EVE General Discussion

i rent in rl too , tought it was normal in a game too , srry

There's no need to apologize. There's nothing unreasonable about paying some of your space money as rent for a cool place to fly your spaceship around and do cool stuff. The truth is that we are all transients. Some of us are just not comfortable with this. I don't know if being comfortable with it means you are more enlightened, less enlightened, or just different.

Fly safe.

The cost of renting space is spread out among the members of the corporation. Especially for corps that want to specialize in industry, this is a pittance compared to their potential profit because you can pack a functionally infinite number of miners into a single system without running into problems with competition. There are even some individual people who rent systems for their own multibox mining armies, so that they have uncontested rights to all of the ore in the system. There is a great amount of wealth in null sec that most people overlook, due to the mechanics involved in resource depletion in high sec. If you are a single person with 38 mining accounts, or a member of a 50-man corp that wants to mine and rat without paying taxes on the total amount of pirate bounties for the month, then a few billion a month paid as an upfront fee is a drop in the bucket and less than the price of refinery taxes and npc corp taxes. Given the higher bounties available in nullsec and the fact that it is all delivered instantly in ISK rather than partially in LP, the PVE rewards in nullsec quickly overcome those in high sec for the same amount of expended effort.

If you could exploit all of these resources without a sovereignty infrastructure, or if you could build the required sovereignty infrastructure to do it on this scale by yourself, then there would be no need to rent. But you cannot, and so your options as an entity that cannot take space and build a sovereignty infrastructure are to just do without these riches or to rent for acces to them. Renting is a much lower-effort option, and its real costs are considerably less than those that would be required to fully invest oneself in the taking and holding of space.

so for some reason you think we would create shill corps that don't pay rent, recruit a bunch of people into those corps to use our space rent and tax free, to accomplish what exactly?

nevermind, stay in hisec

Don't listen to Andski. We would do exactly that, all for the explicit purpose of twirling our waxed mustaches while we cackle maniacally. All of this would occur while wearing a smoking jacket, petting a white cat, wearing a monocle, and enjoying a dinner of human infants sauteed in the blood of maidens.

I like you better than the other goons. Don't let them tell you to stop posting.

Goons are not allowed to rental scam. If you catch a goon rental scamming, then please send me an evemail with logs and screenshots to show what happened.

It really is the best of both worlds, much like having a condo or a townhome.

Why do insufferable people on the EVE-O forums think it cute to append -bear to every goddamned thing?

By my recollection, it was always N3 forces who were defending TEST assets during AUTZ when my Siege Fleets would otherwise roll around unmolested and set half of the region on fire every night.