Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Hanging out in corp channel.



With my toon "Maxx Loproc" I break my usual RPG style of gaming and will build the social infrastructure on something real. But time has changed since I started online socialization back in the 90's. Yet I note the same things all over.
I've seen corps/guilds whittle and die with great people as the social structure was way to fixed or too demanding for the individual. Yet dropping the intense need to socialize moves the people further apart.

Last week I went corp shopping, doing as all noobs would do: Follow the advise of the veterans so go join the recruit channel...
It took me 30 minutes tops to land a corp that where interested. I joined, was there for 2 days before getting kicked. No reason why, but i assume it had to do with he fact they ran Wednesday mining ops in the middle of my workday. Yea timezones can be hard on you. And I didn't attend + I had some RL issues to deal with so I had relative little in-game time, thing I made 4 hours in that corp channel...

Well realizing my failure to fit in, I simply looked in the adds. Top add was a Swedish corp, (I took my timezone + missioning as interests). Relatively few guys, meaning some 35 ish members. Well that's nothing new to me. And I usually see a few in the corp channel at the start of my evening. Great bunch really, but I thus far haven't really connected. And it made me speculate last night if I should go seek different corps yet.

The answer is no. I'm slow to get on-board, and I haven't provided for the corp yet, proven my worth if I am worth anything. Remember I need to collect 500M pr. month to keep the Plex going. Lucky I have some old connections to help out. As my income is still miserable. 1M pr day is a high average, but time will change...

I can't help but to compare it to my entry to Google+.
At the moment it's so silent and/or irrelevant, but the concept makes me believe I'll receive more content, and later on the right content, and that it'll bring me more interaction in forms that are more social then the current one-way stream.
But as with google and knowing my settlement issues, I keep fearing I land the wrong place.

Do you know that feeling of being utterly misplaced, that's what most of my socialization attempts are like.
Anyway still much work ahead, and little changes. But still I think, and thus ramble.
Thanks for reading.

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