EVE New Citizens Q&A

I think that really depends on what kind of corporation you plan to be... I would strongly suggest that you join a corporation and learn as much as you can about them through that method first. There are people that don't even undock because all they do is manage aspects of their corporation/alliance.


Where do you want to live? Each space has its own set of rules and challenges so that will greatly impact your chance of success.

What do you plan to do with your corp? Pvp, mining guru, industry, live in a wormhole.. there are cops for all of those things and the logistics change for each of them depending on the space you live in.

How are you funding your dream? Starting up a corp isn't going to be cheap. If you want members your taxes can't be too high, you tend to need buy back programs in most cases otherwise what are you giving them that another already established corp can't?


Corps are like the restaurant industry, many start up but few actually succeed. Being well established and knowledgeable will help your chances. Going in too fast will likely just frustrate you and kill some of your joy for the game.

CCP has removed their official wikipedia (was called "Evelopedia"), and as a result EVE University has tried to keep their UniWiki up to date recently. In addition, UniWiki lists the date of the last update at the bottom of every page, just scroll down.

Being the CEO / leader of a corporation is hard work. This is because EVE is not an on-rails themepark MMO like WoW or SWTOR, where the storyline quest lines and end-game zones provide the content; EVE is a sandbox and we have to make our own stories with the tools that we have (ships, galaxy and wormhole spaces). For the majority of EVE players, this means that they'll look to the corp leaders to provide a direction, and daily entertainment.

So that's what your job, and it IS a second job, long hours of preparation and work. Other corporations in EVE provide customized private forums, private voice chat servers, and their own tutorial wikis. They also run daily organized "ops", whether PVP or PVE, to provide "fun" for their members. The taxes they collect are used for ship reimbursement programs (SRP's). All of it is organized and provided by the leadership.

In order for your corp to be successful, you need to ask yourself "what is my corp providing that solo players can't get or do on their own, without the taxes and fees."

The entirety of high-sec space is similar to a newbie zone, whatever PVE resources exist are immediately consumed by the huge numbers of players who stick to the safety of Concord police. PVP opportunities are restricted by the Concord / aggression rules, which limit you to suicide attacks or declared wars, with most targets being industrialists who will run away rather than put up a fight.

It's the "dangerous" space that provides opportunities. Low-sec allows for no-Concord PVP and faction warfare PVP, and has better PVE rewards than high-sec. Null has unrestricted PVP and excellent PVE resources, but you have to deploy a citadel and defend your citadel and space against, possibly, massive alliances that may invade or just harrass you. Wormhole space is similar to null, but with the added complication of the absence of stargates, and all traffic having to happen via transient wormhole tunnels. But these are the locations where the solo player won't do as well as a well-organized group of people.

Yeah, I miss that, but toward the end it stopped usefully reflecting the state of the game as it was, at least from my outsider's perspective, so it made sense for it to be shut down.

Since then I've got most of my information from the UniWiki, and I've noticed a recent update drive thanks to the Ascension update bringing in alpha clone players like myself, but I didn't know about the update date, so I thank you for that.

I also appreciate the update on the sec-state landscape. It seems that lowsec has become livelier as of late... I know the drive of the game is to go to nullsec or w-space, but I think I'll be happiest with a lowsec home.



That's useful! Thanks, I think I will take Roci's advice and try to learn the ropes, after spending a little time in EveUni. I know the Uni frowns on piratical inclinations, but from what I hear they're second-to-none when it comes to learning the basics.

As far as planning skills... well, the proof is in the pudding, isn't it?

Most new corps fail because the people leading them don't know how to run a corp.

I'd recommend joining a corp, at least for a while, to learn the ropes.

There have been some tremendously successful corps run by total newbs, but they are very rare (notably Brave Newbies Inc. and Wingspan Delivery Services).

Example of an Alpha corp, is Pancakes. [BKFST]

Re: Share system. Don't use it. Nothing good will come of it. CEO should take all shares. End of story.
Why: Shares issued don't matter. Only shares voting matter. It only takes 1 share to win a vote, not 51% of issued shares.

Yes. with as big of a deal as the trade market is in this game you'd think that they'd do more to develop a stock market. It's not like the topic has never been brought up before. The devs don't seem to have much interest in it and I'm not sure why.