Jade Constantine
Gallente
Jericho Fraction
The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2010.04.30 15:32:00 -
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 Originally by: Dex Nederland
Many of the responses appear to construe a question of payment for fuel savings and increased profit as renting the moon/space. To the contrary, I view it as a means to amortize the cost of the TCU, defensive POS, and daily upkeep across multiple towers/corporations in the alliance. Payment would not be to the alliance as a whole, but rather to the TCU owning/sovereignty controlling corporation who maintains the infrastructure.
Understood, problem being the blunt stick approach currently available within registration of administrated space. Its not possible gain the fuel efficiency savings without formal membership of the alliance in question. And since the Fraction is a campaigning freespace guerilla movement with strong and established codes of conduct and rules of engagement its problematic to have external entities affiliate and bring their conduct into reflection of ours in space where genuine ideological consensus and camaraderie do not exist.
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To me, even the formation of an alliance requires more than shared principles or objectives. These are things a loose coalition of corporations can achieve. CONCORD's alliance framework provides some benefits to non-territory holding entities, but it really comes into its own as a means to reduce cost and increase profits. All this being said, my lens is that of an industrial, profit-minded CEO, supporting a profit seeking megacorporation.
Though probably not practical in this instance, I do agree with you that an alliance existing purely to exploit efficiency-savings on tower deployment and usage in nullsec is an interesting economic construct to consider. Such an entity utilizing NRDS rules of engagement (and obviously foreswearing the standings dominion of a stronger hostile enclosurist entity) and focused on profiting from instrastructure development and profit on the frontier would likely be something we could happily cooexist with in the future.
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I believe we should be able to transfer the efficiencies to other parties û we should press for that technological change.
The Cosmopolite answered the question very well and to my satisfaction.
And I agree also with this. Perhaps a system of setting standings and defining access to the Instracture Hub systems might suffice - in such a way as entitys + to the Hub owners received fuel discounts? It could certainly form the basis for constructive engagement and negotiation between entities on the frontier.
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