EVE New Citizens Q&A

To leave your current NPC corp, you have to join another corp. The 10% they take is only from mission money or money from bounties on rats you kill. Anything you sell on the market wont be taxed at such a high rate. This makes looting and salvaging a more worthwhile skill at low SPs.

As far as finding a corp with no SP requirement, but also isn't a noob corp I would guess that those two things are counter-productive. I'd say skill into a specific class of ship, make a name for yourself, and start advertising your success.

All else fails or you just want to tax dodge, create your own corp - only costs about 1.5 million isk to do so.

1.) You can only leave your NPC School (the corp you start in) by:

* Joining another player runned corp
* Make your own corp (though personally won't suggest doing that as a new player cause of different reasons).
* Join a FW NPC corp (though they too have 11% tax - like all NPC corps).

2.) Those 4-10mil SP limits are there for couple of reasons:

* To try to avoid throw away spy alts
* To make sure that you get people in who stick with the game (not trial guys who just don't sub and fill your corp with inactive players who won't return).
* To make sure that your members have a bit of knowledge about the game
* To make sure that your members can be self sufficient (specially in place with PvP, Null and WH corporations - they hate that they have to help you with everything and hold your hand whenever you log on).

Though they say these SP limits are strict, 99% of them are very flexible.
It's just so they don't have to manage 100 people who clearly don't get in, but if you are below the limit and do think you have what it takes, join their public channel and talk to them.

If you show good attitude and show them why YOU should be the exception to their rules, they likely will make it.

Also there are plenty of new player friendly corporations (new player friendly =/= noob corp) which are there to help new players. These corps are filled with both new players (as they are new player friendly, how obvious) but also have older players and a decent leadership structure.

There are also a lot of noob corps, these are made and completely filled with new players who themself are also still learning the game. Usually these corporations don't last long ore wonder around EVE like headless chickens.

When looking for a corp, read this thread, might help you: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=16943&find=unread

Also, just keep in mind, you DON'T have to join a corp in EVE. EVE should be played in a way you like it, if that means sticking in a NPC corp, then do it. Being social and having friends isn't restricted by being in a player corp. There are plenty of NPC corp dwellers with a long list of friends in EVE and who they can play with.

3.) Default NPC tax is 11%.

Player corp means players set the tax. And if you think 11% is already much, many many player corps (specially those who have a POS or are in null-sec etc) have 15% or more.

I would use the ingame tool to find a corpo.
On the forums you will mostly find selective announces or spams from people who take anyone without caring as long as their number increase.
There are a lot of new pilot friendly corporations. I think that the best criterium is to find one which is often organizing activities in common (fleets to mine or rat or mission or roam or whatever you are interested in), and active in your timezone.

Try Eve University
or Red vs Blue

Good places to start.

These 2 are great.

But the main first thing you might want to ask yourself is

What do I like to do in EVE?

Once you have answered / can answer that, you can find a corp that does the same thing as what you like to do and join them.
This way you don't end up as a miner among PvP guys, as a PvP guy among station traders etc. etc.

Thanks for all the pointers and information.

I think after doing some reading I'm going to start skilling towards being a logistics pilot. After I get some core and basic skills of course that seem to be important for any ship. Logistics may be fun, I've always enjoyed support roles.

The impression I've gotten so far is that many corps are short on logistics pilots, so hopefully someone we'll pick me up after I skill out some more.

Thanks.

In an effort not to spam this helpful forum with a bunch of threads, I'd like to ask a few unrelated questions.


1.) I keep getting messages from people who ask me if I'm on a 14 day trial right now. I respond yes. They then always say the something along the same line: Activating my account using the buddy program, getting my 14 days extended to 21 + if I spend $9.99 it gives me a total of 51 days...they then offer a few hundred million isk if I do so.

This a scam? I see it over and over. Whats in it for them? I've seen the term "plex fishing" floating around.

2.) What is a good minmatar PvE cruiser? I'm at the point where I can afford one, albeit I lack the proper skills at this point to fly it. That being said, whats a solid PvE minmatar cruiser that I can use for general missions to make isk with?

That is all I have right now, I'll probably have more later.

Thanks for all the help.

How do I know that they will actually pay up?

I'm sorry, stuff like this on the internet always makes me naturally suspicious, it's paid off in the past.

The hell wants to share a corp with you troll face.