EVE General Discussion

If you are at a festival where there are 21 toilets owned by 21 different toilet rental companies of which some are free to use and others cost 50 cents, everyone go's to the free ones and the charging ones probaly dont make much profit.

If you are at a fesival where there are 21 toilets owned by 3 differerent toilet rental companies (7 each) of which they agreed to make a fixed price of 1 dollar for each visit, than they would make a hugh profit because the festival visitors wont have any choise.

I dont know how it is called in english (and i am kinda a noob), but that seems like a pretty good sceme.

If this would be a real live case where the first situation is 5 years before the last given situation than i would wonder "what happend?". I would question myselve why only the surviving 3 toilet rental companies are left and if they would have a common factor that tributed to their survival. In a monetairy game where isk is power, it is more likely by having moar isk than the competitor. Looking at this logic and reflecting on eve; the deciding factor must lies in the early moments where the 3 surviving toilet rental companies gained a head start. The reson why is than simply found. So why is the current state of 0.0 so ****?


"Yadi-yadi-ya"

Ps: "oh and it starts with a T"

Are Monopoly's bad? Yes.

Will complaining about all the rental corps on the forums change anything? No.

At the end of the day if you really want to be free of the mega corps who have taken over null sec space you simply need to find a very OUT OF THE WAY location to live in 0.0. For instance a place with the closest medical station 15 jumps away or something.

Depends.

Do all the Nulliances charge the same for rental space?

Nice analogy. I disagree with it explaining current nullsec affairs.

I believe the whole renting thing evolved rather than being setup with a plan.

Each time a nullsec power was defeated its remaining elements were absorbed by the existing ones. As time went on, these blocks became bigger. At some point blocks banded together to properly defend themselves from a succesfull rival that grabbed large pieces of space and absorbed many players from already big blocks.

Parts of those old blocks liked their space tho. Liked being a nullsec. So what if they paid the ones that took it away, not to do so again? It may technically stop being their space. But... does that matter if you're not out there to build supers and titans. Do you really NEED sov?
Other who are not interested in "empirebuilding" but do like the lack of forced mechanics were able to jump in on that by joining these "rental alliances".

As years passed and experience with both renting and managing an empire grew; this ended with 3 toiletrental companies having eaten all the others. Which gives them the monopolizing ability you described.

I believe this will continue until all is dominated by 1 group. At which point this will become the fifth empire and those in it will be truly carebears in a player created h-sec.

What happens then... Not sure, but I'm already setting up the popcorn :)

Grrrrr Port-a-pottys.

So says you

If at said festival you have plenty of food vendors that serve all kinds of very spicy foods with lots of hot sauces... it won't matter what it costs to use the toilet. People will pay it because their bowels are about to go critical and there are only "x" number of toilets available.

Fun times.

We need some sort of browser plugin that will force you to breathe into a breathalyzer before hitting "POST"

If you are at a festival where there are 21 toilets owned by 21 different toilet rental companies of which some are free to use and others cost 50 cents you go and sh*t in the hedge. Festival toilets are appalling. I went to phoenix in the UK in 1996 (i think) and managed to not crap for 5 days. Reading 94..... no just no.... the flashbacks.

I am not going to pay to use the toilet when the bushes are free.