Deranged Disaster
The Rainbow Effect
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Posted - 2013.09.15 14:16:00 -
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CCP FoxFour wrote:You listed three conclusions about a problem. Any suggestions on solutions?
Players joining corporations is a huge thing for us, its something we really want to encourage. Not only does it tend to mean people stick around in the game longer, it tends to mean having more fun. Hell I have a lot more fun while in a corporation.
Here's a couple of suggestions for you Socks. With PC measuring how "good" corporations are people tend to want to join bigger corps that hold more ground, making it impossible for newly established corporations to get members since it is impossible to get into PC due MH and only MH being open.
Just like there's a FOTM weapon there's a FOTM corporation and the best diehard competitive players jump there if they have the mentallity of never losing because there are almost no rewards for people sticking with one corporation.
Since they are corporations, putting some use to that TV inside the merc quarters would be very useful for advertising. Say CEO of The Rainbow Effect donated 50 million to keep an ad going for 5 hours, ocassionally popping up and showing the name, the ticker and the banner.
Forums are not a good way to recruit because threads tend to get bumped by people that are not the CEO and mods do not pay attention to them all the time which is understandable but makes the people that keep by the rules fall into the very last pages. Apart from that, ingame, most of the new players and some veterans see no incentive into joining a corporation unless there are paychecks instead of taxes or have alot of friends there.
Layers within corporations would fix that. EG a new recruit has a 10% tax rate but once he proves himself he gets a bigger rank, falling into the mercenaries that get funded from the corporation to play instead of him having to pay to stay in.
Also, there's a low playerbase compared to the corporations that are out there and most of the good players go play with good players, most of the medium players play with medium players and most of the low players play with low players, making this loop go on and on and on and basically making corporations almost never get better. |