We are Legion

So, lets say you've found the corporation for you, and want to help your corpmates out as they help you along in your chosen career path. Well, there are also some basic steps you can take that are true for nearly all professions involved.

Some tips are:

1. Listen to your CEO. Most of the time your CEO has way more experience in handling matters you may just be learning to understand. Also, besides from assigned "diplomats" who speak on the CEO's behalf in out-of-corp matters, your CEO is also the spokesperson for the corp. What he says, goes most of the time. CEO's are most often good team leaders, who actually do it for a living, or just have the natural talent to lead. It's rare to bump into a corporation that is succeeding with a horrible CEO as its head.

2. Be helpful to your corpmates. Sure you're just a new guy in the corporation, and may not get some of the group mechanics that the older guys have made standard in their gaming. Thats normal. Just be understanding and as helpful as possible. Offer help when you think you can do so, and even if you're turned down, the gesture is nearly never ignored down the line.

3. When one of your superiors asks you to do something within reason for the corp, dont hesitate to do it, and if possible, go above and beyond the call of duty. Good help is very hard to find nowadays, and the more resourceful people helping the corporation succeed, the better it is for everyone, including you.

4. Make friends. Whilst true that trusting someone enough to consider them as a friend is a risky venture in a harsh game like EVE, it has also proven to be the deciding factor in may of the great history-making player actions that has made EVE what it is. For example: when I accidentally deleted my old Amarr main (with all the stuff on it), I was basically starting from scratch. An old friend of mine (still is, though he doesnt come on as much anymore) spotted me up some major isk to get me going pronto. If he didnt, I'd probably be still in a cruiser stuck doing lvl2 missions.

(Okay fine, it isnt one of those big historial events of EVE, but I had to think of something, and if you consider it, putting yourselves in my shoes, that single action of helping me out to restart is a big thing, right?)

5. Be open-minded to better opportunities. Sometimes being stuck in a certain profession can become stagnant. For example, in an old corp I joined, one of our industrial characters was considering retiring from EVE, as manufacturing was already, to him, easy to do, even for advanced tech 2 items. We suggested he give combat a shot, and he did. He now is one of the better pilots of the corporation before I left. This may contradict the advice to specialize a bit but also consider, once you're good at something, good enough that you can consider yourself "done" on that aspect of the game, try something else. Variety is the spice of life, and your corporation will benefit from people like you who can do many different things when the designated person to do this one job isnt around, but you just happen to finish the skill training for that job.


Friendships and good connections are a path to success in life, and in multiplayer games as well. Your reputation is also another factor to consider, as this is just one persistent world, your actions affect all the others who play EVE. True success in EVE is not measured by one person, but by the actions of an entire group of people. Sure you may be overshadowed by the group's name and leader speaking for you all, but all in all, being part of something, no matter how big or small, is basically what we humans want. We are a social race of beings, after all.