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A corporation, generally shortened to 'corp' (pronounced korp) in EVE is the equivalent of a guild in most other MMOs, but with a great deal more flexibility. [[NPC Corporations]] are functionally identical, but no members have any roles or titles. | A corporation, generally shortened to 'corp' (pronounced korp) in EVE is the equivalent of a guild in most other MMOs, but with a great deal more flexibility. [[NPC Corporations]] are functionally identical, but no members have any roles or titles. | ||
This article consists of two parts: the first part is a guide to setting up a corporation, the second part is a reference section. | |||
= Guide = | |||
This guide covers everything you need to know about setting up a corporation, from the things you have to consider beforehand to the steps you need to take to create the corporation to how to organize your corporation and its members. | |||
== Forming a Corporation == | == Forming a Corporation == | ||
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*'''Who will join the corporation?''' The corp can be just for yourself and your alts, in which case not much very planning is needed; the corp can be for a small group of friends, in which case a simple corp structure and simple plan will suffice; or the corp can be started by you with the intention of recruiting other players. In this last case more planning is needed, and the corp should be properly structured (these topics will be covered later in this article). | *'''Who will join the corporation?''' The corp can be just for yourself and your alts, in which case not much very planning is needed; the corp can be for a small group of friends, in which case a simple corp structure and simple plan will suffice; or the corp can be started by you with the intention of recruiting other players. In this last case more planning is needed, and the corp should be properly structured (these topics will be covered later in this article). | ||
*'''What will be the goal or purpose of the corporation?''' Having a goal or purpose is important, it gives the corporation members something to work for and look forward to. If the corp is just for you or for a group of friends, avoiding NPC taxes and having fun might be sufficient goals, but if you intend to recruit other players, having a clear goal will help convincing them to join you. Generally, the more specific your goal, the better. The goal could be "mission-running, industry, and wormhole pvp", but that's very broad and doesn't mix very well. More specific goals would be "Amarr mission-running", "tech 2 invention", or "low-sec piracy". These are just a few examples, there's a lot more to do or to aim for; just be sure to think about it and to make it as specific and clear as you can. | *'''What will be the goal or purpose of the corporation?''' Having a goal or purpose is important, it gives the corporation members something to work for and look forward to. If the corp is just for you or for a group of friends, avoiding NPC taxes and having fun might be sufficient goals, but if you intend to recruit other players, having a clear goal will help convincing them to join you. Generally, the more specific your goal, the better. The goal could be "mission-running, industry, and wormhole pvp", but that's very broad and doesn't mix very well. More specific goals would be "Amarr mission-running", "tech 2 invention", or "low-sec piracy". These are just a few examples, there's a lot more to do or to aim for; just be sure to think about it and to make it as specific and clear as you can. | ||
*'''Where will the corp operate?''' EVE has | *'''Where will the corp operate?''' EVE has thousands of systems, so it is unrealistic for a single corp to want to operate across the whole of EVE - some area of operations will have to be determined. Choose a region or regions where you want to operate, based on preferences or opportunities, and select a system where you want your Headquarters to be (spending some time looking at a map of EVE may help in this process). When starting out as a corp, it is best to establish a Headquarters in high security space, even if you intend to operate in, or move to, low sec or null sec. Having the Headquarters in high sec allows for safe logistics; if needed a secondary base can be established in low sec. Common places for Headquarters are near a trade hub or mission hub (for industrial or mission corps) or near a low sec or null sec access point (for pvp corps). | ||
==== Requirements ==== | ==== Requirements ==== | ||
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*'''Choose a ticker.''' The corporation ticker is used as a short name for the corporation, for instance in space behind ships, wrecks and containers belonging to your corporation. The maximum length of a ticker is 5 characters, again with only letters, numbers, spaces, and dots allowed. Unlike the corporation name, the ticker has to be unique - it may not be the same as the ticker of any other corporation or alliance, past or present. This can make it quite hard to find a good ticker. Playing around with spaces and dots may help. The "Ticker" button suggests a ticker for you if you can't think of one. | *'''Choose a ticker.''' The corporation ticker is used as a short name for the corporation, for instance in space behind ships, wrecks and containers belonging to your corporation. The maximum length of a ticker is 5 characters, again with only letters, numbers, spaces, and dots allowed. Unlike the corporation name, the ticker has to be unique - it may not be the same as the ticker of any other corporation or alliance, past or present. This can make it quite hard to find a good ticker. Playing around with spaces and dots may help. The "Ticker" button suggests a ticker for you if you can't think of one. | ||
*'''Set a tax rate.''' The tax rate determines what percentage of bounties and mission rewards generated by corporation members will be transferred to the corporation wallet. The rate can be anywhere from 0% to 100%, but a high tax rate might deter people from joining. Most corporations have a tax rate between 5% and 10%. | *'''Set a tax rate.''' The tax rate determines what percentage of bounties and mission rewards generated by corporation members will be transferred to the corporation wallet. The rate can be anywhere from 0% to 100%, but a high tax rate might deter people from joining. Most corporations have a tax rate between 5% and 10%. | ||
*'''Enter a Home Page''', which is a URL to your corporation website (if you have one). If the corporation doesn't have a website, consider linking to a recruitment thread on the forums | *'''Enter a Home Page''', which is a URL to your corporation website (if you have one). If the corporation doesn't have a website, consider linking to a recruitment thread on the forums. If you decide not to list anything, remove the "http://" which is in the box by default. If it is not removed, it will be displayed as the corporation's website. | ||
*'''Enter a description.''' The description of the corporation can contain up to 4000 characters. Note that the description will be publicly viewable ingame, on EVE Gate, and on third-party websites. Giving some information on what the corporation does is a good idea, but don't be too specific ( | *'''Enter a description.''' The description of the corporation can contain up to 4000 characters. Note that the description will be publicly viewable ingame, on EVE Gate, and on third-party websites. Giving some information on what the corporation does is a good idea, but don't be too specific (listing "''Mining every Friday at 1900 in Rancer''" would be a bad idea). Many corporations list diplomatic contacts in their description. | ||
*'''Membership applications enabled.''' If this box is checked, other people will be able to apply to become a member of the corporation. Unchecking this box means no one will be able to apply until you enable it again later. | *'''Membership applications enabled.''' If this box is checked, other people will be able to apply to become a member of the corporation. Unchecking this box means no one will be able to apply until you enable it again later. | ||
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*Another thing which is smart to do immediately is to take all corporation shares under your own control. All corporations start with 1000 shares, which can be used for various purposes (which will be explained later). The shares are in the corporation wallet by default; for safety reasons it is generally considered best to move them to your personal wallet. You can do this by opening your wallet, selecting the "Corporation Wallet" tab and within that tab the "Shares" tab. Right-click the shares, select "give", fill out your own name, and press "ok". If you leave the shares in the corporation wallet, your corp will be vulnerable to hostile takeover by rogue members later on. Though the risk of that might seem small, it happens regularly in EVE - better to prevent it from ever occurring by this simple step. You can (re-)distribute the shares from your personal wallet to other people when needed. | *Another thing which is smart to do immediately is to take all corporation shares under your own control. All corporations start with 1000 shares, which can be used for various purposes (which will be explained later). The shares are in the corporation wallet by default; for safety reasons it is generally considered best to move them to your personal wallet. You can do this by opening your wallet, selecting the "Corporation Wallet" tab and within that tab the "Shares" tab. Right-click the shares, select "give", fill out your own name, and press "ok". If you leave the shares in the corporation wallet, your corp will be vulnerable to hostile takeover by rogue members later on. Though the risk of that might seem small, it happens regularly in EVE - better to prevent it from ever occurring by this simple step. You can (re-)distribute the shares from your personal wallet to other people when needed. | ||
==== Editing details later ==== | |||
As mentioned, you may want to edit some of the details which were entered when the corporation was created. If you are CEO or director an "edit details" button will be visible at the bottom of the corporation details window ("Corporation" window, "Home" tab, "Details" tab). When clicking "edit details" button you will effectively get the same screen as when creating a corporation. From here the corporation logo, home page, tax rate, and description can be changed, and membership applications can be enabled or disabled. Changing the logo carries a fee of 100 isk (yes you read that right, one hundred isk) which will be taken from the corporation wallet. Other details can be edited without a charge. | |||
This screen does contain one thing which isn't listed when creating a corporation. It shows the member limit, which is the maximum number of members the corporation may have (excluding the CEO), and the races allowed, which depends on the skills of the CEO when the corporation was created or last updated. The member limit and races allowed do ''not'' automatically change when the CEO trains more corporation skills or when a new CEO is appointed. For the member limit and races allowed to be update, the CEO must click the "update with my skills" button. (This button is visible to directors, but can only be used by the CEO.) | |||
This means that even characters with low or even no corporation skills can become CEO of large corporations, as long as a previous CEO has updated the corporation with the proper skills. CEO's with low skills should take care not to accidentally click the update button; though no one will be expelled if the member limit is updated to below the current membership, no new members can be accepted until the membership has dropped below the limit. | |||
== Offices == | |||
Offices give the corporation a physical presence in the universe. The Headquarters is just an entry in the corporation details (think of it as a PO box); an office is an actual space in a station. If the corporation has rented an office at a station, the corp will be listed in the "Offices" tab of the station and corp hangars are made available in that station. Corp hangars allow items to be shared between corp members and allow members to do research or production from corp assets. This is a great advantage, so every corp should have at least one office. Ideally, the office will be in a station which has good station services, such as medical facilities, a reprocessing plant, and a repair shop, as these services will be useful for corp members. Industrial corporations may want to rent an office in a station with manufacturing and research slots. | |||
==== Renting offices ==== | |||
Any member with the "Rent Office" role can rent an office by clicking the "rent office" button at the bottom of the station information panel in a station. There is no limit to the number of offices a corporation can have, but any corp can have only one office per station and every NPC station can have offices for only 24 corporations. (Player-built outposts in 0.0 also can have offices, but the number depends on the type and upgrades of the outpost.) After clicking the "rent office" button a window will pop up showing the current 30-day rental fee for that station. When clicking 'yes', the rent for the first 30 days will be withdrawn from the corporation wallet and the corp will immediately receive a bill for the '''next''' 30 days. This bill must be paid before the first 30 days are over, else the corp will lose the office. A new bill will be issued like this every 30 days, for as long as the corp has the office. If the corp has multiple offices, it will receive one bill per office. (More on bills, including settings to automatically pay them, later in this article.) | |||
==== Dynamic rental fee ==== | |||
Note that office rental fees are ''dynamic''; they vary per station and will go up or down depending on demand at the station. Office rental fees are calculated daily at downtime based on the number of free offices at downtime. Monthly fees rise by 5% when there are no available offices at the station; prices stay the same when there is 1 available office. When there are 2 or more available offices, prices drop - the size of the drop is based on the number of available offices [http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1280861]. Since you only get a bill every 30 days and prices can rise by 5% '''per day''', there can be a large difference between one month's rent and the next month's rent (in the worst case, the rent can quadruple!). | |||
The minimum rent is 10,000 isk, but in popular stations the rent can be several million isk per month. In the very popular stations, such as the main stations in trade hubs, rents can be in the hundreds of million isk per month! Most stations have more sensible rents though, from the minimum of 10,000 isk to a few hundred thousand isk. It is very much worth it to 'shop around' when looking for a good location for an office; even stations in the same system can have widely different rental fees. Unfortunately there is no way to remotely check the available of offices or the rental fee. When you are docked at a station, the number of free offices will be listed in the "Offices" tab of the Station Information panel, but the only way to see what the rent is, is to click the "Rent Office" button. (Note: even if the station has no free offices, it is possible to see what the rent would be by clicking the button.) | |||
==== Naming hangar and wallet divisions ==== | |||
The default names for hangar and wallet divisions are straightforward ("1st Division" to "7th Division and "Master Wallet", "2nd Wallet Division" to "7th Wallet Division", respectively); often it is easier to give the divisions a more descriptive name so that it is easier to remember which is which. The CEO can rename hangar and wallet divisions via the "Divisions" button at the bottom of the corp details window ("Corporation" window, "Home" tab, "Details" tab). Many corporations name their hangar divisions after their contents or the member groups which have access to them. Wallet divisions are often named after the type of isk transactions they're used for. The only division which cannot be renamed is the Master Wallet of the corporation wallet. | |||
== Roles and Titles == | |||
[coming soon!] | |||
= Reference section = | |||
== Skills & Member Limits == | == Skills & Member Limits == | ||
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==== Corporation Management ==== | ==== Corporation Management ==== | ||
Each level of this skill allows another 10 members in the corporation, and is required to form a corporation, however (as of Jan 2011) only needs to be trained to level | Each level of this skill allows another 10 members in the corporation, and is required to form a corporation, however (as of Jan 2011) only needs to be trained to level 1 to form the corporation. With this trained to Level 5, a corporation can hold a maximum of 51 characters. | ||
It is important to note that the below skills only take effect when the current CEO opens the corp management interface and uses the "Update With My Skills" button (NeoCom Corporation>Home>Details>Edit Details). This means that a third party can be used to form the corporation, then resign and appoint another member as the CEO, bypassing the need for the skills to be trained. | It is important to note that the below skills only take effect when the current CEO opens the corp management interface and uses the "Update With My Skills" button (NeoCom Corporation>Home>Details>Edit Details). This means that a third party can be used to form the corporation, then resign and appoint another member as the CEO, bypassing the need for the skills to be trained. | ||
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Note that this statistic is not shown on the 'Edit Corporation Details' window, however a member cannot be accepted into the corporation if the relevant skill is not present. | Note that this statistic is not shown on the 'Edit Corporation Details' window, however a member cannot be accepted into the corporation if the relevant skill is not present. | ||