I've got a bit of a story to share. I started playing EVE about a month ago, and registered pretty quickly after downloading the trial. I joined a corp, all that good stuff. To protect those involved, I shall be changing the names of everyone (lol).
Our corp had a peculier system: three seperate leaders, all with 33% of the shares each. This was so a single person couldn't just up and take all our corp had and run off.
John, the main founder, was a great guy. He was very involved with the members; when I joined, our numbers were around 10-15. After a couple weeks, our alliance, of which our corp was the executor, had skyrocketted to 100+ members, most of which were in our corp. The other two leaders of the corp, Alfred and George, didn't really come on very much.
Due to our high member count, (at least, in my experience) we had lots of different skillsets. Planetary Interaction, Mining, Missioning, it was all there. But it wasn't to last.
John went on vacation. While he was gone, Alfred and George started coming on more. They didn't interact much, mostly just doing solo things. Then, while most of the corp was asleep, he struck. I say he, because Alfred and George was the same person.
Remember that thing I said about having 33% shares each, so one person couldn't steal the corp? Well, it was more like 66% for one person, and 33% for the other. Alfred/George stole the corp. He kicked out John. We had six billion ISK in money and assets. He took it all. And then he messed with every members' role settings, so they couldn't leave the corp. Then he set the tax to 100%.
Needless to say, that kind of sucks when everything you've worked for in a game comes crashing down, but the fact that this kind of thing is possible in EVE, it just makes me grin.
tl;dr this game is awesome.
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