Kedryn Caitin
Gallente
Center for Advanced Studies
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Posted - 2007.12.12 15:22:00 -
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I have 2 accounts, both at 20+ million SP and neither have been in a player corp. To be a worthwhile corpmate, and usually to conform to most corp requirements, requires me to put in a lot more time than I can invest in a game. Even when I was playing a ton of hours a day when I started Eve, those are my hours and I want to use them as best fits my needs in my pursuit of enjoyment. That would not include mining, flying CAP or gatekeeping as dictated by someone else.
These days I only log in to change skills. I have been waiting for the big Rev update and am now waiting for all the fixes to the content before I start putting time back in to Eve. This time when I return to play I will only have an hour or two a day, max, once I start back to work in January. And that would be if I devoted all my off time to the game and did nothing else.
At one point I was going to start up a small corp for a few friends and myself. Sadly this is not really viable as you have corps that just watch for new, low population corps to wardec and camp. The corp not getting off the ground turned out a good thing as everyone that was going to form the corp either cancelled subs or are just logging on to train skills so it would have been just me playing before I ended up doing the same. Most have moved on to other games (and I am playing LotRO in my freetime myself).
NPC corps for this player means personal freedom to use my free time as I want without any demands, either overt from corp management\members or from myself for feeling like I am not doing my part for the organization. This is a game, not a second job. Most corps that would be laid back enough to never push ops on you would usually mean you are flying solo most of the time anyway, just like small guilds I have been a part of in other games.
And in Eve, unlike big guilds in other games that just pressure you for raids, if you are not fielding enough active, cooperative players to maintain corp resources in null space then you will lose the hardwork and investment of players that have the time, energy and effort to carve out some space for themselves. I would hate to think I contributed to such a situation because I would rather learn how to code, learn a new language or just read a book or go out for dinner or spend the evening with friends doing something other than playing video games.
NPC corps allow me to support a company I like and a game that I feel is unique without requiring me to play it in ways I would not tolerate and would cause me to leave the game for more casual fields.
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