Cool story. Needs more fedo.

If you want active, join FW, RvB, EveUni, or other blob alliances.

This is my first MMO.

Most corps offering those things don't tend to take in new players aka spais. I wouldn't.

Cool story. Needs more fedo.

If you want active, join FW, RvB, EveUni, or other blob alliances.

Whelp, you pretty much ruind the genre for yourself, literally the only interesting one available.

4."Yeah we do pvp fleets everyday" - nothing is happening

This is my first MMO so maybe I dont know how "guilds" actually look like, but if your corp has 4 active members please dont tell me 10-15.

But when the spai is bad enough to post about it in GD? Where's the harm?

Triple bluff.

Don't ***** about shitposting then reply like this.

Before anyone comes in and smacks you - you aren't wrong.

Most corps are rubbish. On one hand tbf to them it shouldn't have to be a second job and the 'leadership roles' attract people who fail IRL to communicate. On the other they just want grunts for the sake of it. Choose carefully, we can't tell you what to pick.

Talk to people you like and recruit/mentor yourself - it's more about banter than anyone realises. Anyone can create a private chat channel. If your corp obstruct your recruitment (and you're good at it) roll your own corp.

Join every channel you can, keep in touch with people who amuse you in local/forums (and kill you).

That TZ thing you can plug yourself, my peronal fav ppl ingame are way off tz for me, but makes no difference.

gl :)

This pretty much. The flip side is that most corps that are worth a damn are going to be super cautious of you, because spies and corp thieves. Your best bet is to network with friends in game, hang out with people and get a feel for what the corp is like. I hate to say it, but as the new guy expect to do a lot of grunt work at first regardless. The first corp I joined made you mine your own first battleship before they let you PvP so you understood the real value of that ship. (Took me two weeks with t1 mining lasers and some harvies)

(STK Scientific blew up that one)

But basically yeah, talk to people, get a feel for the corp.

Welcome to EVE.

You have indeed stumbled over the largest problems new players face in this game. Unfortunately, there is little advice to be had in this area other than GÇ£keep at itGÇ¥. There are some proper institutions that will pick up new players and let them run wild, but a huge amount of corps are what you have just described: a fancy outward image with nothing behind it (except maybe some corp taxes that you won't get back).

Don't worry about your corp history. Any proper corp will understand that it takes a couple of tries to get it right. In fact, most proper corps will probably be something of the opposite of what you've come across: nothing fancy to inflate their purported exploits, but rather just some basic contact info. Look for those instead. One thing to remember here is that some of them will require some kind of pseudo-interview to get in GÇö remember that the interview goes both ways. You need to figure out if they're a good fit for you just as much as they need to figure out if you're a good fit for them.

A slightly more counter-intuitive way to find a corp is to remember that failure is both an option and not optional: there are plenty of stories about players who have gone into lowsec to get blown up over and over, and who have then ended up being recruited into the corp that shot at them. After all, they've demonstrated the kind of determination and spunk that the corp likes to see. It's hardly a guarantee, but it is a way to start communicating with other players and make that first problematic connection.

Oh holy balls, what a terrible thing to do to a newbie.

You know what the value of a ship is? However much it hurts for you to lose it.

What is thi.... do my eyes deceive me?
Is this really a post by Tippia that is both helpful and polite?

*pinches self*
*pinches self harder*

Holy crap, it's real!

lol that's actually true

Tell me about it, Eve was my first, haven't found another that can hold my attention for more than a couple of months.

Tell me about it, Eve was my first, haven't found another that can hold my attention for more than a couple of months.

Problems:
1."Yeah we are super active" - 2 player online all day
2."We are super social" - teamspeak is dead
3."Yeah we are EU tz" - they wait for the us comrades to join and then the ops takes place
4."Yeah we do pvp fleets everyday" - nothing is happening

... finding a corp that suits me is harder then the game itself.

Im a fairly new player and I'm jumping from corp to corp, ruining my employment history trying to find a place where I could have some fun.

Problems:
1."Yeah we are super active" - 2 player online all day
2."We are super social" - teamspeak is dead
3."Yeah we are EU tz" - they wait for the us comrades to join and then the ops takes place
4."Yeah we do pvp fleets everyday" - nothing is happening


This is my first MMO so maybe I dont know how "guilds" actually look like, but if your corp has 4 active members please dont tell me 10-15.

Whatever number of corp mates the info has divide that by 2 just to get a starting figure. Everyone has alts so the corp numbers are automatically misleading. If the corp is a few months old, its already got inactive players. So you gotta just kind of factor off the remaining members with a wild guess.

If a corp advertises as being active in all timezones, and in all areas of space (hisec, lowsec, nullsec, wormholes), then they are active only in 1 TZ and only in hisec, and most of their members have probably quit Eve already.

I like to shoot things, so the only thing that is important to me is their killboard. Doesn't really matter if it is red or green (losses/wins) so much as there is stuff on it. Whatever pilots you see on their killboard, that is who is active in corp. If its the same 3 or 4 guys, thats all there is in the corp.

So check out eve-who.com and zkillboard.com for any corp you are thinking about joining.

Just for the record, Tippia was an INSANELY useful resource for me as a new player back in the day. Never found him to be anything but helpful and polite. Someone from CCP should pay the guy for telling it like it is.

You on the other hand. . .

ruining my employment history

... finding a corp that suits me is harder then the game itself.

Im a fairly new player and I'm jumping from corp to corp, ruining my employment history trying to find a place where I could have some fun.

Problems:
1."Yeah we are super active" - 2 player online all day
2."We are super social" - teamspeak is dead
3."Yeah we are EU tz" - they wait for the us comrades to join and then the ops takes place
4."Yeah we do pvp fleets everyday" - nothing is happening


This is my first MMO so maybe I dont know how "guilds" actually look like, but if your corp has 4 active members please dont tell me 10-15.

Before anyone comes in and smacks you - you aren't wrong.

Most corps are rubbish. On one hand tbf to them it shouldn't have to be a second job and the 'leadership roles' attract people who fail IRL to communicate. On the other they just want grunts for the sake of it. Choose carefully, we can't tell you what to pick.

Talk to people you like and recruit/mentor yourself - it's more about banter than anyone realises. Anyone can create a private chat channel. If your corp obstruct your recruitment (and you're good at it) roll your own corp.

Join every channel you can, keep in touch with people who amuse you in local/forums (and kill you).

That TZ thing you can plug yourself, my peronal fav ppl ingame are way off tz for me, but makes no difference.

gl :)

Nobody really cares about that, don't worry. It's a story miners tell each other to feel good about never changing anything.

Welcome to EVE.

You have indeed stumbled over the largest problems new players face in this game. Unfortunately, there is little advice to be had in this area other than GÇ£keep at itGÇ¥. There are some proper institutions that will pick up new players and let them run wild, but a huge amount of corps are what you have just described: a fancy outward image with nothing behind it (except maybe some corp taxes that you won't get back).

Don't worry about your corp history. Any proper corp will understand that it takes a couple of tries to get it right. In fact, most proper corps will probably be something of the opposite of what you've come across: nothing fancy to inflate their purported exploits, but rather just some basic contact info. Look for those instead. One thing to remember here is that some of them will require some kind of pseudo-interview to get in GÇö remember that the interview goes both ways. You need to figure out if they're a good fit for you just as much as they need to figure out if you're a good fit for them.

A slightly more counter-intuitive way to find a corp is to remember that failure is both an option and not optional: there are plenty of stories about players who have gone into lowsec to get blown up over and over, and who have then ended up being recruited into the corp that shot at them. After all, they've demonstrated the kind of determination and spunk that the corp likes to see. It's hardly a guarantee, but it is a way to start communicating with other players and make that first problematic connection.

While i realize that the above comment is not really serious i want to comment anyway, because its partly right.

KINGS OF LOWSEC

(Join Snuff Box)

... finding a corp that suits me is harder then the game itself.

Im a fairly new player and I'm jumping from corp to corp, ruining my employment history trying to find a place where I could have some fun.

Problems:
1."Yeah we are super active" - 2 player online all day
2."We are super social" - teamspeak is dead
3."Yeah we are EU tz" - they wait for the us comrades to join and then the ops takes place
4."Yeah we do pvp fleets everyday" - nothing is happening


This is my first MMO so maybe I dont know how "guilds" actually look like, but if your corp has 4 active members please dont tell me 10-15.

... finding a corp that suits me is harder then the game itself.

Im a fairly new player and I'm jumping from corp to corp, ruining my employment history trying to find a place where I could have some fun.

Problems:
1."Yeah we are super active" - 2 player online all day
2."We are super social" - teamspeak is dead
3."Yeah we are EU tz" - they wait for the us comrades to join and then the ops takes place
4."Yeah we do pvp fleets everyday" - nothing is happening


This is my first MMO so maybe I dont know how "guilds" actually look like, but if your corp has 4 active members please dont tell me 10-15.