If you’ve ever run a corporation in EVE Online, you know the feeling. Between processing applications, tracking fleet participation, managing marketplace logistics, and keeping your Discord server in sync — the administrative overhead can eclipse the actual gameplay. That’s why I built New Eden Community Manager (NECM), an open-source web application designed to give EVE corporation and alliance leaders the tools they need without the headache.
What is NECM?
New Eden Community Manager is a self-hosted web application built on modern technologies — Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and Prisma — that serves as a centralized hub for EVE Online corporation management. It authenticates pilots through EVE Online’s SSO, so there are no extra accounts to create. Log in with your EVE character, and the system knows who you are, what corporation you belong to, and what roles you should have.
At its core, NECM replaces the patchwork of spreadsheets, Google Forms, Discord bots, and manual bookkeeping that most corporations rely on. It brings everything under one roof with a proper role-based access control system, audit logging, and a clean interface that works for both leadership and line members.
Recruitment That Actually Works
One of the biggest time sinks for any CEO is recruitment. NECM provides a full application pipeline with customizable questions per corporation, multi-character support, and a status workflow that tracks applicants from submission through review, interview, acceptance, or rejection. Recruiters can manage their queue without needing full admin access, and every status change is logged and — optionally — announced in Discord.
Fleet Participation Tracking
Running fleets is the lifeblood of any active corporation, but tracking who showed up and rewarding consistent participation has always been painful. NECM includes a fleet management system with PAP (Participation Award Points) tracking, ESI verification against CCP’s fleet API, and configurable PAP multipliers. Fleet commanders can register fleets, and the system automatically verifies participation through the EVE API. No more manually checking who was actually in fleet.
Leaderboards and Badges
Gamification works. NECM includes a flexible leaderboard engine that can rank pilots across multiple metrics — fleet participation, PvP kills (via zKillboard integration), marketplace activity, and wormhole signature scanning. Leaderboards support configurable time periods, automatic recalculation, and even prize definitions for competitive seasons. Pair this with a badge system for recognizing achievements, and you have a genuine incentive structure that keeps members engaged.
Marketplace
The in-game market in EVE is powerful, but coordinating internal corp logistics — doctrine ship sales, transport contracts, buyback programs — is a different beast. NECM’s marketplace module supports sell orders, buy requests, and transport listings with claim workflows, ISK pricing, and location data pulled from EVE’s static data. It even calculates route distances between systems using jump data.
Doctrines and Skill Tracking
Every serious corporation maintains fleet doctrines, and making sure members can actually fly them is an eternal challenge. NECM lets leadership define doctrines with full fitting details and required skills, then checks members’ actual skill levels through authenticated ESI endpoints. Pilots can see at a glance which doctrines they’re ready for and what they still need to train.
Surveys and Bulletins
Need member feedback on a proposed policy change? Want to announce a deployment? NECM includes surveys with audience targeting (by role, corporation, or alliance) and a bulletin board system with pinning, publishing controls, and scope management. It’s the internal communications platform that EVE never gave us.
Discord Integration
Let’s be honest — Discord is where EVE communities actually live. NECM doesn’t try to replace Discord; it enhances it. The application sends rich, color-coded webhook notifications for key events: new applications, status changes, survey publications, and marketplace claims. Each notification type goes to a configurable channel via separate webhook URLs, so your recruitment channel stays focused on recruitment and your logistics channel stays focused on logistics.
Beyond webhooks, NECM supports full Discord OAuth account linking, allowing pilots to connect their Discord identity to their EVE characters. This opens the door for automated role synchronization between NECM’s RBAC system and your Discord server roles — so when someone is promoted to Fleet Commander in NECM, their Discord roles can reflect that automatically.
The integration is designed to be resilient. If Discord is down or a webhook URL isn’t configured, the primary operation always succeeds. Notifications are a courtesy, never a blocker.
WHMapper Integration
For wormhole corporations, scanning is life. NECM integrates directly with WHMapper, a popular wormhole mapping tool, through a secure webhook pipeline. When a pilot scans signatures using WHMapper, the system automatically receives the data, identifies the scanning character, deduplicates signatures (so the same wormhole doesn’t get counted twice), and credits the pilot on the appropriate leaderboard.
The integration uses HMAC-SHA256 signature verification and replay protection, so it’s secure out of the box. Even if a character isn’t yet registered in NECM, the scan data is stored and can be attributed later. For wormhole corps that want to reward their scanners — and every wormhole corp should — this turns an invisible, thankless job into a recognized and tracked contribution.
Why This Matters for a CEO
Running an EVE corporation is a volunteer job with real organizational complexity. You’re managing dozens or hundreds of people across time zones, coordinating military operations, handling logistics, and trying to keep morale high — all while presumably wanting to play the game yourself.
Without proper tooling, the CEO becomes the bottleneck. “Did anyone process that application?” “Who showed up to the fleet last Thursday?” “Are our new members actually trained for the doctrine?” These questions shouldn’t require digging through spreadsheets or pinging officers in Discord.
NECM centralizes these workflows. It enforces permissions so you can safely delegate. It logs every administrative action so you have accountability. It automates the tedious parts — ESI verification, signature deduplication, leaderboard calculation — so your leadership team can focus on leading.
The role-based access control system means you can give your recruiters exactly the access they need and nothing more. Your fleet commanders can manage PAPs without seeing applications. Your survey managers can publish feedback forms without touching marketplace listings. Delegation becomes safe and natural.
Built for the Long Game
NECM is designed with multi-corporation and multi-alliance extensibility in mind. The data model supports approved organizations, corporation-specific configurations, and alliance-level scoping. Whether you’re running a small wormhole corp or a large nullsec alliance, the architecture scales with you.
It’s open source, self-hosted, and built on a stack that any modern web developer can contribute to. No vendor lock-in, no subscription fees, no data leaving your control.
EVE Online is a game about building something together. New Eden Community Manager is a tool to help you do that without burning out.