EVE New Citizens Q&A

Corps in this game are pretty much like quilds in other MMO's; a bunch of people getting together for the purpose of accomplishing something in-game.

However, several factors complicate this setup, compared to other MMO's:

- in this game, you can steal the entire "guild bank" - all the shared gear, if you manage to acquire access

- until recently you could kill your corp-mates without warning, now there's a flag that has to be enabled by the directors

- there are no classes (tank, healer, DPS), anybody can train skills and perform any role (given time), so why would they need you

- there's no "end game", and no gear progression; you can jump into PVP, wars, incursion PVE, wormholes, whatever, without the need to "progress" first

So, as a result, corp recruitment differs a bit:

- there's less trust than in other games
- people will invite you to join based on personality and how you get along, rather than because they need healers or whatever; you can train skills to fly the ships that the corp needs at any time, so it's mostly about trust

Otherwise, making a corp function is a lot of work on the part of the leadership, so most of them suck, because most people don't have the free time to turn a game into a second job. And, EVE is a free-for-all competition PVP game, so there will be a few good corps "winning" the game, and most everyone else will be mediocre.

API keys are often used for access authorization to corp / alliance services (web sites, forums, killboard, etc.)

Telling things are your EVE-mail history, contacts, ISK transfers, other characters (not being in enemy corps nor dealing with them), having the skills you claim you do, etc.

One friend of mine was in a large nulsec alliance, and as a joke another friend from an enemy alliance sent him a large sum of ISK. The automated tools immediately detected it, and revoked all access, and his roles were also removed until he was questioned about the ISK by an investigator.

friends, company, advice, guidance, tips, tricks, contacts to other parts of the game you may not have been aware of.

Edit: thats assuming a halfway decent corp, a crap one may do nothing more than make you a target for players like myself

it shows they are at least concious of security, which is good for you if the friendly fire is enabled,
it can also deter a lot of minimal effort thieves.

remember you will be bringing your own assets to the corp, so one would hope that they ask for an api at the verry least so they dont pick up some hobo that will swipe/asplode your stuff the first chance he gets.

yeah, the stuff in your hangar is safe but you would be surprised how clever people can be when it comes to these things

This will only catch the absolute worst type of spy. The way you catch spies is with IT and just by watching their behavior, not APIs.

Incursion corps don't happen. It is a really bad idea. You would be permanently wardeced.

If you are just solo running level 4 missions in Eve then you are missing 99% of the game IMHO.

I'm 44. Welcome to the old man playing Eve club.

So API checks can do a lot of things especially in the hands of someone that knows how to use them. I personally am not one of those people but I can tell you a few things. First off it makes players with ill intent have to put some effort into covering their tracks which right there eliminates probably 70% or more of them.

Another thing it can do when combined with minimum SP requirements is make sure someone has to invest money into the character and that it is not a low skill point disposable alt on a trial account.

A quick google search would accomplish what your API does. Good spies still get through. The 99% of spies you guys talk about would be caught with just Eve-Search, Pirate's Little Helper, Eve Who, zkill.

I have checked APIs for years. In all of my time I have found ONE instance that led to an applicant being rejected, and I go through everything, I can spend an entire day checking someones api. A good spy will ALWAYS slip through because there is 0 trace that is detectable with an API, only an idiot would spend so much time making a spy character to stupidly burn it with a wallet transaction.

Every time my alliance has found a spy, it has been because of their behavior or because of the forums catching them.