EVE New Citizens Q&A

There is no right or wrong answer to any of your questions... It all depends on what your corp does as well as personal preferences.

Rent is for offices at stations. Offices give you corp hangers. Rent is monthly, the amount depends on how busy the station is in terms of rented offices. To give you an idea, my rent last month for one office was 78 million ISK, for a second 20 million.

Starting a corp is easy. Running a corp is hard.
It's part manager, part school teacher, part inspirational leader, part book keeper. What do you, as a 17 day old character, have to offer your members. Why would they join you and not a more established corp? Will you be able to answer their questions about the game? Will you be able to offer them useful advice when you get wardecced (when, not if). Will you be able to offer them corp activities, goals, reasons to be in the corp and not playing solo?

Great link - thanks

This is a tangent, I suppose, but I'll do it anyways: My unsolicited advice is to not form a new corporation.

If you have leadership ambitions, then the best way toward this aspiration is to join a successful existing corp. The reasons are many:

A) Learn the game faster, learn about Eve gamer organization management and politics faster.
B) Gain more resources faster, in game and out of game.
C) Gain more followers faster, by inheriting pre-existing power and infrastructure instead of building it yourself over time.
D) Gain more allies faster by allowing others to make diplomatic agreements for you, prior to your taking charge.
E) Gain a reputation faster, a reputation that already existed, and will now belong to your group.
F) Decreased likelihood of being afflicted by inexperienced/terrible leaders, by inheriting a vetting process and a larger pool of potential leadership-team members.
G) Gain personal power/reputation/glory/etc faster, because established entities have such a massive leg up on their competition. It is extremely rare for a newcomer organization to take a seat at the tables of Eve power; in nearly all cases, the powers that rise and fall are just recycled old powers. So why not take over one of the old powers?

There is always, ALWAYS an un-filled demand for proactive, rigorous, and smart potential leaders in skilled corporations and alliances. It requires many such, and most decide they don't want to do it once they realize what's involved. If you possess those qualities and the desire to gain responsibility, and then leadership.... Then you will get leadership.

If your ambitions are not simply to wear a space-crown, but rather for utility and potency, then you should still join a pre-existing corp. The reasons are many, but I'll only name the most important factor: They've been growing, organizing, and refining their organization since before you were playing. In other words, they're strictly better than what you could offer on your own, even after you've had time to ascend the toughest parts of the learning curve.

If your ambition is to fulfil an otherwise un-represented purpose then... hm.... Well, then keep looking, because it's probably filled by someone you haven't found yet. And if I'm wrong on that... Well, my bad, but the odds were in my favor!

You don't have to have an office, so there's no rent that you HAVE to pay, just to have a corp. yes, having a corp allows you to make use of the corp wallet and other features to more efficiently operate your set of characters.

Ask and ye shall receive: http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Corporation_(Corp_Mechanics)

My advice, and I have run 2 corps and 2 alliances.

Join an existing corp if you have not already and get a feel for how things work. If you dive right in you will most likely fail. But join one that is active, and participate, see how they do things like mining ops, fleet ops, roles, pos, diplomacy etc. Because its really really hard if you have no experience. However, if you are not going to recruit and its just you and your alt, don't make a corp. It will make it easier for people to grief you with war decs that way. And its better to join an existing corp with both char's.

However, if you just want to dive in, be prepared for a ton of work. Most of your time will be spent recruiting and dealing with issues until you find someone you trust enough to make a director.

As said before, offices are no longer required. It used to be that you needed one for applications, but that changed. All an office will give you is a mutual storage place, and this is only worth wile once you are established and have a 'home'

You pay monthly and in empire the cost varies depending on the popularity of the station. If say you try to rent an office in jita, you are looking at prolly a few hundred million a month. compared to an out of the say system at about 2-10m a month.

If you just want your guys in the same corp.. join one.

The corp I am currently in is basically inactive ( just returned from a long break).

No one with any control has logged on in months.

Any way I can get promoted to ceo of my current corp?

Do I have to start my own now?

Looking to be able to setup a hi sec POS, I have the skills and standings on my chars , but no authority to anchor anything.

If you have enough shares you can issue a vote to make your self the new CEO.