EVE New Citizens Q&A

Me and a friend have started a mining corp in the Amarr region, however we're both pretty new to the game so we're a little lost as to how we should make a business model. Our idea was to have a bunch of miners (mostly newbs) working together but we're not sure how we should handle profit distribution etc. We loaned an office and bought a Tayra and thats about as far as we've come, I wanted to post a recruitment in the corp section but realized we're really don't have details to hand out yet, so here's my idea, constructive criticism is welcome:

Each miner drops his load into a different Corp hangar, corp takes the ore, sells it and takes a 20%(ish) cut off the price, the miner gets the rest.

Some questions I have:
Is this workable? is the corp cut to steep? what incentive do I give miners to work for us, as they're obviously not getting full price for their ore?

We also want to branch into refining/lowsec mining eventually.

I'm trying to be.

Prepare for war.

Don't start your own corp right away, learn what's going on first. Low sec mining isn't really worth it, honestly. Maybe that will change... Fit a little tank to your mining ship, pay attention to what's going on in your area (local channel / overview), use your D-scan (Directional Scanner) and stay aligned to a celestial (moon, planet) -or much better yet, "safe spots" you make yourself (triple-safe is best) - so that when not if people come to blow you up you can warp off faster. Don't whine and/or complain no matter what happens. Be aware that there is kind of a culture in EVE where a lot of players don't like mining / miners much. Doesn't necessarily make them bad people, but they will harass you and try to kill you in game (which makes it kinda fun :)). I think people should play the way they want to play, but please keep in mind that there are a lot of different things to do in EVE. Have fun! o/

In general, if you have to ask how to run a corp, you shouldn't be running one.

20% is a huge amount IMHO. You have to offer very significant compensation for that.

Before charging that much you should have costs that require it, rather than trying to justify it after the fact.

When I became CEO, I eliminated tax (0%), and instead required members to contribute to a fund that was used to pay for all corp costs. All ISK earned by the corp would first go into keeping the fund topped-off at a specific per-member amount, and any excess would be distributed to members. The fund contribution was refunded if a member left the corp, or if the corp no longer needed to maintain a fund of that size. I had to raise the fund per-member amount once, when our expenses increased substantially.

We primarily offered a ship replacement program, for any ship lost during a corp operation. We also assisted in the initial ship purchase by offering ships at cost. If the corp required a ship for a specific role, the full cost was paid by the corp out of the fund, and the member charged with its use was required to return the ship, or reimburse the corp when the ship was no longer needed by the corp.

There are other benefits possible, such as:
* Free ships, example: shuttles, T1 frigates, T1 Industrials, Ventures and barges.
* Free +1 +2 +3 implant sets.
* Free skill books, or skill book compensation.
* Free research slots.
* Free ammo.

There are many possibilities. You can start by asking your members what they want.

It's only a matter of time before you are war dec'd. Buy lube early, don't get upset when you find yourself losing 500 mill or more isk in ships.

I'm curious how people "stay aligned" while mining without flying out of range of the rocks.

If you're talking about "passive" alignment, then you clearly don't understand the game mechanics. What direction your ship is facing while you are stationary is irrelevant. A stationary ship can begin accelerating in any direction at the same rate regardless of what direction the ship model appears to be facing.

Yes, passive alignment. Wouldn't fleet members all being aligned to the same point enable all the ships with similar agility to warp out at roughly the same time when the fleet commander uses the "warp fleet to..." option rather than leaving some slightly behind?

You are both correct and mistaken:

https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Aligning

*sigh* Fine. You are not just partially correct then, you are 100% correct and I am 100...no...150% wrong. I'm so wrong I should plunge my pod into a sun in a futile attempt at penance for my abject shame. You should volunteer to rewrite that evelopedia entry then. OP wants to make a mining corp, what do you think about that?