EVE General Discussion

Well it's always good to have a healthy dose of skepticism with everything in life. At the same time though, ask yourself why someone would want to invest time and ISK in assassinating or ganking you if you aren't a 'rich target' so to speak. Unless you are flying heavy bling, or carrying heavy bling in your cargohold, go ahead and put yourself out there. The game is designed to work with others, so you'll be missing out.

Go ahead and get over your fear of getting ganked. Get in a noob ship one day, and fly around nullsec until it happens. Then you'll realize 'no biggie' when you wake up in your home station.

Why drop a main character? You'll have to spend months skilling a new one.



Well you aren't playing it wrong by any means if you are having fun and enjoying yourself. If you enjoy playing solo, that's how you should play. There is no 'right' or 'wrong' way to play - if I implied that with what I said, I didn't mean to. My point was simply, don't shy away from interacting with people because you are paranoid. But if you just don't want to interact with people - that is perfectly within your charter, purview, mandate, and right. Just do whatever works for you and whatever you enjoy doing.

I'm about to be back in NPC corps as of tonight when I get home, my main is currently down doing the Minmatar Epic Arc but will be doing th last mission tonight and heading back to the Citadel where all his stuff is, I'd be happy to link up and do something in a few days if you want?

I have decided what I am going to do, for the immediate future anyway, I have created my own corp and will base myself in high sec and use WHs to search out low, null and other WH systems in order to PVP. Ill do this solo or fleet up with people, maybe even join NPSI fleets.

My only concern is ISK making, I am used to 34 planets worth of PI and WH sleeper sites and whilst I could do the sleeper sites still if I find an appropriate WH but the PI which was over 1b a month to me has gone, level 4 missions are not going to make up that shortfall. I suppose it is worth asking if there are any people here that have a corp with high sec poco's. And if so would they be willing to set my corp blue so I can utilize planets as factory planets and not be taxed out of my a**e... I know that is a bit cheeky to ask, but sometimes it's the questions you dont ask that make the difference.

Apart from that ill use the corp to keep all my toons together. I may even let people join the corp as an umbrella for people to chat etc, people that want a corp but not one that works as 99% of the corps out there.

I think ill see how it goes like this, is the ISK making to sustain the PVP becomes an issue ill think of alternative options. Industry is something ive done before and I dont think that is my bag really, plus I extracted a lot of the industrial skills.

Perhaps you might find something useful in this:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=331341&find=unread

I have sstill been struggling with the solo aspect, so much so i read through all the previous replies to remind myself of what people said and the advice they gave. There was mention of peoples public channels which seems like a good way to connect to people. I have been using the help channel a little to just try and be social and help out peeps where I can.

So (not sure if the people who replied so far in this thread would still be getting notifications) what are your public channels and/or what public channels do you recommend?

When im online it would be good to be able to just chat to people that are not just in local, so I think from a more socialising point of view. Didnt really think about there being specific types of chat channel, makes sense though I suppose.

As a grill you will probably be uncomfortably welcome in many chat/voice comm.

Join a bunch of channels, see how it goes, and stick with those that work for you.

If you think looking for a corp is hard, recruiting is even harder.

And maintaining a corp or being an effective leader is harder still.

I think is it hardest for smaller corps. The reality is 25% of the corp being active is pretty standard for a corp that is not dead or hibernating. Meaning 25% of them may log on once a week. So a corp of 20 people (not counting alts) will mean 5 people are actually active once a week...if they try to form an operation...well it is optimistic that all FIVE of those players will be on at the same time to make the op.

I am happy to say that over 50% of my corp of 20 is active, it has been reborn at least 3 times, and we are FINALLY starting to consistently get 6-man ops again. This is a much higher percentage than usual.

Perhaps only one in three of the active people in my corp did I find from a recruitment ad. All the others are friends or friends of friends that know me or others.

I think the biggest failure to most corps is a misjudgement in commitment by the leader(s). I have been guilty of this myself.
Usually it is because they are obsessive about the corp for several months and then promptly burn out! OR one thing goes wrong and they choke and burn out! Often for several months.

OR they expect people to do things they are not going to do, EVER - in which case they are leading the 'wrong' corp, or they are just arrogant asses, never willing to take responsibility for the over-all outcome.

I think what I am finding is a very gradual, incremental approach to both finding a corp and getting recruits into your corp the best way to go. Especially if you have ANY kind of standards.
You have time to train and/or get close to your corpmates, learn what they can do.

These things they take a lot of time, consistency, and calm persistence. It may take a while to find your pack, but be patient and keep trying, find one you will stay with, and they will stay with you.

From what i read so far, make sure any corp you join is Asperger Syndrome friendly (I mean it in a good way).