REAL ESTATE MARKET COLLAPSES
administrators announce new housing policy
In a shocking twist of events late on Sunday night, NS CEO Tamara Peluso announced that revenue from mineral extraction was adequate to subsidize Eisa Colony’s entire operating budget until 3015. “Income projections were showing that it would actually be more profitable to lure in poor, easily exploitable labour than it would be to charge for the housing,” she said Monday morning. “And foreseeing everyone else whining about free housing for poor people, it only made sense to make ALL housing free. I mean, we're making enough money to run an entire mine off the backs of a half dozen poor Russians, so why not encourage more of them to move in? What do you mean, that's all you need? I haven't even gotten to the new fish extermination squads we'll be funding!"
As income from rentals in Eisa has been minimal and arguably an impediment to development of a sense of community, we've decided to abolish them for the foreseeable future in favour of vetted rental applications. Existing renters are free to continue carrying on with their business with no changes or further payments, but will be bound by the new terms of the rental agreement, which will be available in the coming days, along with the new rental application.
The primary rule is this: as long as you don't abuse sim resources and the admin team feels you've been a consistent asset to the RP environment at Eisa, you'll be free to maintain up to a certain LI of possessions on the sim as long as you're still roleplaying. (This will require advance notice for long-term absences, a procedure we'll also put in place.) If completely abandoned, rentals will expire, and we will have terms for dealing with what we feel are inappropriate uses, but as there are a lot of you who have more or less made Eisa you homes, it seems almost wrong not to let you actually make Eisa your home.
This is a bit of an experiment for us—we can't guarantee that things will be this way forever. If the system is obviously abused we may reinstate a nominal fee to keep out problematic behaviour, and we don't expect it to be without its bumps and scrapes. But it wouldn't be Eisa if we didn't take weird altruistic risks.
8 years ago by Samantha Wright
last updated: 2015-09-13 18:12:24 · link