LHA Tarawa
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.02.05 19:03:00 -
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Here is how you do it.
I've been involved in a coupe corp formations, and seen it done well, and seen it done poorly.
1) Decide on the "purpose" of the corp. If you just want to play a couple hours a day doing PVP roams in low sec, or just put up a high sec POS so you and a couple friends can do some research... well, that is one thing. IF, however, you want to participate in the shaping of the EVE political universe, that is something else. For the rest of this post, I'll assume the latter.
2) You've decided you want to be in instigator. Okay. Have no life other than EVE. Okay, maybe a job, but one that allows you to log into EVE and be atleast semi AFK a lot of the time. Plan to play EVE at least 8-10 hours a day, if not more, 7 days a week, for the next few years, if not the rest of your life. It really only takes a couple weeks away and the corp can go to heck.
3) Gather some freinds, that like you, and super trust, that also have no life other than EVE.
4) Decide if you want to be industrial or PVP. In the formation stage it is SUPER hard to be both. PVP will get you wardecs, driving off industrialists. Industry will BORE the heck out of PVPers.
5) Build a set of core assets. If PVP, have mega cash on hand and ways to make more to pay back corp members when they lose ships. If industrial, orca, perfect refine, BPO collection, etc.
6) Start gathering people. Encourage, and even require, some level of group participation. Voice coms is a MUST! Weed out the alts, spies, people not serious. If you are online, then you are in our fleet and you are on voice comms. If PVP, load up the KB with kills and losses whether that is war or roam. Even if you have to create alt corps and let your guys kill your alts without them knowing that is what is going on. If industrial, lots and lots of group mining ops, with big payouts to participants, keep the BPO collection growing, manufacture stuff to sell, etc. Go out of your way to a) keep if fun, b) build group cohesion, c) make everyone feel like they are building toward something and they are an important part of that.
7) A point will come where you are big enough that the critical mass can keep the activity going. At this point, gathring new people becomes a little easier as all your people are telling theri friends how fun and active your corp is. Just keep up the activity!
8) Pick a side in the.. what you call blue donut... then be assimilated. If you are industry, and have a big active group, then rent is no problem. If you are PVP, then you pay for your presence with kills and participation in alliance operations.
EVE is very Feudal. The small corp leaders are the lords, given privilege in return for being able to deliver either goods or people. Dukes are the member alliances, controlling the lords. The King is the coalition leadership, to whom the Dukes report. As a Lord, you are not going to gather a couple hundred people, then wonder into feudal lands and declare yourself king. The existing kings will have a little something to say about that. |