EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi, I am Wimzy and today I am going to describe my ideas and recommendations on how to run a small to mid sized corporation. This might prove particularily useful since thanks to upcoming Tiamat release changes, you have a choice to actually rid yourself of any AWOX threat.

As the comments below suggest this is not your usual guide, so if you feel yourself like being mainstream I suggest you seek your luck elsewhere, and probably that you join a corp instead of bothering to make a new one.

So how to manage a new corp as a whole?
- It is very simple, you set it up so you don't really have to.
You see, in my distorted vision of reality, in order to corp most efficiently, one must avoid avoid most of the aspects of an actual corp: Taxes, Assets, Hangars, Offices, POSes and other crap to defeat the point of someone trying to steal from you, unanchor your stuff or generally be annoying and possibly prove to by anyhow threatening, besides means which can be provided even outside of the corp.
How to make sure your SRP system is fair? How to manage this and that? - You don't.
So Taxes = 0, be liberal, make people get their own fortune by themselves, screw socialism or dictatorship, no taxes means no wallet, no wallet means no money, no money means no problem.
Assets = 0, if there are any assets to be held, they are to be held by the person that would have right to access them in the first place and provide them if need arises.
POSes = 0, seriously, what do you need a POS for that is so important it cannot be performed on an alt in someone else's corp like in null. Nothing.
Offices = wtf are offices good for anyway? Don't do offices, it sounds fancy but it's bullshit.

Good now you got yourself any your friend a corp that it better than an NPC corp thanks to the 0 tax, you can bring your friend share bookmarks and have some PvE fun together, run missions and incursions for instance (you probably should not leave NPC corp for mining purposes).

WARdecs and what to do with those:
Wardecs are fun, they cost 50M to make and provide a little warning through an easily overlooked notification that a war is coming. Let's say you are not a PvP 50 bhaalgorns on undock against a tristan enthusiast, so what do you do? You stay docked for an entire week? Hell no! Answer is easier than that, you reform, you send out a mail with a new corp name and where to apply, you kick everyone alt, or maybe just leave an alt behind to troll, and you reform for 2M ISK.
GJ, you got a new corp, you probably have saved those 2M on taxes by now so it does not hurt you that much to reinvest.
Wardecced again? Well, reform again.
Wardecced again and again and again? Make sure you know when the war begins and always reform shortly before the war actually begins to maintain some sort of bonus from the corp membership. Remember each time they wardec you, they lose 50M ISK to gain absolutely nothing and each time you reform you invest 2M which you make back easily, it's like a war you cannot lose, the enemy is bound to run out of money sooner than you. after 10 wardecs and absolutely no kills they will have lost 500M to you while you invested and made back those 20M you spent, you won't make it to killboards but you will ruin just as if you did.

This sort of behavior attracts violent threats of people who wanted to shoot your silly newbies in their fancy high skill ships and did not get to, it's like you take their "omg it's game mechanics, now stay docked or die" and stuff it up their face through other game mechanics. So in order to give those threats a reasonable target I suggest you have an alt sit in the CEO seat, does not have to be completely passive, a station trading alt will do.

Best of luck to you and your small to whatever sized High Sec Pve Corporation. May you bleed those warmongers dry and collect their countless tears in hatemail.

While I appreciate the attempt;

What you described in the guide is simply a shared chat room.

The ability to shoot each other is just one advantage to a high sec corp. ( yes, advantage you buggers )

Shared resources, POS's and hangers are instrumental in fulfilling group goals.

Achieving and pursuing group goals kinda being the only reason to be in acorp.

Your guide is a basic tax shelter corp, and I'm not sure how useful it is to tell folk to use default settings only then package it as a set of instructions.

ftfy

So now that I've actually sat down and read this guide, I'd like to suggest a name change.

"[GUIDE] How to convince yourself this game is terrible and you should quit after a few months of leveling up your Raven"

Can someone please move this thread elsewhere so that newbies don't get confused and bored? This is really more like "how to remove all fun from EVE".

Quoting for emphasis.

A good corporation will teach you how to fight back and make it fun... even if your focus is not ship-on-ship violence.

This won't stop you from dying, if anything it'll attract another type of predator, one that is willing to attract Concords wrath to see that you explode.

As others have said defend yourselves, throw cheap frigates in numbers at any enemy you catch alone, you'll get some respect for at least trying and may learn something in the process.

Friendly piece of advice OP, you've attracted the wrong sort of attention if you ever plan on running a corp with the character you posted with, especially in the way you describe.

Corps with an attitude like this are bad for the game, and need to be destroyed so they don't mistrain newbies.

A corp of low skilled players with little or no PVP experience that is competently led is a terrifying force if they fight back against a wardeccer or an AWOXer. Just assemble a bunch of frigates (add destroyers too if your attackers are fielding tech 2 frigates), undock all at once, focus fire, kill something, and get out fast.

Newbie corp might lose three 3m ships and take down a 500m Tengu. Even if the Tengu gets away, you will have earned a reputation as a corp not to mess with.

Two of the most successful nullsec organisations today began as groups designed to help newbies defend themselves. Goonswarm (many, many years before I played) and Brave Newbies (much more recently). They didn't want to stay in highsec, but they could have if they wanted to.

This is good advice for people that like PvP. However don't confuse people that don't like PvP with those that don't like loosing. I mean there are people out there that just do not like PvP regardless of the outcome. You can say this is a PvP game and if they don't like it they can leave and that is a valid perspective.

However I am one of those minority of players that does not like PvP and I've been playing this game more on than off since 2009. I come here on the new player section of the forums to tell new players like myself know that they are not alone and you can find a place for yourself in this game if look. Don't expect to get much support for your playstyle here on the forums from other players or from the devs but it can be done as long as you are not thin skinned.

To clear up all the confusion the OP makes up to 200M ISK an hour through high sec "missioning", he uses the corp to drag his own noobs off the market and train them to do the same within a 20 day super bare minimum training plan.
Being under wardecs is a very natural high sec state for a corporation that becomes visible and being able to outprofit new corporation fees is under current circumstances not an issue. And this is how and why I present my guide, it's math, it works, tested.
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