EVE New Citizens Q&A

Convo people in the corp, ask them if it is worth it. Considering their size and how long they have been around, the depth of their wiki and the fleets I see flying around, seems like it is worth it.

The first time I was waved at in the corporate chat channel of eve u was a game changer for me. I went from being all alone trying to figure the game out to being surrounded by literally hundreds of other folk to play and learn with.

Just keep in mind that eventually, every bird should look to leave the nest and strike out on their own :)

Let's say you have spend a reasonable 2.2BISK on a dreadnaught of your choosing and so did another 10 of your fellow corp members. One can safely make 1BISK in highsec with running mission in a week (you don't play all day every day for that) and so did you and your fellow corp members. Since neither you nor your corpies believe in dust collection, you actually use those dreads.

Ten minutes later those dreads are turned into killmails because some ebil spai lit a rogue cyno happily leading your little dread fleet into a trap -- and all that just because your CEO is a lazy *beep*wit who didn't do the most basic background checks on recruits. That means 24 collective weeks of ISK grind went down the drain in 10 minutes without getting anything in return.

And 2.2BISK for a ship are not a lot of ISK and 11 dreads are not a big fleet.

Not that E-UNI fly around in dreads much, but given the scale of the operation a single spai can cause much more damage. Does that explain the need of a reasonable application process to you?

I am a former E-Uni member, and there are some good and there are some not so good about the corp.

The corp is very good about giving you guidance in where to go, a lot of resources of which you can learn, and an abundance of people that are willing to give their two cents on what they think is the right thing to do... a lot of times this is far better than what you do. The advice you get here is not going to be, nor will it ever be, "end game." Eve University is a learning corporation, and with the goals and ideology they have in mind, they do a very good job. They are set up to fully accept, harbor, teach, train and finally push out a newbro into the world of Eve.

Now, what you do with the time there, is completely up to you.

Spending all of your time mining, regardless of what Corp you are in, is going to teach you no more than shooting rocks. Moving to the Null Sec Campus and only participating in gate camps, will do you no more than teaching you to target a hostile character and (hopefully, if you're fast) shoot someone.

Bit the Corp executes their mission precisely, and incredibly well: to teach a newbro to love this game, and find what it is that the person truly enjoys. I know I did, and I'm still a newbro.

So yes, I will say without a doubt, get your time in there. The lessons, experience, and resources are incredibly valuable, and will translate well for you long into the future.

Fly safe!

~Xy

Questions answered in order of appearance:

1. Yes, it's quite rigirous.
2. Not at all. There will be corps that are worse, there will be a lot of corps that are much easier. It all depends on how the corp wants to operate and how strict they are on who they want to recruit.
3. That depends, they do have a good experience and knowledge database from the vets that are part of them.
4. Personally never been part of EVE-Uni myself, so can't judge the inside of the corp. But personally, I think they take paranoia to a whole new level with their application process and I think it's taking it a bit too far.
5. One of the rules of EVE: ALWAYS go your own route, never ever take anything people say for factual truth and never let anybody push you into a certain direction or playstyle you don't personally like.
6. That's hard. As each player is totally different, every pilot will "need" a different corp that fits their gamestyle. Thus, nobody but yourself can answer what to do, where to go etc.

Probably because they know that if you have the patience to get through Eve Uni's application process then you can get through anything.