EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hey,

so i wanted to ask how the "usual" corp life goes. (btw sorry for the long post) ;)

So ive watched quite some videos about Corps and did read some Tutorials.
I created a test Corp to see some of the stuff that a Corp offers for myself. Like Hangars, Wallets and so On.
Now im thinking about joining a Corp. Yet from different mmos the experiences i made are like that :

- you join the Guild/Clan or whatever
-> the Clan/Guild is primarily Focused on expanding its own influence in various ways
-> you kinda switch to that and start focusing on the Guild/clans Interests
-> and if you have to leave the game for a Few Weeks/Month and get Kicked or if for some reason the Clan/guild falls apart you are Screwed
- and then your pretty much back at the Beginning

Now if i look at the Typical Corp Application Ad in Eve, i see stuff like :

...we have Logistics to help you mine... Transport Ore ...

doesnt that mean it gets dragged to the corp stuff ? hows the Profit than split ? i can image to split it if many people Mine and some do Transports while other Support would be a Mess to do it Fair ? So does it not get Split ? How are your thoughts on that ?

or i read stuff like :

... we have 2 Posses in 0.0 Sec ...

stuff like that makes me Wonder, if there are like 30-100+ ppl in that Corp, there hasnt been one of them that just wants its own pos in that Corp(s System) ?
Or do Most Corps not allow stuff like that ? I mean it still belongs to the Corp and aslong as he supplys it i dont see why he shouldnt be able to...

and ofc there is stuff like :

... we do xyz together regularily ...
does that mean i have to do that too ? Even if not, i can imagine that some might think like, damn shes in our corp for 2 Months and only has done xyz with us twice, maybe we should kick her...
So how are your experiences about that ?

I have to Admit that sometimes after coming home from work i just wanna do my own thing the few Hours i got, so i wonder if that is possible in a nullsec Corp.
just to clarify, i dont Necessarily think that some of the Mentioned Stuff is Bad. I just wanna know what your experiences and Opinions on these Topics are, to get a Better Feeling of what to expect.

Thanks in Advance.

Pretty much that, plus you have your membership in that Fail-Corp for everyone to see and laugh at and possibly ruin your chances to join a proper Corp later on....

This game differs compared to a lot in that you will get a few corps offering the chance to join them when you're in the 1st month (think I had about 6 offering), after that you don't seem to get any. Seem corps specifically target new accounts.

http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Eve+vs+other+mmo+s+so+it+was+a+blood+sample_4e19fd_4312688.png

... wonder nobody posted this yet.

disabling friendly fire is not really an antedote for api check

If you want to join a corp, the best thing to do is to work out what kind of gameplay you want to do and then just open the in game recruitment channel and private convo the spammers who claim to do what you want. If there's a link to a public channel for a corp that sounds interesting, jump on that. You want to have a chat with the corp members/staff and see what kind of things they offer, what they expect from you and how you can join in. You'll have to do a bit of legwork but it's well worth it.

Do not join a corp that doesn't ask for an API key as any corp that doesn't is poorly run and probably doomed. Also, tell anyone that asks you to pay to join to swivel.

Most corps will do some sort of housecleaning and kick inactive players who haven't told anyone they are going AFK for a while. It's best to warn your officers in advance if this is going to happen. If you come back from a bit of a break and find that you've been kicked, don't panic or mope, just contact your old corp leader and have a chat, you'll be let back in within about 10 min most of the time. 99% of the time it's nothing personal, they've just done a bit of tidying.

Last of all, if you join a corp and it all goes horribly wrong then make sure that you talk to the people running the corp. If you can't work something out, then it's perfectly find to drop the corp and look for another one but please at least try to work something out, it's very hard for corp staff to know about problems or misunderstandings if you don't say owt.

Good luck and fly safe o/

Which, comes down to how serious a corp. takes the game.

So now it's time for my typical rant... There is no usual with corps in Eve there are as many different ways to run a corp in Eve as there are corps plus nearly infinite other possibilities.

Eve is not other MMOs, for Many reasons that I won't get into here. Suffice it to say that most other MMOs are very linear with few choices or prescribed ways to play the game. Eve is a sandbox and there is no one way nor any right way to do anything.

Also worth noting is there is no structured anything in Eve so most of the elitist stuff that you see in other MMOs is not present here. We have no 5 man dungeons nor any 40 man battlegrounds. What that typically means is the more the merrier. If you are on a roam with 10 guys an 11th is almost always welcome.

Even incursions which are the Eve rough equivalent to raiding have no set numbers of players that can enter a site.

Also note that there are plenty of corps out there that like to keep a certain number of active players and don't want to grow too much beyond that or shrink too much below that. Yes there are corps that want to be as big as possible but most are just looking for some PEOPLE that are fun to play with. Note I said people not characters. It's not your skillpoints or anything like that but are you fun to play with? Kind of like a playground for adults.

So again there is not really any typical in Eve. I mean there are situations that happen often but the key really is figuring out what you like to do and finding others that do that.

That being said there are many different ways to do payouts for minning ops. I've seen some good ones and it's not as hard as you think but it does take effort. Running a good minning corp is a bit of an art and there's too much to get into here in this thread but the summary is find one that works for you.

PoS's also lots of different ways to do them, however that is not really important. PoS's like ships or anything else in this game for that matter are tools to get a job done. It does not matter what other people are doing with them. What matters is what do you want to do and how does a PoS fit into that or not.

If you want to play this game and enjoy it you'll have to stop looking to see what others are typically doing and find out what you like to do and figure out how to best do that and find others to play with that like doing similar things.

I can't say this enough Eve is not a linear MMO with set / specific prescribed MOs.

Again there are no "have tos" in this game. This game is both casual friendly as well as hard core friendly. Again the key is figuring out your play style and then finding a place to do that.

Most corps don't have any real strict requirements of things that you have to do or be kicked. Some null sec Alliances have CTA which means if you are logged on and not in fleet defending your home territory then you will take some ****, however that is totally avoidable in many ways not the least of which is just not getting involved in sov warfare.

I am a PvE player who currently lives in NRDS null sec. I've done the hardcore high sec minning corp thing and level 4 mission spamming as well as lived in wormhole space for a few years. I don't have any PvP experience but if you would like a question and answer secession to get more specific on some of your points then send me an eve mail and we'll hook up. I'm CST / Chicago time.

I login, open up siggy (our wormhole map tool) join the standing fleet and jump on comms.

Usually some people are out hunting for content, others might be relaxing in our home system (I'm usually RPing, forum posting or shitting up some random channels somewhere), some pilots might be running personal logistics. Someone finds some targets somewhere and we all form up and go kill them. Rinse and repeat.

Sometimes there's organized ops that happen, but most stuff is adhoc. We don't do any PVE so profit splitting is easy; whoever loses ships in a fight and/or the person who scouted the kill gets the lion's share of the loot.


The problem with a Pos is that to give someone the ability to set them up or operate them in freedom also gives them the ability to do a tremendous amount of damage to other assets owned by the corporation. You can pull down or change other structures and Pos's owned by other members, take their stuff, etc. So it's generally left for leadership to setup and corp members to merely operate in limited form.

The Pos system is currently quite horrible and has been complained about for years with dodgy and complex permission mechanics. They are being replaced with Citadels in the future.

A corp like ours that lives in a wormhole calls our Pos's home. It's not unusual to have well over a dozen in a system like ours, all owned by the corp with numerous pilots living out of each one. The Pos's permissions are setup as to only allow those specific members that live in that Pos access to forcefield with a password shared between them. Hanger divisions are also setup to help protect each pilot's assets from their room-mates should they feel dishonest.