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Typhoid Mary
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#1 - 2015-02-17 08:59:33 UTC
So it seems that I have annoyed peoole with my constant spamming questions here and ingame both. So I respond by doing it again! Lol

To avoid my pve corp for suffering for my actions I want to create my own corp if someone wants to wardec me. I am not going to hide in the npc corp, I might as well have some fun.

So what skills do I need to start my own one man corp? What should I know to start?

Once again thanks for any questions answered.
Celine Sophia Maricadie
Tal-Cel Industry and Salvage LLC
#2 - 2015-02-17 09:18:00 UTC
You need to train Corporation Management to level 1. I believe this skill costs you 20,000 ISK. You will then pay 1.6 Million ISK as a fee to create your corporation.

Further details can be found here: http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Corporation

A couple of points:

Your corporation's headquarters will be at the station you're docked in when you create your corporation. This is of little consequence, especially if you're not going to worry about renting an office at that station (not needed if you're just a one-man show) and your headquarters can be changed at any time for a small fee.

If you're going to want to have corporation hangars, again, not needed if it's just you, you need to rent office space and the costs vary depending on both the system and the station. You'll want to set up the office rental bill to be paid automatically, and you can choose which corporate wallet division to have this bill paid from.

If it's just you, then all you need is to start your corporation and that's about it. You won't need any of the other mechanics really.
Memphis Baas
#3 - 2015-02-17 18:09:07 UTC
If you want to be able to KEEP your corp. but still leave it in the future, it may be a good idea to train the Corporation Management skill on an alt and make her the CEO.

If you're considering recruiting people in the future, definitely set up your hangar security / corp. roles and titles, and test the setup before hand with your own alts.

Characters who have no standings at all (have not done the tutorial / career missions) don't contribute to the corp's total standings, which means that when someone with 8.0 standings joins the corp, the corp will inherit those standings.
Phig Neutron
Starbreaker and Sons
#4 - 2015-02-17 19:41:13 UTC
A minor note: if you want your corporation's HQ to be at a station where you cannot rent an office (like Jita 4-4, because offices would be too expensive), you should create your corp while docked there. At least this is how it used to be.

Another consideration is, if you want to confuse potential enemies, create your corp in a station on the far side of the galaxy from where you normally operate. That way, enemies who are looking for your corp may start looking in the wrong place. It won't give you a huge advantage, what with killboards and locator agents, but every little bit counts.
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#5 - 2015-02-17 20:10:14 UTC  |  Edited by: Tau Cabalander
Memphis Baas wrote:
If you want to be able to KEEP your corp. but still leave it in the future, it may be a good idea to train the Corporation Management skill on an alt and make her the CEO.

Good advice.

For what it is worth, all my alts have Corporation Management 1, so any of them can be CEO.

When I was made CEO, I transferred it to my alt. I am not a director, and I have minimal access roles, so my full API key doesn't reveal details about my corp or other members.

Note that corporation size skills are only applied when the corp is created, or when the CEO manually presses the button in the UI to update the corp, i.e. even the largest corp in EVE can be run with Corporation Management 1.

You can even hire someone with max corp skills to create the corp for you, and optionally an alliance (that costs another 1 billion just for the fee). Hiring someone after the fact requires trusting them temporarily as CEO.

I also recommend that all corp shares be assigned to the CEO. This prevents CEO replacement, as well as anything that requires a vote, like BPO unlocking, or creating more shares.
J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#6 - 2015-02-18 22:06:18 UTC
Tau Cabalander wrote:

I also recommend that all corp shares be assigned to the CEO. This prevents CEO replacement, as well as anything that requires a vote, like BPO unlocking, or creating more shares.


THIS.


Shares should be owned by:

The CEO

OR

The owner of the corp.



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