg-breaking distance") never hand over any assets to another person... not even if they offer to move them for you.

For added peace of mind, the game will notify you when you are putting items into a corp hangar and that you may not be able to get them back, giving you the option to cancel the whole thing.

Thefts occur:
- when you put your stuff in a corp hangar (especially shiny/expensive things).
- when you join a corp and convince them to give you hangar access and then proceed to move all of it to your personal hangar.

If someone offers to move your stuff for you this can actually work quite well, but do it by way of courier contract with collateral at least equal to the value of what they are moving for you. (They will generally want to be paid some amount per jump for this service) But if they decide to rip off what you gave them to move you keep the collateral and so you just buy it back off the market again at no loss to yourself. (Completing the courier contract will refund the mover's collateral at the same time it delivers your things, so don't think you can just keep the collateral anyway) Some people actually make a living moving things for people.

Argh...too slow.

I fully back up that the link to NightCrawler's guide is one worth the read.

This.

NEVER put all your eggs in the same basket.

Always keep some sort of safety system for back up.
In my 3 years, I always made sure that I at least kept some ships safe in a high-sec station, that in worst case, I would have to start over with those ships (luckily, so far I never needed that option).