EVE General Discussion

This is what this post is based on: http://community.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1183783

Taxing NPC corporations was a rather lame attempt a trying to get players to join player run corporations. I'd like to know how many folks joined player corps because the unbearable 11% NPC corp tax rate. If war declarations and a low tax rate are the only thing player corps have going for t, then its no wonder player run corps are still alive and well. "Where you can flourish and develop as a player"? Sure if you join EVE Uni, but have you been in a player corp recently?
In my time in EVE I have been a CEO and served under other CEOs. I have seen wardecs kill fail corps. CEOs turn and blow up the newb players, corp theft, tyrant CEOs taken down by real life issues leaving without leadership, and a lot of other stupid stuff player run corps are involved in.
So in an effort to get more players into these situations you set up a 11% NPC corp tax to encourage players out of the NPC corps claiming that there are services being provided for free. Were ya'll drunk or something? Did the designer behind this idea get his job through nepotism? The recruitment forum and the recruitment forum is the best you can do to help corporations advertise?

Now I know I've been harsh, but I will offer and request that readers of this post offer suggestions to help.
1. Give CEOs and directors better/more tools to advertise and organize their corp.
2. Give corps an advantage. (unlimited contracts is not a real advantage over what a single player can do)
3. Clean up the corporation interface
4. Fix the wardec system. (Sure ships are getting destroyed, but folks don't mind at all paying you 11% of a low paying mission so they don't lose their shinny new ship.)
5. Balance PVE/Ships so that grouping works better than solo. (Make missions that are not "soloable" and have a group get better than solo rewards. Not incursions and lvl 5s but something even a rookie player can do.)

My suggestions are probably not the best ideas, but they are something. Please folks, help CCP out.

Richard Bartle explained it once.

Short term bad, long term good is how DEVS should approach changes. Sadly the player base mostly doesn't care for long term, they just want short term gratification and as such will never embrace changes for the good. This scares the crap out of devs and thus they won't do it.

Maybe but some of the players tried to tell them.

I don't like player corps because I don't like being obligated to people less competent than me, or obligating people more competent than me. And if it's a corp with no obligations, then it's the same as an NPC corp, just with a smaller chat selection.

This sounds the same as "Make casual players leave the game".
You know, I enjoy soloing because I don't have to wait for 10 hrs on players to get into action or do something.
I want to log for 1 hr and have my fun shooting rats, I don't like grouping with people because it's a hassle and takes too much time.

What is warcraft?

They could just remove npc corps. It should work just for rookie pilots first weeks.

They aren't try to force you anywhere. The npc's corp are imbalanced, even when compared to a high sec payer run corp.

You guys that want to play in the npc's corps receiving all the rewards with next to no risk, and then crying about any change that makes it better to be in a player corp should just frigging quit.

EVE isn't about the npc's corps, and the npc's corps don't attract more people to EVE.

Politics, pissy people, and generally I'd rather do what I want, also too many requirements to join other corps, api keys and such, where is the advantage being under others boots.

I mean "a" mission(not all missions) that reward a huge payout to the fleet/corp that completes it. It would be difficult enough to require a small fleet. But I agree waiting for a corpmate to warp across to the planned activity can be a pain. Probably the CEO's fault for not organizing though.