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New CEOs guide to making a successful corporation.

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Cyprus Black
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#21 - 2012-07-21 02:47:42 UTC
I approve.

I see so many corps in highsec that simply don't give a **** about internal and external security.

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Karloth Valois
1st. Pariah Malefactor corp.
The New Eden Yacht Club.
#22 - 2012-07-21 14:07:18 UTC  |  Edited by: Karloth Valois
Dirty Wizard wrote:
Whichever system you decide to reside in, it would be to your advantage to place your headquarters somewhere else. Preferably a region or two away. If someone wardecs your corp, I can guarantee the first thing they're going to do is look at your corporation details and travel out to your listed headquarters. It's free information for your enemies and it's easily avoidable.



As someone that used to wardec alot i can guarantee that we will not be flying straight to you listed HQ. Any half decent corp would have done some recon on your corp before hand, run locator agents on a few members to work out were they are based, checked out your killboard ect to see where you have kills and losses and maybe even had a few players (either in corp or out of it) follow some of your guys around for a couple of days before the war goes though so they know what to expect and where to be.

Not saying that having your HQ listed else where is a bad idea, just shouldnt assume that wardeccers wont find you the second the war goes live just because you dont live were your corp info says you do. I never once looked at the corp HQ when working out were we should base ourselfs for a war dec.

Apart from that good guide, too many pointless corps set up just because someone wants to run there own corp, not because they can or should be running the corp. They spam recuritment take anyone that applys and then the newbies that join spend 2 - 3 months in a crap corp that ruins their view of the game

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Plaude Pollard
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#23 - 2012-07-21 14:21:36 UTC
Karloth Valois wrote:
Dirty Wizard wrote:
Whichever system you decide to reside in, it would be to your advantage to place your headquarters somewhere else. Preferably a region or two away. If someone wardecs your corp, I can guarantee the first thing they're going to do is look at your corporation details and travel out to your listed headquarters. It's free information for your enemies and it's easily avoidable.



As someone that used to wardec alot i can guarantee that we will not be flying straight to you listed HQ. Any half decent corp would have done some recon on your corp before hand, run locator agents on a few members to work out were they are based, checked out your killboard ect to see where you have kills and losses and maybe even had a few players (either in corp or out of it) follow some of your guys around for a couple of days before the war goes though so they know what to expect and where to be.

Not saying that having your HQ listed else where is a bad idea, just shouldnt assume that wardeccers wont find you the second the war goes live just because you dont live were your corp info says you do. I never once looked at the corp HQ when working out were we should base ourselfs for a war dec.

Still, having HQ listed somewhere else is a good way to avoid the less prepared, casual War-decs. Serious War-deccers would be smart enough to actually look at where their targets are based before war-deccing them. With alts, of course. No reason to risk making them too suspicious of a coming War-dec.

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Karloth Valois
1st. Pariah Malefactor corp.
The New Eden Yacht Club.
#24 - 2012-07-21 14:31:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Karloth Valois
Like i said its not a bad idea, as the OP pointed out its free intel dont give it out, but I was just pointing out that CEOs shouldnt assume it will keep them safe. Most will have worked out were you are before they let you know they are going to wardec you.

And on that note, its another really good reason not to just recuit anyone and everyone that applys to your corp, the number of times we've have spy alts inside target corps before the war go live is shocking and most were never found out (my personal favourite was a CEO making a member appologise to our spy alt for accusing him of being a spy)

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Dirty Wizard
Doomheim
#25 - 2012-08-12 01:35:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Dirty Wizard
Karloth Valois wrote:
Like i said its not a bad idea, as the OP pointed out its free intel dont give it out, but I was just pointing out that CEOs shouldnt assume it will keep them safe.
You're right. It should never be assumed that this measure will keep them safe. It won't. It's simply another layer of security for would be wardec'ers to work through, even though it's such a minor layer of security.

A picket fence won't stop someone from jumping over it, but it will still slow them down a little.

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ISD Athechu
ISD STAR
ISD Alliance
#26 - 2012-08-12 17:56:15 UTC
Nice thread added to EVE New Citizens Q&A Resources

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Christopher AET
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#27 - 2012-08-13 05:13:09 UTC
When starting a new corp always good to start it with a few friends. For the longest time we numbered only 17 chars and our centerpiece was a mere 2 carriers with low skills. Once we established our identity as a corp we expanded. Now we are the highest performing corp in our alliance relative to our size in pvp. I don't even bother keeping track of how many caps we have these days.

The most important thing a corp can have is common purpose. Your corpies need to own their achievements and give themselves a stake in the future of the corp. Whenever you achieve a major objective you want them to look at it and say "I helped". For us it was good kb stats a functional srp and the beginnings of a supercap force.

These are a brief snapshot of my experiences as a nullsec ceo of a mid sized pvp corp

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