those that are trying to create corps now will most likely be better off joining a different existing corp rather than creating your own, especially if you don't have at least a squad worth of members to start with.

That's just how it goes. Corporations will flourish if they can get an even mix of Good players with a mass of players.

Eve has thousands of corps. Many with just a single member.

Having 600 corp mates does not give as much advantage as is being made to this point.

Having 600 corp mates does not give as much advantage as is being made to this point.

Most would rather have 3 corp mates that were good players and teammates than 597 randoms.

You can only have 4 in a group, afterall.

Having a corp with only 4 awesome players that never see each other online is much worse in my opinion.
Besides, I am sure greater numbers will give all the more advantage when there are tangible regions to conquer.

The advantages as a large group are only as strong as the weakest link. If you have a corp full of scrubs that don't know teamwork like they don't know the back of their hands or if you don't have a stable command structure going on with reasonable accountability, and responsibilities not being met, or critical roles not being covered, then that 600-man corp will fall hard compared to a corp with only 6 players that have everything working just as they should be.

It's less about numbers and more about efficiency and profits when it comes to corp management. You only need to look at real-world examples to see why such as John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan. Morgan was the man that created the phenomenon known as Morganization in which he purges inefficiencies in his investments (firing ineffective workers and closing down wasteful projects) while focusing everything for the sake of profits by forcing the remaining workers to put more effort for the business while being paid less. Massive profits were made and thus Rockefeller and Carnegie followed his lead.

If you want an in-game example, then you only need to look at what happened earlier with Betamax Beta. At first, they recruited a lot of people with little regard to who they were recruiting because they just wanted to grow. But then things started to collapse and Betamax was forced to restructure itself.

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Of course, a larger corp is good. But you have to make sure you have the best mates. Take a look at Imperfects and Seraphim Initiative.

Having a corp with only 4 awesome players that never see each other online is much worse in my opinion.
Besides, I am sure greater numbers will give all the more advantage when there are tangible regions to conquer.

And what about when your corp has to do battle with other corps? you know, the real stuff... you need a full team, not a squad.. and you would need back ups as there is no way to guarantee all are on at same time, so optimal would be a 30 man or so corp atm, and when larger scale battles come you will need even more.

The advantages as a large group are only as strong as the weakest link. If you have a corp full of scrubs that don't know teamwork like they don't know the back of their hands or if you don't have a stable command structure going on with reasonable accountability, and responsibilities not being met, or critical roles not being covered, then that 600-man corp will fall hard compared to a corp with only 6 players that have everything working just as they should be.

It's less about numbers and more about efficiency and profits when it comes to corp management. You only need to look at real-world examples to see why such as John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan. Morgan was the man that created the phenomenon known as Morganization in which he purges inefficiencies in his investments (firing ineffective workers and closing down wasteful projects) while focusing everything for the sake of profits by forcing the remaining workers to put more effort for the business while being paid less. Massive profits were made and thus Rockefeller and Carnegie followed his lead.

If you want an in-game example, then you only need to look at what happened earlier with Betamax Beta. At first, they recruited a lot of people with little regard to who they were recruiting because they just wanted to grow. But then things started to collapse and Betamax was forced to restructure itself.

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Of course, a larger corp is good. But you have to make sure you have the best mates. Take a look at Imperfects and Seraphim Initiative.

There is a different between corp policy of just recruiting specific players and someone just approving every application that comes thru the door to compete with zionshad because of some personal vendetta.

Large doesn't make a corp good, being good makes a corp good