EVE New Citizens Q&A

As the title says i was wondering what are the Pros and Cons of starting up your own Corp as a new player.In time i will look to join a corp ,but still enjoying SP and PVE at the moment .

I started up my own corp to explore how it all works and quite enjoyed learning a little bit about it .I dont have to pay the high tax to my stater NPC corp which is a plus .And i like having the extra station options to arrange my stuff and the ability to have a separate wallet to use for market dealings etc.

Am i correct in thinking that the moment i start my own corp any one can declare war on my corp and they have a instant kill right on my and concord does not intervene ? If another corp does declare war do i get a warning ? .Can another player see me in space take a look at my corp and think its easy pickings and declare war and shoot straight away ? .Do most small corps just disband once war is declared on them by larger corp ?

Yes. Any other player corporation or alliance can wardec you cause you are a player runned corp.

No. It won't be instant, there is a 24h warm up (and cool down at the end) in place.

Yes. You will receive a warning notification when the war is issued. 24h after the notification, you can be shot at without CONCORD showing up.

Yes. Anybody in EVE can just look you up and wardec you (at least if they are the CEO - not sure if directors can do it too - of the corporation. But any member in the corp can ask the CEO to do it cause you are easy target.

Most corp will disband cause:

* Wardecs which they can't fight and will bleed members cause of it.
* Lack of proper leadership
* Lack of clear goals and strategy to get there.
* Lack of activity
* A lot of other things that other corps can offer instead.


And in my opinion, although you like finding out how a corp works and liking SP gameplay, go and join another corp. Even if it just means you have some buddies to chat with in the corporation channel. They can help you with questions and issues in EVE (given you join a new player friendly corporation) and most corporations are totally fine with people doing what they want, you won't see much corps that only let you do stuff that they want you to do.


EDIT:

Like gfl said, there is no PvP free zone in EVE. Even if you are in an NPC corporation, without bounty, minding your own business, people CAN still shoot you if they want too. And if done properly they can even kill you before CONCORD shows up to punish them (Yes, CONCORD punishes, it doesn't protect).

If you set it up for yourself, the corp can:

- let you share items between alts easily, via the hangars
- let you set up POS towers with lab research slots, manufacturing, refineries, ship docks, and in 0.0 moon goo
- let you use your main's faction standings to grant your alts access to jump clones


However, if you actually intend to function as a true CEO and have a corp that's open to other people, keep in mind that:

- recruiting is hard work
- training newbies is hard work and costs money (free books, free ships for the newbies, office rent, etc).
- security and corp theft are always a concern
- directors with corp shares could possibly vote you out of the CEO position


As far as people finding you, everybody can see who the CEO is and where your HQ is located. They can set the CEO as a contact and will know when you log on or off (this can be done with any player). They can also see how many members your corp has; 3-6 is usually a single-person+alts corp.

If they set their private standings to your corp as red or blue, they can have an anonymous alt in the systems you guys frequent and all the corp members will be red/blue in local, so the alt can gather a list of people in your corp that way. If any of your members participate in PVP and get on killmails, some killboards allow the public to search by corp name, and they can gather a list of member names that way too.

Others allready adressed most points...

Pros and cons? Pro is, your in charge, Conn is your in charge... If its just you in corp, all is easy... Start adding members and suddenly you have to be a leader to them. They look at you to provide them something to do and you to have a plan for them...

When ever small corp dispands or not depends on its members... Make mistake and wardeck small corp with seasoned combat pilots having their highsec vacation and yoou got your hands full of meyhamm and destruction... Quess why griefers usually target corporation with lots of "new" characters? Less chance for them to run into knife sort of...

Reputation and History.

if you have neither, other people are probably not going to want to join a corp ran by you.
there are people who relish that kind of challenge, but chances are they already found that somewhere to do it.

If there are problems you are the solution.
I'm sure running a corp can be fun.
but im equally sure it can be hell too.