EVE General Discussion

Hello Everyone,

As the title says, I'm a new CEO looking for help regarding my corporation. My corporation is mostly real life friends but we've grown to 7 people (some not rl friends) in the last 30 days. We're all still incredibly new to the game as well, each having about 1 mil + sp. Because most of my corp mates are rl friends, and I want them to have fun (yet they still yield to me in decision making), I want to be the best CEO I can be. To that end, I've ramped up recruiting efforts and asked for corporation member leadership in helping me recruit. We're looking to at least double our numbers. Once that goal is reached, however, I'm concerned about what I should do next. They really do look to me for guidance on a lot of issues.

Most of us are long-time mmo players that are extremely excited to have found an mmo that can hold our attention for longer than a few months. We are excited to finally play a game where the extra time spent out of game reading guides is actually beneficial, if not necessary. We are in EVE for the long haul. With that in mind, I have a few questions for players in general and especially corporation directors and CEOs:

-At the moment we are a small mining and manufacturing corporation that surprisingly enjoys staring at asteroids. About two weeks after the corporation was founded we moved to a 0.5 security zone called Nein and have had an excellent time mining there. Most members are finally reaching their barges; By the end of the week, each member will be able to fly a barge. Our corporation's focus is mining and helping new players learn the ropes and make some isk.

--My question is: How many members would you want to have a mining corporation to have before moving to null security, and how many of those members should be on security detail? I want to move to null sec before too long but I also don't want to get my corporation's members horribly killed. I know EVE is never safe, and we don't fly what we cannot afford to lose, but I do wish for us to be able to withstand some forms of conflict while out mining. Mining corporations, what do you do for security? What are some tips to be safer?

-A goal for many of my members is to participate in sov and hold our own system. Many of us have dreams of building the corporation to be a large, well known entity. Still, we'd stick to our mining roots. My question is: When is a reasonable time frame for attempting to participate in sov? Again, I know my members want to participate but I don't want them to die horribly. I wish to be able to give them a fair estimate.

These are just a few of my questions. I've tried to lurk as much as I can to glean all the information possible but I know I've missed tons of it. If any of you don't want to answer yourselves even a link to a good answer for my questions would be wonderful.

Thanks for reading my wall of text. I hope to hear from you soon.

Fly Safe,

Siekman

The sad truth is that sooner or later some badmen will target your corp for a wardec and you will be in trouble. (Now that you posted on the forums the chance of this will increase tenfold. )

The fastest way to learn IMO is to join another small corp for the time being and learn from the already experienced CEO / leadership.

At the very least... you have your own personal "help channel" asking the more experienced players for help whenever you get into trouble or have questions.

Having friends you can trust are the most important thing in this game.


I can offer some more help with your situation, just shoot me an evemail if you are interested. Good luck m8.



edit: Top post is correct. Being a miner... especially a new miner... is just askin for it.

Eve is an harsh game, expecially on people like your corp.

You see your corp name? Now imagine you actually LIVE in Somalia, because EvE is no less harsher (even if only "in pixels reality").
You can't leave your home with some sort of self defense else you'll be tender young sheep in an endless sea of rabid wolves.

You have to train to at least self defend... by yesterday.

Just the fact you posted here might entice some buffoon into griefing you out of the game.


Edit:

if you don't want to become just a fully disposable, high rent paying, 0.0 nameless pet you are better moving into a worm hole. They are suited to corps of your size and you'll never have to endure the complete garbage you'll get in 0.0.

There are two types of people in the world: those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.

Okay, I myself and another member are training as combat pilots. As difficult as it may be, I will try to convince my members to start training combat ships. Here's a question though, why can't our corporation just have a mining subdivision while maintaining an active combat pilot role. Is that possible?

Also, many of us live for pvp , mining was just a beginning front to financing our ships, and we fell in love with asteroid - staring .

Thanks for responding,

Siekman

The problem with doing two things at once is that you will spread your skillpoints out too thin and be just mediocre at both.

You either want to be a good PvPer or a good miner... Trying to do both at this stage isn't very wise.




See what I meant about posting on the forums? lol.

You'd actually help them doing so.

Better learning what EvE is about early and perform the conscious decision if it's the game for you or not.
This is why in my first weeks of game I was already poking (and dying a lot!) stuff in low sec.

Oh I see Gangname, that makes sense. While it seems that it might be almost too late for most of us, Ill start getting everyone ready for combat piloting .

my advice ; do not stick with industry alone expand into pvp aswell; it might look painful for new players , pvp that is but t1 ships are cheap and easy to learn , build up a reputation of industrials who are willing to fight aswell, and don't be scared of wardecs , show up on to fight , you will not win each time , but you will get some reputation and after awhile the griefers will leave you alone

Just make sure all your corpmembers are involved , Remember Rome wasn't build in a day
A corporation who s members are willing to fight and can develop their own null sec space between wars are a asset in every null sec alliance

Okay, good, there's hope for you guys yet. Just remember to find a weak target at first. Check out their battleclinic histories to see what you're going up against.

As far as training goes, don't rush into large ships right away. Frigates and cruisers first, with support skills. Lots of resources in other sections of the forums in regards to what to train for.