EVE Search - gauging interest

Originally by: cosmoray
All these people who have just come on to give your vote of confidence. Why did you not invest or speak up when the IPO first launched? Why did you wait until it failed?

I can answer this one: Because of some advice I shared with SiJira.

SiJira convoed me the other day and asked, "How can I salvage things here?" I honestly said that I didn't think it was possible and shared a few observations in private that I did not share here. (And people say I'm never nice!)

Primarily some people dislike SiJira purely for some forum faux pas that really are meaningless in retrospect. Given the behaviors of many, including myself, SiJira's forum antics are mild and not even slightly annoying, again speaking from the mea culpa pulpit. However there are several immediate things that come to mind in reviewing SiJira as a person to invest in:

- No Api Sharing

Someone can have the greatest plan in the world doesn't mean they have any intention of doing it. Not having the relevant skills is a prime indicator that someone does not plan to do what they say they are doing. Also, it can be a way to hide what other toons you may have on your account.

This is one of those areas where to gain credit you have to give trust. Trust that a few select people won't out your information from an api check to gain credibility about your plans and intentions and your good word.

- NPC Corp

I pointed out that SiJira's being exclusively in an NPC corp can bother investors. For the most part no one can make any serious investment into an NPC corporation.

People who stay in the NPC corps, all the time, simply have none of the emotional connections with their corp mates. Connections & investments that usually lead to moral decisions to help & protect your friends. After all, historically people go over the wall and charge the guns with their mates, because of their mates, and it is a poor person indeed who does not have that much honor. Even in a game.

That being said, being in an NPC corp also means that investors, so inclined, have no one they can punish if SiJira absconds. Even in those cases where someone scams and bails out on their player corp there is still someone who can be chastised. And normally people don't do this to their friends. And being in an NPC corp, it is hard to conceive of any developing real lasting friendship.

- Negative Security Status

Again just another factor in the review but added in with the other points just leads to a poor picture. Not to say having a Negative Sec Status is, by itself, a bad indicator. Many here have had them, have them, or are once again headed for negative.

So, in the end, the points were this:
- No Skill check
- No Toon(Alt) Check
- No Character References/Recommendations
- No Employment History (More Reference Checks)
- No Attachments to anyone or anything

When you then add in those few who bash SiJira for the necroing, this thread is a dead thread.

The messianic reference (joke) was part because as I had just being going over my sermon as I read the updates here. Interestingly enough those references came after this thread is dead. I felt a Lazarus attempt is/was being made and it struck my funny bone.

For myself, I think that this thread should have been allowed to die with some dignity and another attempt made some time later. A bit more preparation might also be in order if that path is chosen.

Will be interesting to see what choice is finally made and if any will ever work, now.