So where is that social interaction skill ?
(Try to be funny here and not leave you with the perspective that i am not polite :) )

After reading this thread I'm under the impression that he wants the goods without the effort involved to get any benefits from null.

FW is null sov light. War targets and lots of pirates that want a piece of you as well. No drag bubbles hurray.

After reading this thread I'm under the impression that he wants the goods without the effort involved to get any benefits from null.

FW is null sov light. War targets and lots of pirates that want a piece of you as well. No drag bubbles hurray.

:) skilling it to level 5 is always a good idea

good luck to you

I can see your problem now OP. You are not well informed.

Basically CCP have got it set up in a way that lets a large alliance project its power anywhere across the map.

The fees that alliances pay for sov are so minuscule that a large alliance can drop TCUs across vast areas of null sec virtually for free.

If you tried to take a little peice of it you could, well except that alliance that "claims" it by dropping TCUs, despite not living in or using that space will get a little automated email from the server, and using bridges will stomp you out of existence and then abandon it again.

Fact is you can't claim a little peice, you're required to pay the bigger alliances for space they don't use or need, curiously the same alliances who dominate the CSM because it was set up so they could rig it to have all their members on it.

Explains a lot really.

I'm a big advocate for industrial development in nulsec. It's a great place to build from scratch. Alliances do not prioritize industrial development AT ALL as an aspect of holding space. There's a lot of isk, there's a lot of resources, but nulsec alliances are allowed too much access to highsec to provide everything that the people they're booting from nulsec would do for them. Jump freighters were a big mistake on this issue.

Unless you're big into PVP, there are no rewards in nulsec. You do as your told, no more, no less. You're about 99% likely to simply be conscripted as fleet fodder on a daily basis.

If you are a combat/industrial mix corporation, your corp will likely get picked clean for your combat personnel and your corp will then get the boot.

It became a job. So unless you LOVE padding your pvp history with one-hit-mentions, there isn't much out there for you.

The solution would be to incorporate a cap to deployable TCU's. TBH, capping TCU deployment to 1 per corp means that space expansion for an alliance would have to incorporate more corporations, rather than more centralization. Every corp that is brought into the fold expands the alliances' influence, even if it's an industrial corp.

I'm a big advocate for industrial development in nulsec. It's a great place to build from scratch. Alliances do not prioritize industrial development AT ALL as an aspect of holding space. There's a lot of isk, there's a lot of resources, but nulsec alliances are allowed too much access to highsec to provide everything that the people they're booting from nulsec would do for them. Jump freighters were a big mistake on this issue.

CSM packing is an issue. That's up to CCP to figure out. Of course, they'd just toss that to the CSM anyway >.>

Anybody who belongs to an alliance like that should leave their alliance. What a horrible way to play the game.

Who is the cow and what is the milk ?

Accepting 20 corps with 10 members each means you have 20 CEOs who feel entitled to have some say in leadership discussions, you have at least 20 corp-level diplomats to deal with and you probably have another 40 corp-level directors who also want to be treated as if they are important.

You also have 20 corps that you have to consider when evaluating fleet participation and distributing the spoils (i.e. moons) and small corps can really mess up your usual performance metrics: a ten person corp can easily have either really high or really low fleet participation. If you go by fleet members/corp size they might end up with higher rewards than bigger corps could ever hope to achieve. On the other hand you might have to kick half of them after every second campaign.

And you have 20 different recruitment policies each of which might be a an open gate to awoxers and spies.

One 200 man corp is much easier to handle for the alliance and there isn't a shortage of medium-sized corporations that would force alliances to put up with the antics of ultra-small corps.

Hope that answers your question.

If you made it scale by number of tcu's, like how war decs work, multiplying the cost they'd break the alliances up. Whatever fix you put in they would find a hole and exploit it because that's what they do because CCP allows it. Same as they allow them to drive war dec prices up by deccing themselves or avoiding wars by disbanding enemy alliances because one person forgot to kick a lasped account a few years ago.

What makes you think I'd be so willing to have a 200 man corp? 20 is easier to manage and track if something goes wrong.

I don't care what style of corp you like and neither does the alliance that won't consider your corp for recruitment.

I'm not arguing that it is better for the corp to be large, I am arguing that alliances want to deal with a small number of corporations. As long as there are enough medium-sized corporations out there (and there are) this means the alliance has no need to go to the trouble of dealing with your 20man corp.

For an alliance small corporations create a disproportionally large amount of administrative overhead and drama. That's why alliances prefer large corporations. If you don't want to play in a large corporation then that's your choice and perfectly fine by me.

(Also of the 200 people in a corp approximately 195 don't need any corp roles so I don't buy your "corp theft" argument.)

And why is that? Because industrialists are carebears, carebears are freeloaders, and freeloaders should be kicked out?

CCP should ban making friends.

no it's because production or having something produced in highsec is better, more efficient, less risky and cheaper in every way due to poor game design meaning a producer in nullsec is wasting money, resources and space