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Creating a corp is not your god given right

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Author
rareden
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2013-02-21 03:49:59 UTC
Created by Psychotic monk
So you're three weeks old. Or maybe you're much older, but you're a very narrow human being. You've come to eve from some other MMO where you ran a successful guild and you're a manager where you work. You figure you'll form a corp and take over the world. You don't know much about eve, but your can just wing it, right? So you train racial whateveritis, pay your 5 mil, and form a corp, recruiting whatever fellow rookies you can. You know most corps fail, but that's okay, it's part of the adventure, right?

Wrong. What you're doing is gathering people who, like you, don't know anything. And since you're their CEO, they look up to you for guidance. In the absence of you being able to provide guidance, they will listen to whichever of their fellow newbies provide the loudest guidance.

Given that the common denominator for random people on the internet is very low, what they get told is that they can't start doing any of the actually interesting **** in eve until they have 30 million sp and 10b in their wallet. They're told that everything that puts them into direct competition with other players will cause their face and hands to turn into poisonous scorpions and that they need to mine and grind missions until they grow bored enough of this game to unsubscribe.

And whatever information they are given outside of the realm of shooting plusses is like a forty-thousand man long game of telephone. It's distorted and only tangentially related to the truth to the point that not only is it extremely unhelpful, but it's also a hilarious cargo-cult of successful gameplay. A shockingly large percentage of highsec players don't know aggression mechanics (despite a recent rework meant to make it easier to understand) for this exact reason.

And looking past that, what happens when someone like my friends and I come knocking on your corps front door? In a wardec I find a shockingly large amount of corps won't fight me despite often outnumbering me in local 10-to-1. No, that is not an exaggeration. Someone told them that 10 cruisers or battlecruisers or even frigates cannot successfully fight my Proteus or Navy Mega or whatever I'm flying. In their defense, that's correct if we're talking about mish-mashed monstrosities of fits featuring mixed guns and no point, but if the fits were even remotely like something that should be flown in PvP I'd be murdered every single time.

Look, what I'm saying is that your corp needs competent vets to help protect and guide you, it needs accurate information, it needs support systems for for new guys and it needs methods to protect yourself in the event that your door gets kicked in by sex-crazed maniacs.

And these things aren't actually particularly difficult to put in place. It's something that should be easy for any experienced and intelligent player who hasn't been raised in a culture of ignorance and fear.

So, newbie and/or bad CEOs: stop ruining the newbros. There's incredible things they could be doing right from day one if you didn't insist on being the weights that hold them back for fear that they might lose 25m worth of cruiser. Stop being an albatross around their neck and ruining the game for them and, subsequently, everyone else.
FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#2 - 2013-02-21 03:50:42 UTC
This will end well.

Founding member of the Belligerent Undesirables movement.

Psychotic Monk
The Skunkworks
#3 - 2013-02-21 03:52:55 UTC
I did not prompt him to do that.
rareden
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2013-02-21 03:53:24 UTC
lmao
Eve Terrorist
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#5 - 2013-02-21 03:54:13 UTC
I support this PSA.
Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#6 - 2013-02-21 03:56:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Mara Rinn
I'm not even in The Skunkworks, and I approve. For entertainment purposes only. This is not a life saving device.

To those thinking about setting up their own corporations: with great power comes great responsibility.
YuuKnow
The Scope
#7 - 2013-02-21 03:59:03 UTC
TL;DR

meh

yk
Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#8 - 2013-02-21 04:02:14 UTC
EVE Online, I was there....before the lock...
Chester MoIester
Doomheim
#9 - 2013-02-21 04:03:24 UTC
Hi im 2 days into eve and about to start a corp and im trying to come up with a great name. Any ideas?
rareden
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2013-02-21 04:03:57 UTC
Chester MoIester wrote:
Hi im 2 days into eve and about to start a corp and im trying to come up with a great name. Any ideas?

SHUTUP NEERRDDDD!
Chester MoIester
Doomheim
#11 - 2013-02-21 04:04:58 UTC
rareden wrote:
Chester MoIester wrote:
Hi im 2 days into eve and about to start a corp and im trying to come up with a great name. Any ideas?

SHUTUP NEERRDDDD!


Thats not a good name tbh.
Jake Warbird
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#12 - 2013-02-21 04:05:55 UTC
Recruitment in GD... Well, I have seen worse tbh...
mr ed thehouseofed
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#13 - 2013-02-21 04:09:15 UTC
ShockedShocked

i want a eve pinball machine...  confirming  CCP Cognac is best cognac

Katran Luftschreck
Royal Ammatar Engineering Corps
#14 - 2013-02-21 04:12:30 UTC
Chester MoIester wrote:
Hi im 2 days into eve and about to start a corp and im trying to come up with a great name. Any ideas?


Rareden Furry Filmstudios

http://youtu.be/t0q2F8NsYQ0

T' Elk
Strategically Bad
Goonswarm Federation
#15 - 2013-02-21 04:15:45 UTC
Shut the **** up rareden.

~Badposter since FOOOOREEEEEVAAAAAR~ I come back after 2 years to THIS? ~Now 4 years apparently

rareden
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#16 - 2013-02-21 04:17:45 UTC
T' Elk wrote:
Shut the **** up rareden.

lmao hai dude
T' Elk
Strategically Bad
Goonswarm Federation
#17 - 2013-02-21 04:28:14 UTC
rareden wrote:
T' Elk wrote:
Shut the **** up rareden.

lmao hai dude

Hey bby. It's been a while.

~Badposter since FOOOOREEEEEVAAAAAR~ I come back after 2 years to THIS? ~Now 4 years apparently

rareden
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#18 - 2013-02-21 04:34:42 UTC
Katran Luftschreck wrote:
Chester MoIester wrote:
Hi im 2 days into eve and about to start a corp and im trying to come up with a great name. Any ideas?


Rareden Furry Filmstudios

copy right infringement, that already exists
Naes Mlahrend
Devil's Horsemen
#19 - 2013-02-21 04:46:20 UTC
agree/disagree
Yusef Yeasef Yosef
Doomheim
#20 - 2013-02-21 04:50:48 UTC
It must be that time of year again. Trolls are getting pretty bad.

Oh, content....

I don't agree with op. If fact, I think op has been taking part in some herbal practices that are not officially sanctioned.
Op should take care not to over-do it next time. That is, if there is a next time.

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