Deciding what you want to do is half the battle, I have done this.

Rather than trying to hunt for the right corp try hunting for the right people. Getting along socially is extremely important. Also they should be in a corp that isn't too restrictive on the activities you enjoy in eve. Sov 0.0 corps for instance can be problematic because of a bunch of rules, forced activites such as CTAs etc.

So in other words, take your time to get to know people and either try to form your own community around them or join theirs', as long as their corp isn't too restrictive.

Lay it out here.

What is it you decided you want?

Everyone wants a motivated player in their corp that matches their own ends.
Dont forget or underestimate that you are a very valuable asset and have high demand.
Once you state what you want, and it matches theirs, they will fight each other to get you.

I do have a recruitment post up under this toon, I am writing this out on a tablet so linking to it is a pain at the moment.

Pfft. I do 99% of my posting on a tablet as a remote to my PC, whilst knocking back beers and smoking on my balcony.

Copy/paste the link or text :D

I wanna see what you decided as what you want!

Lmao, I know you wont believe me but I wrote an entire reply and the old stupid ipad ate it. Ill do a response to thisbut Ill wait till later on my machine at home

I believe you. Next time get an android tablet :D

I look forward to your reply.
Im legit interested what you decided you want most.

i join a corp to hang with the people, not to be forced to do what I'm not comfortable or feel like doing or be someone's income source or standing army if I dont agree with it.

So I chitchat on local doing my little thing till I start to hang out with on local or direct chat. I liked hanging with the mining fleets in a kinda local ice field. When I was there 20 of us on local chatting away laughing and passing the time, if anyone was attacked all the support ships(even in different fleets and corps) would help out. Let a couple cats try cutting into a mining ship with 7 orcas remote repping it.

One method I've successfully used myself is, instead of finding a corp and then moving to their area, find a place to live first and then start interacting with the locals. (In my case this was usually in low sec, and interacting means shooting them and getting shot by them.) Talk to them, build up some contacts, perhaps fleet with them a few times, and if you enjoy this, ask to join them.... if they haven't invited you by then already.

Of course, this won't really work if you plan to join a null sec corp, and most high sec players won't respond well to my forms of interaction.

Welcome to my world

My corp is cool, join my corp. Be one of us... One of us... ONE OF US!!!!!! j/k

Messaged him and asked if he'd like to explore options for working together. He was paranoid that I was a spy or assassin or ganker or whatever. So you are back to trying to find some like-minded people to play the game with - in other words back to square one. For some, that's a difficult or impossible task.

No offense, but you kind of shot yourself in the foot with your name and avatar :D

Nonetheless, Id risk cooperation with you, as long as our interests align.

I mean I get it that people enjoy the gameplay that they enjoy and would want to get more people involved in their area of space. thats fine, but when their recruiter completely ignores the list of things that i'm looking for, it doesn't build a lot of faith that they give even the slightest damn about what I find enjoyable and am looking for.

I've had that issue as well, one of the bigger annoyances for me is when I do put up a looking for corp advertisement, and inevitably half of the responses are from people who have clearly either not even read my post, or read it and ignored it.

"looking for a WH corp with a mix of pvp and pve activity, ideally one that has infrastructure for industry in place or would be willing to allow me to set up that infrastructure. USTZ"

Gets responses of.

"We are a low-sec pvp only pirate corp, you should join us."
"We are a High-sec mining corp"
and
"join our EU tz null-sec renter corp"

I mean I get it that people enjoy the gameplay that they enjoy and would want to get more people involved in their area of space. thats fine, but when their recruiter completely ignores the list of things that i'm looking for, it doesn't build a lot of faith that they give even the slightest damn about what I find enjoyable and am looking for.

edit: note that is not actually my current looking for corp list. was used purely for example.

This is why I hate to read the drivel of the elitist null-sec snobs who post their insults about people who stay in high-sec. They define high-sec'ers as a monolith of carebear miners or whatever else, 'risk averse,' 'WOW players' etc.

Some of us are stuck in high-sec because we kind of have no other choice (meaning, whatever choices there are aren't particularly good ones). I am not a miner, and I've never played WOW. I would like nothing more than to be in null-sec, or in a wormhole corp. But I have issues with joining a blob of people I don't know from Adam, who don't know me from Adam, and who have corporate objectives or politics which either aren't in line with mine, or even worse, are inscrutable or unknown or constantly changing.

I've tried to get my real-life friends to play Eve. They won't. I've tried meeting folks on the forums or in-game or whatever. That didn't work (I met some, they never want to do anything except what they are already doing, which is generally solo mining, solo exploration, or whatever). I've tried doing solo wormhole stuff. That 'worked' in the sense that I can scan down a wormhole, go in, poke around, run a few relic sites or whatever. But what if you don't want to be a small-time wormhole explorer your entire Eve existence, making $30 mil ISK per hour running exploration sites? I'd like to bring a battleship in and try running some of the combat sites, but that is pure suicide and begging for a gank. I once found a guy running wormholes on these forums. Messaged him and asked if he'd like to explore options for working together. He was paranoid that I was a spy or assassin or ganker or whatever. So you are back to trying to find some like-minded people to play the game with - in other words back to square one. For some, that's a difficult or impossible task.

Rather than trying to hunt for the right corp try hunting for the right people. Getting along socially is extremely important. Also they should be in a corp that isn't too restrictive on the activities you enjoy in eve. Sov 0.0 corps for instance can be problematic because of a bunch of rules, forced activites such as CTAs etc.

So in other words, take your time to get to know people and either try to form your own community around them or join theirs', as long as their corp isn't too restrictive.

You have it ass backwards.

Its not about what X corp wants.
Its about what you want.

^ This.

It's interesting to me how many people see EvE as a purely corporation / alliance based segregation system. In reality when you join a corp you get corp roles and a chatroom.. If you don't care about working as a mining director or hanger organiser it's really just a chatroom and that can be (and is) done without all the corp stuff.

I suggest joining peoples public chats, you will see many forum users have them as well as in people's bio's and even most corporations will have a public chat. Set yourself up a "social" chat window and just log into user made channels when you see one that sparks your interest. Once you find your friends in EvE you'll find corps are often more a tool for a job than something that singularly unifies you all.

One day i think you'll end up clicking with the right people and they will help you work out what banner you want to fly under

Yes. Im super paranoid. Still trying to find my ways around Eve too.

Im so fixed by those skills, seems I cant get enough training with
any character.
Trasch I dropped soon, only use him in Forum. Waisted money on
2 characters, down to one which I have trained but not flown much with.

Still also confused what to do. Even thinking of dropping Eve altogether.

Not sure what this has to do with my original post, however I would say that eve is more of a slow burn game, you can train into tackle, ecm and basic exploration quite quickly and then expand from there. but yes unless your getting skill injector or buying multiple character training then train one toon to do something, I normally train in 1 month stints for my toon. you need to get a training plan.

I do feel the same. It is rather difficult to find a corp. I thought several times I did find it but then.... two disbanded shortly after I joined (reason for corps to advertise they are recruiting is they can't sustain the corp any more), one left the alliance and decided to do something completely different....

Then most of them want your full api key... wtf? I am ok with sharing some stuff but not sharing my life with all of them. One corp didn't accept me because I didn't give them the full api key of my wife's account.....

Yes. Im super paranoid.

Well, It was kinda directed for 'Beast of Revelations'

Yes, we chatted, and I offered to help you. But actually I was referring to someone else in my post. A high-skilled old-timer type who frequently posts on the forums.

Actually, it has been a whole series of people.

I'm not here to point the finger at anyone. It is what it is.

You feel you have nothing to offer except failure.
Thats when the paranoia hits you "why the hell would anybody
wanna invest time and ISK in me?"

Well it's always good to have a healthy dose of skepticism with everything in life. At the same time though, ask yourself why someone would want to invest time and ISK in assassinating or ganking you if you aren't a 'rich target' so to speak. Unless you are flying heavy bling, or carrying heavy bling in your cargohold, go ahead and put yourself out there. The game is designed to work with others, so you'll be missing out.

Go ahead and get over your fear of getting ganked. Get in a noob ship one day, and fly around nullsec until it happens. Then you'll realize 'no biggie' when you wake up in your home station.

Still keep coming for more, just dropped a main character though.

Its the feeling of "you are playing Eve wrong" that bothers me. Everybody is talking
about how important it is to be in a corp.

Well it's always good to have a healthy dose of skepticism with everything in life. At the same time though, ask yourself why someone would want to invest time and ISK in assassinating or ganking you if you aren't a 'rich target' so to speak. Unless you are flying heavy bling, or carrying heavy bling in your cargohold, go ahead and put yourself out there. The game is designed to work with others, so you'll be missing out.

Go ahead and get over your fear of getting ganked. Get in a noob ship one day, and fly around nullsec until it happens. Then you'll realize 'no biggie' when you wake up in your home station.

I have nothing to add to what has already been posted.
Other that there is a reason I started leading my self over joining people their corp.

I wish you best of luck finding a suitable playstyle. Be it solo or in a corp.

And so it transpires that I need to find myself another corp to live in. It seems that I cannot find that corp to stay in for years and wanted to find out if others had the same issue.

It always seems to be the same m.o

1. You hunt for a corp on eve forums or reddit, and/or you post an advert with you spiel on the same.
2. You get contacted by peoples
3. You speak to those people and maybe make a decision on the back of that
4. You join, move all your stuff to their system.
5. A few weeks or months later something isnt right and you start again. The something not right could be anything, it could either be the corp was not as advertised, less active that you would like, rip off JF service if you're in null that winds you up, or the corp goes in a direction that you don't want to go in and whilst you like the people, you dont want go in that direction and/or any other reason.

This is not sustainable and I don't want to keep on jumping corps. Ive alradyplaced an advert up but then thought about writing here to see if anyone can offer suggestions on finding that ideal corp without having to take a punt on the forums/reddit.

The forum post always tend to be the same, a list of wants, don't wants and what I have to obring to a corp, that sounds like a good basic premise to work on, but it obviously isn't working for me. But just having a bit of difficulty tthinking outside the box on this.

Thanks

N

When im online it would be good to be able to just chat to people that are not just in local, so I think from a more socialising point of view. Didnt really think about there being specific types of chat channel, makes sense though I suppose.

And so it transpires that I need to find myself another corp to live in. It seems that I cannot find that corp to stay in for years and wanted to find out if others had the same issue.

Tell me about your world Lulu :)