EVE New Citizens Q&A

You can't totally avoid wars, they are a thing that happens and if you can't cope with a few dudes showing up to shoot at you in highsec you're definitely going to encounter problems in nullsec when anyone can turn up to make your life a misery.

You can, however, minimize the wars you get by doing a couple of things:

1) Don't let your corp members make really douchey comments in local to people who are likely to declare war on you. I know this sounds like a no-brainer, but it's still the number one reason I declare wars.

2) Conduct your ops in out of the way systems. If I jump through a gate and see 5 railgun fit navy megathrons sitting on a gate I'm declaring war on you. Don't put that kind of thing somewhere people are likely to see it and think that it's worth the isk to see if you'll bring it out while at war.

3) Handle the wars you do get effectively. What you actually do in your war can vary, you might just stay docked the whole time, or hire mercenaries (effective ones) or fight the dudes and win with a well organized fleet, whatever the case may be don't let your war history be full of wars where you lose a billion and a half isk in ships to one guy in a hurricane with zero kills. Most of the wars you will get will be from smalltime corps that there's no reason you shouldn't be able to deal with via some means.

4) Don't grow unnecessarily. Something I see a whole bunch is corps that recruit every damned person they can with virtually no screening at all with the specific purpose of increasing their numbers. If you do this sooner or later someone is going to think "I keep seeing these guys around, who the hell are they?" and then you're going to be in trouble. Particularly if you keep losing tons of ships in wars, have a pile of PVE fit faction battleships sitting on a gate or you have a guy sitting in a belt in his pod telling the guy who ganked him that he was abused as a child or something.

Essentially, when you're looking to declare war on someone you're looking for something Big, Dumb and Available as targets. The more people you have doing dumb stuff where people are likely to notice it the more likely people are to choose you as a target over the next guy.

This will make or break your corp.
PVP is not self-staining. It is a isk sink.
The deeper the pockets of the corp. , the more stuff you can do.

A POS is a very good way to generate isk through manufacturing.
The corp buys the minerals from the miners at a fair price.(that keeps the miners mining)
The minerals are then converted into (ammo is a good safe start) items that can be sold profitably on the market.
This does require someone managing the process.
I imagine you would have to do that until you could find help.

Turn the profits back into the corp. in the beginning, to buy more profitable BPO's.
Running a POS can be a very solid base for a corp. just getting started.

He was part of Crunchy with me NC, just on a different character, you should know me pretty darn well ^^.

As for advice, Nightcrawler is full of good knowledge. She is correct on the idea of keep it as you want to. Ofc let the corp members have their say, but always remember, it is your corp, you have final decision and most weight on a vote...if you want to have fun leading it, do it your way. People will come and go, so you dont' always need to be large.

My 2 cents,
Rastuasi

Consider before you comment.

If a person asks for advice it doesn't not mean he's unaware of how to do something, he's merely looking to see if there are any other (perhaps superior) methods to accomplish certain things.

It's easy to be negative and break down people (as I am demonstrating by doing to you), but a lot harder to be constructive and offer good advice. If this was indeed a new player suggesting to give up is really bad, you could suggest he checks out some corps before he attempts running one himself, and gain more experience in eve, but outright saying he should quit, that's just very unconstructive.

The Edit two does go a long way towards this. But when opening with: 'my advice is to give up', you probably lost your target reader right there.

To the OP: I wish you the best of luck, and really hope you succeed. Do bear in mind that the words 'New Corp' on the forums tend to be wardec treats.