Interesting tidbit to give you on that one… ever seen an NPC null station bubbled with trapped diamond rats? Good luck getting out of there without a nullified or cloaked ship.
We’re not talking about null…there AI doesn’t rule…mostly…
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It’s not safer. The same risk is involved, I never mentioned asset safety apart from avoiding war decs, which both an NPC Corp, and a player Corp without a structure do not have a risk of.
The added benefits of the Corp structure in EvE, particularly the wallets, is another major reason I haven’t stayed in an NPC Corp.
Really? Tell that to any number of businessmen who hide their stuff through a chain of holding corporations registered in places with lax standards. Authorities that stop ships sailing under certain flags often have trouble tracking down the real owner, as it’s been set up so that the ship is leased and the crew has no idea who the real owner is. It’s not necessarily even illegal (though often used for illegal purposes such as evading taxes, paying sub-standard wages and bypassing regulations).
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Of course you can do that but it’s illegal in most 1st world nations. The flag nation of ship owners is a long known source of BS in the world…on that topic we could also as should it be banned…
I guess I should have chosen my words more carefully.
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Hi everyone:
I’d like to thank you all for responding to my thread.
I was reading through the replies this morning, and I have to say in summary that the reasons given in support of one man corps are basically quite selfish ones.
-helps to keep track of money
-helps to hide money
-i don’t like playing with other people
-i like to play solo
-id rather do things on my own terms with my own means
-im paying for the game
-its my choice
-i don’t need friends
-i don’t want to satisfy the game
-FW corps have childish names
-NPC corps are lame
-I use it for my trader character
-I use it for my hauler
-I use it as a holding corp
-I use it for NPC tax evasion
-I use it to anchor a station and run it myself
Tell me, what is any of the above adding to the game in a positive way?
All of the above seems like very lazy, I cant be bothered to immerse myself kind of gameplay that players get away with.
Ask yourself this: what am I contributing to the Eve MMO community? How am I helping shape the game by bringing players together and establishing content?
None of the above reasons you gave assist the game in this way at all.
Maybe Eve is in need of a change to make it harder for players to be lazy and not immerse themselves in real corps?
It’s just a question. Please don’t get upset.
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If your problem is with NPC stations, a lot of the time NPC stations don’t offer services you want, such as market/industry, and those stations have taxes. Why are you forcing the one man corps to pay extra?
If you want people to live off of NPC stations, you would have to make everyone pay extra, say the default 3% brokers fee PLUS whatever the station owner sets it to.
If you want less 1 man corps, then simply make it so all corps have a default 11% tax that goes poof PLUS whatever the directors set the tax to.
Ever heard of business tax?
If Eve could implement this I doubt there would be that many solo corps.
Tax evasion is also a valid argument here, NPC corps have 11% tax
What’s wrong with having selfish reasons? If a majority of the players have a selfish reason for having them, then they’re worth having
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Why do you dislike tax evasion with solo corps? Why do you want higher taxes?
Lower taxes are great, it means more isk is going into the economy and PLEX prices are rising, thus curbing the poor.
If you have an issue with that, well don’t try to stealthily reduce the money supply. Instead, your two options would be to give up and stop trying or whine properly in the plex prices are too high thread. Either way, the people who stockpiled plex will still be enjoying your salt
Thanks I added that to the list.
Don’t you think Eve makes tax evasion a little too easy?
Basically what I’m trying to suggest is that Eve players are far too comfortable. Either you’re a true Eve player and you take part in alliance or corp warfare on a regular basis, or you drop into this solo I am my own world style gameplay where you basically feed yourself from your solo Empire.
I’m just suggesting it’s not doing anything for the MMO community.
Let’s see, with lower taxes we see the rise of PLEX prices. This forces many alpha players to struggle to plex each month, as others look on. More and more people complain, while others argue against them. Seems like it’s a great driving source of content to me, lots of player to player interaction.
A sole proprietorship leave alone.
I am contributing my activity to EVE. I am contributing my presence in more than just one area of space to EVE. I am contributing my expertise to EVE. I am bringing over 300 chars together from a variety of backgrounds and not just one secluded, solitary group (unlike you) on a daily basis to interact with one another by having my one man alt corp.
You call one man corps selfish, yet you want to impose your way of using EVE on others. Who here is selfish? 
None? “I am playing for the game” or “Id rather do things on my own terms with my own means” or “I use it to anchor a station and run it myself” or “I use t for my trade character” or “I use it for my hauler” are things that do not assist EVE at all? 
You are in a group with over 600 characters, yet your alliances killboard is pretty much dead. What do you do to “assist EVE”? How does your existence in a dead group of characters “add to the EVE in a positive way”? Even a group with half as many characters as your alliance (The alliance tag KICK) is more active than your bigger group. How do you support your own claims that smaller groups are bad for EVE when bigger groups are arguably just as inactive, inept, selfish, avoiding activities, hiding away from others?
In other words: You want to see huge corps banned? Good idea. I am fully in agreement with you. Huge corps allow the individual to be lazy, delegate personal responsibilities to other people, don’t have to look after their own stuff and can rely on others to provide for them. Sounds pretty terrible if you ask me.
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and why are any of them bad reasons? you seem to be operating on an either/or assumption, that people are either in one man corps or they are not, however most of the responses here, and likely the vast majority of one man corps in game are held by people who are part of “real” corporations as you put it, and this is something that we do on the side.
we’ve taken the gameplay of a standard corp, and then expanded on that by using a one man corp for the extra utility that it grants. why exactly is that a bad thing? its not like corp names are in short supply.
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Like the forums, should we ban or tax the forums then?
What has this got to do with anything?
Please elaborate how one man corps are not doing anything for the MMO community.
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1-man corps are like self-employment. We have economic freedom as the right for every capsuleer and its good.
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Because by promoting yourself to out-of-corp-corp-boss is cheating, and you aren’t adding any flavour to the game with your idleness. What exactly does your one man corp do to help your bigger corp?