EVE General Discussion

You can have a name and a logo, won't waste tax on NPC corps and the CEO can bolster his ego. Oh, and you can put up POSes for probably no good reason at all.

OK. Thanks for the input.
Will give it some further thought.

There are many reasons to have a corp. The tax benefits, the social aspect, organization of fleets and activities, to name a few. Granted, it should take more than a 5 min train any first day noob can do to make a corp. There are too many, many formed by ppl who have no business running a corp. To each his own though. If someone is afraid of wars, they shouldn't be in or form a corp. Even in a NPC corp you are not safe. Eve is about conflict in one form or another. Corps allow players to join together for a common interest and to protect those interests. w/o corps, Eve would be bland and boring.

Tax benefits, higher levels of public security, social groups that don't have to worry about territory, etc.

Praise the concept. EVE is one of the few games that offers up high security areas as well as low or no security areas. It's a very dynamic and believable environment. :)

I have a corp so that i don't have to put up with the mental retardation that goes through the NPC corp chat :P

Yep. lol

god forbid you should start a corp in empire to build up to move elsewhere, or do day trips in other locations.

lets look at other games, why would you have guilds based in allied lands, why not have a guild based in enemy lands where anyone can attack your routes or anythings else.

This doesn't have much to do with other MMOGs. Making a spaceguild here means risking a wardec, while you can do most things a guild in a typical MMOG does for you can be done without forming a corp as well without taking that risk:

Chat channels, standings, mailing lists, fleets, voice comms...

So the question is valid. I think many corps in highsec are formed without much thought or just to avoid tax.

Social? Isn't that a swear word?

There are some advantages to being in a corporation apart from being able to declare war and create a fight for a tea pot. In fact, the corporation has many tools that can be of use.



For example, when in a corporation, you can rent an office. An office has 7 corporate hangars included. A corporate hangar is a bit more versatile than your personal hangar space. A corporate hangar can hold 1500 items as oppose to 1000 in your personal hangar. In addition, a corp hangar can hold fitted ships, unassembled ships, and items. Additionally, access to a hangar can be assigned to members at a corp wide level, for the corporation HQ, for the corporate home station of a player (which can be defined by the corporation), or any other corp hangar. This would let you limit access to an individual to a specific hangar at a specific station, so that items could be shared without endangering other assets.



The corporate wallet is also divided into 7 divisions, with similar access controls. For example, we have medal officers who can only access the medal wallet. This allows people to help and perform their role without endangering other corp assets. Corps also have medals. While meaningless to some, to others they are similar to achievements and badges, just corporate controlled. Some, for example, the RvB medal for gaining 500 kills are commonly given out, but others like the one for 20,000 kill, is created uniquely for that person as it is rare.


People have also mentioned the adjustable tax rate (some corps go as high as 100% to ensure all work for the corporate good, others go for 0% to attract missioners or the like). They are needed for POCOs or POSes (And yes, a POS can still be useful for a variety of reasons) and will be needed for Citadels.



Corps also give you access to your corp channel and corp mailing list. These could be duplicated with an ingame chat and email list, but the game automatically enrolls you in these items when joining a corp, eliminating some of the hassle. Plus you can share corp bookmarks (I think up to 500 now), which makes life in wormholes easier and can help share insta-undocks and such with new members to the corp. The same is true with shared standings.



A corp can also set Friendly Fire on or off. If off, you can web corp freighters, have trial fights, and such without having to initiate a duel, but you have the danger of AWOXing. On the other hand, you can turn off the friendly fire, ensuring a sliver more of safety from some people in New Eden (though corpmates and others could still gank you).



So corps offer a lot of tools that can help in EVE. Yes, many can be duplicated through other means. However, the corp offers an ease of use with the system that the other means do not. Of course this is EVE. With reward/benefits come greater risks. Corps can also be infiltrated, scammed, war decced, etc. It all tends to balance out in the end and gives us some powerful tools to help organize people in our sandbox. Now granted, these benefits apply regardless of what space, but they can benefit regardless of space as well.