EVE New Citizens Q&A

The only NPC corps you can be put in are 11% tax ones. It's not a random corp you get assigned to, it's based on your bloodline (iirc), while your starting corp is based on your school.

So there are three NPC corps per race which are starter corps (for Amarr it's Hedion University, Imperial Academy, Royal Amarr Institute ) and there are three NPC corps per race which you get assigned to after leaving a player corp (for Amarr they are, Amarr Amarr - Viziam; Amarr Ni-Kunni - Imperial Shipment; Amarr Khanid - Ministry of War), all with 11% tax.

There's also the factional warfare corp which, iirc has lower tax, but which means you're part of factional warfare with all the consequences thereof

Nah if I join another corp, they expect me to help them out. Right now I'm a miner and mining corps expect you do give them free ore during mining ops every so often. I want to keep 100% of the profits of my labor. If I start my own corp with a 0% tax rate, I run the risk of getting wardecced and having no way to deal with that.

It seems the safest and most profitable way to mine is to be in an NPC corp. I guess I just have to deal with the 11% tax rate.

Yeah, tax doesn't affect market tax. It's purely concord payouts (bounties, incursion payouts, mission payouts, ??).
Also, I dunno what corps you joined but I've never been asked to give free ore to the corp.. They'll sometimes have a 80-90% ore buyback program if they're not near a hub, but that's not required to use. And it's better for you to use it (unless you have an alt hauler) anyway, because if you're, say, 20j from the closest trade hub, you need to travel 20j. In a freighter (probably a freighter, idk what else a ton of ore would fit into). And that takes forever. There might be ore buy orders up, but chances are those are underpriced anyway, so you'd make less. Anyway, back to the hauling point. If you can't haul the stuff on an alt, you're probably going to make more ISK paying the 10% buyback and mining in the time you would've done the 40j (it's 20j there, but you need to do a round trip) in a freighter. Soo it's good. But if you can fly (and have) a freighter and you're only a few jumps away from a hub, probably better to haul yourself.

It's not random.

And you can NOT chose which NPC corp you end up with.


When you create your character, you also create the set of NPC corps you are linked to.

These are:

A. Your starting NPC corp (based on your "type of history").
B. Your default NPC corp (based on race and bloodline). - For you it will always be Viziam


All NPC corps in EVE have 11% tax, but as you are a miner, it means jack **** as mining doesn't fall under that 11% taxation.


Also, you can make your own private corp if you want, with 0% tax if you really want. Not that it really matters as a miner. But as you said, this will mean you can be wardecced.

Though, after the big industry changes, there is 1 reason to be in at least a player corp...it opens up the ability to drop a POS, which equals better refining with how it works now.

As for market transaction taxes, they aren't linked to the corp tax. They are related to your skills and your standings with the station owner (both on owner's corp and faction level).

For what it's worth, the risk of wardecs is pretty minimal unless you make yourself out to be a juicy target (or a potential source of entertainment).

Keep your mouth shut in local, keep your nose clean, and don't bling out your ships, and you'll probably never see a wardec that you don't initiate. If you want to add a bit of additional safety to yourself, make your home base in an out-of-the-way system (or even constellation).

Keep a spreadsheet of the names you see most commonly in local in your system(s) (assuming you're in a quiet area without much through-traffic), and once you've determined who are regulars, mark them accordingly via standings.

Check those corps and alliances for wardecs, and check killboards for their losses and where they occurred. That will give you a solid place to start keeping an eye out for activity.

Once you've determined who the regulars are, you can also send them a mail. Greet them, mention that you're looking for a new place to hole up for a little while, and ask if the have any information about potential threats that can occasionally pass through the system.

Any system you set up shop in, you're being watched as much as you're watching them. By the time you consider them to be relatively minor threats, they're probably considering you the same (so long as you haven't done anything questionable).

Things get a bit more difficult if you're in a populous system or one with a lot of through-traffic, but it's still doable, you just have to be significantly more vigilant about the types of ships and players passing through. Careful use of your overview can give you a significant amount of advanced warning, as can a liberal use of the standings systems as you travel around (see a group of flashy-reds in a system you're travelling through? Mark them as -5 to be cautious should they enter your system. See actual ganks or wardecs by them on the killboards? Mark them as -10).

Really, the risk of a wardec is very, very overblown. Common highsec wardec groups aren't really going to care about a one- or two-person corp unless you bling out your ships or do something stupid to them.

a mining corp should provide benefits like gang bonuses, hauling services, and/or refining services. I would expect this to nearly double your mining output. it makes sense to me to share some of that excess gain. If you can do all that on your own then sure why bother with a corp, but at that point you are running 5+ accounts.

Also you don't really even need a corp to do group mining ops. it almost makes sense for everyone to be in a different corp to deal with impact from wardecs, and threats from awox'ers (although that is supposedly going away soon™)

Thanks for the replies. Just the same, I would rather stick it out on my own for now.

long story short.

default 11% tax corp. deal with it