Creating a corporation

Corporations are groups of pilots joined together for a common goal or purpose, much like guilds or clans in other MMOs. Player-run corporations are created and overseen by a Chief Executive Officer (CEO), usually the player who starts the corportation. Pilots can only belong to one corporation at a time. When not in a Player-run corporation, a pilot will automatically be placed in an NPC Corporation.

Starting a Corporation

Required Skills

In order to start an EVE corporation a pilot must have the basic Corporation Management skill trained. The level of this skill will determine the maximum number of corporation members allowed. If you plan to have a multi-racial corporation, that is members are from different races (Amarr, Gallente, etc), you must also train Ethnic Relations. There are additional, advanced skills that increase the number of members allowed, but these two skills are enough to get you started.

Creating the Corporation

There is a nonrefundable fee of 1,599,800 ISK for creating a corporation. Once you have the skill and the ISK needed, and have decided on a name, open the corporation tool in the NeoCom. If you are in an NPC corporation there will be a button at the bottom of the corporation tool window called Create New Corporation. Click on this button to open the new corporation setup tool.

Enter the corporation name. The 'ticker' button will suggest a corporate ticker based on the name you enter, but you can also enter a ticker manually if you like or if it cannot suggest a unique one for your chosen name. The ticker will be shown next to member names in space. The ticker is a short letter combination to identify your corporation, without having to know the entire full name of the corporation.

You can change the logo by clicking on the left-side boxes to change the pattern, and the right-side boxes to change the color. The preview is updated as you make selections, so feel free to experiment.

The tax rate and home page can be left blank at this point. The default tax rate is 0.0%.

Add a description for the corporation. This needs to contain something, but you can use the default text to begin with if you are unsure what to put here.

Leave the 'membership applications enabled' option checked (default) if you want to receive or process applications. Uncheck it to disable membership applications entirely.

If you want to create a new corporation while you are a CEO of another, you must resign from that position first.

See Also

• Corporation management - An in-depth guide on corporation management the player skill
• Corporation resources
• Recruiting - A guide to the recruitment process
• Finding a Corporation to Join - An explanation of different ways one can look for a corporation to join. Knowing how pilots look for corporations will help your recruiting.
• Corporation Security Screening prospective new members
• Voice Comms Voice Comms and their importance to your corporation

Guide to Managing Your Corp/Alliance

• Technocrat: Leadership Algorhythms The Creation, Care, Expansion, Manipulation and Management of EVE Corporations and Alliances
• Neurotechnicon - A Manual. Security. Spies. Theft prevention.
• Corporation management guide EVElopedia articla