David Therman
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.02.16 12:26:28 -
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Vincent Athena wrote:For anyone thinking of moving from an NPC corp to a player corp, there are several questions they would like to see the answer to. Two that come to mind are:
What are the other members like?
How will I be treated?
At present, there is little way for a player to research the answer either of these questions. Looking at ads, or forum posts, tells you little. This is Eve, and all such information may just be a con. The only real way would be to join corp after corp and see. Many players would rather not bother, and put up with just staying in an NPC corp. Remember, this is a game. People play it for fun. Dealing with one group of jerks after another is not fun.
I suspect that many posters here advocating various methods of forcing players out of NPC corps are not looking to improve the game, they are trying to get more victims.
We need some way to more easily search for corps that fit a player's desires. I'm not sure that that would constitute.
This, 111%. I've seen some of the other starter corps (sort of relevant, I guess?) when rolling alts for various purposes, and If my first character had ended up in one of them, I probably would've moved on within a week. As it is, I've got to know a few people who play regularly and who I enjoy talking to, as well as the very occasional fleet op. I've been on the clan/guild carousel in other games before, and it's not a pleasant experience, so I'm only going to up sticks if I'm aware of what I'm getting into... and short of flying with a corp for a few weeks, there isn't a sure-fire way to know that.
If there's one gripe that I have, it's that getting a group en masse to go and do something, anything, is extremely difficult. In comparison to something like CAS do with their monthly roams, for example, there just isn't enough people who are interested. So in that regard, it can be quite stagnant, but seeing as there are public NPSI fleets run every now and again, I think I can live with that. |