Alliance & Corporation Recruitment Center

If you want to meet interesting, twisted, obsessive EVE players especially of the unrepentant addict variety come to our ingame public channel:

Vomitorium Emporium

The channel motto: THANKS FOR SHARING!

We invite people from all across New Eden to the Vomitorium. New players, old players, the valorous and vile, terrible and true, we invite them to the Vomitorium Emporium. You don't have to join anything, you just have to want to meet new players.

hear you there.


More of our stuff:

WELCOME TO THE FAMILY FLEET FOUR RING CIRCUS
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=117554&find=unread

New Player Very First Steps Guide

http://heartsandmindsalliance.org/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=4&id=45&Itemid=232

New Players Have More Power Than You Think
http://heartsandmindsalliance.org/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=4&id=93689&Itemid=232

EVE Online And Your Central Nervous System
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=153013&find=unread

I'm in that channel ever since I got an evemail inviting me to the vomitorium emporium. With a name like that how can I refuse?

IB4TL

What to Expect In Nullsec
Nullsec is fun. Nullsec is where 10% of the players of EVE live and its the place where 90% of the stuff that happens in the game happens.
Its also a lot more challenging than hisec; and more exciting and interesting. Its where almost all the hardcoriest players play at least part of the time.
I was one of the people who was completely intimidated by nullsec and now I feel silly just remembering it.
What are you giving up when you leave hisec? Well mostly you are giving up the luxury of Playing EVE with only half your attention. People as a rule don't attend mining ops while watching movies in nullsec. You simply do not use autopilot in nullse. You don't get to play on mental autopilot either.

EMOTIONAL INNOCULATION #1: Any time anybody says (or does) anything that causes you to be angry--stop. Assume it is a trap. Breathe deeply. Consider the options. (This is especially fitting in instances where someone in your group tells you something that causes you to be angry at anyone other than them.)

SEVENTH METAGAMING EXERCISE: Concentration. Effective spies operate in states of intellectual and emotional uncertainty that would normally be crippling. One of the only actual defenses against this is concentrating on what you are doing at the moment. Concentration, as opposed to say, bitching and whining, is in itself an adaptive habit and it serves as an excellent distraction. You can get into the habit of encouraging a heightened state of concentration as soon as you log on, for example.

Uh oh. Rant coming on. OK. I'm going to say this once and only once and then get back to being "reasonable."

I don't want to hear it because this is EVE. I know you've played other MMOs. I've played those too. And they were great. But they were made for kids. EVE is made for grownups. You play it the way a grown up plays. With patience. For the long term. And you have the option to play EVE almost entirely for the metagame, and that puts it in a class by itself. It takes a lot of real life skills to play EVE well. Kids don't have a lot of real life skills so they don't like EVE. They need ingame skills. They need to be a 500 Level cybermage and they need it in 3 weeks. They can tell you a lot about how their Sword of the Biggest Male Member works but they haven't got a plan further away than the next 2 hour adventure because in their MMO they don't need one and that's great.

All Players

You will be part of a team where everyone is respected for the game they play. Lack of alliance infrastructure means we all keep our ISK to buy our own ships and play the game of our choice. We will have to respect you. If we are not running things to your satisfaction and you can't make the Alliance change however it is it would have to change in order to accommodate you, your corp can just leave. You are still in NPC nullsec or hi sec or wherever and you have as good a claim to the place as we, your former alliance. Nobody has to take bad treatment from some feckless geek at his computer keyboard with delusions of adequacy because he can kick their entire corp out of "his" alliance and strand all their stuff in now hostile space. Gentlemen, I say to you with all due lack of decorum: screw that. There is absolutely no reason you have to put up with that sort of thing in your computer game and we won't ever again if we can make this work. And we'll have made something that will demand better EVE play from all of us, right through to the top. Now that's saying something.

Step 2: Recruiters and recruits.

Get your recruiters into the newbie systems. You can do this with alts quite effectively. You drop and drag links to your corp into local chat and start bantering. Invite everyone in local to your public channel. for an example of a public channel see our Vomitorium Emporium. Your public channel should be stocked with all your members possible and make it mandatory for recruiters and officers. Do yourself the favor of having only one public channel. You public channel should have all the necessary links, Skillpoint and other requirements, names of recruiters, voice comm info, etc.

By inviting people into your public channel you are pre selecting for an audience receptive to meeting new people. This is so important its easy to overlook. The people who do not want to chat with new people who are not interested either do not accept the invite or they leave. The people are left are a "captive audience" who have given you the first go ahead to interact without which any efforts are almost certainly waste. Let your members know before you are inviting new people for them to have fun bantering with and they will help you just by being their usual wiseass selves.

You job is to move them from local to the public channel, to your corp, to voice comms, and finally to your roster of people who have assignments or at least are showing up on a semi regular basis to stuff.

SECOND METAGAMING EXERCISE: As you log on, remind yourself that you are playing an agent. Which exercise will you be working on today while playing EVE? Can you get yourself into the habit of working on one or more exercises the whole time you are logged on? Maybe to start only when your infiltrator character is logged on....