StupidDolphin
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Posted - 2005.03.15 19:14:00 -
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Tired of realising you need an item or module and looking on the market or asking in the trade channel, then being given the "finger" by the owners who are asking a ridiculious amount of isk for just one? 
lol, and you thought that you were quite well off with your 100mil thats taken you months of mining/rating/misioning to aquire.
After spending a considerable amount of time watching  the trade channel and looking  at the markets of different regions, i have come to the conclusion that i am either very poor  or EVERYONE else is VERY rich  .
People on the trade channel think that if you have less than 1 BILLION you are poor 
These people, which i will refer to as "FatCats", seem to hoard everything of value such as implants, mission chips, tags and named equipment and seem quite able to sew up(Own, control, manipulate) the market on these areas!
They make so much money from bulk buying and re-selling that any other method of wealth aquisition is practically a waste of time.
Example: A normal player  who has a LIFE and cannot be on eve 12+hrs a day has no way to aquire enough money to even get into the loop!
His/Her only methods of income are:
missions (for which they need good mods and ships to do lv4 which is only mission really worth the time)
Mining (which eventually leads to selling the mins for sell prices controlled by these FatCats or building stuff which is then sold at prices controlled by these FatCats)
Rat hunting (which gives little reward unless done in 0.0 and even then the isk is a fixed amount with no connection to the market, if prices go up, you have to just kill MORE rats)
All these jobs a player can do offer very little income or oppertunity for profit on any scale near billions
How does an normal player go about attaining enough isk to buy into the market and have enough capital to join the trading? They can't and they don't have any way to do so now it has gotten so bad.
Single people now have more isk than corps do!
These FatCats control prices, hoard rare items to then sell at disproportionate prices and very effectively keep eachother in the loop and everyone else out!
This is all just my opinion but i do not see a way in and i cannot be playing 24 7 to try and get in.
Other people's opinions on this matter would be gratefully recieved as i am interested if anyone else feels the way i do!
Please also bear in mind that alot of the following people who disagree with me will be these rich people i am talking about as they'd like everyhing to stay the way it is and want to keep their little rich group together :)
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