what is the purpose of a player corporation system what do they do in the game because i am at a lost now what they are suppose to do?
and yes i am being very real and very serious with this question
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a Player corporation has many uses. Get like minded people together and work on projects. Get together and pew pew some other people. Take a slice of the galaxy together. Evade NPC taxes.
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It’s what a guild would be in most other MMOS. It’s just a social grouping of players to work towards a common purpose.
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Mostly for mutual benefits. You wanna live in null sec? You’ll generally have an easier time and more content if you’re in a corp/alliance with other players. In return you turn up for their fleets to help defend space/players or take new space, etc. Same goes for wormholes, and other areas of space.
You want easier mining with reliable boosts and ore buyback? Corps usually can provide that, even in high sec.
These are just two examples of mutually beneficial circumstances.
Welcome to the forums, no worries, that kind of question is the reason forums exist.
I gonna add to the above posts, if you have any knowledge of other mmos, corps are the equivalent to guilds. But in EVE they are WAY more complex, you can have alliances and wars, like in Lineage 2. AND here the tax money does not come from thin air, like WoW, it comes from your pocket. Meaning a 10% corp tax is sub from your rewards and goes to the corp wallet.
Also, pay attention when joining a corp if friendly fire is allowed, that means ppl in the corp can shoot you.
Just like guilds in other MMOs corps are just that. Most end up being a MLM, pyramids where only the elite top get the ISK. A dummy corp is just one player placing all their alts in one basket. Being in a non NPC corp avoids some taxes on LP and missions. My corp is private, we don’t recruit, because we all know each other face to face in person. My corp is called a care bear corp, we give away mining ships to new players. There are other corps that do that too.
It is very difficult to implausible, building any sizable corporation without getting spies from other corps to sabotage you. Most of the well known mega corps will squash smaller upcoming corps. They have this set up as a turf war but only a handful of mega corps are king.
If your corp joins an alliance, they are on terms with other corps within that alliance. Recently the group know as Pandemic Horde went down hard and the members were displaced. You cannot exist without being in a corporation, when you leave your corp or start the game the system places you in a NPC corporation. The NPC corp charges 11% taxes so I recommend joining or forming a corp as soon as possible.
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ok so would it be fair to say when i join a corp i am joining a team and at other times joining a family then?
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Sometimes it’s not good to gank family members!
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Now I have the impression you not new, but some alt trying to push some narrative.
Why do I feel like that?
Only if your corp leader is bald, illegally modifies space ships and works out a lot.
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Ok dude the charade is over, hit me with the plot twist already.
This is kinda disturbing, you guys live in this small world inside your heads and keep posting on forums like some kind of RPG campaign… Not judging, just saying.
Give us the good stuff, show us the money! Where’s the aha moment? Who betrayed you and blep your ship?
‘Family’ is a stretch. You’re highly unlikely of marrying one of the members of your corporation. It’s an online game where the members haven’t seen each other in real life. Would you call that a ‘family’? I wouldn’t.
You join a bunch of other players and then get to know them as time goes by. You may end up liking (some) of them, or you may not. You may stay with them or move on to other corps. All fine.
Pretty sure some eve players have married
Is that something you would post as a possible feature of your corp when looking for new members in EVE?
I run around 20 or so corporations, each of them is intended to glorify me in one or more various ways. I try to have each corporation focus on a theme or attribute of mine which I would like to emphasize as the greatest ever.
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Too broad a question, basically. Different corps and alliances have different goals and reasons to join them. Some share a common goal or love of a purpose in game or out (for good or bad) Others share a common love for one aspect of the game.
some are traps set by a sm,aller group within the corp to force all others who join to work for them
there is no one answer
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i am asking because i am trying to double check my common sense at this point this is not a troll post and if you think it is i don’t know what to tell you because i am being very sincere hence why i said with the words at my opening post being very real and very serious
i just come from a age of like 15 years ago not just eve but other games as well and i was told at that time then when one is joining a clan a guild a squad or a corp your joining a team and team work is a helpful thing
i just got to hear the words i got to be reminded am i really behind the times now is there really a new age or a new order of ideology now and days? why i also ask this is so i can update myself better and adjust my expectations and possibility not make them high anymore
and yes i am being very serious with this as well
Since you are being very sincere, I got to tell you, you cannot project some values like honesty, honor and friendship in a virtual world, they simply do not translate well. There’s no counterpart or mechanism to enforce it. In real life you probably have to deal with the consequences of your betrayal, but in game, you just move on.
But I like the meta here. I gonna give you support and feed the blanks when needed. After all a backstab hurts a lot, even if a virtual one, it hurts our feelings and our feelings are not virtual after all.
Eve is not a typical video game.
You can try to make a corp into a family, but it is not. Everyone in a corp can be great to your face and snakes where you can’t see it. Ideally you want genuine people coming together for common goals.
Corporate espionage is a very real tactic in this game as well.
From personal experience from joining multiple corps over the years, people can be great and helpful but one or two red flags is enough to get the heck out of dodge.
For example, everyone can be great but then the corp leader is in discord whining and crying about being broke all the time. I’ve been in this situation a few times, have donated billions and asked over and over what I can do to help the corp grow. Only for someone to gatekeep and do nothing but complain while also refuse to allow the help they claim they need. Just so they can invite obvious spies into corp and give them accesses and permissions and set them on corp goals using corp assets.
Then later be told by the 2nd in command that was on vacation and just came back that the corp was never broke and that i’d been lied to the entire time I was in the corp. No matter how much of a family a group says they are, when that sort of thing happens it is a clear indication it is time to leave. Those corps will self sabotage and then wonder why they keep failing. You have to cut your own losses, no matter how much you like them otherwise.