Bad Bobby
The Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
HYDRA RELOADED
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Posted - 2011.08.11 11:56:00 -
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 Originally by: Companion Qube
I got space rich by drinking heavily and stealing money from other drunk people, true story.
This method, best method.
I suppose while I am here...
In my early days in EVE (2005-2006) I was only a casual EVE player with most of my attention still on other games. I dabbled in most things and just tried to learn the game. I, like many EVE players, lived from hand to mouth with only a few million in my wallet most of the time.
Later (2007-2008) I got more involved with EVE and started seriously exploring the market and industrial aspects of the game. I set up datacore harvesting (back then a Mechanical Engineering datacore was worth over 2m) and experienced the joy of a sizeable passive income flowing from my alts. I set up a POS in the Friggi solar system and got into invention, making fairly large numbers of Falcons and Cerberus to sell on the Jita market. I farmed the Caldari COSMOS constellation around Friggi and made a lot of easy isk from that (the rewards were much higher back then as implants were much more valuable). At this point, I had several billion isk to my name and I would guestimate a NAV of around 10b.
Then (2008) I got involved with service-based industries. I joined a POS corp to the ZZZ research alliance (run by Ricdic) and started renting my spare research slots to customers. I found this was another good low-effort income source and saw there was a lot of potential for expanding this kind of service.
So (in mid 2008) I launched my first IPO to fund another POS corp for the ZZZ alliance in the Bahromab solar system.
http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=818354
http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=825795
I progressively expanded this operation (from 3b to 9b) with public funding until it had 3 publicly funded towers in Bahromab to complement my 2 privately funded towers in Friggi. I took on various tenants and research service contracts and my POSes where busy and highly profitable. By this point I would guestimate my NAV at somewhere around 30b.
Then (in 2009) I launched my 4% Bond, which bought out my IPO.
http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1071177
Then (in mid 2009) I started Titans For You.
http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1106485
Then (in early 2010) I launched a second Bond at 3%, which expanded several times (to 30b) and funded both research services and a secured loan business:
http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1251165
Alongside these public ventures I ran several ventures within my alliance and several large private deals with individual customers/investors.
By this point I was rolling in isk and assets. I started re-selling Titan BPCs and doing manipulations on the Titan BPC market, which was netting me multiple billions from each trade and tens of billions monthly. At this point my combined public and personal wealth crossed the 1 trillion mark.
And then... well, you know what happened then... I bought out my Bonds and "privatised" Titans For You.
I've been pretty busy since then, but I'd rather not disclose the nature of all my ongoing operations. Nonetheless, I'm making good progress towards the 2 trillion mark.
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