Monthly update: August/September (1/2)

From: [REDACTED]

Sent: 2014.09.13 08:55

To: [REDACTED],

Hello spacefriends,

It's time again to bring you a regularly scheduled monthly update on the progress of corp. In this update we will also announce some exciting projects that have been ongoing and will upcoming, as well as bring everyone up to speed on some information that has been held as top-secret up until now. This month has been a busy one, and many of you have put in countless hours to get us where we are today. For this we owe you each our sincerest gratitude, however it seems there is no rest for the wicked as with this update will also come a call-to-arms of sorts, combined with a special opportunity for loyal members to be rewarded for their hard work.

Mystery, intrigue, and oh the ambiguity. All in this episode of [REDACTED] monthly update...

Monthly Corporate Update

Much of the progress of the group has been happeneing behind closed doors, as some of you are more aware than others we have a growing number of projects concurrent on a corporate and external investment level. It's time to come clean and say: we've been keeping you mostly all in the dark. This was done both intentionally and as a byproduct of security measures we've been taking to ensure recruitment goes smoothly along with the expansion of some rather expensive projects. However, it's now coming time to draw back the curtains and start to level the playing field in terms of knowledge of what seems to be the multi-billion dollar question: what is it that we do, exactly?

Well it turns out that each of you have been playing a part in an extremely large scale building operation. The nature of this production is such that very few people in eve even get to see it take place, let alone take part in it, so you should each feel very proud. Each of you have earned the privilege to be at least informed on what is cooking so here is the bombshell: Supercarriers, many many Supercarriers. The deathweapons and workhorses of the alliance and coalition battlefield is a specialty which we have chosen, and invested tens of billions in. That investment has come from personal wallets of leadership members, from revenue that has been generated on corporate ops, and some limited amounts have even been leveraged from external investors. The profit from this will be going primarily back into the program helping it to accelerate up to maximum capability... More info below.

PI will be shifting soon as we continue to seek more fertile grounds for Coolant production. However, there are some updated recommendations on setups resulting from a better understanding of everyone's playstyles and availability. Otherwise no major changes this month... More info below.

Science jobs are beginning to output for final sale, and this month we will sit down to look at some projections as well as poll the science group on how you feel the project should expand next. This should also see the first increase in scientist rate of pay... More info below.

Mining is slowing down as all of us are becoming more innundated with life, returning to school, etc. Additionally with upcoming projects, the focus of corp will be gradually shifting from one of a more active mining and extraction core to one of more fun regular activities, combat training etc. There will still be scheduled ops, but they will be reducing in frequency for the remainder of the month... More info below.

Many of you are becoming more restricted in your gameplay time, however you shouldn't be discouraged because in EvE we have answers for some very complex problems such as needing to play a game in order to progress in it. Hopefully you have been good little capsuleers and have been farming your wallets up nice and high, because this month we will be introducing a new way for members to make passive isk by investing directly in corporate projects... More info below.

Production Update

But back to supercarrier production, we don't just produce them, we are actually a finely tuned machine capable of production lines sizable enough to support at least a single large alliance. A mind-boggling amount of isk comes through our doors each month, and that number will only continue to grow. However, the caveat is that with such large scale production also comes large risk, and so we have made a series of decisions starting last month that has created a very distinct barrier of safety between prying eyes and possible clicks. All of our corporate production happens in a closed corporation, and very soon will be moving to an entirely different system. More details will become available as we move toward acquisition of yet another system. (Yes, we're also acquiring another system)

However the production is no less ours because it runs under another corporate ticker, this is simply a strategic decision to ensure that all investments are kept safe and as well to facilitate easier logistics as this type of production is very, very heavy on logistics. When all is said and done some hundreds of millions of m3 of ore will have been passed to us in one form or another, for every single ship that we build, and our current production cranks a ship every two weeks to ten days.

Our personal mining and corporate ops combined make up around 1% of this (granted the most valuable percent) so roughly equated, we are responsible for mining enough for the hood ornament on each of these ships. The rest is shipped directly from highsec by another program that has been rapidly expanding: highsec ore buying. To help in a long term and meaningful sense, we have partnered up with (or decided to run, I'm never quite sure which) a dedicated highsec mining corp which will be a semi-autonomous ore collection machine co-ran by myself and mister [REDACTED]. Later this month I will follow up with some more information about who they are and what they do, but more or less we're going to begin collecting some newbro friends who will be spending time on our comms and hopefully learning from the more experienced group (you), and of course eventually being groomed to join us when they are ready for the challenges our space presents.

Until such time as better avenues are found to increase ore procurement, members shouldn't stress over lack of participation, but instead simply mine and donate high end ores when you are available to play as an acceptable alternative. =D

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INTERMISSION

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Dear BOB I hope there's no character limit on corp mails...

We're almost there...

Go and take a bio break and come back, you're going to need it...

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INTERMISSION

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PI Update

For PI we are still on a mission to find higher density resources that can be used for Coolant production. This has very recently taken a rather positive turn with extremely fresh news on a system merger (or partial merger) beginning with a jump-bridge being finally placed in [REDACTED]. The destination system will be nearby spatially, but actually in a nextdoor region which offers interesting potential for PI and other logistics. In specific there will be twin Storm planets and an Oceanic that will broaden the scope of our current options quite considerably. That system and arrangement is still in the process and so I'm not at liberty to really say anything too concrete at the moment other than it will very likely change how we reccomend players set up PI networks, and likely very soon it will revolve around moving to another system entirely via jump bridge to complete your daily PI maintenance. When that change is ready, I will send a detailed mail on this topic.

Additionally, with shifting play times and availability, players should be switching PI colonies over to matching lengths. We are close to prototyping a method of very long-chain P2 extraction that could facilitate otherwise inactive players to still make a few hundred million isk per month, and combined with science pay could very likely still pay at least a PLEX/mo.

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Monthly update: August/September (2/2)

From: [REDACTED]

Sent: 2014.09.13 08:55

To: [REDACTED],

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Science Update

It's been a long first cycle, but this month will finally see the first blueprints making it out to final sale stages, and turning into revenue. Initially I had imagined we would now go and sell all of the blueprints and then use the isk to start new jobs, however I had made a rather drastic oversight in that the layover period could be weeks, months, or even infinate. So we quickly scrapped that plan in lieu of even MORE jobs being purchased to be used in the interim of the first set being sold. So if for some reason you still have empty slots, there are still stacks of prints ready to be put in for first-pass research, speak to myself to get sorted.

The rate of scientist pay will be changing this month as well, as we begin toward the promised graduated step-up program that will see our current 50/50 profit split (between corp and members) traded for a more reasonable 10% tax profile once the project reaches maximum efficiency and operating frequency. What exactly that rate of graduated increase will be is yet to be determined, and I think it's appropraite to have members of the science program weigh in and help us decide what shall be the fate of the program. We have choices that involve multiple avenues of expansion, as well as simply moving to a higher rate of pay, faster. So look for a mail on that top with a link to an online poll to float in later this month as we approach the landmark of our first blueprint sales.

If you are just coming back from being inactive, and still need to set jobs, a few things have changed:

1) we now will be stocking really high quality teams for this, so don't ever set a job now without one (unless you talk to me first)

2) we have moved arrays around, and will be using the new Hysayoda Research array named [REDACTED] (don't use the old array)

3) we have stocked research implants for both types of research, you will need to buy them from me but the total cost is 50m for both, so hopefully you can manage.

Of course you will need to speak with me to get the Active Research role anyway to facilitate putting on jobs and I will remind you of these changes at that time, but just so you are prepared or I'm forgetful, those 3 things must now be observed for any science jobs to be considered valid, so make sure you do them or you won't get paid!

Mining Update

Again, more of the same story, you all have gone back to work/school for the most part and I'm sad panda mining all alone. No, just kidding. This month and the next few will be challenging for all of us to keep up with our previous play schedules, this is just how life works. If you haven't noticed the corp ops have been dramatically reduced in frequency, and it's likely to stay that way until winter break.

If you are some crazy individual still out mining, I will begin to publish a list of what ores I need the most prioritized, so hopefully in between days spent at the ice belt you can scrape me up some of that, but otherwise this portion of corp is going to go inactive in lieu of more fun activities anyway.

If we need some emergency ores for production expect an op to be called, and I will notify you by mail if/when that is the case. Otherwise enjoy your hiatus from mining, and we'll see you for some 10 and 12h grind ops around xmas!

Investors Update

Yes, very very soon this will be a thing. As more of you have been getting closer to goals for beginning your personal investment portfolios I have been watching corporate finances and waiting for a time that those two objectives can meet in the middle. For some of you this past month has been troubling with some of the learning curves to passive income and playtime balace being introduced, and I've pushed a particular few of you toward goals that will secure your financial future as part of the purpose of this corporation. However finally now, we're ready to amalgomate those services into a tighter package, and open our first ever corporate investment portfolio option that should kill around 5 birds with one stone.

Here is how the system would work:

Our large scale production is one of many possible avenues of investment that will be used as leverage to build corporate wealth. Each of you as individuals will be offered the opportunity to invest directly into those corporate wealth pools up to a maximum for the project which will likely be set near 50b with a 500m or 1b minimum principle invesment incriment. That 50b investment maximum could be considered as open slots, and when they are filled the project would need to be re-evaluated prior to opening any more slots op or allowing further investment. The implications of this are such that under full load, an interest payment would be given to each investment holder each month (or other decided interval), and could not be added to the investment option and allowed to compound. However, so long as there is available space in the program, interest payments made to individuals could be allowed to be re-deposited and then in turn compounded upon until the maximum is reached.

At the moment one of the biggest bottlenecks in corporate growth is of a basic liquid financial nature. The need for investment capital can be seen across all projects, across all of our current investments and deployments. Invested isk would be used for any and all programs within corp, in a ratio that we can all help to shape in a pseudo-democratic process that is ongoing within corp. The goal of the project is multi-fold; to allow the corp much needed bulk finances to fund corporate project expansions and new project startups, to earn isk for members who may or may not be able to leverage other investment portfolio options alone, and most importantly to reward players who intend to remain with us by offering a greater weight in our success story. As we grow financially, so too will you. However this project would also come with some risk, that will be detailed in an unbiased exploitive mail later this month as well...

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THE END!

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That's it for this update guys, I know I've been pretty ambiguous about things that are happening but that's because I don't want to jeopardize what is being negotiated/changing currently, and that is some really really massive stuff that will hopefully catapult us toward some of the best corps and groups in eve in terms of financial and economic power and stability. The individual update mails that will come this month will clear up many of the details that I'm sure you all are wondering about.

[REDACTED] love for everyone, talk to you all soon.