Just some helpful advice:

Don't try and get people thinking they can run an alpha and be plexing their account shortly. It will involve an intolerable amount of grind, and you will burn people out at a huge rate. Getting new players on the grind treadmill makes a lot of people quit. I make 300 mill an hour ratting, and even though I could grind out a plex a day, it would drive me up the wall from the monotony.

You can't be a generic, we do it all corp. Pick something to focus on and do that. Industrial/PvP/explo high sec corps invariably turn to ****, since you have too many competing interests.

The sooner you get noobs into null, the better. People who live too long in high sec get infected with carebearitis. Eve is fundamentally two different games. High sec, and the rest of New Eden. Too much time in high sec makes you all sorts of hot garbage at the rest of EvE.

We probably won't focus on FW early on. We want to focus training the new members as quickly as possible. Will be doing that by actively communicating in discord as well as going on scheduled roams and Wormhole expeditions. The fastest way to learn about the game is to play the game. FW can be a good content creator, but my experience with it has indicated to me that it'll probably be beyond our means early on. We might dabble in it a little bit later on for some fights. But I can't see anything good coming out of it early on when most are members won't even understand basic mass fleet commands

This is my current vision for the corporation as I see it now, it is subject to change at any time so I would be happy for suggestive criticism.

I'm going to set up the corp in a system that is in highsec, relatively safe, it is 4 jumps from one of the major trade hubs, has fairly good asteroid belts, is right next to a low-sec system in case you want to risk your ship to mine some more valuable ore, and is 8 jumps from nullsec.

The station I am planning on renting has everything a station needs, industry, ship repair, you name it, so it can cater to players of all playstyles.

Once we grow a bit, we will run frequent fleet ops into nullsec where we will attack anyone and everyone just for the purpose of practice.

After the corp's ability to work together as a fleet improves, we will return in force to take back Molden Heath and our old "stomping grounds" will be ours once more and we can get to building Engineering Complexes/Citadels/whatever. After that, then we will see about getting some territory in nullsec.

Keep in mind, all of this is months upon months of work, so it will require a dedicated group that will not give up for anything and will keep on fighting till the end.

Sounds good Big B. The Eternal Noxium Imperium is recruiting for November. A few Eve Veteran friends of mine are going to log back on. Been playing EvE for two years before Dust Came out. In fact my Dust toon is a member. I normally help out new players in EvE and would welcome a chance to get my fellow Dust players in a chat room to answer questions. As for H.O.N.K., or whatever name is ultimately decided, my corp will stand by you guys, alliance or otherwise. =)

Blaze, stop Corp hopping. #advice

I said stop it, that ain't falco.

Just some helpful advice:

Don't try and get people thinking they can run an alpha and be plexing their account shortly. It will involve an intolerable amount of grind, and you will burn people out at a huge rate. Getting new players on the grind treadmill makes a lot of people quit. I make 300 mill an hour ratting, and even though I could grind out a plex a day, it would drive me up the wall from the monotony.

You can't be a generic, we do it all corp. Pick something to focus on and do that. Industrial/PvP/explo high sec corps invariably turn to ****, since you have too many competing interests.

The sooner you get noobs into null, the better. People who live too long in high sec get infected with carebearitis. Eve is fundamentally two different games. High sec, and the rest of New Eden. Too much time in high sec makes you all sorts of hot garbage at the rest of EvE.

So now I'm curious, has anyone calculated yet how long it would take to get the skill points to learn every skill an alpha clone can learn?

Also I may join up OP, If I can ever remember to start my trial account lol.

So now I'm curious, has anyone calculated yet how long it would take to get the skill points to learn every skill an alpha clone can learn?

Also I may join up OP, If I can ever remember to start my trial account lol.

If I'm remembering correctly if an alpha clone were to train all skills available to them, they'd cap at 5mil SP, I think. No idea how long that would take, but I'm sure it'd be over a month anyway.

Faction warfare is a good start for two reasons. You get used to PvP combat and the perks that Militia LP provide. In many cases, faction ammo and gear is better than Tier 2 modules and don't require Tier 2 skills to use. I

Awesome, hope to see you starside!

Well, having been in Dust corps with both you guys, I might just hit y'all up for this. Got a paid EVE account a few weeks back...

Been thinking about starting a new EVE account just to try out the improved New Player Experience. The NPE was almost non-existent when I started in 2008.

That and the fact that the last time I came back to EVE after a long absence I got most of my expensive ships blown up before I learned to play again. So I am thinking that if I decide to go back to EVE it might be best to start fresh with a new account, and then go back to my old account after I got the hang of things again.

... so, if I start a new account, I will likely join H.O.N.K.

I have removed all roles from my 2 mains and finished making a replacement alt Ceo for my personal corp. But I have a couple of questions:

I noticed you joined The Sixth Empire, how much control does the space pope have over your corp? I will be honest, I hate Amarr.
Are you guys in many wars since you joined them?
Are you still based out of high sec?
Did you do anything in-game this weekend?

I have been very busy lately helping a mate build a house, so not much time to play eve at the moment but looking forward to getting back to blowing ships up asap.

The Sixth Empire is designed to be run by the members of the alliance, so while the space pope is technically at the top, we're free to do what we want. However, we do work closely with the alliance for mining ops and general fleets.

H.O.N.K. has nothing to do with the Amarr or fw, and i'm pretty sure that can be said for most of the alliance too.

As for wars, yes we're in one, and we're still temporarily based out of high sec, but providing you don't use autopilot and you stay away from the systems they're based around, you'll be fine.

I'm not sure what's happening this weekend. There's an npsi fleet with the alliance iirc.