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'Joining' NPC Corporations
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Wyke Mossari
Staner Industries
#1 - 2012-08-11 07:12:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Wyke Mossari
I've always thought the NPC corporation you end up in 'between' PC corps should be reflect your actual standing.

This would give players the option to 'join' a corporation that reflected their character's aims. E.g. Faction Navy or Militia, even Pirate Corps, Intelligence, even the Government. This would give a tremendous boost to RP in Eve but what are the other implications or possibilities.

One issue is that it should require a none trivial level of standing, perhaps make the Tutorial give a minimum with starting Academic Corps. Make it so some corporations would require a very high minimum standing, e.g the Government and Court Corps may require, say 9.0, the Intelligence, Navy & Courts Corps, say 8. The standard industrial corps being relatively easy and the academic corps the easiest to enter. Alteratively these minimums could be the same as Agent Access, e.g. Government employment = level 5 agent access, Navy level 4 agent access, etc.

Some of these corps could actually be permanently at war with each other, e.g. their documented 'rival' such as the enemy FW corps or the Navy vs Pirate Corps.

This would facilitate PvP without imposing it, but with an intricate web of rules of engagement, opening up interesting opportunties and a different set of challenges. The possibility for High sec Pirates, Law enforcers, Bounty Hunters, all within the current war and aggression rules.

(please don't move this to feature requests, at this stage it is not a feature request but an exploration discussion of the idea with the widest possible audience)
Shalia Ripper
#2 - 2012-08-11 07:15:25 UTC
Wyke Mossari wrote:
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This is a horrid idea. There is NO reason whatsofrakkin ever to ENCOURAGE player's joining NPC corps. EVER.

Why do you think NPC corp tax is set to an unholy 11%? Start your own corp. Don't even start whining about possible wardecs.

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Wyke Mossari
Staner Industries
#3 - 2012-08-11 07:32:24 UTC
Shalia Ripper wrote:

Don't even start whining about possible wardecs.


Thank you for sharing your illiteracy with everybody, it was a delightful experience.

A single syllable word for facilitate is Allow.
Shalia Ripper
#4 - 2012-08-11 07:35:56 UTC
Wyke Mossari wrote:
Shalia Ripper wrote:

Don't even start whining about possible wardecs.


Thank you for sharing your illiteracy with everybody, it was a delightful experience.

A single syllable word for facilitate is Allow.



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Captain Robby
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2012-08-11 07:36:08 UTC
i see where your coming at it sounds like a good idea but they already have this in the game its called the loyalty point system and factional warfair but hey you never know ccp may take your idea on.
Kuehnelt
Devoid Privateering
#6 - 2012-08-11 07:42:41 UTC
Wyke Mossari wrote:
This would give players the option to 'join' a corporation that reflected their character's aims. E.g. Faction Navy or Militia


You can already do this with FW. Enlist personally, rather than enlisting your corp, and you'll join one of the four FW NPC corps. They have zero tax, free wardecs, lots of extra things to do in lowsec, good agents (lots of locators), extremely rapid standings gain, easy missions, and a good LP store (depending on warzone control). And it'll identify you as a member of the 24th Imperial Crusade, etc., and a faction member of the Amarr Empire.

Yeah, I think it'd be cool if they could extend this to pirates, but I'd be wary of the farming alts that it'd pollute NPC nullsec with, and I wonder how it'd work anyway, with how separated NPC null are.
Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#7 - 2012-08-11 08:12:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Bagrat Skalski
I like the RP layer of joining particular NPC corporations, why we cant do this now? Why its prohibited to join Caldari Navy NPC Corporation and run missions for them?

Custom ship skins, character creator style "repaint". Bring it!
Sabrina Solette
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2012-08-11 08:25:30 UTC
Bagrat Skalski wrote:
I like the RP layer of joining particular NPC corporations, why we cant do this now? Why its prohibited to join Caldari Navy NPC Corporation and run missions for them?


Part of what makes a starter NPC corp good is the number of people in them, new people can learn a lot from the chat within them. You try ones that have like just over 100 players the chat tends to be almost non existant and tends to make EVE feel more like a solo game than an MMO.

Breaking up the NPC corps into lots of smaller NPC corps is not going to help imo.

Player corps are not always an option due to the way the game is structured, as drop-out NPC corps (where people have left player corps) are generally not as good as starter corps. Which tends to retain players in the starter corps as some players are not willing to risk trying a player corp. If you could get back to the starter corps maybe more people would be willing to risk player corps.
Wyke Mossari
Staner Industries
#9 - 2012-08-11 10:49:21 UTC
Kuehnelt wrote:

You can already do this with FW. Enlist personally, rather than enlisting your corp


Yep, missed that one. Good point.

The RP possibilities of joining the Theology Council, Sisters of Eve or Intaki Syndicate.

Kuehnelt wrote:

Yeah, I think it'd be cool if they could extend this to pirates, but I'd be wary of the farming alts that it'd pollute NPC nullsec with, and I wonder how it'd work anyway, with how separated NPC null are.


Standing loss for belt rats could used to curtail that possibility.
Phill Esteen
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2012-08-11 12:01:25 UTC
Shalia Ripper wrote:
Wyke Mossari wrote:
Shalia Ripper wrote:

Don't even start whining about possible wardecs.

Thank you for sharing your illiteracy with everybody, it was a delightful experience.
A single syllable word for facilitate is Allow.

Thank you for sharing your inability to quote the correct post.

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Dyvim Slorm
Coven of the Morrigan
#11 - 2012-08-11 12:09:30 UTC
Bagrat Skalski wrote:
I like the RP layer of joining particular NPC corporations, why we cant do this now? Why its prohibited to join Caldari Navy NPC Corporation and run missions for them?


In the early days of Eve you could (I used to belong to Federation Customs), can't remember why CCP stopped it.
Othran
Route One
#12 - 2012-08-11 13:47:33 UTC
Dyvim Slorm wrote:
In the early days of Eve you could (I used to belong to Federation Customs), can't remember why CCP stopped it.


I believe you still can for certain npc corps. I've certainly seen people rejoin the starter corp after being in a player corp.

In a previous incarnation I was a member of The Scope. Then CCP started using that corp for volunteer reporters.

Around midnight one night in 2003 I had the wierdest experience I've ever had in Eve.

I was off down in Immensea and some corp/"alliance" had decided to claim it - no stations, no sov but hey why not? I think they managed it once sov came so fair play to them.

Anyway I ran into one of their guys who refused to believe I wasn't a reporter. One guy turned into 8 or 9 as his buddies arrived but they still refused to believe I wasn't a reporter. I even popped one of them and they were still totally convinced I was a reporter. They wouldn't fire on me because they thought I was trying to get them bad publicity. If I didn't have the chat logs the next day I'd swear I'd imagined it.
Llyandrian
Livestock Science Exchange
#13 - 2012-08-12 16:26:21 UTC

+1 - This would be a great buff for RP.
arria Auscent
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2012-08-12 17:53:07 UTC
Center for Advanced Studies (of bacon)
will never be broken up
we wont allow it
its a great corp with lots of new and old players

as for player corps most are empty and have dead chat
about time ccp gave more rights to us bacon lovers in npc corps