Assembly Hall

To the CSM and the player base,

I am here today to request a simple, but high results driven request concerning the eveonline forums. More specifically I would like to focus on the "Alliance & Corporation Recruitment Center" area of the forums. Currently, the structure and overall usability is very low. There are currently 855 pages with thousands of different threads containing the recruitments ads for corporations and alliances, pirates and carebears touting their trades, and individual players looking at options that are available for them ; however all of this is seemingly posted without any organization in mind. It can often take several pages to find a player's "looking for" request and then it usually is not compatible with your corporation's culture. So what we have is an outdated and cluttered resource that does not fulfill the roles it was designed for.

In a game like EvE where player interactions is one of the driving selling points of the game and where statistics have shown the likelihood of player retention is higher when a player has joined an active player corporation, it is a wonder why the recruitment forums have not been updated sooner.

Current Structure:
[EVE Corporations, Alliances, and Organizations Center]
-Alliance & Corporation Recruitment Center
-Corporation, Alliance, and Organization Discussions


How to restructure: Organizational Topics and Subtopics
[EVE Corporations, Alliances, and Organizations Center]
Corporation Recruitment Center
-Highsec-

-Corporation Advertisements-

-Player Request-

-Lowsec-

-Corporation Advertisements-

-Player Request-

-Nullsec-

-Corporation Advertisements-

-Player Request-

-Wormhole-

-Corporation Advertisements-

-Player Request-

Alliance Recruitment Center
-Highsec-

-Alliance Advertisements-

-Corporation Request-

-Lowsec-

-Alliance Advertisements-

-Corporation Request-

-Nullsec-

-Alliance Advertisements-

-Corporation Request-

-Wormhole-

-Alliance Advertisements-

-Corporation Request-

-Corporation, Alliance, and Organization Discussions


This is the first step, adding simple folders to help organize the massive influx of new recruitment adds. This also allows corporations and players to make searching for their new home or new corpmate easier. Now instead of having to search pages to find a highsec or a lowsec corporation, a player can just open the appropriate subtopic and begin their search right away. On the reverse side, a player can post their "looking for" request in the appropriate subtopic which will allow them to be found quicker and easier by recruiting corporations. The above also holds true for corporations seeking to join an alliance.

In the end, this is a simple and quick fix to help resolve a disorganized and painfully slow search for a new corporation. A few man hours of restructuring this one forum section and the return benefits are more active corporations and higher player retention.


Thank you for your time and I hope the CSM and players can get behind this little fix

I had considered that problem as well. Every corporation has a preferred "home base" region. For example, most corporations are highsec corporations that do roams into lowsec or nullsec. They would place their advertisement in the highsec subtopic and then mention that they do weekly roams through lowsec, etc. inside the actual advert.

The solution is the above, but in more details the reason why I didn't suggest the check box idea is this. In-game the check box service is provided, but it cost isk to create and maintain a public advert. The eveonline forums are free for anyone. Consider the in-game options the "premium service" and the forums the "lite" service. Also, I don't want to over complicate this. I mentioned this was the first step in my first post and it's also the easiest and quickest to implement. It's just simple edit of the webpage to gain high returns in the form of better organization, quicker searches, and higher player retention in the form of players more actively logging in due to finding the "right" home*.





*EvE is a very much social game. I've been playing for almost 6 years nonstop now and I find I usually log on for the social interaction that comes in the form of my corp members or some of the chat channels I have (but this doesn't help strengthen my point )