Alliance & Corporation Recruitment Center

Training focus: Both PvP and industrial. We teach all forms of PvP with the exception of "blob" fleets.

Website: heartsandmindsalliance.org

Individual attention beginning with your New Member Orientation (Don't be shy. Grab an officer if you aren't getting yours.) We specialize in training new players in all aspects of pvp and industrial games. You aren't alone climbing that initial EVE learning curve. You can be a student and a teacher and an officer. Ringleader or cog in the machine. Lots of roles to explore. New friends to play and scheme with. Hardcore and casual players both welcome. Get into Nullsec as soon as you are ready.

Mining, refining, planetary interaction, research, manufacture, shipping, markets.

Small gang, guerilla strategies and tactics. Gate camping, piracy. Teamwork and coordination.

We've also got corps in both hi sec and null sec you can "graduate" to.

Plenty of opportunities to learn in a variety of environments: hisec, nullsec lowsec.

Training in leadership and management. You will learn by doing.

You must be able to participate in Voice Comms to participate in most of the learning and teaching. It just takes too long to type it all.

You can be a student and a teacher and an officer. Ringleader or cog in the machine. Lots of roles to explore. New friends to play and scheme with. Even some interesting enemies.

We have a TS3 Voice Comms, active members in US and EU timezones.

If you are interested in Corporation Security, Spy Stuff, look at Smiling Friends Social Club

Proud signatories of the Secret Evil Plan

New Players Have More Power Than You Think

http://heartsandmindsalliance.org/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=4&id=93689&Itemid=232

Our New Players Very First Steps Guide

http://heartsandmindsalliance.org/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=4&id=45&Itemid=232

EVE Online And Your Central Nervous System

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=153013&find=unread

Additional information: In-game chat channel Vomitorium Emporium

To all you new players who are making this so much fun: thanks for the leap of faith. Thanks for asking all those "dumb" questions that keep us on our toes. (Yeah, like we always have an answer, even a "dumb" one right?

with a wink

Two days ago I was listening to some new players in Teamspeak.

"You know, " said one, "I heard so much about how hard this game is to play--that learning curve? But I feel like I blew that off by getting into Teamspeak."

More in that vein. All I can say is that I wish I'da thought of that.

with a wink

We've got a really good thing going here. I'm having the time of my life. There's enough going on to keep everyone in our family/fleet/four ring circus busy.

* Daily Ops; PvP, Mining, Mission Running
* Hi sec to Nullsec
* Mix of very experienced to very new players.
* Everyone is respected for the game they came to play.
* We actively pursue all three aspects of EVE online: military, economic, spy v spy.
* We train new players and like doing it.
* Experienced players do not have to be trainers.
* TWO RULES: Honor among thieves. Everyone plays EVE. (No inactive members.)
* Teamspeak 3 Server. Required for all PvP and advanced industrial.
* Currently in Hi sec.
* The most awe inspiring Secret Evil Plan in all New Eden.

Hi everyone. Well its just about Back To School isn't it?

I just passed out the old fashioned copying books like the grade schoolers use (here in America at any rate). One each with a pen (no throwaways) to my RL friends.

A reminder that we're all in school all the time.

And a concession to modern sensibilities: the copy books I bought were not just black and white but also purple green and red and white. Surely its a world gone mad?

All this being a long winded way of saying welcome to all you new players.

The blind lead the blind and somehow the dumb manage to tell the deaf how to give the demented the instructions to maintain a nodding acquaintanceship with their sanity.

I am well and truly grateful to have the luxury of an unrepentant addiction to EVE. Come on. Let's talk.

with a wide and sincere smile

Hey you guys!

We got PHILOSOPHY going on in the Vomitorium Emporium. You oot philosophy going on in your public channel? How about socciobiology? Huh? Huh?

I thought so.

with a slightly condescending wink and a slightly self important wave

SEVENTH METAGAMING EXERCISE: Concentration. Effective spies operate in states of intellectual and emotional uncertainty that would normally be crippling. One of the only actual defenses against this is concentrating on what you are doing at the moment. Concentration, as opposed to say, bitching and whining, is in itself an adaptive habit and it serves as an excellent distraction. You can get into the habit of encouraging a heightened state of concentration as soon as you log on, for example.

Also, new members, kindly note that there are now training managers whose jobs are to make sure that you're having a good time in corp as well as learning the game.

What to Expect In Nullsec
Nullsec is fun. Nullsec is where 10% of the players of EVE live and its the place where 90% of the stuff that happens in the game happens.
Its also a lot more challenging than hisec; and more exciting and interesting. Its where almost all the hardcoriest players play at least part of the time.
I was one of the people who was completely intimidated by nullsec and now I feel silly just remembering it.
What are you giving up when you leave hisec? Well mostly you are giving up the luxury of Playing EVE with only half your attention. People as a rule don't attend mining ops while watching movies in nullsec. You simply do not use autopilot in nullse. You don't get to play on mental autopilot either.