I can also attest that if you get them while they're brand new you can shield them from some of the poison most terrible corps do their best to fill them with.

I've had incredible success bringing brand new players into my lifestyle.

This was a challenge for me when I started my own piracy corp out in NPC null. When you put new players in a challenging environment, you need to be prepared to do some hand-holding. Without it they can get bored and frustrated, and may quit or go inactive. For us, we resolved this by moving back to highsec and taking up highsec piracy. No regrets - we are getting more quality game content and exploding more ships (our own and other people's) than we ever did in null.

Assuming that you want to do your pirate thing in lowsec (correct me if I'm wrong, but it's usually the lowsec guys who use the term "piracy" without any qualifiers or explanations), you can probably make it easier on yourself by recruiting from the same TZ as yourself and by choosing your HQ carefully (probably a nice quiet, low traffic pocket located close to some rich hunting grounds). If you can find a couple of experienced guys with a little personal initiative who don't mind helping out the newbs, that will make a big difference as well.

Kinda wish you'd give a bit more information. (for example: corp size, timezone, rules)

Because I'd be sort of interested, but it doesn't seem like a promising endeavour as long as people have to tear every little bit of info out of you.

Good luck, good hunting, hope I hear of this new Pirate corps success. :pirate: