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Dragon Kado
State War Academy Caldari State
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Posted - 2015.02.19 17:56:51 -
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Hey everyone! I know there are tons of people complaining that Plexing is too expensive. I'm planning on paying the monthly subscription, I'm just curious if you can get to a point in the game, where you are making large amounts of ISK, and plexing actually is a better option? Just curious. Thanks guys! |
Paranoid Loyd
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Posted - 2015.02.19 18:11:05 -
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My income easily would allow me to PLEX, but I don't.
3 accounts is less than $1/day. I don't mind paying the sub and having more isk than i know what to do with opens a lot of possibilities.
I guess it all depends on what your goals are and what your other expenses in game and IRL are.
"Gankers are just other players, not supernatural monsters who will get you if you don't follow some arbitrary superstition. Haul responsibly and without irrational fear." Masao Kurata
Fix the Prospect!!!
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Dragon Kado
State War Academy Caldari State
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Posted - 2015.02.19 18:12:40 -
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Thanks! I appreciate the answer! I don't mind paying the sub either. I just wondered if it eventually made more sense to Plex. Thanks man! |
J'Poll
Green Skull LLC
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Posted - 2015.02.19 18:14:20 -
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I would never consider wasting ISK on a PLEX. That money is better spent in useful items to have fun with in game.
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Orlacc
798
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Posted - 2015.02.19 18:22:31 -
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Paranoid Loyd wrote:My income easily would allow me to PLEX, but I don't.
3 accounts is less than $1/day. I don't mind paying the sub and having more isk than i know what to do with opens a lot of possibilities.
I guess it all depends on what your goals are and what your other expenses in game and IRL are.
Less than a dollar a day? Guess you don't live in the States. Or they have longer months. I agree with the attitude though. Why stress? EVE is to have fun!
"Measure Twice, Cut Once."
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J'Poll
Green Skull LLC
5843
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Posted - 2015.02.19 18:25:46 -
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Orlacc wrote:Paranoid Loyd wrote:My income easily would allow me to PLEX, but I don't.
3 accounts is less than $1/day. I don't mind paying the sub and having more isk than i know what to do with opens a lot of possibilities.
I guess it all depends on what your goals are and what your other expenses in game and IRL are. Less than a dollar a day? Guess you don't live in the States. Or they have longer months.
Uhm not really.
Yearly sub gives you a monthly payment of around 10 $/month.
3 accounts = 30 $/month.
30 $ / 30 days = guess the answer.
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Memphis Baas
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Posted - 2015.02.19 18:29:45 -
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You CAN reach a point in the game where you can make enough ISK to buy a PLEX every month, and pay your subscription that way, but basically it's more work than even the worst of jobs.
Some methods:
- day-trading in the Jita hub station - mining op with several accounts maximized for mining bonuses (enough ISK to plex-pay all the accounts) - mission or nullsec ratting for several hours each day, every single day
Basically, making the ISK consistently for a long period of time involves grinding some activity each day for 6-8 hours, which typically is more than what's considered "normal" for sitting in front of a computer. |
Dredd Lochness Munster
Dredd Lochness Munster Corporation
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Posted - 2015.02.19 18:51:13 -
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My carrier pilot main, before I unsubbed it, could make almost 100 million ISK an hour running havens and sanctums in null. Half hour a day would pay for a PLEX. But I just paid the sub fee. I wanted the extra iskies to put toward corp/alliance goals. |
Novah Soul
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Posted - 2015.02.19 19:00:22 -
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Dragon Kado wrote:Hey everyone! I know there are tons of people complaining that Plexing is too expensive. I'm planning on paying the monthly subscription, I'm just curious if you can get to a point in the game, where you are making large amounts of ISK, and plexing actually is a better option? Just curious. Thanks guys! Would really depend on what you define as the "better option." Can you make enough money to buy plex easily? Sure. Could that 800m+ monthly be spent on something else? Absolutely. Is it worth it? Totally your call.
For me, playing a game to pay for the game is basically the equivalent of turning said game into a second job and I would much rather save that money for something else.
A man is known by the quality of his friends. - Lex Luthor
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Tsukino Stareine
Sock Robbers Inc. Low-Class
1014
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Posted - 2015.02.19 19:23:25 -
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i have a job so i just keep the sub rolling, it's quite viable to earn enough isk ingame for plex though. Wormhole corps can earn a plex in one short evening of running sites. |
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Orlacc
798
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Posted - 2015.02.19 19:24:49 -
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J'Poll wrote:Orlacc wrote:Paranoid Loyd wrote:My income easily would allow me to PLEX, but I don't.
3 accounts is less than $1/day. I don't mind paying the sub and having more isk than i know what to do with opens a lot of possibilities.
I guess it all depends on what your goals are and what your other expenses in game and IRL are. Less than a dollar a day? Guess you don't live in the States. Or they have longer months. Uhm not really. Yearly sub gives you a monthly payment of around 10 $/month. 3 accounts = 30 $/month. 30 $ / 30 days = guess the answer.
Doh! Guess I am not thinking of yearly subs since we were talking about PLEX.
"Measure Twice, Cut Once."
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Paranoid Loyd
3916
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Posted - 2015.02.19 19:34:42 -
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Orlacc wrote:Doh! Guess I am not thinking of yearly subs since we were talking about PLEX. I should have specified, not everyone pays by the year. I guess it is slightly more than a $1/day.
131.40x3/365=$1.08
But as you said this is really the point:
Orlacc wrote: Why stress? EVE is to have fun!
"Gankers are just other players, not supernatural monsters who will get you if you don't follow some arbitrary superstition. Haul responsibly and without irrational fear." Masao Kurata
Fix the Prospect!!!
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Dredd Lochness Munster
Dredd Lochness Munster Corporation
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Posted - 2015.02.19 20:17:42 -
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Back in the days when I did use PLEX, making ISK wasn't work. I'd fleet up with friends and we'd mine or mission or whatever, as a group for a couple hours a night. Talking, moving rocks from space into the orca or blapping red-plus signs into wrecks.
Of course, at 45 years old, I was one of the youngest of us.
1 week's income would go to the PLEX, and the other 3 weeks of income would just accumulate in our wallets, or stockpile minerals in the corp hanger. I remember at one point having a few billion trit in the hanger, not sure what we wanted to build with it.
We played purely for the social aspects of the game.
So, if you're an old guy, with no interest in PvP, and just playing the game to "hang out with friends" PLEXing the accounts is something to do with the ISK that just keeps rolling in. |
Godfrey Silvarna
Arctic Light Inc. Arctic Light
306
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Posted - 2015.02.19 20:35:31 -
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I have been playing with PLEX for almost my entire EVE career. It works, but the PvE needed to sustain it does get tedious every now and then, since I have to allocate several hours every week to wormhole running sites. |
Hasikan Miallok
Republic University Minmatar Republic
1409
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Posted - 2015.02.20 00:39:00 -
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I generally PLEX cos just with normal play I always end up with excess ISK and nothing much to spend it on.
IMPORTANT:
- Choosing to PLEX because you have a cr@pload of spare ISK so why not - that is one thing.
- Feeling you have to grind to make ISK to pay for the next PLEX - is different and bad. If you are in that situation buy a sub.
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Tipa Riot
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.02.20 14:05:38 -
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There are far better ways to spend ISK than PLEX. Pure PvE for ISK generation is IMO too tedious to actually count as "gaming". I'm still searching how to make PvP an actual profitable activity* ...
*...and ganking haulers all day with 2-3 chars has more in common with PvE than PvP
I'm my own NPC alt.
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Delt0r Garsk
Shits N Giggles
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Posted - 2015.02.20 15:19:03 -
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I could easily plex these accounts as well. But again its just never worth it. In the past i have used RL isk to sell for ISK.
I did make a plex or 3 trading plex. The price bubble and bust around xmass is very predictable. So i like people who by plex...
Death and Glory!
Well fun is also good.
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Vol Arm'OOO
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2015.02.20 15:29:59 -
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Dragon Kado wrote:Hey everyone! I know there are tons of people complaining that Plexing is too expensive. I'm planning on paying the monthly subscription, I'm just curious if you can get to a point in the game, where you are making large amounts of ISK, and plexing actually is a better option? Just curious. Thanks guys!
It depends how you want to play the game. Some people view eve as a second job and have no qualms about making isk to buy plex. Other people just want to play and skip the grindy parts of the game. Personally, I have tried most of the pve in eve - mining is some what zen like but an underwhelming way to make isk, -- missioning, ratting, running anoms I find to be totally mind numbing, -- pi too much button clicking -- trading, I hate the +1isk game. Im probably doing the pve all wrong as I am known to suck at eve, but for me I would rather sit on a gate all day waiting for a target then do any of the pve, which means my income is relatively low, and so I use subs, instead of plexing.
I don't play, I just fourm warrior.
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Do Little
Pator Tech School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2015.02.22 15:38:23 -
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I was attracted to Eve by the economic simulation - not the spaceship battles. I have taken the time to learn Industry and the markets and now earn several billion ISK per month making and selling stuff. For now, I use an occasional PLEX for multiple character training to make my operation more efficient. Once you have adequate working capital and a reasonable contingency fund (freighters have been known to blowup) why not spend the excess on game time? |
Gully Alex Foyle
Black Fox Marauders Spaceship Bebop
3721
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Posted - 2015.02.22 16:19:08 -
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Paranoid Loyd wrote:My income easily would allow me to PLEX, but I don't.
3 accounts is less than $1/day. I don't mind paying the sub and having more isk than i know what to do with opens a lot of possibilities.
I guess it all depends on what your goals are and what your other expenses in game and IRL are. My situation exactly.
Also, assuming my personal, small PLEX consumption wouldn't budge PLEX supply (people buying PLEX with $), I prefer giving my own money to CCP for a game I enjoy very much.
As far as I'm concerned, they deserve my cash so far.
Make space glamorous!
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