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Jay Remmington
Deep Core Mining Inc. Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.05.24 06:06:00 -
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As many of you may have noticed the t1 miner mods have gone crazy in jita. Someone for some inexplicable reason has been buying them up for inflated prices. 350,000 isk per unit for miner 1 mods for example, as well as even more for the different meta levels. His name is "Chris rageonthis" he is not directly connected to an major alliances and his true identity is unknown and I presume he is an alt of some sort.
The scale of this enigmatic endeavor is hard to grasp exactly however he did recently post a contract in jita local. The contents of which were this.
Civilian miner: 32662
Cu Vapor Particle Bore Stream I : 1384
Dual Diode Mining Laser I : 7705
EP-S Gaussian Excavation Pulse : 8038
Gallente Mining laser: 1106
Miner I : 24794
Miner II : 1946
XeCl Drilling Beam I: 13470
Asking Price: 45,000,000,000 or 45 billion isk
It is unclear whether his motivation is profits or chaos, we may never know. As of writing he still has up a buy order for Miner Is at 350k. |
cigarellos
Trade Federation Directorate
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Posted - 2012.05.24 06:26:00 -
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Reserved. |
corestwo
Goonfleet Investment Banking
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Posted - 2012.05.24 06:53:00 -
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Based on his jita chat and so on I'm going to assume that he's simply a ****ing moron with delusions of grandeur. |
Jay Remmington
Deep Core Mining Inc. Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.05.24 06:55:00 -
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that's what I thought at first. He's also telling people he'll "let them in on the plan" for the price of his contract. I doubt that will work but it's indicative that he might be doing it somewhat for the potential for profit. Still more likely in my mind is some kind of market manipulation or griefing. He was a member of Dreddit for some period of time if he was a front for them then he would have a lot of resources to work with. |
Tobiaz
Spacerats
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Posted - 2012.05.24 09:15:00 -
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1384 Cu Vapors... 8 years ago that would have made you the richest player in EVE Operation WRITE DOWN ALL THE THINGS!!!-á Check out the list at http://bit.ly/wdatt Collecting and compiling all fixes and ideas for EVE. Looking for more editors! |
Alain Kinsella
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Posted - 2012.05.24 10:10:00 -
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Buy order for a M0 mod that's higher than the BPO cost, and several times build cost (IIRC) is just nuts. As I said in scc-, just buy the darn BPOs and make your own.
As of last night he couldn't claim to have bought all of them either, just need to look in the non-hub regions. :p
I may have come here from Myst Online, but that does not make me any less bloodthirsty than the average Eve player.
Just more subtle.
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Mila Chancel
Fungibility Inc.
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Posted - 2012.05.24 11:00:00 -
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Tears?
Buying several hundred of an item at a time which is easily churned out for under 30k for 1.2m and filling my buy orders at 100k, just to buy them back at 1m?
colour me confused, but my wallet is very happy either way. Give it a month or so, and offer to buy them back for 30k each ^^
I still stand by my theory that TEST are going to launch an all-out assault using ships fitted only with Mining Lasers. Its a good theory.
EDIT: Alternative Theory, you know how CCP always say there is a lot of loose isk in the economy? We just found a pile of it, and moved it to our wallets. |
Caleb Ayrania
TarNec
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Posted - 2012.05.24 11:05:00 -
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No idea what this cook is doing..
It does however give point to try and get traders to stop the patty cake games and be smarter..
Always split your stacks in the minimum of 2 when you have spare order, preferably 3. Make each stack rise in price from 25%-100% at each step.. This would make these all buy out manipulations less used as as a scheme, since most people would find the wallet lacking when fighting an exponential rise in price like that..
In general the Jumbo stacks being flipped and whining of potential bots goes to show how lazy current marketeers are..
It seems that EVE players fail at the most basic business 101, and is just playing the game mechanic. The exception being the rather complicated strategies that do go on in null.
Its taken 5-6 years to get Push and Red Frog, the most obvious and most vital part of civilization..
Will it really take another 4-5 year before we see effective use of storefronts or mail order?
I think the first rule in biz afaik is location location location.. That does not mean you all just go bet on Wall street..
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Desi Valeri
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.05.24 11:13:00 -
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SWEET TAP DANCING CHRIST, HE'S LETTING THEM GO FOR ONLY 45 BILL?
******* patch, let me log iiiin |
Johnny Frecko
Fruidian Logic The Butterfly Effect Alliance
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Posted - 2012.05.24 11:16:00 -
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Don't you mean the man who made a mark on the wallet? Get 10x unresearched BPO's for miner I's and start making isk. until he's bored of giving you isk.
this is the best "give me your isk and i'll double it" scam i've ever seen. And he's actually doubling people's money. |
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Cutout Man
Archimedean Point
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Posted - 2012.05.24 14:47:00 -
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Caleb Ayrania wrote:No idea what this cook is doing..
It does however give point to try and get traders to stop the patty cake games and be smarter..
Always split your stacks in the minimum of 2 when you have spare order, preferably 3. Make each stack rise in price from 25%-100% at each step.. This would make these all buy out manipulations less used as as a scheme, since most people would find the wallet lacking when fighting an exponential rise in price like that..
In general the Jumbo stacks being flipped and whining of potential bots goes to show how lazy current marketeers are..
It seems that EVE players fail at the most basic business 101, and is just playing the game mechanic. The exception being the rather complicated strategies that do go on in null.
Its taken 5-6 years to get Push and Red Frog, the most obvious and most vital part of civilization..
Will it really take another 4-5 year before we see effective use of storefronts or mail order?
I think the first rule in biz afaik is location location location.. That does not mean you all just go bet on Wall street..
Red Frog is 5 years old (started as Red Frog Investments) |
Orion Wyvernbane
Federal Defense Union Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.05.24 15:00:00 -
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Caleb Ayrania wrote:No idea what this cook is doing..
It does however give point to try and get traders to stop the patty cake games and be smarter..
Always split your stacks in the minimum of 2 when you have spare order, preferably 3. Make each stack rise in price from 25%-100% at each step.. This would make these all buy out manipulations less used as as a scheme, since most people would find the wallet lacking when fighting an exponential rise in price like that..
Quite a strange notion. If I list 1000 joysticks at 50k each and 1000 joysticks at 100k each.
1. I just wasted a slot. 2. Buyout'er can just buy the first stack and list for 99k each, which would be harder for him if the first stack was 2000 units deep.
Also, I don't see a single trader complaining about this buyout'er - not in this thread, not in the chat. Seems that we're all taking his money. |
Debiru
Flashpoint Industries Imperial Hull Tankers
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Posted - 2012.05.24 16:52:00 -
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I hope all your Miner I manufacturers and Traders enjoyed today. I only wish I could be there when the guy realizes he isn't going to get his money back. Or create Burn Jita Mk II by buying up over-produced Mining mods. |
Zora
Vector Industries DONT PANIC.
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Posted - 2012.05.24 17:53:00 -
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Maybe he built a timemachine *in EVE* and is going back to 2003, selling all those juicy miners, builds the first titan before Ascendant Frontier Alliance does, makes them his slaves and defeats BOB before Goons know what is happening ... and thereby creates a paradox that will ultimately swallow the world. You guys just don't see the BIG PICTURE!
That, or maybe he just never heard of the miracle that is T1 BPOs... and just assumed that the removal of drops for meta 0 items meant there were no more miners created in-game and he had the sole monopoly on it.
Amusing either way :p |
EFF ONEF1
Deep Core Mining Inc. Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.05.24 18:41:00 -
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Or he bought all that isk from farmers and is doing this to spread the ill gotten money around to as many people as possible to confuse ccp in tracking it and get some unwary people suspended/banned.
I've seen it done in swg, rift, wow, and coh. |
Chevalleis
Aegis Consolidated
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Posted - 2012.05.24 18:48:00 -
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Chris Rage on this. |
Mirajane Cromwell
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Posted - 2012.05.25 04:27:00 -
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1. Someone creates new char named Chris Rageonthis (as in Chris, Rage on this!) 2. This same person has then either access to real Chris' account (angry gf/wife???) or access to Chris' corporate assets as a corp member and then transfers/steals all the items/ISK to Chris Rageonthis char. 3. Then this person buys stuff for hugely overpriced prices and makes Chris loose billions in the process 4. The one who did this get delicious tears out of Chris.
Am I right? |
David Forge
Forge Enterprises
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Posted - 2012.05.25 05:39:00 -
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Mirajane Cromwell wrote:1. Someone creates new char named Chris Rageonthis (as in Chris, Rage on this!) 2. This same person has then either access to real Chris' account (angry gf/wife???) or access to Chris' corporate assets as a corp member and then transfers/steals all the items/ISK to Chris Rageonthis char. 3. Then this person buys stuff for hugely overpriced prices and makes Chris loose billions in the process 4. The one who did this get delicious tears out of Chris.
Am I right?
You know what would really **** Chris off? Sending the contents of his wallet to the character "David Forge". |
Jay Remmington
The Isk Crowd
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Posted - 2012.05.25 23:22:00 -
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Mirajane Cromwell wrote:1. Someone creates new char named Chris Rageonthis (as in Chris, Rage on this!) 2. This same person has then either access to real Chris' account (angry gf/wife???) or access to Chris' corporate assets as a corp member and then transfers/steals all the items/ISK to Chris Rageonthis char. 3. Then this person buys stuff for hugely overpriced prices and makes Chris loose billions in the process 4. The one who did this get delicious tears out of Chris.
Am I right? actually now it makes a lot of sense. This is probably exactly it. |
Rykker Bow
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Posted - 2012.05.26 01:34:00 -
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Mirajane Cromwell wrote:1. Someone creates new char named Chris Rageonthis (as in Chris, Rage on this!) 2. This same person has then either access to real Chris' account (angry gf/wife???) or access to Chris' corporate assets as a corp member and then transfers/steals all the items/ISK to Chris Rageonthis char. 3. Then this person buys stuff for hugely overpriced prices and makes Chris loose billions in the process 4. The one who did this get delicious tears out of Chris.
Am I right?
I'm liking this one. Hopefully we can get closure on this at some point to find out what really happened. |
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