Lupus Aurelius
Legio V Fidelus
Fidelas Constans
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Posted - 2009.11.12 23:11:00 -
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Please forgive me if any of this has already been covered, but I have been plowing thru the 111 pages, and my brain is becoming mushà..
Discussion of the rewards vs. risks, and making 0.0 more profitable, costs for maintenance, impacts on territory claimed, etc, seems to be what most of the discussion has been. But one issue I do not see really being addressed is the mechanics of how those ôrewardsö transfer up to the alliance level. Increased spawns, bounties, mineral concentrations are all fine, but none of that transfers directly in any way to an alliance.
Best case scenario is bounties are taxed by the corporation, but that does not necessarily transfer up to an alliance level. Also, in NRDS space, where I reside, anything done by non-alliance members of the sov holder would flow into the neutral partyÆs wallet and not the entity controlling that space. Other than outpost fees, there is no mechanism for this atm.
What really needs to be addressed is how the isk potential of a system gets translated into the sov holding entityÆs wallet, thus financing system maintenance fees and upgrades. The ability of the sov holder to impose a usage tax, as suggested earlier, would allow for NRDS entities to continue with allowing neutral parties, or blue non-alliance members, to contribute to the upkeep of that space, instead of being a drain that draws isk away from the sov holder.
Also, the ability of an alliance to impose a tax rate on itÆs individual members in their member corporations would also provide for an instant transfer of funds, removing the need to filter it through the member corp via an alliance membership fee. Even for an NBSI alliance holding sov, allowing an alliance blue to you to rat/plex/mine in your space would see none of the potential earnings contributing at all to the upkeep of the system.
Market transactions in sov holding allianceÆs outpost allow for taxing activity, but nothing prevent a miner, trader, or industrialist, from merely transporting their goods to a hisec station for sale, thus negating any benefit for the activity performed in that space. Even some form of gate fee per usage, going to the sov holder, for non-alliance members utilizing gates, based on type/mass of the ship, would alleviate that situation.
Face it, there has got to be a direct mechanism that a sov holder can utilize that will create a direct transfer of the isk potential of a system. Otherwise, for NRDS, you might as well close the door, and for NBSI, youÆll be kicking your allies out of your space all the time.
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