Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Note: This is primarily focused on high sec

Corporations mechanics are a mess because they are trying to address two very different issues in Eve.

1. Providing a way for people to meet/group up with friends. Chat with likeminded people and perhaps share information about the game.

2. As a risk/reward mechanic. There are a myriad of things that corps grant access to(POCOs and POSes being the big ones) in return for putting you at risk of awoxes and war decs.

This results in a lot of people making mechanically suboptimal choices because they want to be in a group with other people. Mechanically, most high sec players are best off just sitting in a one man corp. They don't use the corp benefits. Mechanics that encourage people to be antisocial are bad for Eve.

My fix is simple. Introduce "social" only corps. They would essentially operate the way most 1 man corp do. No pocos, poses, fleet hangars, etc. They simply get the corporate tag(with a label identifying it as a "social only" corp) and immunity to awoxes and war decs.

This would be highly beneficial to true corps as well. Frankly, true corporations are held back because they have to accommodate "social" people. Without them, CCP could offer higher risks and better rewards.

Now, I am betting some of you are thinking "but we can already do this through mail lists and private channels". You are right, but the fact is people simply aren't going for those. People tell newbies "join a corp", not "join a chat channel and mail list". We can speculate on the why, but it just isn't happening.

Then how about we change that attitude? How about we press for change in the player base first before we introduce things that inhibit change in the player base? After all, we play a player-driven sandbox and therefore it is our own fault if these things don't work out. There is already many active player created channels, like the Haulers Hub, RVB, Incursion community channels (I can only vouch for TDF, never have been in other community's channels), EVE Radio and so on, these channels work because there are active people in the channel and because people in there are actively trying to find new people to join or make other people aware of the channels.

That or a chat channel... Since it has all the "social" of a corp without any of the "dont touch my stuff" side of a corp...

They are called NPC corps

Last time I checked you can't recruit into NPC corps.

I'd like to see CCPs plan for wardecs and AWOX gameplay first before committing to anything, but if they are going to nerf them I'd prefer they do it like this instead of directly.

CCP should just allow people to join NPC corps they like and they will RP there.

Tax rate have to stay, because of inability to wardec those corps.

Because that is all a lot of people want. People are generally social. We want to belong to a group and hang out with/talk to people in that group.

And then suddenly cancels the event and keeps the money? Or the event is a fake from the start and the money was paid for nothing? Or in reverse order: You get a spot, where you pay upon entrance. How do you enforce that as organizer? Scams - Scams Everywhere!

War Decs only affect corps who don't stay unflashy, who openly meddle in the business of other corps, or who otherwise gain the attention of the rest of the community. If someone war decs you, you just pull down your towers, leave your corp into NPC and ignore them, while letting the corp continue to exist on an alt (toon on the same account if you wish), which you don't use in High sec. It's a slight inconvenience for a week, but that's it.
If you, however, for one reason or another want to play in the big pool, this "social corp" is not a solution and rather takes away consequences originating from your behavior. I can't say I like that notion. If you want to play big, you better be prepared to play the entire game. That's something, not even CODE can do as of yet, considering how often they remove their bumping alts from alt corps just because they get war dec'd.

Its not playing in what your calling the 'big pool'

it literally changes nothing for gameplay and you are immune to as many consequences for your behaviour as you are in an NPC corp.