If all your doing here is playing an FPS (like the Imperfects), then you will do just fine. Your members that are only here to play an FPS, they will do just fine. This post is towards the 25-30% of those wanting to be involved in the MMO part of things, but finding themselves hitting the plateau. The enablers and the instigators CCP has put it.



We are not failing because we do understand this situation.

Corporate Burn Out

A lot of the older Corps in DUST 514 are facing Corp burn out. This game just currently does not have the mechanics in place to allow corps to lead properly and having only the role GÇ£DirectorGÇ¥ is far too much power to give someone if you want them to do just one task(like recruiter).

So whatGÇÖs happening?

Well first off People in RL join a business to get PAID. Well we cannot pay our Mercs properly and we seem to be more of a charity currently with our members paying us with GÇ£DonationsGÇ¥. A PAID Merc is a Happy Merc.

Now if you canGÇÖt have money then whatGÇÖs the next best thing? POWER!

Players want to have reasonabilityGÇÖs, to feel apart and to gain recognition for their work, but as stated above we canGÇÖt really do this without taking a huge risk in trust. This makes players unhappy in their Corps when they want to move up the ladder. In our case itGÇÖs just a stepping stool. Those that are give a GÇ£saidGÇ¥ position with no abilities is most of the time looked over by other members and this causes many arguments within a Corp. This brings the last point.

Why is there a lack of Communication from leadership? Because No other Communication tools are in place.

We have been given Corp forums here on dust514.com (If you didnGÇÖt know then go here) but not all our members go look at forums on a daily bases. So we need Corp mail and bulletins in place. Otherwise Tommy does not know that Jimmy was promoted and so Tommy tell Jimmy to **** himself when heGÇÖs told to take Alpha. This falls on Tommy for not reading the forums and so he blames his leadership for not telling him to listen to Jimmy in the first place.

We as Corp Leaders are being blamed by our members that we are not doing our jobs because we are trying to Play the MMO part of DUST but are only given pure FPS Mechanics.

This is all you can do in DUST:

Pub Match and grind SP & ISK

Play a Corp Match and do a coin flip for ISK

You really donGÇÖt need leadership to tell you to do these things, but we are all in corps for what is to come and it seems we are becoming board with the facts that it is not here. I Know CCP your working on it, but we need it fast.

But hey, maybe itGÇÖs CCP plan to get us all pissed or starved so we start to eat one another. What greater conflict driver then that?

I bet I'm the cause of this post

I don't see how it's hard to communicate when you have two forums and more then 20 people in total active on both letting the corp in game know what's going on. If members feel neglected it's not CCP's fault. It's leaders for not giving out the information properly to be distributed. Or else you kill the point of PAYING FOR ENJIN.

Enjin sux btw

Somewhat true. I do wish we had someone posting up a sort of bulletin of events on what happened daily. Something "general". So that I agree to, Sota. Still all I want to know is when do I get paid? Ha-ha-ha-ha.

I kidd, on the getting paid part.

BULLETIN:

Today Members logged on to DUST and Grinded up SP. Then had to eat dinner and go to bed.

More of this at 11.


I Kid, but we don't have much to say Dust wise. A once a week thing would be cool though and we are starting Weekly meeting now to help with word of mouth communication

Hmm? The conversation hasn't turned into a complete child drama fest yet .
There may be hope for these guys just yet.

Yeah I'm honestly bored of doing the same thing over and over again. 50 million ISK, so what I can't do anything with it I'd like to burn through that.
Sp grinding? Yawn give me an objective or a sense of accomplishment.
This senseless repetition reminds me of my dark days in Battlefield 3.

You could always get the guys preparing for the Imperfects tournament.

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=54759&find=unread

Perhaps try and get community events and shows going to add more fun to the game like the ROFL leadership has done.

http://www.twitch.tv/mitauchi

Part of being a strong CEO is understanding how to work within limitations, even very constrictive one. Provide a reason for your members to stay active and be a part of the group. If players are getting burned out on the game as you say I would expect all Corporations to see declining numbers.

Players will notice the corporations that are burning brightly even if there are issues with the game, naturally they will be drawn to the ones that provide extra fun and content, and a reason for them to be a member other than just repping a name.

A bad workman always blames his tools, in this case I agree the tools are a bit flawed. However you should be looking how to best use the flawed tools instead of blaming problems on them since there is nothing you can do to fix them at the moment.

If my directors ever QQ'ed because they couldn't keep the corp together I'm pretty sure most folks would have to admit that it was the beginning of a fail cascade.

So, what's up Zion? You gonna fall apart before we've even had the chance to roll you?

Not at all. Still have 300+. LOL People see 1 guy get kicked and want to yell theres a fire.

@ Tourneys: I have 300+ members and can only allow 8 at a time in to a tourney. What is the other 292 or so members going to do? LOL

Not at all. Still have 300+. LOL People see 1 guy get kicked and want to yell theres a fire.

@ Tourneys: I have 300+ members and can only allow 8 at a time in to a tourney. What is the other 292 or so members going to do? LOL

Not at all. Still have 300+. LOL People see 1 guy get kicked and want to yell theres a fire.

@ Tourneys: I have 300+ members and can only allow 8 at a time in to a tourney. What is the other 292 or so members going to do? LOL