EVE New Citizens Q&A

I've created my first corp and rented an office. How can I make profits from mining for the company?

yes it is a hard thing and require clear and long-term vision for the corp and it should be well mentioned to new members.

Mine your own business, Mr. Otichoda. OP do not get any profit from selling minerals with the own company. He needs good standing with the company, that owns the station (Amarr Navy in his case). Renting an office is one of the steps, made by manufacture ppl. You need this to be able to work with blue prints in research oriented POS. If OP plans to start manufacture, renting office is a good idea, but now it is too early to get any benefit from it, IMHO.

why bother with an office?

Run mining ops, divide the proceeds N+1 ways with the 1 share going to the corp hangar. Some people will complain that they are flying perfect hulks and are 'subsidising' the newbies in ventures with T1 mining lasers. They're selfish, will only white-ant the corp, and can be kicked from corp ASAP.

Heck, you don't even need to invite them to corp, since that will simply encourage Awoxers. Advertise through your noob corp alts that you're running space-socialist mining fleets on these terms. It helps if you can be the orca boosting pilot and at least one miner and hauler. People are more likely to agree to your terms if you're doing the drudge work.

The important thing is to keep running ops, keep looking for good belts, and stay faithful to the 1/(N+1) dividend. Call it a successful fleet when you even get one other person around to chat to.

You don't really need the office or the corp, BTW.

Relevant:
When is too early to create a new corporation?

Corporations in EVE don't necessarily exist to create profit. You'll find "Corporation" under the Social tab, not the Business tab, though that is incidental and doesn't obviate corporations as economic entities. Corporations in EVE, however, are first and foremost social arrangements. The corporation may or may not have a common goals (longevity and "success", however, are highly dependant on common goals), and may or may not have strong social ties and "corporate culture" (again, longevity and "success" depend on this). Each corp does something. A mining corp... mines. There is a way to generate profit this way, but it has startup costs (Orca boosting toon + Orca + a small POS). A mission corp runs missions. This can be profitable provided the mission runners accept your tax rate. A PvP corp ... PvPs. A WH corp exists in WH's and does engages in a diverse set of activities in there.

There is no such thing in EVE as a pure "for profit" corporation, except maybe Synergy, but again with most things ISK-making in EVE, you're better off going it alone and salvaging your own missions or working privately with mission runners you know. Sorry, Synery. I forgot to mention also hauling services as well. But they're not very social, I imagine.

Corp profitability gets better if you're doing higher end content, such as having your own POCOs, farming W-Space sites, doing stuff in NullSec, etc etc. Most corps make money off taxing their members in exchange for providing content and access to content that most players can't participate in solo. Can you provide higher end content that other players can't easily access solo in exchange for a tax cut? If not, you probably won't make much money off your corp.

Your best bet as a newbie is to join a corp until you have a moderate grasp on the game.

Can trial account sell stuff in market on behalf of the corporation? I mean - there are certain limitation on trial accounts and I am not aware if this is possible.

Thanks for all inputs. I've been enlightened now.

In light of the fact that the OP of this thread is also the OP of the thread, "When is too early to create a new corporation," I'd like to ask the OP:
Why did you choose to create a corporation in the first place, given the mountain of data indicating you should not? Particularly since you do not yet have a clear indication of how a corp functions, in practice.

This question presumes that it's not a personal corp, but rather a corp that other players would join.

If my assumptions are flawed, then my apologies. And if this question sounds pointed and aggressive, also my apologies. But I am puzzled by the revelation that you(presumably) read your own thread, and still decided to create a corp, to which you invite other players.

Regarding the topic of the original post itself: A corp's ability to utilize the group to generate greater profits is, unfortunately, very limited, and in most cases does not exist. Rather than being a means to facilitate greater profit potential, the corp's actual role is to provide a social framework. Most incidences of utilizing a corp to exploit, financially, arise out of the group agreeing to organize their efforts, without regard or benefit of the corporation as a game mechanic.