EVE General Discussion

When you leave a player corp, do you always default back to your original NPC corp, even if you are -10 standing with that corp ?

So if your starter corp was CAS and then you joined a player corp and then you leave that player corp, you default back to which corporation ?

Because they want too and this is (should) be a game a where a player can/should be able to play as he/she wishes without some dumbass trying to **** in their sand.

Expounding upon 'Wrong.'
Even if you are in a NPC corp someone can crap in your sand, it just limits the manner in which that deuce may be dropped.
Without access to war mechanics the scatology becomes more one-sided actually. Ganking becomes the deuce of choice rather than war. In those cases the aggressor has already chosen the means of your violation. You cannot fight back preemptively to protect your precious O-ring before it's violated, you can only keep a wary eye and try not to drop the soap.

With a player corp you can at least try to fight back before they go flashy red on you. You have the benefit of them being flashy red the moment they enter local. You know the bad is there and you can grab your pitchfork and fight... or you can scamper off to elsewhere. You know. Without that you deal with a local full of 'neutrals' where the nogoodnik who means you harm can hide anonymously until they strike.

Just saying. Stuff.

I've always wondered what people were referring to by the term sandbox, I had no idea it was something to do with scatology

Short list:

1. My current activities (exploration and FW missions) would gain nothing from being in a player corp
2. My (admittedly limited) experiences with finding and being in player corps have not been good
3. RL comes first, and it's not fair for me to expect to get something from a corp without being able to commit to give back when they need it.


Elaboration:
War decs are not a concern for me as I spend most of my time in low/null.

As long as there are solo activities in Eve, that's probably what I'll be doing. I enjoy the game as an atmospheric space sim and have no interest in null politics or kill board preening. C4 and higher wormhole PvE is the only activity in the game that requires a corp that still piques my interest. If I'm doing solo activities, corps don't add anything to my experience. I'm not in Eve for the social experience, my RL social life is more than adequate. And there is nothing wrong with me enjoying the game this way; please stop trying to convince CCP that this play style is somehow wrong.

When I have tried to get involved in player corps, things haven't worked out very well. The first corp I tried to join eventually decided for me that I wouldn't like their play style (can't I join and then decide for myself?). Maybe they came to the conclusion I was going to be a spy/awoxer somehow. The FW corp I was in wasn't bad, but I very rarely had time to participate in scheduled ops, and they weren't too happy that I would vanish for exploration runs to fund my game time. FW plexing also got very frustrating because the corp apparently had feuds with several other Gallente militias that I knew nothing about so I kept getting shot by blues.

So from that experience and what I've seen on the forums I think most player corps are not flexible enough to accommodate my varied play style and unpredictable schedule. The other big thing is that while corps have many powerful and invasive tools for investigating applicants, people trying to find corps have no good way to do the same to the corp so they know what they're getting into.

The only reason I'm in a solo corp instead of a NPC corp is that it's easier to share bookmarks with alts on the same account that way, oh and also tax evasion, though people in CAS posting would make me consider joining if I didn't enjoy being able to do FW too.

Ah! I believe I understand better. (No, wasn't twisting your words, I don't do stuff like that, simply had a different understanding of your response than what you wanted to convey.

So yeah, you're saying you've joined a player corp so that you can play with the other folks of that corp. Which doesn't mean you believe a player can't play with other folks while in an NPC corp - just that being in a player corp facilities it for you. Gotcha, I think.

It's about those who stay isolated ...
... not about those who play with others.

Do you ever log in and undock ?

Why?

I am very casual about this game and I'm only here periodically. As in, there are gaps of months at a time when I am not here at all and giving time to the rest of my life instead.

I love EvE, but like a mistress I see when I fly into town for a few days. Not like a wife.

I understand why you want me to join a player ran corp, need fresh bodies and all. What I don't understand, is where you get off telling/forcing me to play your way. You payin my sub fees? Nope. You buy and build the rig running this game? Still nope. Are ya possibly paying my bills, and going to my job for forty/fifty a week? Oh look, How about nope.

See that's the funny thing about all of this. You in no way, have any say on if I join a corp or not. Your opinion on people being forced to conform be damned.

If I want to lone wolf it belt mining in the deep reaches of space, with the tron legacy Ost blaring, and only a drone watching my back, guess what? That's exactly what I'll do.

I don't need some mouth breathing kid, who knows jack about what it takes to make it in this world, giving me orders. Telling me how to play what I pay for.

Ccp thinks forcing us to a corp will keep us here? That'll actually make most of us nope outa there faster than an eight foot spider/shark hybrid.