Originally posted by mark2123
An interesting and varied set of replies to my post. Well, I've been in for a few days now and cannot bring myself to take anything - they are a fairly new and small corp and are so helpful and friendly. That means more to me that taking a load of ISK and making enemies. They've offered me the use of any ships, given me ISK to get me up and running and have helped me in every way. So, I told them about the free access and they said it was deliberate as I'm part of their gang now and this is my new home - quite refreshing in an MMO. But yes, not everyone joining will be as nice as me, though fortunately, the 500M in their hangar etc is not representative of everything they own and at least they are not treating me like a mining slave, where I work for nothing to get the CEO rich. I reckon a few corps could learn from that. Essentially, someone has to make the first move in terms of the trust thing and for a nice change, its the corp. It might seem niave, but they have obviously calculated that they can risk the 500M in return for my loyalty - which they are getting, so it worked.

Sounds like a decent corp with helpful people. More worth than any amount of virtual currency imo.

Kaching. See you suckers!

500m isnt a lot so like others have said it could be a trap, or the corp could be a bunch of scrubs and cleaning the hanger out might bankrupt the corp. The third possible option is that they dont keep much in the hanger at all, hence giving the new member acsess straight away to take anything he needs because they dont care about whats in there.

To answer the OPs question, what do you think of the guys in the corp? If they seem cool people and made you welcome and stuff its up to your consience. Personally I wouldnt take it if I was in your position if the people in the corp are OK, 500m isnt worth shafting some cool people over. If they are a bunch of tossers though burn em, 500m will at least set you up with some skillbooks and you can invest it in ways to earn more ISK.

A corp doesn't die because someone scams their lot, they die because people don't want to play EVE / play with each other.

If a group of people like playing with each other, that corp will survive anything cause in-game assets can be reclaimed/re-aquired later.

At the end of the day, this is just internet spaceships. :)

My problem is that I've yet to find a good active corp that shares my interests during my playtimes. If I actually found a good one I'd never steal from them and risk ending that experience.

Rob them blind. Start a new char, transfer the goods, reapply to them again. Repeat.

Originally posted by mark2123
and they made the mistake of giving you full access to all corp hangars instead of view only access, would you clear them out and move on? I've got a new char and only 2m isk. I have access to about 500m isk in the corp and could clear them out. My morals won't let me though as, what's the point and its not how to make friends. So, would you do it???

500M. Not enough for me to bother loging in. 

BTW, You'll only steal in EVE if you would steal or want to steal in RL. Eve only allows you to be the person you already are or the person you want to be.

Lots of people would because their idiots.

I never did get to play this game because it looks boring. Poor excuse I know but hey probly won't look into it since it seems like a long term thing.

No way in hell as I  saw this first hand in Eve when i first logged,i was asked to join a corp by a guy who was well known in the community and a stalwart player he helped new pilots and formed OSD,a sort of training corp the guy supplied ships,minerals the lot,well one day he and the corp were robbed blind by some one he had just promoted.

Next day I log in and the corp founder just quit the game on the spot closed all his accounts,so it shows that it may be just a game but if u put all your effort into something and have it ripped away you lose all interest and pretty much rage quit.The only good thing to come from this was all the new pilots formed a corp which I co-ran for nigh on 3 years.

Originally posted by xr00t3dx

Originally posted by mark2123
and they made the mistake of giving you full access to all corp hangars instead of view only access, would you clear them out and move on? I've got a new char and only 2m isk. I have access to about 500m isk in the corp and could clear them out. My morals won't let me though as, what's the point and its not how to make friends. So, would you do it???

500M. Not enough for me to bother loging in. 

BTW, You'll only steal in EVE if you would steal or want to steal in RL. Eve only allows you to be the person you already are or the person you want to be.

 

 

I too fly spaceships and murder thousands IRL .

Originally posted by Garkan

Originally posted by xr00t3dx

Originally posted by mark2123
and they made the mistake of giving you full access to all corp hangars instead of view only access, would you clear them out and move on? I've got a new char and only 2m isk. I have access to about 500m isk in the corp and could clear them out. My morals won't let me though as, what's the point and its not how to make friends. So, would you do it???

500M. Not enough for me to bother loging in. 

BTW, You'll only steal in EVE if you would steal or want to steal in RL. Eve only allows you to be the person you already are or the person you want to be.

I too fly spaceships and murder thousands IRL .

I'm right there with ya.  Yesterday I was playing Supreme Commander and I commited genocide.  Sometimes on the weekends I slay dragons with magical swords too.  I am a horrible person.

Originally posted by xr00t3dx

Originally posted by mark2123
and they made the mistake of giving you full access to all corp hangars instead of view only access, would you clear them out and move on? I've got a new char and only 2m isk. I have access to about 500m isk in the corp and could clear them out. My morals won't let me though as, what's the point and its not how to make friends. So, would you do it???

500M. Not enough for me to bother loging in. 

BTW, You'll only steal in EVE if you would steal or want to steal in RL. Eve only allows you to be the person you already are or the person you want to be.

 

 

ROLE PLAYING.

Where you PLAY a ROLE.

This guy seems to be the type that'd also say "Guitar Hero is lame, play a real guitar."

Video games can be a way to experience or try something you can't or wouldn't ever do in real life.

Seriously one of the dumbest responses I've read in a while.

Originally posted by xr00t3dx

Originally posted by mark2123
and they made the mistake of giving you full access to all corp hangars instead of view only access, would you clear them out and move on? I've got a new char and only 2m isk. I have access to about 500m isk in the corp and could clear them out. My morals won't let me though as, what's the point and its not how to make friends. So, would you do it???

500M. Not enough for me to bother loging in. 

BTW, You'll only steal in EVE if you would steal or want to steal in RL. Eve only allows you to be the person you already are or the person you want to be.

By that logic, Robert Englund and Doug Bradley are some seriously sociopathic bastards.