EVE General Discussion

With swift kicks to the groin.

Remiel, I whole heartedly agree. I think that is an extension of respect personally. Respecting the content generating abilities of people you've chosen to make your corporation with is very important to ram home the key fact of EVE - it is a sandbox. Some people like having castles built for them or building them to a specification laid down from on high, but I don't think that is too common, nor is it sustainable. I guess a good edit of my previous post would be: Lead by example. Be the content provider you want your members to be and other cliched but oh-so-true epithets.

As a quick unrelated sidetrack due to the mention of awox alts; I am not blind to this possibility - but have only really addressed the OP question in my prior post. Bad things can happen and it's part of the game - and the minute you figure out how to deal with it, the way they happen will change. Vigilance!

For the record, RIGID never had a single awoxer. We did recruit someone we knew was trying to awox us, and turned him native with our sheer enjoyment factor. Thing is, we shot each other up all the time so, he wasn't actually going to be doing anything we didn't want him to. (Tanthu's not the awoxer, he just wanted to fight, so I obliged.)

Large Regular or Double Double?

Yeah, it's a 6AM kind of coffee.

Getting into rough situations with each other and then trying to get out of said rough situations is a great way to build loyalty.

One of our corpies once made the idiotic decision of jumping into a WH to chase down a small Tengu gang, in the hopes of... well, who knows what he was hoping. They found him and bubbled the exits, trapping him inside.

Of course there was only one thing left to do: Fleet up, jump in, and save his ass.

We managed to pull out of the bubbles and warped to a safe. The hostile gang eventually dropped down on us in our safe; we did not realize just how fast they could scan. Naturally, as a high-sec PVE corp, we all died.

So here we are in a WH with 5-6 pods and a frig for scanning, warping between safes for a good 45 minutes as we tried to figure out how to get out in one piece. In hindsight, we got real lucky they didn't bubble us in the safe too. We ended up safe logging, and had the scout stay online to relay us information through mumble.

Near the usual dead hours of EVE - which was about 2AM for most of us - our scout returned from being AFK and realized the hostile corp had logged off. Pings were sent out, and we went as far as literally waking up one of our members so he could get out safely.

Once we did, we realized we were all online together again, fleeted up, wives asleep. And so we did the only sane thing: jumped into frigs and headed out for a low-sec roam. It was our 3rd time ever trying something like this. We found a small Brick Squad fleet; Proteus, Gnosis, Hookbill and tried dropping on them. And of course, we died instantly.


It was one of those experiences none of us will ever forget. We were all PVE players, noobs to PVP, and typically were reluctant to engage other players. Shortly after this experience, our CEO and some other members got tired of EVE and our corp closed down. We started up a chat channel to keep in touch. It's now 1 year later - perhaps more - and all of us from that roam are still active in the channel, helping each other when needed and hitting up the occasional roam too. While we've all moved on to our own little separate careers within EVE, there is a bond there that will last a very long time. The trust is so deep, we've gone as far as lending eachother Jump Freighters and pricey BPOs.

Apologies for another round of my storytelling, I should just start a blog or something

Admittedly, I already noticed that every time I check the corp wallet with my alts, I get that greedy look in my eyes.
It's probably only a matter of time until I run away with my own stuff....

I honestly don't do anything. I recruit people, well I did kinda on a break from growing my corp, I play the game, I help them out, I tend to not delegate much (which i'm working on). I tend to tell anyone who whines about no pvp to 'get off your ass and lead a fleet, I don't pvp'. And i'm usually nice... and patient, until you **** me off. It just takes a while.

I get 3 results this way.

1) someone joins, gets bored in a month and bounces

2) someone joins, hangs around for a year or two, then moves on to another corp... only to randomly pm me a few years later suprized my dumbass is still here, and saying they have fond memories of playing with me and may rejoin

3) never bloody leave.

Treat people with respect, allow them to play their way, don't rip them off, and they stick around. If I ran fleets and pvp'd more, i'd prolly have a huge corp. But I suck at it so meh.

Luckily this ain't another MMO, so bye.


Also, if you think that you can buy or in any way influence how loyal people are towards you, you have a very very wrong idea about loyalty and I wouldn't be surprised if NOBODY is loyal to you, because you don't deserve it.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.