EVE General Discussion

After recently reactivating, I waited 3 days until there was a blue fleet in my play times. We spent 2 hours roaming around finding nothing and then got a 50 ship fleet hot dropped on our 12 man cruiser and down gang. The experience I had in a very active Amarr FW corp was the same - generally roaming for 3-4 hours with no engagements. In thousands of hours of playing Eve I've probably only had one good fleet fight. (tactical fleet fights being the reason I want to play the game)

Anyways - My plan is to start a corp called "Meta 3" or something along those lines and join a losing FW alliance. We will only fly Meta 3 tech items or below (Tech2 is generally meta 5). I'm hoping because of this we can encourage small man fleet fights being that I could probably subsidize all or most of the cost of the lower meta ship mods - and people don't have much to lose.

I'm still generally a noob at pvp and corp management, what can I expect if I plan to do this? Would people join? Is it a pipe dream?

As a space-poor loser, I approve PVP on the cheap. Although I don't advise getting mad at your people for using T2 weapons mods (gyros, mag stabs, etc...) because they're actually easier to fit than the metas. Godspeed, sir.

Try it. But a few things.

Do not give out roles lightly.
Recruitment can be difficult, but be aware and careful of who you invite. Little or no roles for new recruits, is advised.

Above all, remember it's a game and try to focus on fun. Not everyone will like your style of leadership, but sh*t happens.

I just un-rented an office that started at 5 mil, then rose to 10, to 15, to 35 million for March's bill

nope

imo, corp leadership is something built with irl friends. (get them to play)

Okay thanks alot for the info.
I wish there were more arranged fights I feel like even in RvB it's hard to set up.

Not knowing your play time, (and why should I, stinking blues ) all I can say is RvB has fluctuations. FCs switch sides (kikkio use to be red), people's activities fluctuate, things change. I would suggest patience. Give a week or two and red will gain new fcs, more fights will occur, all will be well. Then red will dominate, you'll get mad, recruitment will fill the blue roster back up, and they will dominate. Just be a little more patient as honestly, that is the biggest part of eve.

Heck, have you tried to join one of the gank roams on the weekends?

As for starting a corp... Good luck. You have little to nothing to offer, so why would people join you?

How about trying this.... Switch to red. Start fcing, get good at it and understand what to target, when to run, etc. Then once you are a competent FC, make a corp. This way you can offer something at least. And I will say RvB is one of the easiest places to start fcing. No where else will you find 20 people willing to lose ships so fast, keep fighting, and offering tips as you go

Listen to this guy. He's an expert at being a terrible CEO.



Seriously though...do it. Just like anything else in Eve, it will go best if you start out expecting to fail miserably and are pleasantly surprised when the end doesn't come immediately.