Max Deveron wrote:back around 2012...i had a main that was part of a renter alliance....we rented at roughly 4 billion isk per system and we had two systems. so 8 bill per month. Though we in the great scheme of things paid our lip service to the Landlord....most of leadership snickered a bit at them.
The reason was on the average our 200 member group at the time collectively made 200 billion isk oer month....with just two systems. We were decently self sufficient when it came to industry. Our only short coming was the super small pvp division that we had at the time supplemented on occassion by our ratting corps. Alliance Coffers obtained taxing our own corps to be out there about 25% of that collective income per month.
So recalling this experience.....I would say 'no' renters are not required in nullsec. And I also call BS on those nullbears that say it isnt possible to fully utilize their space for the projects they are doing. Motivation and a will to actually own something and maintain it is the key....not easy laziness. Things get easy after the work and infrastructure are in place.
I am not sure if the rents are still the same but if we take your 4 billion per system as a guideline and look at 688 systems with Northern Associates holding sov. we arrive at the not so shabby sum of 2752 billion PER MONTH for the landlords of NA.
Bottinghood of Tangra would earn their PL lords ~1450 billion per month and even the CFC renters would earn their masters ~500 billion a month.
Oh how poor must the land lords be and how terrible the life must be if you get that much isks each month for doing nothing at all. Since there is a no sov war agreement there isn-Št much to waste isks on.
How many titans did PL lose again? 33? if we assume 100 bill each including fitting for the sake of easy calculating, those losses were basically replaced as far as isks are concerned within a little over 2 months.
So during this age of the blue doughnut with nothing to waste these insane amounts of isks on what do N3., PL and the CFC do with all those isks? Stockpile cap and supercap fleets at every other system so that the upcoming fatigue system won-Št bother them at all?