EVE General Discussion

Most people today are looking for corps that are actually doing something unique. Filling some kind of role as a corp. If its just a corp for corps sake you aren't likely to attract anyone. Having your **** together in advance helps. Here are some tips.

1. Create and establish what your corps goals are and how you will achieve them.
2. Have a website and interaction out of the game (forums etc..)
3. Create events weekly.. daily even. Make sure that when people log in, your corp is doing something.
4. Make sure you recruit people on the same time zone...
5. Don't make scamy sounding request (I need your API key, I need some money... you need to do an interview etc..) .. You might need to do some of this stuff later, but as a new corp.. definitly no
6. Look for newbies... Skip the vets.

As for where to recruit. The best way to recruit initially is to get your friends to play. Start a corp with a few core members, people you know who play together daily. It makes your corp much more attractive.

Kryss, thank you much for that, currently its just me and 4 of my buds ive flown with for 2 years, were still in the stage of trying to figure out exactly wtf were going to do, we just have so many interests it's a bit of a headache to just pick a select few lol.

Like what we've decided so far that we want to have Incursion fleets, Mission fleet ops, Mining ops, and doing some lowsec roams. Is that too much or should I maybe focus more on one or two of those goals?

Yeah that's what I thought, friend of mine picked the name, he wanted to raid wormholes. I plan on remaking the corp after we get all our assets out of my alliances nullsec area.

Thanks Obax, I'll have to look into that, a year or so ago we used to reside in a C1 WH, but I have no experience in anything bigger. I'll check it out, thanks for the idea. :)

Thanks Vyl and everyone else, much appreciated.

What he said. As your corp gets older and more experienced and as such so your members.... you can afford to be much more choosy as to the type/calliper of pilots you want in your corp to fit your goals.

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"250 Hellcats inbound sir! They have us outmanned and outgunned. What are we going to do!?" "catnip of course......."

Hard to recruit when subscriptions in eve are declining (now). Best time is after a successful expansion when u got plenty of new peeps around looking for a home.

I have no answers for you. The advice in this thread is right on and pretty much everything I do. But the fact of the matter is it's still difficult. The only thing that I can offer you that has worked for me far more than recruiting is to talk to people. Make contacts. Keep in touch with those contacts. Talk to them periodically, see how things are going it. See if you have common goals and try to parle those commonalities into something when the opportunity arises.

When you meet people in space for the first time, talk to them instead of killing them if its obvious they have no malicious intent. One of my best buds in the game I met ninja looting his mission site ;)

Yeah - especially if you're specializing into the new content - WH corps back in Apocrypha days used to work great - guess Incursion corps worked as well - but founding a corp that specializes in CQ, such as morons? Not so much...

Any business arrangement needs to be mutually beneficial. Make it so and advertize it.