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Corp Hangar Mechanics?
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KaarBaak
Squirrel Team
#1 - 2011-09-20 12:48:02 UTC

Quick question:

Had a corp hangar in an NPC station. Bunch of stuff stored in there in various tabs. Time passes and didn't pay rent. Stuff impounded.

I go to get stuff and says I need to pay 3M in back rent. Fine. I pay the fee. But then all of the stuff gets dumped out of the hangar and into my 'Items.'

I thought paying [what I thought was] the rent would just recreate my hangar. But I no longer have an office here and all of my formerly sorted stuffs are jumbled again.

Learning point: Pay the rent.

Question: is that how it's supposed to work? If I had gone through the 'rent office' process before unimpounding my stuff, would that have left things sorted?

Also...rents: I noticed the rent went up in the NPC station I'm in. If I setup autopay for my rent, does the rent still go up? Or does it lock in the rent until I 'sign a new lease?'

TIA
KB

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Keno Skir
#2 - 2011-09-20 13:12:16 UTC
When you fail to pay your rent they essentially take all your stuff and put it in a single impound locker as far as i'm aware. When you payed the 3mil that was back pay, you were paying for them to release your stuff back to you.

While i'm not sure, it would seem strange if they will rent you another office before you've finished paying for the last one.

I have an office that i'll be shutting down soon, if i remember i'll do an experiment.

Regards

Ks

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Asthariye
Angry Mustellid
#3 - 2011-09-20 13:24:04 UTC
You can set the office bill to pay automatically out of the corp wallet, so you can't forget and get all your stuff impounded. It is annoying, spent half an hour resorting items as the result of a billing failure (wallet empty, oops!) the other day.

Renting an office does not 'lock in' the rent. The rent goes up or down depending on how popular the station is. I believe it's something to do with the rent slowly rising when all offices are taken and slowly dropping when they're not, but I'm not clear on the exact mechanic. This is why offices in highsec market and mission hubs are so much more expensive than in backwater lowsec systems.
Mechanoid Kryten
N0VA 5
#4 - 2011-09-20 14:43:32 UTC
If you rent an office first then un-impound, all your items go in that office but they all go in same division. Even if they were locked down blue prints.

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Malcom Dax
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2011-09-20 14:44:56 UTC  |  Edited by: Malcom Dax
Office rent is recalculated every day.

If there is one free slot it stays the same.
If ther is more than one free it goes down (scaled by the number that are free i think).
If there are none it goes up.

Edit: There was a really good post on the exact mechanics of this on the old forum somewhere, but I cant find it Sad

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KaarBaak
Squirrel Team
#6 - 2011-09-20 16:03:51 UTC
Thanks all for the replies. Answered completely.

The change in rent issue....I knew it changed, just wondered if you were informed of the change if autopay is on. I guess it's like checking your monthly credit card bill...

Which is part of the reason I didn't autopay...thought I'd get an evemail notification when rent was due or something...then I'd know for sure how much rent was changing each month.

Thanks again for all of the replies.

KB

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Abdiel Kavash
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#7 - 2011-09-21 09:01:47 UTC
You get a notification saying "we have withdrawn XX,XXX,XXX ISK for the rent for your office in Rancer" every month.
syrus mac
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2011-10-13 18:08:31 UTC  |  Edited by: syrus mac
my office fees have gone up from around 700k a month to 25 mill.......not very happy about that!

I have 2 offices, one in a 0.5 sys, station has science and med labs, and the other in 0.0 npc space, it also has science and med.

i've had the one in 0.5 longest and there are no offices available and havn't been for around a year, rent is 3.5 mill ish

the one in 0.0 is the one thats gone from 700k to 25 mill.......why the huge difference?, the one in 0.5 has been pretty much stable throughout the rental period!