The real joy, and profit, of playing an MMORPG comes with the group play. The corporations in Eve are something not many games have been able to match. The corporations in Eve are more like specialized guilds that have a proper hierarchy which runs the business and people that work for the corporation. Very much like having a role at your office job!

With a variety of corporations in Eve, players looking for group activities can sign up with corps and become loyal members of their community. Each corporation is governed by its set of rules, their goals and the will of its members. Usually voting is a big part of corporate life. The members of the Corporation vote to take decisions of the paths their company will take on different matters.

Why Join A Corporation?

EVE universe can come as quite a shock to the sensitive minds. It is definitely not a friendly place, where the Salvation Army stands ready to give you a hand up. Instead, it more closely resembles the world of rife with gangs, cartels, and all the other elements of organized crime. While those with wit, will, and determination can certainly try it solo, the rest of need to find a posse, and find one fast. The reason is simple...purely the strength in numbers.

The Benefits of a Corporation

Have you ever spent countless hours trying to up your skills to a level that will allow you to, maybe, upgrade a cheap piece of equipment to something a little less awful? Then you will know all about the long, hard road that is still ahead of you. Building up the necessary cash to purchase a decent blueprint is an enormous task for an individual, but for a corporation it doesn't need to be a big effort. The true benefit of a corporation lay not in just having a group of fellow thugs watching your back, but in the greater power of communal effort.

Specialization

If you are a great fighter and don't have the patience to spend endless hours mining, then a corporation can be the answer to your perils. You don't have to be the jack of all trades, never mine again! There will be mining specialists who can, and will, do it instead. Each member of a corporation can focus on skill specialization, allowing them to achieve levels of skill that can make the group as a whole extremely powerful.

You could be creating blueprints of battleships, advanced weaponry, building science skills, learning corporate management. There are literally hundreds of areas where your character can set about becoming incredibly proficient. But the luxury to do this is there because you are a part of the pack, your mates back you up and you back them in return.it's a team thing!

Feel the Power

The true strength of a corporation can be put down to its ability to stand by itself and be self-sufficient in every department of its economy. There is a definite thrill in being part of a large entity that, when it chooses, can unleash the fury of the heavens on enemies near and far. As a single player, the most you can ever hope for is to be the owner of an Apocalypse battleship, fully locked and loaded. As terrifying as the battleship is for the less potent ships, when a full fleet pops out of hyperspace with their weapons loaded and aimed, the meaning of true fear becomes explicit!

An Array of Options

In EVE you can literally choose the path your corporation takes. The beauty of writing your own story, is that you can create a narrative that is incredibly rich and compelling. Perhaps you want a genetic engineering and cloning company, or you want to build a righteous mercenary fleet. Or if your dreams are greater and grander, you can look towards buying planets, systems, and establishing an actual, recognized empire. The key to achieving any of these ends is to put the power of specialization to work, by recruiting key members who share your goal, and then ruthlessly pursuing that goal.

Espionage

With the political setup of Eve, it is very important to have an insight into your rival's planning. Though some self righteous corporations might not use espionage to have the inside stories of the other corporations, many utilize spies to get intelligence.

Due to the threats of inducting spies in one's orders most well organized corporations take good care to find out about the background of their new employees.

The Universe

All in all, the real joy of being a member of a well run corporation is the fact that you can take part in events that are on a far larger scale than anything you can experience solo. Whether aggressively taking and controlling a market, or an area in space, or diving into an outright war against other corporations, or forming alliances, the story you are a part of is a larger, more awe inspiring one.