NEW ALLIANCE INCOME SYSTEM

Following debate and input from The Directorate, The Cabinet and The CEOs of LI3 Federation the following income stream will be introduced on 1st June.

Alliance Membership Income Stream

SOME BACKGROUND

Each month an audit is created which shows The Directorate (and those who The Directorate chose to share that with) the level of growth or otherwise that The Alliance has achieved in the past month.

The Alliances current income streams are as follows.

Moon Mining Operations

POCOs

Office Rental Fees

Other very minor streams such as Manufacturing and Brokers Fees

Our Outgoing Expenditure is as follows

Team Goose (Tower maintenance)

SRP

Sovereignty Bills

Other very minor expenditures such as office rental fees and contract fees.

As it stood in April our income was only very slightly above our expenditure which kept our head above the water. In May, with the increased costs in Ice and the devaluation of certain Moon Materials we are forecasting a loss that will only increase in the coming months.

As such, The Alliance requires a further income stream to assist YOUR Alliance to maintain and accelerate its growth and stability. We also require a buffer to counteract issues such as War Deployment and further game mechanic changes from CCP. This will be the Alliance Membership Income Stream.

THE SYSTEM IN ACTION

The Alliance Directorate will determine a level of growth (ISK) that we would like The Alliance to maintain. This amount will vary depending on Alliance requirements, predictions and state at that time.

An ISK value will be decided upon to reflect those needs.

Each month (as close to the beginning of the month as The Directorate can make it) The Audit will be analysed. Any profit/loss will be used to determine the Alliance Membership Income Level.

This ISK Level will then be divided up between every CHARACTER in the Alliance. This will give us the 'Membership Fee' for that month.

This Membership Fee will then be multiplied by the number of characters within each corp in LI3 Federation. Giving each corp a 'Bill'

This Bill will then be collected/raised in whatever way any individual corp thinks is the best way for them. Allowing each corp to work on its strengths to raise the ISK with the minimum of effect on their game.

This Bill will then be paid before the end of the month and the process will repeat.

EXAMPLE

Please note that this is purely an extreme example for demonstration purposes only.

The Directorate have been given The Audit for the previous month and decided that the Membership Fee for the following month should be 50B ISK.

This 50B is then divided amongst the membership

50,000,000,000 / 955 members = 52,356,020 ISK per character.

This would be distributed thus:

LiE Industries 261,780,100

Trask Industries 314,136,120

Progressive Horizon 785,340,300

Li3's Electric Cucumber 9,005,235,440

Stella Novus Invictus 471,204,180

Serene Vendetta 3,979,057,520

Multiplex Gaming 3,874,345,480

SHUN THE NON BELIEVER 4,240,837,620

Judge Enterprises 1,727,748,660

Project Aces 2,146,596,820

Razed and Confused 1,518,324,580

Liberation Army 3,612,565,380

33 RD 471,204,180

The Social Network 3,926,701,500

Universalis Imperium 3,821,989,460

Bane Heavy Industries 1,675,392,640

Frozen-Avatars 2,303,664,880

Loza Szydercow 1,256,544,480

Heeresversuchsanstalt 4,240,837,620

(52,356,020 * corporation membership level (as per Dotlan))

As these bills can be calculated easily I will make the information available to all Corp CEOs every month in The CEOs forum for the sake of transparancy and clarity. Details of payment or any issues that have arisen will be dealt with privately and NOT shown on forums.

These bills will then be setteled during that month

All payments are to be made to LIE Industries

POINTS OF NOTE

The level of Membership Fee will be varied on a monthly basis and will be determined by The Directorate.

The level of Membership Fee will be reflective ONLY of the Alliances state and requirements. No other external force will determine the level.

When each Monthly Fee is given the decision will be final.

There will be no limits as to the level of the Monthly Fee. We cannot restrict ourselves as we can't predict the future.

This new system will begin on 1st June 2013. All corp CEOs have been given 24 hours notice before being posted on LI3 News.

This WILL NOT be the only system to be introduced. Over the next month we will be proposing new, more focused streams to The Directorate and to the Cabinet. These streams will be more focused toward specific areas of the game, for example PvE or Industry. THESE NEW REVENUE STREAMS WILL COMPLEMENT AND HELP TO REDUCE THE MONTHLY LEVEL OF THIS REVENUE STREAM.

The purpose of this revenue stream to create a new form on active income where-by the alliance can acquire the level of 'buffer' which the alliance requires to sustain growth and prepare for the future.

However, this IS the baseline, scalable revenue stream upon which all other forms of income will be based upon. As such, when new revenue streams (or increased revenue from existing programs such as moon goo) are introduced or increase then it will be this stream that will be reduced every time. The plan is, over the long term to reduce this tax to a bare minimum or, maybe, even to nothing. This is the long term view.

We are not rushing into making a new revenue stream for every aspect of the game as we want this to be an evolutionary process, NOT A REVOLUTIONARY process. Further streams focussing on elements of the game will be bought out after extensive consultation.