EVE General Discussion

The corp I run is along side one of my best friends. We are only four players large with 10 accounts total. Though we do exactoy how anyother corp plays, its all about the atmosphere of your corp.

Ours is probably near every other immature corp out there. If you say please we will kick your teeth in. We like it rough and gritty to scare off any people that cant take criticism or just too much of a ***** lol, maybe thats why we are so small, but it works and we make billions of isk a month between the four of us while playing other games together. Starcraft, DotA, BF3, etc. Thats what makes us a little bit more unique is that we just are all more friends than corpmates.

Just a point, dust is suppose to have an impact on planetary interaction (pi). I would spend time and effort learning thus aspect of eve. It doesn't take a long time to train the basic skills needed, plus it can give your corp some starting income. Build from there. Offer a corp that can provide pi support and logistics. Later, expand from there. For example, you couls go into manufacturing items that use your pi products such as pos fuel.

Ive started up and then shut down two corps so far, took them both up quite high in numbers but couldnt handle the time drain in the end, it stopped me from donig what i like to do in eve, getting killed by other players and pumping up their killboards.

My main piece of advice would be think carefully about what your doing. It takes allot of time and effort to run a corp well, you need one clear purpose and some long term goals to keep people interested and you need to be moving towards those all the time.

Do not ever give any power to anyone you dont know extremely well unless you get to be massive, there is no need to do it otherwise and all it does is open you up to trouble. Dont be too harsh with asking people to be on at specific times but do be strict with time zones, all that will happen is they will leave you in the future anyway when no one is on in their timezone to play.

Dont be afraid of recruiting new players but be aware of the extra time needed to help them out, i would always advise people to go to the starting areas and recruit there, you get good numbers quikcly and your helping EVE as a whole by teaching new people how to play and getting them through the trial.

Keep people informed of what your doing and set your tax rate low, dont treat people as a way to earn isk. They are your friends and eventually they will make your gaming experiance better.

Do not keep money in corp accounts or items in corp hangars when your small, its pointless. Be prepared, you will get war decced and that scares new people so tell them about it, make instant undock safes where you live and help make their lives a bit easier when it inevtibly happens.

Consider faction warfare if your into your pvp, its a great place ot recruit like minded people, just get vocal in the FW chat box and start leading some fleets.

Lastly dont be a tool, be nice and be helpfull and be online allot, if your not any of those things your donig the wrong job.

Thats all just my opinion and ive never run a corp over 50 members so id hardly call myself all knowing but its all i can pass on from my experiance. Hope it helps

So.... you want to harness to power of EvE Carebears for your own gain. Good luck recruiting with that tagline:

"Come Join the Great *mumble* Corp, and Pay Taxes so that your directors can play DUST!"

Ok i understand this game is totally different from any other game, but after playing all sorts of PC and PS3 games online and been in a clan (with over 200 members in different games) for over a year now as one of the most respected officers i think i know how to run a corp. I appreciate your concerns but I will be fine.
Also this game takes time to learn new corp or not so i'm just taking it easy and focusing on what i need to which is training and making money.

I think you guys put to much emphasis on the tax. Don't worry about that, I have different methods to fatten my corp wallet.