Thomas McLoed
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Posted - 2014.02.13 11:11:00 -
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Greetings...
Soliciting feedback from serious Industry types on a concept I've been mulling over.
Given the scarcity of certain industry slots in NPC stations, and the rarity of stations with both Manufacturing and Research: Is it viable to sell corp access to POS research and manufacturing slots to individual characters on a service basis?
For example, set up a Corp and launch a high-sec POS within two jumps of a trade hub with the following (illustrative) Industry capabilities:
1 x Assembly Array - Adv. Large Ship [1 slot]
1 x Assembly Array - Adv. Medium Ship [1 slot]
1 x Assembly Array - Adv. Small Ship [1 slot]
1 x Assembly Array - Ammunition [5 slot]
1 x Assembly Array - Drone [8 slot]
1 x Assembly Array - Equipment/Modules [6 slot]
1 x Assembly Array - Large Ship [3 slot]
1 x Assembly Array - Medium Ship [5 slot]
1 x Assembly Array - Small Ship [10 slot]
6 x Advanced/Mobile Laboratory [10 Copy/24 Invention/24 ME/12 PE]
1 x Corporate Hangar Array
1 x Personal Hangar Array
1 x Ship Maintenance Array
and offer up to six 'memberships' (only) to the Corp that characters can purchase on a month-by-month basis to use it, including 'read-only' access to the Corp BPO stock (200+ T1 common ship, drone, module and ammo). The closest NPC station (at that moon's planet) has a 50% Refinery, and the parent Corp would take care of all POS standings, fuelling, maintenance/Charters, defences and so on.
My questions to the wisdom-of-crowds:
- Would this be marketable at all; in other words, would anyone 'buy' access to it?
- What expectation would you have for accessibility to the slots - that you could use a guaranteed minimum of 50% of your maximum possible slots at any time? 75%? 100%?
- What is the maximum amount per month that you would be willing to pay for that access?
- Finally, are there any other services/access/value that this Corp/POS could provide that would increase its appeal?
The Assembly Arrays and Laboratory components are illustrative, and wouldn't necessarily be on-lined if there was no demand for them (allowing additional components of other types to be available), and defensive/offensive components would be anchored and off-line.
Any merit to the idea?
Thanks,
TM.
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