Felix Thunide
Tharumec
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Posted - 2014.07.31 18:49:00 -
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I started Eve Online in 2008 after having created the biggest guild on my server in WoW. I quit WoW because my son was born and my guild members couldn't understand why I took a break for a few months. It was time to find a more mature crowd. From there I tenaciously, and ecstatically climbed the steep learning curve of Eve Online, and the more I learned the more there was to learn. After having made so many mistakes I started to meet with success from time to time. My goals began to take shape and I was hooked.
My corp history is pretty long, I followed my pirate friend around quite a bit then turned my attention towards the rank and file of null-sec. Learned allot, got into some massive fights, watched the Northern Coalition crumble, good times! From there I joined an RP corp, pretty neat actually. Then WH corp, good money, but gawd was it boring when I was the only person on. Back out to null, whole lot of, GÇ£Nope don't want to deal with this **** again,GÇ¥ started to take hold. Went back to high-sec and started my own corp, I had heard Dust 514 was coming out soon and it was time to prepare a foundation to bring Dust and Eve together in one organization and position myself and my members to take full advantage of whatever may come.
I bought a PS3 even though I had an Xbox 360 so I could play Dust, bought my way into the Beta as soon as that became an option. I don't have a ton of money, but hey I'm a CCP fanboy! I had a blast with Dust, I couldn't wait for orbital bombardments, I couldn't wait to join an alliance and start conquering planets with the combined arms of Space, Air, and Ground combat. I gathered up a goodly size of members who shared my vision, joined an alliance who also became passively interested in my goals, and we all watched closely as things developed. I had good members, good leaders came from those members, on both Dust and Eve sides, and the corporation I had developed was a force to be reckoned with on either side, but the Dust Eve connection was not getting much bigger over time.
Eventually the goals began to change on both sides. My Eve members wanted to make more of an impact, we set up a POS and started turning a profit. My Dust members wanted to do PC battles, we began merccing ourselves out. Corp chat always had people in it, but there was no common ground between my Eve side and my Dust side so these people didn't have much use for each other beyond a little small talk from time to time. The point of contention came with taxes of all things. We raised taxes to 10% to pay for Eve bills and put it to use paying bonuses out in faction battles in Dust which became even more of an incentive when those battles started paying only in LP. 10% is chump change in Eve, but in Dust it feels pretty significant and my leadership on both sides couldn't change those taxes to meet their needs without screwing the other side.
Moral was waning and I had to do something to try and unify the corp, keep it in one piece until CCP's master plan was unleashed. Then each side would be of great use to each other and taxes would be a small detail. POCO's became conquerable and I went for it. Even got in a spat over one that resulted in a huge fight. Fun times until the corp we attacked bought some mercs of their own. They achieved a pyrrhic victory and should get a return on their investment in 5 years or so. My corp split from the alliance they were in. The Eve side wanted to see new horizons and the Dust side really wasn't restricted in any way by what alliance we were in or what area of operation we chose.
The new expansions came out for Eve and Dust and they had no new additions to the Dust/Eve link, the corp came apart at the seams and I spent a huge amount of my time for about three days sorting people out and surgically amputating my corp into two separate fully functional groups with surprisingly minimal loss of members. Out of an 80 man corp we had two, each just under 40 members.
Those two corporations are still alive and well, they are doing what works for them and I have stepped out of leadership although I still retain my title in both. The Eve corp went to Null-sec, the Dust corp is an enjoyable low drama corp who sometimes lends members to PC battles. Project Legion sounds like it will suffer from many of the same fundamental problems Dust does, Eve's sandbox components are still largely in control of Null tyrants, and Project Valkyrie will be exclusive to Oculus Rift, which I do not intend to buy. I'm disappointed to say, I'm painfully losing interest in my favorite hobby of the last 6 years. Also, I have been cheating on you with other games this whole time... |