@Ruby You should squad up with us, sometime.

@Ruby You should squad up with us, sometime.

Oh and I almost forgot, you better have some EVE connections if you are actually serious about a corp in this game.

How to get a corp off the ground.

1. Just join an existing corp.
2. Get to know and become friends with a dozen active players in said corp.
3. Convince those same players that leadership sucks and you guys could do a better job.
4. Leave that corp and steal said players, bringing them into YOUR newly formed corp.




You may think I'm kidding, but there are a number of existing corps out there that have done this.

Is this what you did?

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This is also an easy way to become hated and seen as honorless traitors.

Just a history lesson, if I can recall it correctly, for those of you who weren't around back in the day. Forgive me if I mess any of this up, I wasn't really paying attention when it all happened and caught a lot of it secondhand:


IN THE BEGINNING, the Imperfects were actually a splinter group of top players who left Betamax (Betamax used to be pretty much uncontested when it came to skilled players, with perhaps one or two exceptions) and started their own corp. Around the time of the period in DUST known as "THE TOURNAMENT", Imperfects had a huge merger with a small but talented corp known as Global Conflict. After the tournament, they of course had become so full of themselves that the majority of them devolved into giant quivering e-peens who felt they had the privilege of dictating how DUST should work, and started spamming the forums with how wrong everyone else was and how right they were on any game feature they didn't like. Now Imps are still trying to recover from that over-inflated e-peen fiasco, and some are still so full of themselves that their ego hasn't shrunk a bit since then.

After "THE TOURNAMENT", they then proceeded to start usurping talent from other corporations by lauding that they only let in elite players. This of course drew in a lot of players, because hey, if you were a good player, who would YOU rather play with? A bunch of blueberries half of whom suck? Or a group of good players who properly support each other on and off the battlefield? So a large chunk of the in game talent gravitated over to the Imp's, thus giving them a hand up in most situations

And most of you know the rest of the story from here. I'll leave the rest for another day.

Hello kids Im mister Zitro and Im going to write a book on how I got to be a complete tool.

You see early on in the closed beta we had spawn points that were literally a 10 foot area.I would sit up in the mountains or on top of buildings shooting my Large missle turret at the spawns in my Sigarus which at the time had over 8k shp.Thats why I always talk about my 100 kill game like it was a massive achievement.I then put all my Sp into Proto suits and stacked damage mods.Later after I got owned by a scout repeatedly in a ambush game that was called Communication at the time by a full auto mod controller Codewish tac Douvolle. I decided I would do the same thing and act like it was my idea.I then complained repeatedly in the forums about the iron sights and muzzle rise.I told CCP that there game was dumb and called everyone scrubs.
When I joined beta max I stole all there good specialized players.To win the tournament.After we got the officer dropsuits 4 high and 4 low it was simply a matter of stacking damage mods.I used simple parlor tricks exploited the imbalance of the BETA and now my newest recent endevor is to complain about armor tanks and QQ like a baby because I was so stupid that I thought they might be good.I was going to pown open beta noobs before they figure out that 4 Av nades would kill me and my tank and that Miltia forges were now on the market>you see because I am the smartest guy in the game.Iwould do that until I got enough sp to go Proto and do the cycle all over again.I also never run solo because I would get my ass kicked so I always have to squad with either Regnum or Proto man and How as back up.Point is I never run solo.


Thats the first chapter

/Snip

Yeah, I know what you mean, but I think it might take longer for people like us to get a good corp started since the big known corps now were probably around for way longer. I refuse to join one of the big corps for personal reasons. Join mine, we have 3 active members LMAO It's just hard to find good players that are dedicated and want to try to start a name for themselves. Joining a big known corp is easy if you're good. I know I can if i wanted to.

Sure thing bro.



Never even heard of EVE until this game came out, I haven't even visited their site. I doubt any of those guys would take the time to help a nobody merc like me anyway.


Thanks for the tips guys, I gues I'll keep working on it. You have no idea how depressing it is to wake up another day and open your Corp recruitment thread only to see no new replies, even worse to open dust and find no new applications. I'll stick with it though, I'll find good players in game and try and invite them after matches.

Punch and pie

This was just a thought but those that run alts and aren't in the spy biz should help fluff his numbers. Join his corp. for the simple fact of helping him get started and recruiting other players.

Like I said just a thought...

Punch and pie

I love reading these Imperfect history lessons, this one was really good, almost as good as my favorite book written by Closed Beta

Yeah.... but mine's not a troll post, so mine's less enjoyable. My post was an actual account of past events, whereas this other story, while entertaining, is laced with guesses and opinions on what a particular person did.

His is the Goosebumps excerpt of DUST 514 history while min is more of a DUST 514 History 101 text book excerpt. Of course, as I stated, I may have a couple of things backwards, but I think I covered the jist of it.

Yeah, I know what you mean, but I think it might take longer for people like us to get a good corp started since the big known corps now were probably around for way longer. I refuse to join one of the big corps for personal reasons. Join mine, we have 3 active members LMAO It's just hard to find good players that are dedicated and want to try to start a name for themselves. Joining a big known corp is easy if you're good. I know I can if i wanted to.

The start is the hardest but as its head you have to be the most strong willed. Your best option is to to have started with 2-3 people as passionate as yourself. And without a goal, or vision your destined to fail. You should know what you want from ur corp and your members and go for it. Elitist corps almost always fail IE unreal arrogance. Weak leaders also fail.

Now to start and for the rest of ur time as a CEO realize your going to be doing most if not all the work if your not ready for that don't even start. Even If you have directors think of them has fingers and not an arm.

Also remember if you invite others to your corp remember they are part of it as well the blood if you will. And drama is a clot or cancer cut it out ASAP or it will kill the body. As for recruiting vet as many member personally as possible help retention they want a involed leader. I recruit people from games I play in


Don't give up man.

I've been trying to get people to join my corp for a good 3-4 weeks now.

Total number of members 7
Total number of active members 1(me)

Is it the name!??? I thought it was cool enough, at least better than "Imperfects". Everyone I get to join while in game turns out to be an inactive noob freeloader who just wants to be in any corp for the hell of it or they end up leaving in 2 days because hey let's face it no one wants to be in a group with only 1 other active person. If i could get active people to stay till our numbers reach 20ish I can see it becoming a lot easier to get members. I'm just having trouble getting to that point. I thought by doing good in pubs it would attract a lot of people to the corp, nope doesn't work that way. After or before games If people could just click on my name and click send corp application, I'd probably have a lot easier time getting members. I'm not the best of players but I've had a few impressive showings if I do say so myself, I went 7-0 once you know.

The corp recruitment forum is a joke no way anyone is gunna click on my thread when others have the prestigious Dev and GM tags on them with over 2000 views and a 100 replies


Please don't take my tears to feed your troll meter , I'm honestly about to quit and just join one of the big known corps out there, who wants me!?