This page details the requirements for corporations to be part of LAWN. It is up to the leadership of an individual corporation to enforce these rules. We respect that a corporation is responsible for its members.
These rules are well thought out, and in our experience help to maintain a healthy and vibrant corporation, which in turn leads to a healthy alliance. By being a member of LAWN, you get the benefit of an alliance of thousands of members, but in turn those people care about your corporation. Your success or failure has an impact on us all.
- While we encourage a minimum of 5 heartbeats, we understand that all grand corporations must have a beginning. If you are an active corporation aspiring for greatness, have less than 5 heartbeats but are all demonstrably active (by Zkill or otherwise), we encourage you to contact our friendly diplo team. Rome was not built in a day, and neither is a corporation. We would love to hear your story. Decisions are made on a case-by-case basis.
- For member corporations that may lose members, we understand things happen. Corporations that drop below the 5 member threshold will be taken case-by-case.
- Your members must not have characters in other Sov-Holding Alliances or other “Influential Groups.” This includes but is not limited to other Imperium Alliances, High Sec Alliances / groups, Low Sec Alliances / groups, e.g., Snuffed Out, Dock Workers, Pirate corporations like Black Flag.
- 3 PAP/FAT per month per heartbeat requirement.
- Your corporation must regularly clear inactive players who fail routine auth compliance checks. Exceptions will be made for extenuating circumstances.
- Your corporation must have an active CEO and 2IC (or proxy for each) in the #ceo and #leadership channels of the LAWN Alliance Discord.
- CEOs and Directors MUST be in the Lawn Diplomatique Centre Discord.
- All members must auth ALL toons in both the LAWN and GSF authentication services. All alt corps need to be authenticated as well. See Alts and Alt Corps for more information.
- All Corporations are subject to the Scorecard grading system for alliance standing.
- New Corporations are exempt for the first month and will start with a score of 3 after this. Probationary Exemptions apply to this policy.
- Your corporation is responsible for its own recruitment.
- Your corporation must not invite characters - or alts of characters - that are on the Imperium Blacklist, LAWN Blacklist, or DNR lists.
- If you would like to appeal a Blacklist entry, speak with a diplo before recruiting.
- The Imperium levies fines against corporations that recruit characters on their Blacklist.
- If you have a question about a particular member, please reach out to the Diplo team for a diplo check.
- Your corporation’s recruiters must be in the #recruiters channel of the LAWN Alliance Discord.
- Each of your members must have an account on LAWN Auth and Imperium Auth, with valid ESI tokens for all characters that they control. We highly recommend following the Services Setup Guide.
- Corporations are Strongly Suggested to have some sort of corporation auth system. Corporations can be exempted from this, but will be a case by case situation to be discussed with LAWN Diplo.
- There will be a short grace period on joining to give your members time to get authed in. We appreciate there may be extenuating circumstances for a few characters, but we do expect this rule to be eventually enforced.
- CEOs and directors may have additional requirements, set out in Leadership Requirements.
We prefer wherever possible to talk through and amicably resolve issues with our member corporations. LAWN Leadership is responsible for managing, monitoring, and ensuring the overall health of the corporations in the alliance. They can help with understanding the rules and the reasons behind them. On the very rare occasion that issues are unable to be resolved, or a corporation has become so inactive that it's unlikely to survive, a corporation may be removed from the alliance.
Corporations are graded on the Compliance Scorecard. Any Corporation that reaches 0 points on the scorecard will be removed from the alliance. If there are questions about the scorecard, please reach out to the Diplo Department or Marie Chasteaux.