EVE General Discussion

Well - good luck. There are thousands of unprofessionally run highsec corps around in eve that never exceed 3 members.

If you really want to successfully run a corp, you'll have to work hard - an own voicecom server, website and forums are pretty mandatory and even then, it's most likely bound to fail if you personally aren't really good at adminitration, FCing and motivating people.

So, basically, there is no reason you should consider running a corp, it is a pointless pain in the ass and you don't even make that much money.

Though, I have a strategy where you will make lots of money and not do much work at all

seriously, all you need a is a VERY CLEAR rule set, take no **** from anyone that steps out, and the rest just snowballs itself into a good tight corp.

I have found that dictatorship is fail, dont get a big head.

Really its best to start a corp with a group of friends in game and grow from there. However if you do start one you really need some sort of plan or goal, as well as something that makes you standout as a corp. Making a jack of all trades high sec corp will generally fail. There are hundreds of corps that state the same "We do mining, missions, pvp, and incursions", which usually the PVP part is a lie. So don't be one of those. Also make at least some form of structure, a rule set, and a set of goals for the corp. This will allow people to actually see what type of future you hope the corp will reach. Lastly prepare to bash your head into a wall, since being CEO can drain the fun out of Eve very quickly.

OP is talking about starting up a highsec corp being a noob himself.

As an FW corp it will snowball if you have a few good members at the beginning, appear on killboards a lot, regulary fly with other people and make a name.

Having success at running a 'we-run-missions-and-mine-in-highsec-I-have-8million-isk-can-I-help?'-corp #9999 requires a lot of effort & enthusiasm to say the least. If these corps grow at all, they usually fall apart after the first wardec.

It's probably possible with incursion farming corps having an experienced leadership, but 'I have no clue but lets mine and run missions in highsec' wont work in most cases.

Perhaps the most important thing is to give the people who join your corp a PURPOSE. People will get bored just logging in to run missions all the time.
I am part of a FW corp - so we have a purpose there. I also who have an alt that is CEO of a corp in a high sec war alliance - again we have a purpose there (kill people and have fun doing it).
0.0 corps have purposes - take sov or build a cap fleet or destory XXX etc...
If you want to distingusih yourself from the rest - answer this question - "What does your corp do that makes you different to the other corps and gives the member base a feeling of working for something???"
And as per above - CEO/directors (or even just senior members) who are online, help out others and UNDERSTAND the game mechanics so they can teach the newer guys (this might be hard for you if you are yourself new...)
Oh - and since you WILL get war decced in high sec - teach your players that wars can be fun...

THIS!

EVE corps are about getting the trust of other players. EVE is 99.99% bitterVet/ jadedVet/ justVet. Trusting a noob would take more work and time than you have.

Well thanks for the input everyone and for not trolling or flaming me.

As far as our aims and purposes go.

I suppose the main thing would be we are a Co-operative not a corporation.

How will that distinction be defined. Well our main aim will be the help and support of our players in whatever path they choose in EVE to be making a profit as an organisation will always be secondary.

FUN > ISK shall be our policy.

Cheap and cheerful will be our motto.

Things we won't be supporting initially will be FW, and PvP. Though we may undertake 'wargames' (buy a few frigates and go pop each other for lulz) for learning purposes and preperation for Ward decs.

What will will be our main areas of interest initially are mission running, mining, PI and trading. Also supporting peoples development into science and industry.

Our mid term goals would be to continue to develop our PvP intrest and see how viable it would be to become more a 'self sustaining unit' indusrty wise ( though this may not be profitable, doesn't mean we may not attempt it, paying a 10% markup on goods so our mates can pursue there industrial dreams would be exactly the sort of thing we would do, at least with co-op funding, your own wallet as ever is yours to do what you want with. ).

Long tem. Investment in infastructure and investing the viability of null sec holdings would be our 'ultimate' goal. Though this may change with time as if the co-op should grow so big there would be a lot of others wishes to take into account.

So that kinda concludes my overwiew and comments suggestions would be welcome.

As far as wardecs go having no experiance of them, being theres lttile property involved and your less likely to rub other corps up the wrong way in highsec, why do these usually come about (other than the fact some of the EVE community seem addicted to Brine.).

Cheers again all, been really useful in trying to develop my idea having your inputs.

/edit Also regarding the idea of 'stealing' another corps members,leadership and assests, though I'm certainly witty charming and debenaur enough it really isn't my style.