Jeregh
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Posted - 2009.10.01 00:17:00 -
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Edited by: Jeregh on 01/10/2009 00:21:44 I have said it before and i appearently have to say it again. the npc corps have always been well balanced against player made corps.
being in a npc corp, noob or holding, is not the panacea some believe it to be.
the cons are admitadly nice, no war decs and up till now no corp taxes.
but the cons are many:
no pos
no way to claim sov.
since no sov, cant build super caps(only way for me to get my hands on a titan/mothership is buy one or steal one.
no corp hangers
no real benifits from the corp(individual members may help out but the corporation membership itself gives no benifits)
no easy access to jump clones(i had to work for that access myself, no riding a corp coattails)
as a npc corp member I am shoot on sight anywhere in lowsec/nosec as a suspected spy/whatever.
no corp wide aggro rights if someone jacks with one of our members.
and worst in my opinion is we are automatically pigeonholed as second class citizens, even appearently by certain devs that lump us all in as RMT isk farmers(even if it was a joke, it was in very poor taste. and it dissapoints me as I felt Prism X was one of the few devs that really seemed to still be connected to the player base in any real fashion.)
as for risk versus reward, we suffer the same risks that any member of any player corp suffers from with the exception of wardecs, we can still be killed anytime anywhere, we still have to compete for the roids, or on the market, or pretty much for anything we want to do in the game. and the really funny part is, those so called benifits we recieve for being in a npc corp. those are avaiable to every EVE player. all you have to do is leave your player corp and you automatically get them. you just have to give up all the benifits your player corp gives you.
as I said before, npc corps always seemed to be pretty well balanced to me, we give up a lot of easy buttons for that war dec immunity. taxes were never on my radar and will have no affect on my remaining in SAK.
even with the intentional crippling of new player and npc holding corps by CCP, many people still enjoy playing the game perfectly well in them and do what they can to make them seem more homey, such as the members in STI and CAS for example. as for the excuse that we dont play the REAL EVE, it has always appeared to me that as a "sandbox" game, however you played was the REAL EVE, since my REAL EVE isnt going to align perfectly with your REAL EVE, and both of our`s wont be the REAL EVE of a third player.
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