Valmorgan Aubaris
Stellar and Orbital Strategic Services
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Posted - 2013.12.25 12:48:00 -
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Absoliav wrote:I'm making this thread out of curiosity, how many of you dusters out there aren't in a corp and I'd like to know why, I'll start.
I see no personal benefit, corps bring nothing to the game other than ISK, while also lacking any real purpose to the players of Dust, nothing really changes once you join a corp, no new gear, no new contracts, I just can't feel for it. I also don't approve of corp-stomping, I don't car if it's happening to my team or happening to my enemies, it's just not fun in any way and alienates up and coming players.
I find it a little Ironic here I am now a CEO and reading you post I identify completely. There was very little I liked about the DUST community and found it extremely immature compared to average EVE players.
I have been a long time player of EVE and a member of the alliance within it for years. When DUST first came out, it was a curiosity for all of the alliance members, and I am the only one among them that literally bought a PS3 just for DUST to see what it was all about.
I didn't like it at all. Hearing babies cry over the headset, little kids , etc really turned me off. The lack of professionalism compared to EVE totally stunned me, the concept of clear comms was alien to them, FC's didnt exist, I couldnt see the point of a squad leader when everyone did what they wanted any way. The whole thing was to me absurd and when I tried to explain to them how EVE tactical comms work they would be rude and say go back to EVE, 
I simply put the game down and didn't touch it for nearly 6 -7 months. There was nothing about the average DUST player I wanted to be anywhere near.
Then more changes began to come in, more overtones of increased DUST and EVE integration, and my alliance started to see how DUST and EVE could be interacting in the future, and asked me to develop that angle preemptively as they knew I was a DUST player.
I didn't want to. But I said to myself, "OK, here's the deal, I'll simply recruit an existing DUST corp into the alliance and join it as a liason"...
That didn't work well, dust officers exist in a bubble that they think they are far more supreme then they really are, and couldn't understand why I needed to be in control of the contracts. When I explained that I represent a large alliance with very expensive ships and many years invested that could be comprimised, they simply didnt care.
So, I formed a corp EVE side and after a while finally met a player that not only understood , but was awesome on comms. Then another, and another.... now our growth rate is phenomenal.
As squads we make much more ISK per battle then when simply a single player joining a squad in pubs. That im sure is because we know how one another thinks, what we each tend to use and how we all fit into a squad, you dont often find that in public squads.
EVE alliance seeks mercs, join Stellar and Orbital Strategic Services today!
Let's gank Scotty.
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