I noticed many vet players and new ones decide to join NPC factions and stick to it. I’m wondering what are pros and cons of being a part of NPC factions, especially pirate factions. Bonus standing points? Bouns loyalty points? You are pretty much free of player drama and bureaucracy?
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When you ask a question or tell a joke in NPC corp chat, you’ll actually get a response.
Mr Epeen 
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Pros: Lots of people chatting and to see, no wars, anonymity, lots of knowledge at hand in the active corp chat
Cons: 10% tax and hypernet, SP, scam contract spam which needs to be blocked
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The spam can be blocked the same way you block local, in fact every chat window has the same options to nuke stuff into orbit regarding that. Thank goodness!!
Pirate factions are for Faction Warfare. They have a unique LP store and items you can gain there for both the factions. There is always some drama but noones in charge so to speak so you can do what you want, chat when you want, and just do your own thing at your own pace while having some company along the way. Downsides are that you cant control who says what and sometimes the chat does get inane or even toxic to a point.
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If you manage to train a decent amount of SP and decide to sell the character, a lot of buyers want the character to have a clean corp history.
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For Factional Warfare the NPC corporations offer 0% LP tax and 0% ISK tax, plus you stay out of politics and have a lobby full of people to talk to.
So, for FW it is very good, the only disadvantage is not being able to open your own corporation office and not being able to anchor structures, but a lot of people don’t even want to do this anyway so for them there’s no disadvantage.