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Verona Mal
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Posted - 2007.07.24 20:27:00 -
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I wasn't sure whether to post this here or to the ETC board. Here's my issue. I'm noticing a LOT of ETC sales daily. At the same time I'm noticing guides on this board that show you how to make a LOT of ISK. If the possibility is there, why would anyone spend real cash to buy up lots of ISK really fast? I'm sure one answer is that there's people who need a quick infusion of ISK for whatever reason, but that can't explain why there's a daily, constant flow of ETC. Can anyone offer an explanation for this phenomenon?
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Kazzac Elentria
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Posted - 2007.07.24 20:53:00 -
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Since both can be converted back from one to the other. You can actually play the time cards like a commodities market.
And that's about all I'm going to say on that subject |
Ki Tarra
Caldari Ki Tech Industries
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Posted - 2007.07.24 22:12:00 -
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Originally by: Kazzac Elentria Since both can be converted back from one to the other. You can actually play the time cards like a commodities market.
And that's about all I'm going to say on that subject
That used to work well under the old system, but most of the trades passing through the forums here are using the new system.
I am guessing that some people just want the quick ISK so that they can spend it on whatever it is that they want to do without the time or effort needed to earn the ISK themselves.
Quote: No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse
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Gawain Hill
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Posted - 2007.07.24 23:26:00 -
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yea making money in eve is all well and good and it can be enjoyable... BUT when you get bored and feel like having a lil fun and blowing up 600mill isk worth of battleship in suicide PvP it can put a lil dent in your isk balance buy GTC - sell GTC for isk - spend isk on crazy battleship/other ship of your chioce you wouldn't normally go out in till it's blown up - have fun without losing anything in the game
i tend to buy a gtc every couple of months when i'm sick of earning isk (i spend all my isk pretty quickly it's kinda a pain) so i just go blow stuff up with gtc money
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Miniturret
Amarr Rum Runners Inc
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Posted - 2007.07.25 01:02:00 -
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well i'll gladly give my outlook on it since i'm a regular seller of ETC's. I sell them for 2 main reasons.
1. I have the extra money so i can afford to blow a bit each week. 2. My niche in this game is industry and hauling, If I provide time cards for people that can't otherwise afford them, or don't have the credit cards, or whatever reason, that's one more person playing the game that i can then make more isk off of in game as well.
Remember the more people playing the game the more you can blow up / sell too / buy from.
Also it helps relieve the wallet when ships go boom in PvP
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Sicil Fioet
Minmatar
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Posted - 2007.07.25 06:17:00 -
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Being able to pvp often in something other that frigates and cruisers without having to carebear any for it is one of the reasons. Suppose you want to take a well fitted Rattlesnake to show off at some pvp party you corp mates are having one of these days. But you don't want to spend hours upon hours at npcing or mining, because, well, it's just a tad boring. So to make your resources and desires match you can go and sell GTCs. Most people sell just a few codes a month to make ends meet and still have fun, but there are those have enough real life money to spend over a thousand USD a month to play the game as they wish it.
Some players support their corps and alliances with GTC money - so it is not just for personal use. Suppose your corp has POSs in low sec or 0.0 that get ganked, worse off with some valuable BPOs or belongings of other corp members. Losing billions of ISK kind of sets you back in whatever goals you wanted to achieve as a group, hurts your pride as a CEO that you perhaps didn't organize and lead the corp very well and now all your base are belong to them. So you go and buy GTCs to rebuild without spending months earning it back up. Some people are stubborn enough in their ways to get owned repeatedly and turn to selling GTCs over and over again.
Then there are those who own multiple accounts. No matter how many accounts you own there are still 24 hours in a day and only so much time per week to play EVE, making ISK. But you want all your characters to have lavish lifestyle within the game - so to supply all of them with dreads and faction fitted battleships you go and buy GTCs.
Then of course may be you want to buy a well-trained character but lack the billions to do it.
These are just some of the examples why players sell GTCs for ISK to make large sums quickly.
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Verona Mal
Eve University
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Posted - 2007.07.25 12:55:00 -
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Originally by: Ki Tarra
Originally by: Kazzac Elentria Since both can be converted back from one to the other. You can actually play the time cards like a commodities market.
And that's about all I'm going to say on that subject
That used to work well under the old system, but most of the trades passing through the forums here are using the new system.
That makes it sound like you could legally make money off of ISK...? I'm not too familiar with the way timecodes work but I assumed it only went one way: you pay CCP money and you get a timecode that can then either be used or traded for ISK, but those are the only two options. Right?
All the other reasons for wanting ISK fast seem good too. I suppose its a matter of what you want to spend your time doing in game and how much money you make out of game. After all, if you can make the equivalent of 1 billion ISK out of game in an hour, why spend days/weeks/months making it in-game if you have the cash to spare? I guess it's just hard to imagine anyone using cash to buy extra ISK when ISK can only be used in game and cash can be used .. ya know .. to buy real stuff?
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Ki Tarra
Caldari Ki Tech Industries
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Posted - 2007.07.25 15:55:00 -
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Originally by: Verona Mal
Originally by: Ki Tarra
Originally by: Kazzac Elentria Since both can be converted back from one to the other. You can actually play the time cards like a commodities market.
And that's about all I'm going to say on that subject
That used to work well under the old system, but most of the trades passing through the forums here are using the new system.
That makes it sound like you could legally make money off of ISK...?
Under the old system, someone could buy a GTC using ISK then sell that code on eBay. ISK -> $$$ = BAD. Under the current secure system, the buyer never actually gets the code, it is simply activate on to his account. Therefore he never gets the code, so he cannot sell it for cash.
Quote: No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse
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Kazzac Elentria
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Posted - 2007.07.25 16:08:00 -
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Originally by: Ki Tarra
Originally by: Verona Mal
Originally by: Ki Tarra
Originally by: Kazzac Elentria Since both can be converted back from one to the other. You can actually play the time cards like a commodities market.
And that's about all I'm going to say on that subject
That used to work well under the old system, but most of the trades passing through the forums here are using the new system.
That makes it sound like you could legally make money off of ISK...?
Under the old system, someone could buy a GTC using ISK then sell that code on eBay. ISK -> $$$ = BAD. Under the current secure system, the buyer never actually gets the code, it is simply activate on to his account. Therefore he never gets the code, so he cannot sell it for cash.
The price people will pay in ISK for a GTC however still varies, so you can still play it like a commodity.
And just because selling on ebay, etc.. is not allowed does not mean that it does not happen.. often. |
Verona Mal
Eve University
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Posted - 2007.07.25 17:29:00 -
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How can you play it like a commodity if it's only a one time deal? Assuming you stay legal and don't sell the ISK you make on eBay, then the transaction only occurs in one direction and one time. The very best you can hope for is that you buy the time code for $$$ and put in on the market above what others are selling for in hopes that you can make a couple extra million ISK.
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Kazzac Elentria
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Posted - 2007.07.25 17:40:00 -
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Originally by: Verona Mal How can you play it like a commodity if it's only a one time deal? Assuming you stay legal and don't sell the ISK you make on eBay, then the transaction only occurs in one direction and one time. The very best you can hope for is that you buy the time code for $$$ and put in on the market above what others are selling for in hopes that you can make a couple extra million ISK.
Did I not just say that the price people will pay for a GTC varies and that selling of ISk still happens on ebay and the like?
Lemme run down an example. I buy GTC, I then sell GTC for isk for X+3%. I then take ISk and sell to one of many companies, groups that purchase ISK and then turn around and buy another GTC and repeat the process. One deal might only make an extra million or three, however if I'm running 100 cards a week it's a fairly decent income stream on top of the macro mining, mission farming, etc.. that I'm already doing with the nine other accounts I have.
I in this example being one of the many groups of people doing said activities, not myself personally. |
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