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Vargan Armer
The Hatchery Team Liquid
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Posted - 2012.10.17 17:20:00 -
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Well, the title pretty much sums it up. How did you make your first billion? If the story isn't exciting/you can't remember it, maybe you could do first 5b, 10b or whatever.
I made my first billion in maybe the most embarassing way possible. Through BLINK. To be frank, it's only recently I've really started doing much in the Market, and I've only made around 600m from that T_T. So yeah, not the most exciting of stories, but it was the most amazing feeling ever, knowing you're a billionaire.
So go on, share your stories! |
Daniel Plain
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
389
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Posted - 2012.10.17 18:44:00 -
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daytripping into k162s in a drake. never lost one, at least not in wspace.
"I don't troll, I just give overly blunt responses that annoy people who are wrong but don't want to admit it. It's not my fault that people have sensitive feelings" -MXZF |
Cipio Hakoke
Other People's Money STEEL BROTHERHOOD
2
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Posted - 2012.10.17 18:52:00 -
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Well I am only 5 months old but.. I made my first billion through mining and building/selling retrievers! This was pre mining buff. I made lots of iskies! |
Perramas
Pan Caldarian Ventures
2497
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Posted - 2012.10.17 18:56:00 -
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I bought items and ships at cheap prices in out of the way regions, transported them to more populated regions and sold them for a higher price. I also bought NPC goods and sold them to NPC buy orders while going between regions. I would take a load of items I bought from players and on my way back instead of flying an empty hauler/frieghter I transported NPC goods for sell to other NPCs. Now that bots have infested the NPC goods market it is no longer worth the time it takes to do the NPC trade goods route. |
Taji Taka
Parabellum Diligentia
1
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Posted - 2012.10.17 19:01:00 -
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I ran a private investment corp that took ISK from known corp members and used it to place salvage buy orders in various regions. Each "Regional Manager" received a full set of researched rig blueprints to make what rigs they could then sold them in their respective hubs. This was when rigs were brand new so the margin was exceptionally high. |
No More Heroes
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
1465
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Posted - 2012.10.17 19:23:00 -
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Importing war goods from jita to VFK primary target is broadcasted, put all drones on the warp disruption battery. If you are in a frigate you should be at the gate, who blew up? |
Kyt Thrace
Lightspeed Enterprises Tactical Narcotics Team
101
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Posted - 2012.10.17 19:39:00 -
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I am sad to say, but a s*%! load of lvl 4 missions. R.I.P. Vile Rat |
Tul Breetai
Impromptu Asset Requisition
11
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Posted - 2012.10.17 19:44:00 -
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Selling noob mission items as 'standings enhancers'. CCP should hold a NerfGäó tournament where we get to nerf the devs who nerfed our stuff. |
Caerfinon
Blue Republic RvB - BLUE Republic
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Posted - 2012.10.17 19:51:00 -
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Buying up T1 mission loot and reprocessing it for minerals and selling garbage and tobacco to Quafe stations... ah the good old days. |
De Guillaume
Grim Determination Nulli Secunda
284
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Posted - 2012.10.17 21:01:00 -
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bought a plex Has you ever went so far as chose to go even use want to look more like do? |
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Darrien Hawkins
Pator Tech School Minmatar Republic
5
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Posted - 2012.10.17 21:22:00 -
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I made my first couple of billion isk through a combination of gifts from other players, ratting, mission running, station trading, and contract chasing (I bought a fully fitted rokh for 17 mil once just because it was one jump into low-sec). I don't remember exactly when I hit a billion, but I remember thinking when my wallet was ~500 mil or so: "man, I can buy ten more drakes if I lose mine!" |
Felicity Love
SIDERION JUMPSHIPS
11
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Posted - 2012.10.17 21:27:00 -
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Oxygen isotopes... the first time the Goons squeezed it for all it's worth
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Roman Fuego
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
0
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Posted - 2012.10.17 23:21:00 -
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The first 100 mil I got from PI and the last 900 or so mil I got from PI plus building scourge fury heavy missiles. I read a nice writeup on ten ton hammer on how to make the missiles. I didn't know it at the time but one of the nice things about the missiles is that they do not require a lot of startup capital. |
Milton von Friedman
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
1
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Posted - 2012.10.17 23:56:00 -
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Flipping meta junk in small hubs. I don't recall if my first billion came before I found myself in Jita full-time, but I know I didn't break 100b until I mastered the art of never undocking from 4-4. |
Gogela
Freeport Exploration Loosely Affiliated Pirates Alliance
1288
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Posted - 2012.10.18 00:03:00 -
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Alt won Big Lottery #100.
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DarthNefarius
Minmatar Heavy Industries
385
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Posted - 2012.10.18 04:29:00 -
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Incursion running in my Harbi while trainning for large T2 guns for my first Incursion BS Meta-gaming for NULL SECCers:Whine on the forums like a little ***** until CCP gets sick of you and hands you everything you ask for just to shut you up. |
Trader CiCi
Jack of all skills
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Posted - 2012.10.18 05:58:00 -
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missing zero trades lots of them Here's how I think of my money -- as soldiers -- I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them." - Kevin O'Leary/Shark Tank |
Raiko Osburn
Malevolent Intentions Ineluctable.
5
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Posted - 2012.10.18 06:05:00 -
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Searching for plexes in high sec. Mostly loot from Radar sites, but sometimes nice faction mods from DEDs Forget numbers, play with ideas, look for solutions. |
terzslave
RedStar Enterprises RED Citizens
70
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Posted - 2012.10.18 06:10:00 -
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Station trading in Jita. |
Tarik ThunderStorm
Deep Core Mining Inc. Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.10.18 06:16:00 -
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Mining and then group mining |
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Beckie DeLey
Living From Scraps
117
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Posted - 2012.10.18 06:34:00 -
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Mass buying and reprocessing junk items and drone alloys all over Essence region. Also, trading between Arnon and Oursulaert. It's The Legendary Extraordinary Me |
Herr Hammer Draken
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
138
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Posted - 2012.10.18 07:16:00 -
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Cipio Hakoke wrote:Well I am only 5 months old but.. I made my first billion through mining and building/selling retrievers! This was pre mining buff. I made lots of iskies!
Same for me the retriever rebalance made my first and second billion.
Winter rebalance will make me 3 more billion. Herr Hammer Draken "The Amarr Prophet" |
Herr Hammer Draken
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
138
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Posted - 2012.10.18 07:17:00 -
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Beckie DeLey wrote:Mass buying and reprocessing junk items and drone alloys all over Essence region. Also, trading between Arnon and Oursulaert.
So thats you doing that. Herr Hammer Draken "The Amarr Prophet" |
Harraria
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
3
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Posted - 2012.10.18 07:31:00 -
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First 1b: station trade First 10b: contract trade First 100b: secret First 1000b: tba |
Flurk Hellbron
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
122
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Posted - 2012.10.18 07:50:00 -
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Buy plex, sell plex |
Beckie DeLey
Living From Scraps
118
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Posted - 2012.10.18 08:00:00 -
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Herr Hammer Draken wrote: So thats you doing that.
Today? No, that was like a year ago or something. I'm not in the region anymore and also moved on to mass producing T1 stuff. It's quite possible that others picked up where i left, i have been giving that advice to several people. There's good money in refining mission loot on a regional scale, especially for new guys. All you need is Refining to IV, racial indy to IV, relevant Trading skills to III and Spreadsheets to V.
It's The Legendary Extraordinary Me |
Le Prospecteur
Aliastra Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.10.18 08:10:00 -
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My first billion came from selling a character (though it was more like my first several billion in one go). Oh how character prices have changed since then though |
enterprisePSI
130
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Posted - 2012.10.18 09:37:00 -
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Flurk Hellbron wrote:Buy plex, sell plex
The tears of the many, outweight the tears of the few. Or the one.
-«enterprise-psi |
Malcanis
Vanishing Point. The Initiative.
4936
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Posted - 2012.10.18 11:14:00 -
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Vargan Armer wrote:Well, the title pretty much sums it up. How did you make your first billion? If the story isn't exciting/you can't remember it, maybe you could do first 5b, 10b or whatever.
I made my first billion in maybe the most embarassing way possible. Through BLINK. To be frank, it's only recently I've really started doing much in the Market, and I've only made around 600m from that T_T. So yeah, not the most exciting of stories, but it was the most amazing feeling ever, knowing you're a billionaire.
So go on, share your stories!
Living as a cluless noob in Deklein back in 2006
I noticed that the selling price of Meta 4 large shield extenders was about 60% less than the going rate in The Forge, with several other meta items offering pretty good margins as well. So I bought out the entire region (and looted the corp repreocessing hangar), and spent several days flying between Deklein and Nonni in a Kestrel, taking about 30-50 mods at a time. With the ~20-30 mill profit each run made, I would buy a +3 implant and some ratting ammo and fly back and sell that in the alliance hub for about a 5M profit.
I ratted while I waited for my sell orders to clear (I could only do 9 market orders) I ratted and raised more liquid capital. After a few days I was able to buy and fit a Raven, which increased my ratting income nicely.
Eventually I got lucky and found a Dread Guristas spawn which dropped a DG invuln. I used the ~billion ISK I had accumulated, plus the invuln, to buy myself an alt who could fly a covetor and a viator... MatrixSkye Mk2: "Remember: You consent to unconsensual PVP the moment you press the "Undock" button." |
Val'Dore
PlanetCorp InterStellar
37
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Posted - 2012.10.18 11:21:00 -
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My first billion?
I'm pretty sure it was an Estamel's invuln dropping off a Rupture in Amamake back in 2005. Maybe that was the second billion... |
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