Who gets the money?

[LaWey]

With all piety to new players, fact that they are new, dont mean they shouldnt integrate in RP environment, and i'm either fail to see how indeed it deterrent them.

If player want build base just to see how this work, he always can just set pob without nothing. its very cheap, give 30k place and live without maintenance for 20+ days

If he want his small pretty hangar for ship, he always can hide it in borderworlds.

If he want build his real estate, he should consider that this tamagochi require his responsibilty inRP as well.

Those fees just natural players reaction on imbalanced PoB's economy. Setting of PoB is absolutelly free, and in same time terrible unhandy, if only you don't have warehouse of parts already. Maintenance and building of stuff are terrible unbalanced, because pushes players on unconvient routes, far from main traffic, and require absolutely mad amounts of resources. And in same fucking time, those resources cost nothing, so this thing dont work as money synk, and cant create meaningful pirate interaction.

So we have free to set PoB's which can create interactions only if it serve as local hub (what happens with 1 base per system/region); during building of something spread trading, and even when not, its not lucrative. In same time PoBs is only way how make ore economy, which only left alive here, work reliably. On this background, actions of player-driven govts, which force builders to consider business plan of their future base - is very smart move.

And, on final note. Whoever gets those credits, they make sure that base will safe as far its license valid. And in-game we have battleships gameplay, but no hospital or school one. Think about it.