EVE General Discussion

This is EVE RP's greatest strength and most frustrating weakness at the same time. On the one hand, the RP flows naturally from the gameplay and our 'respawning' and general murderous attitude makes sense. The idea of the capsuleer is really psychologically compelling and interesting, and opens up some interesting character development options.. until you realize that none of it really matters, and here's why.

Immortality means our stories are essentially meaningless and boring, and we have the indifference/insanity of a greek god. You don't exactly get Star Wars-esque space drama, because nothing matters. Nobody actually dies, except very many 'baseliners', non-capsuleers that the capsuleers are so different from that they essentially casually don't care about them. And it's hard for your character to feasibly be anything but a monster in the eyes of most people when you consider how many people they kill and order to die for their amusement (since, in character, nullsec wars for example are still 'for fun'), so the avenues you can take for RPing a well-developed character that is consistent with the universe are somewhat limited. I personally RP from my gameplay, which means I'm a combat pilot in wormhole space, however, it's a bit Abradolf Lincler-ish (if you've watched Rick and Morty) because he's not a sociopath, tries to just be a normal person but the only thing he enjoys doing entails constantly violating his morals. Other players simply embrace the crazy and their characters become massive sociopaths.. but if everyone's either an angsty hypocritical whiner or a total psycho, things can get stale quick. Especially if those angsty whiners and psychos like to sit around all day and talk about the weather because it's hard to construct anything other than housewife-like melodrama when, again, nothing you do to the other immortals really matters..

Anyway, regarding corps (I swear that rant was related!), you'll want to keep in mind that "RP corps" are subject to the same paradox. That means that there are essentially two types of them: RP-PVP corps that tend to be sociopathic in character, like, say, True Slave Foundations or Coreli Corp. And the second type are the purely fantasy ones..the corps that are basically just alt corps made for RP purpose for particular characters.. sometimes these corps will become public and attract small groups of players, but they're usually laughably bad at the game, often just highsec mining, whilst declaring with gusto and bravado their wars against other 10 man mining corporations in highsec.

In my opinion, the RP-PVP groups are just better suited to the realities of the game and what makes sense with RP (unless the corp in the latter category are, for example, miners and RP as miners, and you like mining, in which case it works, but not so much if they are miners pretending to be mercenaries, in which case it is just considered funny). The downside is that if you want to RP your character well, your character has to essentially take into account your occupation especially if it involves kill mails, and in a way they become their role, so making a complex character who isn't a stereotype becomes more challenging. I hope this helps you make your decision!

What a surprise! I too am the CEO of a one-man RP corp and my Treasurer is also an embezzler.