EVE General Discussion

Heyo folks.

First post around here, probably doing something wrong but i'm sure someone will correct me.

Anywho, I was wondering what kind of experiences people had with the recruitment channel(s). I have heard that advertising there is a good way to get a thief or griefer in your midst. But then again i've heard of some people having great experiences. So whats your thoughts?

Sub question-

I have been put in charge of increasing the numbers of my meager corp and have thus far found it incredibly hard. Im primarily looking for miners, and it seems there are two steady demographics, New folks who are just finding out all of the things they want to do and are not quite looking for a corp just yet, and the old timers, been going for 2, 3, 4 years, never joined a corp, chilling in high sec. When querying both groups for their thoughts on joining our corp the young'uns think corps are too overwhelming and the old'uns are "too experienced" to join such a lowly corp. I haven't been able to recruit a single new member and a starting to lose faith. Does anyone have any tips for this?

I've read numerous recruitment guides but still having trouble.

Anyway,

TL;DR

-How good/bad is the recruitment channel?
-Best advice for new corp recruiting
-Probably posted this in the wrong section (Like is there recruitment discussion? or do I just chuck it in the recruitment thread? or is that just for recruiting?) >.>
-Halp me pls

Thanks for your time

Hopefully you understand the area where you operate (highsec, lowsec, null, wormholes) and what you possibly can offer based on the area.

Highsec, there's not much that you can offer that a veteran can't do solo. So that's why the veterans are refusing: they can mine already, and being in a player corp just opens them up for war declarations. Plus you're going to charge a tax or expect some of the ore they mine.

Newbies, they will become veterans, eventually, so even if you recruit newbies and increase their profits because you have mining support (orca, transports, refining skills, whatever), they will eventually realize they've trained enough skills to do it better solo, and they'll move on.

Eventually, you'll have a war declaration to deal with, and you'll lose a lot of members if your goal is to avoid fighting at all costs. So for highsec, my advice is to restructure your corp with the goal of "yeah, we'll mine, but the point of the corp is to teach you guys to fight back and/or PVP during wars", and to that end enter some wars with established PVP corps like RvB or whatever.


Lowsec, there are better activities to do in lowsec than mining, if profit is what you're looking for. There's also lots of PVP in lowsec, but at least you can say that you're offering the experience of living dangerous, along with veterans who can already PVP and can show the newbies the ropes. So if that's where your corp is operating, you should advertise that, because the mining is somewhat of an afterthought.

Nullsec, it depends on what alliance bloc you're part of, but if your corp offers nullsec activities, that should be sufficient to draw quite a few people in, so just advertise that.

Wormhole space, same deal, you're offering access to space that isn't quite available to the solo pilot, so just advertise that you're a wormhole corp.

There's a corp recruitment forum; you should make a post there. You should also link it from in-game, whenever you're talking to any possible recruits. And in-game, make sure you check the correct checkboxes when creating corporate advertising for recruitment.

Recruitment channel is quite crappy; if you want to reach newbies, it's best to make new-character alts so you can get membership to the starter school chat lines, where all the newbies and some of the veterans will be. You can also spend some time in the starter systems and offer advice and new ships to people who appear to be newbies, that you see undocking in the newbie ship to do the tutorial or career missions.

Eve is a very social game in which players forge lasting relationships with like minded individuals. These associations are difficult to break as players who have earned each other's trust tend to stick together. Often these relationships are formed at an early stage of their Eve career.

Why is this important? It makes recruiting a difficult task from the outset. True individuals are hard to come by and many of those are about as loyal as a cheap prostitute. Very often growing a corporation can involve the merging of corporations to save the social circles of each smaller group of players. This, of course, causes its own problems in leadership and trust, but that's what Eve is about.

While it's nice to run your own corporation, it's beneficial to keep an open mind about merging, irrespective of how the final leadership will turn out.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4372452#post4372452 is a good thing to read first

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Very Helpful and interesting read.

Appreciate it *tips hat*

We have an agreement with a local pirate overlord. Pretty safe. If your not stupid. Also, plenty of ice belts around. Which is nice.

For the sake of improving your own quality of gameplay, and sparing newbies from a nearly-alone new-player-experience, you should consider instead merging with some veterans. From them, you can then learn effective organization management, you can learn how to create value for recruits, and you can make connections. At your apparent size and level of experience, merging is a much, much wiser course of action than recruitment.

Thanks, some good stuff in here. I like it.

Thanks for this. Will do.

Some 3 years ago I found myself in the recruitment channel & got the opportunity to join the best corporation in EVE Online. I highly recommend the recruitment channel.