Chorus Ambrye
North Eden Trading Company Inc.
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Posted - 2012.12.07 11:33:00 -
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I used to run a industry corp a long time ago, it sounds very similar to what you are up to, we started out as a small group that pooled all our isk and had a "common goal" for the corporation.
As we wanted to expand we started recruiting, but we made sure never to recruit to many new players at once, we made sure not to overwhelm new players in the corp business, but get people involved on their own terms, we can forget that eve is a game after all :)
We ran ops every night, that people were free to join as they wished some of them were for fun like silly pvp ops into 0.0 that always ended up horribly wrong haha, but others were just fun to do with company, like mining.
We always had a clear vision for all corp members, we made sure to involve everyone in all big decisions, the directors of the corp would maintain the profit side of things for the corp but all members were involved in it.
Everyone in the corp were welcome to maintain their own personal ventures, but we made sure that every player in the corp was involved enough in the "corp business" to care about it enough to donate some of their time.
we had all sorts of benefits for our members, if a ship was lost on one of our ops we made sure to replace it, we had some sort of a insurance system on ships and modules for players in case they lost their ship outside of an op for what ever reason, I didn't manage that system so I dont remember the details on it, but it was very popular.
Basically, dont forget eve is a game, new players dont expect to come to "work" and older players often are more interested in their own profits rather then the corp they are in, make sure you involve everyone enough for them to care and acctually see some benefits for it.
But be prepared to have to donate a lot of time to the corp management, and make sure you have dedicated directors that are prepared to do the same :)
Security wise, we were active enough to be able to handle requests quickly, only players that were very dedicated had access to certain parts of the corp hangar and we never put items in those hangars we weren't prepared to loose.
no one member had the right to take from the corp wallet, the corp wallet was used for the normal expenses of the current profit schemes and before venturing into new things or if there was an unexpected expense we would have a meeting of the directors and then make sure we informed the corporation and got them involved.
It worked out great until we moved to 0.0 with the wrong alliance, but that is a whole different story :)
Good Luck ! you seem like you will do fine ;) |