I guess i haven't checked, but can you make alliances in DUST?

Or is everyone expected to join this corp, and thus everyone has to apply to the FSC, and everyone will be tagged under FSC eventually?

Honestly I think it's a really good idea, good thinkin!

Hey, I won't be in game this weekend due to the Easter holiday and family but to answer an earlier question, no you don't join our corp, your corp becomes an alliance with our corps (verbally) agreeing to help us defend our planet and we'll do the same for your corp and if you want to take another district, we'll help you fight the battle.

If you don't have a corp, you're more than welcome to join any of the corps in the alliance.

The more corps our alliance gets the bigger the planet we can secure on opening day of PC, so far we have 3 corps allianced which will not give us enough to own a planet, we need one more for that and we will be able to obtain a small planet with four districts(the smallest planets have 4), 1 district for each corp to control, however, if we get more to alliance we can take a bigger planet which will make it tougher for the bigger corps to take from us.

I'm tracking now. The alliance is based off a verbal agreement, since the mechanics of alliances hasn't been added. That's what had me thrown off, heh.

My corp would like to join if you'll have us? Only a few of us in it as of now, but I just started actively recruiting outside of our guild which is in various other games at the moment. So hopefully i'll be able to bring some more killers to FSC's cause ;)

For your situational awareness (fysa) there is another group of small corps called "Small Corps Coalition". THeir thread is here Small Corps Coalition

Maybe get them on the same sheet of music that we are? I don't see how it'd be beneficial for anyone who is in a small corp conglomerate to compete with another small corp conglomerate...? I just think that Instead of a bunch of small corps potentially double fisting, alliances maybe we just condense into one, and thus only have 1 website to help keep the potentially large amount of small corps all on the same page and a similar focus?

Just a thought.

Just an update! Everyone who applied for site are now members.

I'm think about having the small coalition merge in to our federation the more ther marrier

Right on. I accidentally deleted the email with the info for the chat channel.

could you post it here or in the FSC forum, or message it to me again?

thanks, and sorry for the inconvenience

Hehe I forgot to add I create a channel called federation

That may work... I just read thru the small corp coalition thread and it seems like their "CEO" has backed out of it because of the new PC coming out so they seem to be falling apart.

I'm not trolling your thread...I'm pointing out some things so they can be addressed pre-launch...

So...question....if you're going to ban together many small corps to own a small planet consisting of 3-5 districts and only one corporation can own any given district that means you are now faced with a wealth gap situation...

3-5 corps would be receiving a revenue stream from the the district ownership while the remaining corps wouldn't be receiving anything (and possibly expending in order to take more districts) since we know that corp taxes will not be implemented as part of this build...

ISK transfers between corps don't exist yet...so that's another concern...

Just seems like eventually you'll have a have vs have-not culture in the current proposed environment fairly quickly assuming that small corps will be able to hold onto districts in any case. Ultimately, there are economic and communication concerns that will make it difficult for a band of small corps to defend against large corps with their economy of scale. Keep in mind...a corp with 1000 members could tell their members they're going on a war of take everything and collect 1M isk from each member...now you've got a corp that very quickly and easily has a finincial pool of 1B isk to throw against anyone they want in range...you can be certain they'll consolidate their resources by takeing out small corps first...they can attack all your districts and take them via attrition within a week or less.

It's a good rallying point...just not sure how viable this would be... *shrugs*

Just a point of correction, the SCC far from 'fell apart'. SCC corps grew large enough to merge into the Gentlemen's Agreement alliance, Nomed continued the SCC to pick up NEW small corps to foster as well, due to his dedication to the community. If you wanted to think of it that way, the first group of Small Corps "graduated". ;) And many of them will be working together on Planetary Conquest.

Best of luck in your endeavors.