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Jay Joringer
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#21 - 2011-12-19 18:38:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Jay Joringer
Just my opinion and from my own experience, the single most important thing about being able to run a corporation with any degree of success is having a good core of officers and co-directors to help you out. That's pretty hard to do if you're starting out on your own and ideally you need a close group to start out from the get go.

Some people might say they can run things single handedly, but it's not something I've ever seen work. I've been part of corporations where people have tried to take on too much themselves and they end up never undocking. You don't have any actual time to lead if you're doing that and it just becomes a collection of people rather than a cohesive unit.

Any new recruits need to be made to feel at home as well, otherwise it will look like that inner circle of friends/officers/co-directors is an elite club that they can't be part of.

Communication is another important aspect. Never make assumptions about what people know, because you know what people say about assumptions.

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ariana ailith
Dukalin
#22 - 2011-12-20 11:31:33 UTC
Professor Alphane wrote:
Well to cut a long story short I rejoined EVE with the idea of starting my own corporation. Now I've been involved with guilds and such before, my friend who introduced me to MMO's ran a succsesful Guild Wars guild.

So my questions are. What are the unique aspects of running a corp in EVE I may not have considered?

If anyone has had a hand in running a corp, what would be your advice to a newcomer ?

And to the rest, what do you want in a corp, what good/badcorps have you played in and why where they good/bad ?

I suppose the general overview of the idea would be a corp that attempts to grow organically as a player would. Starting with mining, misioning, PI moving on to try and support industry and research. This will be a high sec operation initially, and it's primary target member would at first be new players, to help them learn the basics and enjoy the game. Though I would of course be honoured if players older than me ( I have 2 alts around 3M SP ) where interesting in joining.

I don't really plan on joining another corp and learning the ropes, as obviously some of you might suggest that. No problem with the idea but lifes to short IMO.

Looking forward to hearing you answers. Please no flaming or arguements, everyone has there own opinion, whether or not you agree with them hopefully you can all respect that. I'm likely to find your opinions hard to respect if you can't show some respect yourselfs, so you will be wasting your time posting. Cheers Blink



Before you even consider startinga corp you should have a clear mission.

If you look around you'll find that msot corps are "into industry and run missions". They are **** and useless for the most part.
Even if they have 200 members. THey're too generic and will die down eventually.
(been there done that)

Also being with a bunch of trustworty friends helps a lot.
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