Player Features and Ideas Discussion

You can already make a one man corporation by making your own corporation and not recruiting anyone.

This gives you almost everything you talk about here. Anchoring structures doesn't have a playercount minimum, you can be wardecced, gives you extra contract slots via the corp contract function, has an extra wallet (with divisions) for you. The only thing missing is the slightly vague 'risk vs reward' and the restrictions you've suggested.

Mate this is an MMO I think your priorities are backward with this

The fundamental core of MMO is the solo player.

From the solo player all growth comes.

Marketing though, has other ideas. Recruit a Friend, Like us on Facebook, forced game design favouring gang, or herd, behaviours. It's like Marketing just found out about social networking, and hasn't really thought about it, because they are just so gosh darn excited. Aren't you excited! Let's all bounce passionately! Passion! Passion! Passion!

Hmmph...

If the Marketing ideas worked, their games would all be fantastically popular.

Basically if you can attract the solo female gamer, your game will thrive. Let the solo players build their own networks, rather than force them into something that feels as icky as speed dating on Tinder for gang bangs.

One man corporations aren't designed for solo players really, it's just a coincidence a solo player can run one. I'm sure a Marketer will try to force some sort of flocking behaviour by requiring five players to start a corporation. Other games do.

I'm convinced that forcing group play drives solo players away. It's as if people think an MMO means you absolutely have to play in groups.

An MMO should allow you the option to play in groups, an option to watch others play their way, an option to be part of a diverse and fascinating variety of game styles.

To be a unique part of a something too large to completely see.

I have to ask.

Do you people know what MMO actually stands for?

I would point out that not being part of a group doesn't in any way prevent playing against other players.

Even if all you do is run a manufacturing corp... you're still competing with other players for the isk of customers.

About the only thing that's really solo in eve (even if you never join a corp) is mission running/ratting... and even then if you sell loot and salvage to the market you're interacting with other players.

I'm not against solo playing, but I do not feel that it should be a priority. There are people in this thread claiming that the game should encourage solo play, and that 'The fundamental core of MMO is the solo player'.

You're actually interacting with people. Mikhem and Hir Miriel (who, in fairness, I suspect is going for a bizarre tumblr-stereotype concern troll) seem to be under the impression that this is intended to be a single player game.

my point was just about encouraging solo play fist and group whenever


hence priorities backwards


and besides if you are doing all that you are not playing solo

Living in a one-player corp (OPC) is not the same as solo gameplay. I have been in a one-player corp for several years because it suits my erratic schedule better than being in a corp with other players, but I hardly consider myself a solo player. It also makes it far easier to move assets and manage industry across my characters than if they were all in separate NPC corps.

To the OP: You can do everything you're describing with the existing corporations with minimal effort. There is absolutely zero need for what you're describing.

Does that mean you are going to take the OPs proposal to CCP if you win a place on the Council?

Sigh. I know I'm a special ******* snowflake but I've gotten by solo or nearly solo for almost 11 years now.

Having said that? Just make a regular corporation. Seriously. What's the advantage of making some special type that can only have one person in it?