Please read this document thoroughly and if you're still interested in the corporation join us on our public channel 'PRAX' to contact a Personnel Manager for an interview on our voice server. Please be patient, an interviewer may not be available immediately.

Voice Required: You will need to be on Voice for participation in all operations with corpmates. Additionally we do most of socializing/etc on voice so if you can't participate on voice consistently you may end up feeling excluded.

Experience: We accept pilots of all experience levels. Our membership includes long-time veterans and those that have recently returned after a long absence.

Participation: Group operations are not mandatory as corp procedures are designed such that there is little opportunity to 'freeload', but you are expected to be a mature 'team player' in a more general sense. Spending time off on your own soloing agent missions or similar is perfectly fine. Just remember that the whole point of a corporation in EVE is contributing to a larger group. If you primarily solo do not expect much out of the group.

Operations: It is our goal to have extremely well organized operations, in all our enterprises. Including Exploration (Wormhole space), Missions, Mining, and Combat operations.

Maturity: We do not try to enforce a minimum age requirement. We do require that members act maturely and respectfully to others in and out of the corp, regardless of age.

Conduct: All members are expected to conduct themselves with dignity at all times. This applies to both interaction with other members of the corporation and contact with members of other corporations, even enemies. No smacktalk, no undue cursing, etc. It's not expected to keep everything G-Rated, but nothing gratuitous.

Courtesy: We expect that you appreciate the great diversity of people from all over the world that you will encounter in EVE, and are members of our corp. Remember that comments that may be well received and perfectly humorous in your usual circle of friends can be extremely offensive to others in the corp (even, or especially, when no offense is meant). Topics of conversation will always wander, but it is asked of all members to keep as focused on our one certainly common interest: EVE.

Voice

• Use of Voice is a requirement.
• We use the Ventrilo client (free download).
• You are required to be on voice in the appropriate channel when conducting operations.
• You will need to be comfortable communicating fluently in clear and concise english. We enjoy having members from all over the world, but speaking and understanding english fluently is a definite requirement because we rely so heavily on voice.
• You are expected to do whatever is necessary to provide pleasant sound quality for the other users.
  • Adjust your outbound volume whenever there is not a consensus that you are at an acceptable level.
  • Avoid blowing on the mic: Breathing, laughing, enunciating certain phonics.
  • Eliminate background noise: Electrical noise, computer fans, family members speaking, television, music, etc.
  • Eliminate feedback: Usually caused by either a misconfigured sound card, or your microphone picking up game/voice sounds from speakers. The latter requires wearing headphones, leaving speakers on virtually never works out.
  • Rely on others to help you diagnose your sound quality, it is impossible to know how you sound to everyone else without their feedback. When someone brings a problem with your sound quality to your attention thank them for helping you resolve the issue.
• General banter and wisecracks is perfectly fine, especially during slow mining operations, gate camps, and similar, but you are expected to adhere to a certain amount of ettiquette especially when there are many people in the channel and we're trying to coordinate things among those many people.
• When in combat situations a strict comms protocol must be adhered to.
• We require a headset w/ boom mic of decent quality. If you can afford a video card to play EVE you can afford to purchase a decent headset to make our gaming experience pleasant.
• Electrical noise (usually a hum, hiss, etc) is also unnacceptable. A USB headset, or a USB 'sound card' which allows you to use your existing headset, resolves this issue.
• Echoes are not acceptable. They are mostly eliminated by using a headset, but sometimes electrical 'crosstalk' in your soundcard itself can cause echoes. A USB headset, or using your soundcard for output and connecting your microphone input to your onboard sound resolves this.