ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
Snuffed Out
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Posted - 2016.01.16 04:27:21 -
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My personal opinion? Don't TRY to be unique. Don't TRY to stand out.
Have a focus you want the corp to drive towards.
Find people who share that focus and drive that you get along with (underlined the important bit)
Go out and do stuff.
Let the culture organically grow.
It is the culture of a corporation... the shared experiences and in-jokes... that make a corporation truly unique.
The more crap you and your corpmates survive, the stronger the bonds become. And it snowballs after that.
What you are left with is a group of people who, regardless of the flag you fly, know how to work together and have something no one can take away... and everyone else wants to be a part of.
You can also use my unofficial step-by-step guide on how to become a warlord in EVE
ShahFluffers wrote:Step 1: Project a persona that is crazy yet mostly likeable. We're talking the kind of "crazy yet likeable" that builds pseudo-cults.
Step 2: Create an "inner circle" of people that can support, cheer lead, or (at the very least) tolerate your colorful, yet predictable insanity. Just make sure that they are all within "leg breaking distance" in real life (or buy them a few beers... whichever is less messy).
Step 3: Accept that not everyone will like you and punish offenders accordingly.
Step 4: Never bite off more than you can chew. At the same time, never make promises you can't keep. Failure reeks of weakness (unless you can make that weakness your strength).
Step 5: Delegate, delegate, delegate. Being a warlord means you will be busy most of the time making threats and being insane. If you can accomplish a task by sending a rookie into the fire... do it. No need to get your own hands messy.
Step 6: Keep things interesting for everyone. Have your close supporters bring in or build a bunch of ships for "suicide fleets" or kill an underling/ally in dishonorable combat... just because.
Step 7: Money is power. Make shrewd deals with allies and enemies alike... just make sure your "inner circle" is aware of these deals.
Step 8: Quash all dissension and consolidate your power. Make an example of anyone who questions your authority... preferably in the most colorful way you can (who says using capitals to gank a lone industrial is overkill?).
How did you Veterans start?
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