Mr LaboratoryRat
Confederation of DuckTape Lovers
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Posted - 2012.04.25 22:38:00 -
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A lill story, followed by why the contract changes are bad for the sandbox..
About 4 yrs ago i started playing eve. As i went forward i started to pvp about 3,5 yrs ago. After a bit i needed some way to make more isk. Grinding i have always found very boring and burning me out of the willingness to play this game. I started to look into trading. My general thinking lead me the the concept that high priced items have usualy bigger profit margens.
While looking at contracts some day i noticed that contract trading is a good way of trading. Its not the 0.1 isking game thats boring as hell and contract trading is semi afk. Soon after, i was looking at officer module trading. Setting up buy orders & mailing ppl with cheaper offer than they listed it. I noticed ppl are easy willing to sell a 3b officer mod for 200m cheaper.
Soon i was pulling in lots of isk by this way. My isk investment pool was grewing alot. With good months of 10 -15b to bad months of 2-3b profit. The contract system was containing an extra sandbox which you only needed to control, master it and execute. Soon enough after a yr i had my first 100 billion isk . At this time dominion was launched with the supercarrier nerf & titan buff. This had a major inpact, some mods dropping & others increasing. As i anticipated on this my investments were clean and of the supercapital populair mods fore a while. I continue'd untill 9 months ago. I anticipated super nerf & the price of officer mods went to a redicules altitude, hyper inflation took place in any super cap mod like TC's, SeBo's & some others. It was time to ditch & be patient as this inflation made my stockprice higher & this brought more risk. At this time also more players entered the realy small officer reselling market; escalating in a price war, more relisting effort & downwards margens due contract taxes.
After controlling the market for over a yr with alts, manipulating it with other resellers with price agreements & devided area's for wtb contract's i decided to retire and concentrate on patch speculating. Sitting on a hugh pile of morphite at 3300isk pu has done me realise at this point that i can just sit back and do what im good at with my main, pew pew. I never have to grind anything again if i like too. As this toon has been originaly created for this purpose i can start withdrawing isk for cool pvp projects. Own funded roams & personal replacement when needed.
The moral of this story is that currently, now faction/officer candy is added on the market, a hugh trader market is gone. You could call it a mini sandbox, replaced currently by a boring, dull, bot sensitive system. Im sure it will be handy and easy but it has its withdraw;s. The real question is: Is it worth it? Personaly i dont care anymore. This is also the reson why im wrighting this. After reselling 958 high end officer modules i would like to thank my clients, my suppiers and whoever decided to take on a offer from me in the past for; their generous isk donations. I have sold approx 1,3 tril isk in officer mods with a profic margin of 26%
As some say, "Low Life Reseller", I say: "Selfmade Businesman, Billionair & soon to be Trillionair,
/Labrat |