EVE General Discussion

I cannot stress the importance of delegation. You cannot do everything yourself. Well.. actually you can, if you aspire to be some hisec octopus multiboxing their business empire. I am very lucky to have two excellent Executive Directors with enough experience to feel confident FC-ing PVP ops up to a certain scale, as well as to dump a POS in some place or handle recruitment. Sure, you should not hand out roles willy-nilly, that's dumb... but having a few trusted people that can handle day-to-day business takes a lot of stress out of CEOship.

The only real downside I could think about, is that your have very little time to sneak in some PVE. Because if anything goes on RIGHT NOW people are going to look in your direction and expect you to act, and you should. For me thats a small freedom to sacrifice in a game that will kill you at every turn if you turn stupid or are found wanting, and part of the challenge.

When I saw your avatar, I thought of Futurama's MOMCorp. Now THAT'S a way to run a corporation.

LOVE™ - tradmark of MomCorp.

Just wanted to update myself on here and say thank you all for the lovely replies.

I stress again, you're all right that my dates and activities were certainly wrong. Whether I was simply scanning, or scanning wormholes, or whether it was later in my years than I thought, you're right.

Certainly, internet time passes much quicker than real life, so I may have been 23 at the time and not 16. None-the-less, the story stands true with a few brain-fart errors.

On the second half, running the corporation; I really enjoyed hearing what people have had to say. It's interesting to see how many of us, creators and benevolent dictators, must resort to harsh actions and such because of the "nature of the beast".

Whether that's the age of the player, the game mechanics, the general attitude, or something else.. It seems like there are not many options for doing it much differently. The difference is WHAT each corp does, since we all pretty much do it the same in the end.

Whatever the case, if I'm wrong or not, I find the whole ordeal very interesting and would like to especially say that I've enjoyed the opinions and experienced replies that've helped me gather my thoughts a little more.

If anyone enjoyed this post, please be kind enough to like it for me. Maybe I could write another some time. Maybe I create an OOC blog category on the Eridium website? Who knows.

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I've been playing for a while now. I don't know how people who run real corps (mine is not) do it. It's so much work! Where do you find the time?

It's a long-con. We want your secret management stash. Cheers inx

It is very difficult for a hisec corp to come up with a raison d'être that will hold corp mates together. Without that you just have people held together for social reasons and its easy enough for wardecs to tear that apart. If you have a goal then I wouldn't sweat the people who leave as that is going to happen. You have goals, they have different ones. This is a game, so no one should sit around in a corp being unhappy because they can't do what they want to do. A lot of pilots seem to have some sort of unnatural connection to their current corp. If you are not having fun and you can't turn the corp towards your direction of fun, then leave. Some where in the galaxy there are people who share your interests.

In reality most hisec corps have no reason for existence that couldn't be solved by a shared chat channel and everyone sitting in 1 man corps for tax purposes. That is bad game design in my humble but accurate opinion, but it is the way it is. I see POCOs and the industry changes coming up as attempts to change that though.

I can't speak for running a High-Sec corp, since I have only co-ran a 0.0 corp in the past. However it is one of the most gratifying, annoying, banging head on wall, fulfilling experience I have had in Eve.

Some tips:

Delegation is key. Getting a "inner circle" of leaders who you feel comfortable with delegating responsibilities to. Trying to do it all on your own will not only burn you out, but will also alienate you from many within your corp.

Being goal oriented. Setting a short, mid, long term goal is important as it allows you and your corp to have a unified vision on what to expect and what to work towards.

Breaking the ice in PvP/Risk aversion. As you have already witnessed, you can't escape combat pvp. Probably the best thing to do is either get your pilots familiar with combat, add on a combat division, or have a contingency plan to avoid Decs. One idea is to do a temporary relocation during a dec, either to low-sec or set up shop in a WH during that time frame. Obviously both those issues won't hide you from PVP, but it will give your members a change of pace, and dealing with pirates, WH attackers would be better off than dec griefers. Or you could try relocating across empire during decs, but wheres the fun in that. However as I stated you will need to try and remove the fear of PVP from your pilots, which isn't easy to do.

Having a democracy is a nice notion, but terrible in Eve.