John Surratt
Sanmatar Kelkoons
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2012.08.08 07:07:00 -
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The difference can be semantics or a completely different paradigm.
Most EVE corps, especially highsec only corps are little different than standard MMO guilds or online gaming clans. A bunch of randoms dudes who you don't know really, in a text chat channel. Sometimes they can have a core identity such as a regional or nationalistic or language, but they often do not.
What does set even these apart from other gaming groups is the many tools and assignable roles for asset management that the EVE client has. It makes a "guild bank" in a elf and wizard based MMO look like child's play. As EVE (and also DUST) is a sandbox game, social interaction is the force which drives the content, not dev created content. These tools, along with things like contracts (which are exactly what they sound like) help give a framework and tools for the meta game.
This is where the talk of "simple corps" comes in to the mix in the CSM summit notes . There is no need for the majority of the roles in an EVE corp as no merc will ever need to "Config Starbase Equipment" etc. . . (page 72) . I'm not even gonna touch on things like station management, standings, or shares. Until the market between the two games and 0.0 gameplay get figured out there is no need for things like managing corporate contracts or setting standings.
The corp UI is terribad and hopefully will be overhauled "SoonGäó" in EVE and made easier to use on a console for DUST.
Corps can form alliances, which are like uber corporations, numbering into the thousands. The alliances can have outside identities such as Goonswarm (from the somethingaweful.com forums gaming section) & TEST (same basically but from Reddit), nationalistic origins such as RED.Overlord (Russians) or the Russian speaking half of AAA, or just be groups of various EVE corps like many of them are. They can even be (ugh!) roleplayers like CVA (Amarr Victor!)
Some corps or alliances are also gaming clans in their own right as they have a multi game presence. Members choose to play any number of games with their closest brocefs, playing whatever and wherever the collective gaming ADD takes them next while keeping a core presence in EVE, and hopefully soon, DUST.
Currently there is much salivation over Mechwarrior Online and Planetside2 in my corp.
I'd dearly love to get some of the FPS only crowd on our coms and give him a dose of our alliance leader's management philosophy, as he is an old mossback FPS player. Dude's been gaming since Al Gore invented online FPS. |