This guide is meant to help CEO's, Directors, and even members of corporations in EVE Online to better understand how the rent is calculated for corporate offices.


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The easiest way to manage station rent is to merely have one or two offices, or none at all. The more offices you rent, the more difficult they will be to maintain over time. The reason for this is the seemingly unpredictable nature in which station office rental fees go up and down.

Sometime between now and 2010, I sent in a ticket to learn more about how station rent fluctuates. At that time, I learned they actually have a formula on how the rent is calculated per station. The formula is as follows:

(Free_Offices - 1) / 23 * -5 (results in % change)

So the maximum daily drop is -5% and the price changes happen after down time. If no offices are free, the price goes up by 5%; if one office is free, the price stays the same; if more than one office is free, the price drops.

This is a tricky concept I've been working to master over the last 11 years. Success for managing this effectively will ultimately depend on the amount of active members in your roster that are actually doing activities in EVE Online to generate tax income for your corporate wallet, and maintaining an amount of station rent that your corporation can then afford to pay on a monthly basis.

To put it simply, if you don't really have much activity in your corp, and you want corporate activities to be able to pay for station rent, you want to have maybe one or two offices you can set on auto-pay and mostly ignore. Try to check your corporate bills once a month or two to make sure that the office location didn't spike to an amount of rent that your corporation just can't afford to pay.

... Work in Progress.

The logo for this guide is a cropped screenshot of one of the Sisters of Eve stations found in the solar system of Thera in EVE Online.

A source of official support information can be found on the link below.
https://support.eveonline.com/hc/en-us/articles/203209652-Corporation-Offices
https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Corporation_logistics#cite_note-1

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