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[Sere_O_Asis]

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I’ve been in player run corps and in the end left all of them. Some of them I couldn’t commit to the time required. A couple had different outlooks on the game, life, whatever; in all of them I found people I liked and for the most part I still chat with those individuals.

I have a private chat room and am involved in the private chat rooms of others. Somehow with this arrangement I am more social than when I was officially in a player run corp.

Usually, two or three times a year, myself and others will organize a big “event” for lack of a better word. We’ll come up with a goal and collectively work to accomplish it, with each participant working toward that goal within their own comfort levels. What that boils down to is miner’s mine and provide materials for indy people who build items player smugglers/haulers move to staging areas for more pvp minded players to use. Some people just sit in market hubs and talk (propaganda).

It is a lot to organize; but, it is temporary, so unlike running a corporation…there is an end in sight.

We never know what’s going to happen, and so there is a “newsletter” to keep everyone who is participating up to date with progress.

It sounds complicated and I suppose the very first time it was complicated, cause we had no idea of what we were doing; but, it works for us.

But, none of this activity would have happened if we had all been involved in a traditional corp cause we’d all be doing whatever corp leadership decided on.

This arrangement leaves plenty of time for participants to play EVE their way, and yet be social and upon occasion have a collective purpose.

This is not unique to me by a long shot. Probably the best known and recent example of a collective public effort organized by a player(s) is

SICO is no longer a target for me, ICANP still is

It seems that SICO has expelled ICANP from the alliance for several reasons, some of which are unclear to me at the time of writing this, but the fact is that, from what I’ve seen, there is no reason for me to keep targeting SICO anymore, only ICANP and any corp or alliance that Sabus Narian creates or joins in the future. Thus, for anyone who cares, fine if nobody does, I hereby announce that SICO returns to neutral status for me. I will still not interfere with anyone wanting to gank them, bu…

which was a followup to this post:

My contribution to the "Highsec Lobby" initiative

This is kind of a personal and irrelevant post, mainly to say that I’ve started to suicide gank for the first time. Please don’t take it as me pretending I’m doing anything important. This is just me wanting to share with others what I consider a major change, or rather an addition, to what I had been doing in EvE until now. A few days ago, I stated in this post my intent to help the “Highsec Lobby” initiative of our beloved @Sabus_Narian. Since then, I’ve been relentlessly bumping Orcas left a…

The Crime and Punishment section of the forums seems to see more of these types of public call to arms; but, it happens all over.

This another example from another forum subsection:

NPC Stain 0.0 - Building A Small Community Hub, Codename: Hubzero

Hi There, I am interested in building an economy and small community in Stain which is NPC 0.0 as I feel I am missing out on player interaction, I have played the game solo for many years. I have been active in Stain a lot recently doing Havens, Hubs and other rated combat sites. I am using a Tengu which I refit in space for Interdiction nullification and covert cloak, this enables me to travel to other systems along the pipe without too much trouble. I’d like some cool blue pilots to work wi…

So, from my perspective, you don’t have to be in a player run corp to enjoy the social aspect of EVE and being part of large goals with a purpose. You just have to be social and speak up.