While I'm not Jester yet, but I have another, smaller, more technical post for today, read that too if you wish.
I've read yet another shameless propaganda/recruitment post from CFC. I mean can a recruitment post be more obvious than "Every day is a challenge and every day is a fight. It’s the best war in the game right now and it’s certainly the best time to be playing EVE in its history."
It's no secret that I'm looking for a nullsec home. Now it's not an easy task for me as I have my own terms. Most people just want to belong and try to fit in. I don't. I rather be alone than having to tolerate things I don't want to tolerate like a culture where contributing by keeping others in ships is not considered equal. But this would just be my personal problem. Normally I'd approach alliances that I like and they would either accept me or not. Who cares about my personal diary?
Instead, I'd like to point out a rather weird problem that is probably unknown to the busy recruiters who write posts like that. I mean the problem that prevents me even from applying when I find someone interesting.
Corporations.
Don't laugh! I think one of the biggest obstacle between a nullsec alliance and a prospective member is corporations. I understand what a small pirate corporation do. I understand what a WH corp do. I understand what a highsec PvE corp do (stay docked). But what the hell does a nullsec sov-holding powerblock member corporation do?
I mean all "politics" and "culture" is in the alliance or even on powerblock level. The corporations don't seem to have any unique culture, most of them don't even have a forum or it's dead. From the news it seems the alliance has FCs, the alliance has the ISK, the alliance directors make the strategy, the alliance has the forum, the alliance has the killboard, the members identify with the alliance. I've been reading TheMittani.com, the official CFC "Fox News". It talks about "CFC did this, Dotbrothers did that". Can you find a single corporation name in the posts? I couldn't. This "diplomatic update" lists 17 alliances as members of powerblocks. The alliances are visible. They have characteristics. But corporations don't.
Now let me give the problem as simple as I can with a bizarre example. John is so offended by the usage of the sexist insult "mate", that he immediately decides to eradicate it or die trying. He wants to join NCdot, the only entity in EVE that shares this noble goal. But there is no such thing as NCdot recruitment! He opens up the NCdot info and finds several corporations. Which to join and how?
So let me give an advice to the busy writers of alliance propaganda: link a little guide how can someone apply to the alliance. The people see the alliance, they know nothing of corporations. Something like that "If you want to help us fight the ones who consider calling each others `mate` tolerable, you can apply to Bashers INC [link] (for casual PvP fun), Reapers INC [link] (20M SP, 500+ kills, do your job or GTFO) or Hoarders INC [link] (industry, logistics, some PvP).
Finding a home is hard enough, especially in a game where scamming is allowed. If you want new members, don't make it harder by having to deal with obscure corporations.
Finally an interesting question: is it just coincidence that the two strongest alliances, GSF and TEST have one-one mega-corporation in it? Practically Dreddit is TEST, not member of it. Can it be that corporations are just obsolete remnants of the small-gang origins of the alliances and completely unnecessary? Wouldn't an alliance be better off just merging them all until the member count cap? Of course I can be wrong here, but then enlighten me, what the corps do in a nullsec alliance?
Still no daily report until the implant prices stabilize somewhere.
I've read yet another shameless propaganda/recruitment post from CFC. I mean can a recruitment post be more obvious than "Every day is a challenge and every day is a fight. It’s the best war in the game right now and it’s certainly the best time to be playing EVE in its history."
It's no secret that I'm looking for a nullsec home. Now it's not an easy task for me as I have my own terms. Most people just want to belong and try to fit in. I don't. I rather be alone than having to tolerate things I don't want to tolerate like a culture where contributing by keeping others in ships is not considered equal. But this would just be my personal problem. Normally I'd approach alliances that I like and they would either accept me or not. Who cares about my personal diary?
Instead, I'd like to point out a rather weird problem that is probably unknown to the busy recruiters who write posts like that. I mean the problem that prevents me even from applying when I find someone interesting.
Corporations.
Don't laugh! I think one of the biggest obstacle between a nullsec alliance and a prospective member is corporations. I understand what a small pirate corporation do. I understand what a WH corp do. I understand what a highsec PvE corp do (stay docked). But what the hell does a nullsec sov-holding powerblock member corporation do?
I mean all "politics" and "culture" is in the alliance or even on powerblock level. The corporations don't seem to have any unique culture, most of them don't even have a forum or it's dead. From the news it seems the alliance has FCs, the alliance has the ISK, the alliance directors make the strategy, the alliance has the forum, the alliance has the killboard, the members identify with the alliance. I've been reading TheMittani.com, the official CFC "Fox News". It talks about "CFC did this, Dotbrothers did that". Can you find a single corporation name in the posts? I couldn't. This "diplomatic update" lists 17 alliances as members of powerblocks. The alliances are visible. They have characteristics. But corporations don't.
Now let me give the problem as simple as I can with a bizarre example. John is so offended by the usage of the sexist insult "mate", that he immediately decides to eradicate it or die trying. He wants to join NCdot, the only entity in EVE that shares this noble goal. But there is no such thing as NCdot recruitment! He opens up the NCdot info and finds several corporations. Which to join and how?
So let me give an advice to the busy writers of alliance propaganda: link a little guide how can someone apply to the alliance. The people see the alliance, they know nothing of corporations. Something like that "If you want to help us fight the ones who consider calling each others `mate` tolerable, you can apply to Bashers INC [link] (for casual PvP fun), Reapers INC [link] (20M SP, 500+ kills, do your job or GTFO) or Hoarders INC [link] (industry, logistics, some PvP).
Finding a home is hard enough, especially in a game where scamming is allowed. If you want new members, don't make it harder by having to deal with obscure corporations.
Finally an interesting question: is it just coincidence that the two strongest alliances, GSF and TEST have one-one mega-corporation in it? Practically Dreddit is TEST, not member of it. Can it be that corporations are just obsolete remnants of the small-gang origins of the alliances and completely unnecessary? Wouldn't an alliance be better off just merging them all until the member count cap? Of course I can be wrong here, but then enlighten me, what the corps do in a nullsec alliance?
Still no daily report until the implant prices stabilize somewhere.
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