EVE Fiction

Pretty sure the Lore used to be that 1 ISK would be a well-paid annual salary. As a result, mortal crew are paid out of rounding errors in your regular activities.

Obligatory linking of...

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/New_Eden_crew_guidelines

Oh my god, we are the 1%

Occupy Jita!!!

But then what about the ships you build yourself?

Crew salaries are very easy to account for. They could be a part of what taxes you pay to your corporation (NPC or Player created), with every mission you run. They could also be a part of the bounties you collect from Concord when killing pirate faction mobs. They could also be a part of all of the bult in costs, seen and unseen of you about every activity in EVE we do.

I would actually like to see EVE (CPP) phase in the true costs of running our ships and corporations. Making those unseen costs, become seen and felt.

For a ship I would like for there to be:

1. Crew Pay, which we can set and could have a mdofier attached to it based on on little or much we do pay.

2. Fuel cost (yes it is a new money sink), this would add some more realism.

3. Expanded docking services and fees based on those services.

Yet another related question: How many "civilian / support" employees would there be in a typical corporation, made up of just a few capsuleers?

I don't get the impression that technology has replaced the nameless, faceless masses of low paid clerical workers in the mega corporate model.

The types of men and women who run these corporations crave power. There is no exercised power in firing a computer or robot.

I ran some numbers and i would peg my personal fleet at a strength (equating ships based on role and cost and not name) at approximately that of France or Italy giving me some 35000ish employes. At 200 ISK per person per year, this amounts to a piddly 7 million in wages per year. For the record I own 2 capitals, ~25 significant sub capitals and ~20 insignificant sub-capitals (over/under 50 mil in hull cost).

The way I understand it, back in the first days of eve you had to pay to recharge your capacitor and shields at station unless you just wanted to sit outside station and let them slowly recharge. Then you have the station management charging rent for offices and other little fees, including broker fees and taxes paid on trades, At the volume Us eggers do it that would be enough to keep the station crew paid very well. I tend to agree with the point that a ship’s crews pay is in the rounding of number in transactions, witch in my case based of the amount of trade I do gives me well paid crews for my entire fleet. I do think that this is an issue that could be talked in the future without making major changes to the way things currently operate. I would like to see expansion on this part of the lore at bit. For example my RP background means that I am with an entourage of about 4 to 6 non capsuleers anytime I am out of pod, Numerous others are much the same in their story lines. Where does there pay come from? Well I guess in the case of Amarrian holders most would be slaves, but I am Minmatar, I could be wrong but one of my assumptions from reading something somewhere was the 1interstellar credit was worth a lot more than any planetary currency or empire currency for that matter.