That’s not what the EULA/COC says. Don’t make up rules, troll.
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I really like this. This is the first answer that supports one man corps that has a valid point.
I can’t argue with it.
I think they should be disbanded, yes.
A corp that cannot maintain a minimum number of active members (Let’s say 5.) is not a successful corporation. It is not a viable group in its own right and the members should be shunted to organizations that actually contribute to the viability of EVE as a whole or if they don’t want to create or join one of those then they should be put in an NPC corp until they do.
A corporation is literally a body of players. It is not a body of player. The extra layer over the one individual or I would say even over the 1 character and 2 or 3 alts, is unnecessary overhead. In order for a corporation to mean something, it should have to provide some service to the player base, a “public good” you might say, even if that is just as some place a noob might stop in on his/her journey through the experience that is New Eden. Why should you get all the privileges of corp-hood, including the ability to reduce your taxes to The State down to nothing? You should have to do something for us in return. Else, don’t be a corporation. Tough luck.
Only CCP can know for certain, but it is my suspicion that 1-man corporations increase the rate of attrition of EVE players. Do 1-man-corp players have a shorter or longer stay in EVE? And, I don’t refer to alts. Obviously, someone with 10 alts each in 1-man corps probably has more invested and will stay longer than a single players 1 single character in an NPC corp or otherwise. My question: does sitting alone in a corporation channel make you more or less likely to keep playing the game?
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Honey, the formula is quite simple isn’t it? You’re either playing Eve the right way or you aren’t.
No, it’s a sandbox, you should read up on EVE Online.
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A VERY well put and interesting argument for the ‘against’ side.
And you make an interesting point with that question at the end.
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Excellent point! Finally someone nailed it.
So Eve is a sandbox which means I create my own destiny.
What I’m looking for are VALID answers.
Ok Rivr, if like you say you are bringing over 300 characters together from a variety of backgrounds then you get a pass.
THIS TIME
Change the title “Should one player (=one account or more accounts from same player) corps be disbanded?”
I replied “That is a dumb question as it is (1) IMPOSSIBLE for CCP to know and (2) Easy to work around by just asking a friend in RL to log in as an alpha once.”. I understand that it is difficult to understand what you ask cannot be realised. What you ask is impossible, no matter what arguments for or against. Your question itself IS invalid.
I will repeat : No matter what arguments against (or in favour), it cannot be implemented. I hope you understand that.
I wouldn’t be so sure of that.
If CCP are smart enough to make Eve in the first place then I’m sure they can implement a simple way of filtering out one man corps AND alt-only corps.
how exactly is it cheating? by that logic then anyone who uses a spreadsheet for industry is also cheating.
makes the game more enjoyable for me, which (among other things) helps keep me playing. also makes my month by month accounting take a couple hours by just copy and pasting from the various corp wallets into the relevant sections of my accounting sheet rather than having to spend days sifting through all the transactions to make sure things are going in the right place. days that I can then spend doing stuff with the corp.
not to mention it makes funding my activities and running my marketeering/trade much easier, which keeps me liquid, which keeps me, and often my corp mates, in the expensive ships that I like to loose so frequently.
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They simply can’t. I even told you a perfect workaround by adding one or more RL friends in the game that don’t even have to play. What part don’t you understand? It is not possible and even if the would gather more information on subscribers, there is a workaround that is so simple, every kid can do it. What would be the purpose?
Can you try and answer my question I posed a few posts back? Probably not, you don’t care about the lack of reasoning behind your demands. I just wonder if you can explain your salty tears about the one man corporations that is making life hell for your one man posting spree.
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Using spreadsheets and playing the game are two different things.
I can accept that as a valid reason why one man corps are a good thing.
This is NOT a valid reason.
What question?
This one about your emotional claims that one man corps are not doing anything for the MMO community.
Ok.
Here’s a situation.
Mom: Stewart, what are you doing?
Stewart: playing my computer game.
Mom: which one?
Stewart: It’s an online game called Eve. I get to play with hundreds of other real people from all around the world. It’s amazing!
Mom: that’s great honey. Have you made any friends?
Stewart: No.
Mom: why not?
Need I say anymore?
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why not? saves me hours of paperwork, which means more time spent in space. dunno about you, but personally I prefer people who undock, and if having alt corps means they can keep things organized easier so need to spend less time fiddling with numbers, all the better.
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NPC are the default and set the baseline for taxes where as Corps and POS set their own tax rate (more or less). It’s not ‘extra’ but rather in POS or corps it’s possible to pay less in taxes which I have no problem with.
The point is that one man corps are ghosts many/most of the time in regards to stations because the real owners don’t want to be wardec’ed so they install a figurehead. This is an exploit of the wardec system and needs to be addresses.
I actually don’t care about 1-person corps except when it comes to owning stations. I am a solo player and have my own corp but I have a bunch of alts so…
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Natocha has been nice to me before, so I gave her the benefit of the doubt. One more silly suggestion and she is out though.
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“There are no solutions, only tradeoffs.”
That a solution isn’t perfect doesn’t mean it should not be implemented. Every rule in every game ever played probably has some sort of workaround. And, the people who work around the rules are usually referred to as cheaters. You can’t catch them all. You can’t stop them all. They ruin games for everyone else. But, should we stop playing Monopoly because grandma gives herself extra money if she’s the banker? Should we cancel the Tour De France because dudes are on steroids to train for it?
I would say that they shouldn’t even try to stop “workarounds”. They should just tell us who they think is shooting straight and who they think is “working around”. Then we can decide whether we even want to interact with those players and decide HOW we want to interact with them.
The perfect should not be the enemy of the good.
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