Home.
What does that make
you think of? A place where you feel safe, secure, and know you can always go
to and be happy. Most people hate to move. You have to pack all your stuff up
and either rent a truck, or hire movers, or con your friends into helping you
for a six pack and a pizza. It sucks, no two ways around it, and no one wants
to do it in Eve either. There are many places in Eve that you can find yourself
constantly moving your stuff, and I'm not talking about working out of a home
system and moving some of your stuff to a staging system to be closer to combat
operations. I am talking about being in a corporation or alliance that is
constantly on the move with no place to really call your home. People will end
up creating their own home in some station that they feel is beneficial to them,
not your corporation or alliance. You really can't blame them everyone needs a
place to live even in Eve.
There are some corporations,
and alliances that have made it work for them and their members and that’s
fine. I am not that kind of person, so this is for those of you that are like
me and want a little stability in your Eve universe life. It has been written
that if you can provide three basic needs to a person then there moral and happiness
will be better off for it. Shelter, food, and clothing are these staples, but
in Eve it’s different. Food is non existent, and clothing for most of us is as
well. Shelter though in Eve terms is there, and needed if only for a place to
keep my stuff.
Stations are our
shelter, be it in high sec, low sec, wormholes or 0.0 we need a place to keep
our stuff. How many of us pull up our assets screen and it’s a mile long? Hands
anyone? There are only a few stations that truly hold what is most important to
us, the rest is just space junk for some of us. When you join a corporation or
alliance they will tell you they are based out of some station somewhere in
Eve, so we as good little pilots start our trek to the HOME system, and
station. This is now going to be our home where we will live, and socialize
with our merry band of brothers until death, rebirth and death do us part.
Corporations usually
run out of one system. I say usually because there are different types of
corporations in Eve and this statement is and will be modified by someone. I
can tell you that when I started I lived in Jakenerva almost extensively for
more then six months. Mining, ratting, planetary interaction, what have you was
always done there, except for jumping a system to ice mine. It was and is a
good system, and it was my home for awhile. When your corporation decides to
move forward you begin to realize that you have to move forward as well. Depending
on what the goals of your corporation are, or you join an alliance and may have
to move to a lower security system or wormhole space to continue to be a part
of it. Where ever you end up, you want to feel somewhat stable, you want to
know your going to be there for a little while. Constant moving is a drain on resources,
logistics, and time better spent play the game. Understanding that if you PvP
at all you will still have staging systems, and fleet deployments that you must
attend. There isn’t really a problem with moving some combat ships into the
area of operations, as long as you know you have a home somewhere to go back
to, work out of, and generate some kind of income no matter how small.
Welcome to the jungle
I also want to know
that there is someone watching over my home, and providing security for it. Enter
the home defense fleet that rag tag group of guys that make sure the system we
call home stays that way. Who are these people? Look in the mirror, because if
you live there you're one of them. Yes you, being a part of a corporation or an
alliance means there are no free rides. You wanted to be part of something
bigger, congratulations you are, and you are now part of defending it.
Home defense fleets differ depending on the
corporation, alliance, and the system or systems that need protection.
Corporations that field a home defense fleet are usually protecting their
assets, and not really the system. Depending on the size of the corporation it
could effectively protect a whole system, but usually other corporations would
band together to do this.
Alliances are a
different story. Depending on the size of the alliance, you could have several
corporations tasked with defending a system from your enemies. Alliances would
be more structured in how this is done. Alliances would select corporations
that will work together to defend one or more systems, and to be the early
warning system to put out a call to a bigger fleet to assist. Generally it’s a
good practice to have these fleets up and active at all times, to make sure
everyone involved is on a communication channel, and to have a special chat
channel for that home defense fleet running.
Making the CEO’s and
directors “fleet leaders” should ensure that those responsible make these
things happen, and to adhere to whatever the policy or current orders from the
alliance leadership are in place. If your little piece of space heaven is safe,
there could be a rule in effect that says go and check the surrounding systems.
I personally wouldn't go more than one or two jumps from your assigned system. Corporations
that are not actively on communication channels, chat channels or in fleet
should be looked at to see if there’s a problem, and what can be done to fix
it.
The bonus to doing
something like this is over time you will start to see potential fleet
commanders come from these positions. Using this method you can move these “potential
commanders” up and into larger fleets, and have someone else step into their
old position. This allows the process to begin again, and the new fleet leaders
of home defense forces become the new candidates for fleet commanders in time.
Home is important, it is yours, and everyone elses in your
corporation or alliance. Treat it well, take care of it, and be proud of it.
Moral is based on pride, trust, knowledge, and the successes that come out of
work as a team.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI have just discovered your blog, and I must say that having looked through your posts so far, I am impressed. It is nice to see a blog written from the point of view of a CEO/Alliance Director, with information and opinions on how to run and organise things.
I will no doubt refer people here when I answer questions in the EVE CEO channel.
I look forward to reading more.
Thank you, much appreciated.
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