Science & Industry

For ops use excel to set up a payroll. I think we used google version for ops while I lived in WH Space. You can link them the spreadsheet and have them put their name in and go from there. If they are mining, put them down for a share or something. What kind of ops are you doing? Please contact if you need anymore help.

This completely depends on the ops you're currently doing. If you're primarily mining, just keep a record of who mines what for the corp and pay accordingly.

My CEO uses corp contracts for this. He setup up several open contracts avail to corp members for goods and wares generally only slightly below jita buy prices. I win because I get paid a fair amount for my work without having the hassle of hauling and the corp benifits the same by getting materials and needed modules at a fair price. It has always seemed like a win/win for both player and corp. The contracts are always avail so if I feel like working for the corp I know that I am going to get paid for my efforts. And with emphsis on saving time hauling the goods to local trade hubs it also makes me a lot more inclined to do corp work than my own solo thing.

My corp hasn't been very active yet, in spite of being rather old, but I've had ideas along two lines:

One is Corporate Merit Points. You accumulate these for contributing to the corp, with various kinds of work or effort, and your total translates into a Rank, which shows how dedicated you are to the corp. MP cannot be spent, they simply accumulate, and so are meaningless if you leave the corp, although if you leave in good standing and then come back, you probably ought to resume your MP accumulation from where it began.

The other is Corporate Loyalty Points. These are earned for donating things to the corp, e.g. specific quantities of ores or minerals (usually with a limited amount of times you can do each donation, e.g. one quantity of 100k Veldspar = 1 LP once, one quantity of 400k Veldpsar = 2 LP once) or flat out donate ISK, and also for participating in corp activities where the profits go to the corp, e.g. mining ops (note that this is subjective). Corporate LP can then be exchanged for goods with the corp, e.g. the EVEmail the member in charge of LP and tells him what you want. He then gives you the items from the corporate storage, and deducts the cost in LP from your total.

Corp LP stay with you when you leave (unless you leave on bad terms), and you can freely spend them while out of the corp, and of course their accumulation resumes when you re-join.

MP don't do much, so they're essentially bragging rights. They obviously shouldn't be a prerequisite for most corporate positions, as these should be awarded based on skill and on how much the CEO trusts you.

LPs have the problem that you can buy just about everyhing off the Market anyway, so it's not very attractive, although for some there might me a not-really-rational pleasure in getting a T2 Frigate from the corp instead of buying it with ISK. Even though you still bought it, just with LP. If CCP releases some kind of corp logo hull decal thing, then this will change a bit, because then logo'ed hulls might become a LP-only thing, although they can of course still be re-sold.

Also, both methods contain large subjective elements. MP is wholly subjective, and the objective component of LP is labour-intensive. Especially if you keep track of separate donations of different ore sub-types, e.g. there's one one-time "slot" for donating normal Veldspar, one for donating C. Veldspar, one for donating D. Veldspar, then three more one-time slots for donating a larger amount, and three more for a very large amount (which might not be one-time only ones). That'll require a huge document just to show all the options, and keeping track of who has already done utilized which donation options requires some effort.

Zaibatsu?