EVE General Discussion

Why pay rent or a mortgage when you can steal the house/apartment from the landlord! Oh right, because you'll get your ass handed to you.

Basically its just math.

If (Potential Profit From Space) - (Cost to Rent Space) > (Potential Profit From Highsec)
Then (Rent Space)

That simple.

Providence isn't too bad if you want free 0.0 (NRDS), lots of fleets to join too :3 - sure there's FAR better but it does the trick

A few words.

Supercap and Titan building

I kinda fail to see how sustaining a fleet capable of SOV warfare to defend systems from invasion is either passive or easy. Sure, while everything is going fine the financial aspects might sort themselves out, but keeping hundreds or thousands of people organized? Just thinking about the effort gives me migraines....

If they don't like renting, it takes like one day to drop your corp from the renter alliance and go somewhere else.

Lots of NPC alts screaming about why not to rent, which was pretty much the expected reaction.

Pretty much this.



My corp covered all the rent fees and expenses in one evening with only 3 people online. Fair enough we got lucky with a few DED drops, but stretch it over 30 days and you can count on getting lucky pretty consistently. Anything and everything left over is just pure profit. Do these nay-sayers ever been in null at all?


Nothing wrong with giving them wealth because in the process we still make way more isk then we would otherwise so it's a win-win. You ofcourse need to pick who you rent from. For example if CFCs renting turns out not to be a scam they still have unreasonable terms and I fail to see why anyone would rent from them.

As for being a puppet/buffer. If your group is big enough and capable enough to be considered as a buffer odds are you might enjoy PvP with no strings attached. If you don't like your landlord you can leave any time without the politics following you because it is after all a business transaction to begin with.

Scamming is a possibilty, but there are steps you can take to minimize risk. Reputation of the landlord is an important factor.

You're being unkind, it's been over a whole month now since they lost all their rental space.

But probably not by the landlord himself. Generally, it will be the local sheriff, although, if you pose enough of a threat, they'll call the SWAT team out.
In modern civilization, people are generally not required to be able to defend their own property. This tends to impart on us a sense of attachment and entitlement to "our" own property. You see this entitlement when a carebear's mission or mining ship gets ganked and they rage. You see it when a nullbear demands to have "the chance to defend my structure". You see it when people ask silly questions like: "Why should a player who just started have the same advantages as a player who has been playing for years?" People see their built up advantage as something they are entitled to, as their "property", for use to others only if they so consent.

Not sure what this is about. Clarification?