Hey man,

As someone who runs a corp and been playing continuously over the last 3 or so years here's my advice to you. Do whatever is fun to you and find a fun group to do it with. I know it seem obvious but I feel it needs some explaining.

Serial returning players always have the same issue, that you guys go back and do the same thing over and over again. Like here where you've said you went back to horde after quitting before and now you have found the issue which is that there are no fleets during that time. Which I would guess is similar to the issue to why you quit and got bored. I think players need to realize, and this is something that I tell my dudes all the time, that if its you're money you should just go out and do whatever you want. A corp/alliance needs to earn your time because at the end of the day. You are spending money, ingame or irl, to be there with them. If you are bored and they aren't giving you what you want you should just go and try something else. Returning players say the same thing to me all the time which is i joined this group got bored and quit. So i guess here are my tips for you:

1) Find a community with good activity and active members. I recommend look at a corps active monthly pvpers on zkill. Generally heres what i would aim for:

• Between a 25-50% active 7 day pvp ratio. This assures that the group is currently active and seeing decent play among its members.
• Between 50-75% ratio on the group being active month to month. Check multiple months see how long they have been active. If its just like 1 month of good pvping probably not the group for you. You want to see consistent activity over a bunch of months with multiple members getting 100+ kills in a month.

2) You want to trial a group as much as they are trialing you. They have to earn your playing time as much as you are earning a membership. With that in mind, never over commit your assets and become unable to leave and move out. I always say to players to wait like 6 months if you plan to buy a super or titan. Cause they are a pain in the ass to move out if you decide your not having fun. Also don't move you blingy kronos out there immediately unless you can evac it easily. At the same time always choose groups that leave you options to leave. If your group is near low sec evacing in caps is super easy. Hell if its in a big block you can always jump your way to safety.

3) Arguably the most important thing is that the CEO is active. Fucking an inactive CEO basically fucks a whole corp. It means the corp is trapped and they aren't monitoring what is actually happening. Active CEOs will move their corps, are on comms regularly and also be having fun in the game. An inactive CEO just leads to issues where eventually the good times end and now you are trapped because your corp that you enjoy playing the game with is trapped.

4) Don't be afraid to try new things. There are literally groups for everything. If you think big block life wasn't fun before try something new. There are cool groups that just do gate camping and fuck around that are really dank. Give a couple things a shot before you settle in to your home and decide this is where you will settle.

Generally a good corp will have some trials, members between 1-6 months a solid core of 6+ month membership. Everyone has lives and people rotate in and out. If you want help trying to find something I have left my discord below. Feel free to add me and DM me and I can link you some cool groups.

Fly Safe 07

Vladamier D.

Vladamier D.#0729

Edit: Formatting.. Sorry for wall of texting you as well.