Mr Kidd
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2011.11.14 15:03:00 -
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WhyTry1 wrote:Eve has grown quite a lot in the past 5 years, and the number of corps and alliances have grown exponentially, where there are litterly thousands of them and hundreds of alliances. There are so many corps/alliances doing the same thing, that to be honest even offering 0.0 space, even free ships doesnt work. It seems the the only stuff people are mainly interested in is 0.0 sov, however not just any 0.0 sov holder, you have to be a blot on the influence map! If you are not on there then you not really considered. The recruitment forums and channels are so saturated that in fact unless your like above then in order to get a decent corp together its nigh on impossible. You can dress up your recruitment posts, give the world, make in niche, dont matter. As the word says you cant even give it away.
Even complete noobies are drawn in by either Eve Uni or Goons.
The ingame recruitment thingy is just a waste of time, wonder if anyone has ever really effectively recruited from it.
Has it just now become for the normal players, corps are just based on a few friends, is that tune CCP rings about making megacorps in the trailers, not really true! anymore and infact opportunities are in fact limited not limitless.
You have to realize that Goons are a meta-gaming organization. They have presence in a variety of games which makes them attractive in Eve to people who already play other games with them or are aware of their existence from elsewhere. There are other nefarious factors involved in that as well but I won't go into them here.
Eve-University has the "learning" market cornered. Name is everything. They're highly organized and have been around forever.
As for the rest of us: Well, recruiting is difficult and mostly ineffective. However, I have had a few successes when recruiting although I would certainly categorize recruitment as mostly pointless if your intent is to post an ad or post in recruitment chat and expect results. If that is your intent then you are doomed for failure. Recruiting in Eve is like establishing relationships in RL. You can't say "Hey, we're a great bunch of people" and expect anything to happen. You have to establish a contact, maintain that contact and then maybe reap rewards sometime later. Basically, if you're not committed to the idea of maintaining an interest in people you meet, perhaps over a period of years, then you will never establish yourself and you'd be better off joining someone else's corporation. You have to network. Wait for opportunities. Recognize opportunities. And capitalize on opportunities. Eventually you'll reach a point of critical mass and things will actually work for you.
As far as having something "Unique" to offer as stated by our Goon friend in his reply: there is nothing to be offered that is unique except for RL financial incentive which is strictly verboten. But, that never stopped the Goons.
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