There are two ways a new corporation/alliance can choose from

(1) Join one of the powerblocs, use the resources they offer you to grow and hopefully split away from them one day.
The obvious issue is that you will have no reason to split away from them and probably will never able to do it anyways as you will recruit the same j4gs as everyone else. It's very easy to find recruits if you have your name on the sov map but it is almost impossible to attract competent recruits if you have a reputation for being a pet.

(2) Move to NPC 0.0, make a name for yourself, forge a coalition with other entities in your region and then push to take sov from some weak sov holding entity. You'll still have to find friends among the dominant 0.0 entities to hold on to your sov but you will probably have a resilient & competent fighting force at that point (npc 0.0 weeds out the j4gs and bads pretty fast) which should earn you some respect and give you a position to negotiate from.
The obvious issue is that most of your members won't be interested in holding sov (otherwise they wouldn't have joined a corp in npc space).

"(...) and I dont have the illusion anymore that i can compete with some jobless creature that dwells online all the time."

But both of these require me to talk to people and I'm a beautiful strong lone wolf who don't need no friends

or i dont speak lemming. nor sure about it....

the first OWN system sends a powerfull message to members and foes alike.

Yes it sends out the message to your members that they'll probably end up stuck defending some fairly worthless system (for them) instead of roaming around finding good fights. As for foes it gives the "nice place to camp afk for kills" message too.

Ok, so you can't build supers in NPC 0.0 - but they're not the major factor in wars they used to be (they're still obtainable from other builders if you really have to own one). If you're thinking about moon-goo, well a lot of sov owners don't even have the best of those.

Sov holding is very over-rated - not even the major blocks want a full on war for it anymore as the mechanics are so broken.
For the average corp member it gives nothing they can't find better elsewhere - income in wh space, faction warfare or even high-sec is better and roaming or even RvB gives better pvp (unless you like pressing F1 in blobs).

a single system could / can be taken and defended by a very small group of people. assuming you can prevent someone jumpng in and lighting a cyno.

Please tell me more of your vast knowledge

Please tell me more of your vast knowledge

0.0 isn't for your "small corp or alliance" though

what you are saying is that sov is broken and the "good ones", the people playing eve for the fun and real pew pew (not F1-lemmings) don-¦t give a rats arse about sov anyways ?

i know of the drawbacks regarding sov space but that they are soo immense and that so many players feel the exact same way is hard to believe....

misconception on my side. i forgot normal fleets could just jump through the gates :-)

i sincerely apoogize.

but the mechanical aspect of "taking a system" could potentialyl be done by a one man corp / allinace as its only needed to bring
SBU-¦s or / then TCU.. so in a fantasy dream world it is doable by one lonely golddigger out in no man-¦s space...

of course reality says otherwise and i know that.

the fighting that usually goes on in order to do so (or prevent it) is merely added on "game value"

[quote=Ka'Narlist][quote=Shanara As]
but the mechanical aspect of "taking a system" could potentialyl be done by a one man corp / allinace as its only needed to bring
SBU-¦s or / then TCU.. so in a fantasy dream world it is doable by one lonely golddigger out in no man-¦s space...

of course reality says otherwise and i know that.

Most of the big alliances are always recruiting - they need a stream of new players to replace those jaded with F1'ing in the laggy blobs.

Yes and theoretically a one man corp can also take down all those tech or neo moon towers and place its own there to get rich beyond any measure.
But in reality this won't work, so I don't get you point.

Might I remind you all that chrib managed to get sov for his one man alliance and hold it for quite some time

And he's probably the only player in EVE that can summon a spontaneous fleet of volunteers to defend his system.

Always amused by these threads.

It's like telling a small business to just become a billion dollar multinational corporation if it wants to compete with them. If they can't do that, then they're just bad at business, right?

you see, sov 0.0 isn't supposed to cater to your risk-averse, ...