EVE New Citizens Q&A

This is an alt obviously.

So my alliance is running non stop 24/7 mandatory participation CTA around the clock. Nobody is allowed to go ratting or anything except fight. Tax rate has been at 100% for a LONG time now. The alliance even has a mandate to shoot and pod anyone not participating in the mandatory CTA.

Its not an isolated case of a bad nullsec alliance either. EVERY nullsec alliance I've ever been in does this. I'm told that this is common and standard procedure for all nullsec alliances. If that's the case, then how do I make money in nullsec? Everytime I move to nullsec I end up losing money instead of making any due to the above. At this rate I think I should've stayed in highsec.

At least in highsec I had isk income, albeit small income. I'm sick of the threats and screamings from the FC's on coms (makes the 50dkp guy sound mild in comparison).

How do I make money in 0.0 under such intolerable conditions?

Maybe I should just find another game?

This is happening in EVERY nullsec alliance I join, as the main post states.

Oh? You know at least 14 nullsec alliances that don't have CTA's?

Please, do share.

PL isn't really a nullsec alliance anymore.
All the others are part of CFC.

As for OP, switch alliance. And you just joined all rubbish alliances who can't defend their space and cause of that they need to call CTAs every single time. Also some nullsec regions tend to be more hostile (Geminate for example) then others. But there are plenty of alliances who don't call CTAs every single minute of EvE, though being in SOV nullsec means there is always the possibility to get one to defend your space. Not defending means no space. No space means no more ISK making.

OP, why would you stay past finding the 100% tax rate and being screamed at?

Don't forget that you are paying your sub. It may just require more research or working into alliances more through recommendations from people you have met or something.

Don't know, but it sounds terrible.

This.

If you hate the alliance you are in, why do you stick around.

EVE is a game, EVE is paid by your money
Following those 2 statements, EVE should be played the way YOU have fun playing it.

OP could you tell us what alliance(s) youve been in so far? Seems pretty terrible, Id like to know :o

buy a jump freighter and resupply market mods/ammo and fitted ships on alliance contract to replace the one's they are losing in cta at 15% above jita, your make money and doing so will help your alliance

This means you're bad at evaluating your future corps and alliances.

Very few will do this, since member retention becomes a massive issue.

I honestly think you're trolling, or trying to vastly exaggerate the issue. For instance, I can't find a single corp on dotlan in the top 30alliances with a tax rate over 20%, though I will admit I only spent a handful of minutes looking. Certainly, it was not "all of them" though -- and most of the ones I looked at are involved in the current Deklein conflict.

Having said that, and assuming you want to stay, you can make a lot of money by seeding markets in the regions your alliance is warring in. Should be easy if you're flying a doctrine setup.