This week saw Test Alliance Please Ignore [TEST] purge over 1,500 members for inactivity, reducing their membership from nearly 6,000 to 4,400 pilots. They are still the 4th largest alliance in EVE at the time of writing.
| Brave Collective | 14,356 |
| GoonSwarm Federation | 12,882 |
| Fidelas Constans | 5,071 |
| Test Alliance Please Ignore | 4,416 |
| Shadow of xXDEATHXx | 4,130 |
| RvB – RED Federation | 4,039 |
| RvB – BLUE Republic | 3,755 |
| The Bastion | 3,632 |
| SpaceMonkey’s Alliance | 3,357 |
| Circle-Of-Two | 3,182 |
The targeted accounts are mainly from Dreddit, the lead corporation in Test, as well as the wholesale removal of the “DUST” Subdreddit Corp. CCP allows the joining of DUST and EVE corporations under the same Alliance.
Dreddit CEO, DurrHurrDurr, removed nearly 1,000 players from the 2,500 member corp, 30% of total members.
The bold move is a common practice among null-sec alliances that slim down to their active players to get a better idea of their true potential. When asked for specifics, DurrHurrDurr volunteered:
Well, there were a couple of reasons for it. Subdreddit (a 500-person corporation) was kicked because it was a corporation composed entirely of DUST characters, and it was a ghost town. It was just 500 characters that didn’t actually exist.
As far as the Dreddit purge goes, that was for a few reasons. The first and main reason was that as CEO I wanted to have a better idea of the activity levels of the corporation. Being a corporation that recruits a large volume of new players, we have a somewhat higher rate of attrition (loss of recruited players over time) than a more typical EVE corporation; this is also compounded by our open recruitment method. We simply gather inactives faster than most corporations.
Purging the inactives gives me a better idea of what I have to work with, it makes the member list a little less unwieldy, and it lets me more accurately gauge how well I’m doing retaining players in the long-term.
“Society” alliances like Test or GoonSwarm Federation [CONDI] attract members from a pool of players outside the game. Test grew from Reddit.com, while Goonswarm recruited from somethingawful.com, although both have grown out of these models and recruit from inside EVE as well. The benefit was a large but inexperienced recruitment base, but the drawback is a lot of dead weight.
