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Vargan Armer The Hatchery Team Liquid 6	Posted - 2012.10.17 17:20:00 - [1] - Quote 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	Posted - 2012.10.17 18:44:00 - [2] - Quote 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	Posted - 2012.10.17 18:52:00 - [3] - Quote 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	Posted - 2012.10.17 18:56:00 - [4] - Quote 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	Posted - 2012.10.17 19:01:00 - [5] - Quote 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	Posted - 2012.10.17 19:23:00 - [6] - Quote 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	Posted - 2012.10.17 19:39:00 - [7] - Quote I am sad to say, but a s*%! load of lvl 4 missions. R.I.P. Vile Rat
Tul Breetai Impromptu Asset Requisition 11	Posted - 2012.10.17 19:44:00 - [8] - Quote 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 17	Posted - 2012.10.17 19:51:00 - [9] - Quote 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	Posted - 2012.10.17 21:01:00 - [10] - Quote bought a plex Has you ever went so far as chose to go even use want to look more like do?

Darrien Hawkins Pator Tech School Minmatar Republic 5	Posted - 2012.10.17 21:22:00 - [11] - Quote 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	Posted - 2012.10.17 21:27:00 - [12] - Quote Oxygen isotopes... the first time the Goons squeezed it for all it's worth
Roman Fuego Science and Trade Institute Caldari State 0	Posted - 2012.10.17 23:21:00 - [13] - Quote 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	Posted - 2012.10.17 23:56:00 - [14] - Quote 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	Posted - 2012.10.18 00:03:00 - [15] - Quote Alt won Big Lottery #100. Every Ship in GëíGêçGëí \| [FX7] \| Vote Cthulhu 2012
DarthNefarius Minmatar Heavy Industries 385	Posted - 2012.10.18 04:29:00 - [16] - Quote 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 0	Posted - 2012.10.18 05:58:00 - [17] - Quote 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	Posted - 2012.10.18 06:05:00 - [18] - Quote 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	Posted - 2012.10.18 06:10:00 - [19] - Quote Station trading in Jita.
Tarik ThunderStorm Deep Core Mining Inc. Caldari State 3	Posted - 2012.10.18 06:16:00 - [20] - Quote Mining and then group mining

Beckie DeLey Living From Scraps 117	Posted - 2012.10.18 06:34:00 - [21] - Quote 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	Posted - 2012.10.18 07:16:00 - [22] - Quote 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	Posted - 2012.10.18 07:17:00 - [23] - Quote 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	Posted - 2012.10.18 07:31:00 - [24] - Quote First 1b: station trade First 10b: contract trade First 100b: secret First 1000b: tba
Flurk Hellbron Science and Trade Institute Caldari State 122	Posted - 2012.10.18 07:50:00 - [25] - Quote Buy plex, sell plex
Beckie DeLey Living From Scraps 118	Posted - 2012.10.18 08:00:00 - [26] - Quote 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 1	Posted - 2012.10.18 08:10:00 - [27] - Quote 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	Posted - 2012.10.18 09:37:00 - [28] - Quote 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	Posted - 2012.10.18 11:14:00 - [29] - Quote 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	Posted - 2012.10.18 11:21:00 - [30] - Quote 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...

Oska Rus Solar Storm Intrepid Crossing 2	Posted - 2012.10.18 12:47:00 - [31] - Quote Making T2 PI and selling it to my alliance.
Mia Restolo Royal Amarr Institute Amarr Empire 80	Posted - 2012.10.18 13:57:00 - [32] - Quote Three separate idiots each bought a few thousand cruise missiles I had fabricated for over a thousand times more than I was asking... Only noticed afterwards that I had been lucky enough to profit from someone buying off a stupid order price in the mission station I was in without looking. It worked well so I left my order up and made my second and third bill that way too!
Samillian 179	Posted - 2012.10.18 14:07:00 - [33] - Quote Manufacturing. NBSI shall be the whole of the Law
Grendell Technologies Unlimited Superior Eve Engineering 97	Posted - 2012.10.18 14:51:00 - [34] - Quote My first billion was from T1 manufacturing. This was in 2003/2004 when almost nobody had perfect manufacturing skills, so the margins were great. Simpler times Gùä[GÖÑ]Gû¦ 3rd Party Service 21.5T Secured Gùä[GÖÑ]Gû¦ GÖÑ Securing Peace of mind GÖÑ Loans available
CorInaXeraL Order of the Silver Dragons Silver Dragonz 245	Posted - 2012.10.18 15:33:00 - [35] - Quote Back in the days of escrow, not-quite-faction-ships listed as faction ships was great. Prices were also known to drop now and then, I snapped up a bunch of pirate-faction ships pre-buff and resold for a chunk. Been casually plucking up things for resale since. Also a big help was the day a corp/alliance I was in disbanded and left me the hangar (was in nullsec, hired a pilot from the alliance that pushed us out to move it) and sold a large portion of the BPO/BPC and ships that came with that score off as well. And some has been as simple as selling characters on the bazaar.
adriaans Ankaa. Nair Al-Zaurak 1	Posted - 2012.10.18 15:36:00 - [36] - Quote 1st billion: PvP 10th billion: Manufacturing + invention 100th billion: Patch speculation + PvP 1st trillion: not there yet :P ----True oldschool solo pvp'er---- My latest vid: Insanity IV
Rahmiro Wormhole Exploration Crew R.E.P.O. 9	Posted - 2012.10.18 15:54:00 - [37] - Quote I made my 1st billion circling beacons in lowsec. No I didn't. I tried that and couldn't stand it. 1st bil was made via invention and manufacturing. The next few bills made via wormhole life style. Now I can afford to lose loki's while learning pew. I never seen these people in my life. I don't recognize them Your Honor
Bad Bobby Bring Me Sunshine 135	Posted - 2012.10.18 16:33:00 - [38] - Quote Kyt Thrace wrote: I am sad to say, but a s*%! load of lvl 4 missions. I think that would have to be the same for me, back in 2005/06. I also suspect that much of the missioning I did to get me there was done in a heavy missile Ferox. Those were indeed different times.
Towaoc Applied Technologies Inc Agents of Fortune 9	Posted - 2012.10.18 20:07:00 - [39] - Quote Man, that was a long time ago. Here's what I remember: *First Million* May, 2003. Ninja mining Arkonor in a Probe somewhere deep in 0.0. I think I hacked away at that a couple of hours a night for a couple of weeks to get that first million. Refined the ore and sold the Megacyte and Zydrine at the NPC base bid prices of 1024 and 4096 ISK per unit, respectively. NPC entities had a hand in everything back then. Why a Probe? Probably because of its relatively large cargo hold. Couldn't afford a Cruiser or Battleship, the game was brand new and we all started with zilch. Mining Barges and Exhumers were months to years away. *First Billion* June - August, 2003. Trading Robotics in South Lonetrek, in a Bestower. Back then, lotsa stuff was NPC stuff. Robotics were one of the more lucrative NPC trade items, netting tidy margins by hauling short distances between NPC sell stations and NPC buy stations. Back then, before the mechanics and skill requirements of the trade system evolved, it was possible to buy entire spawns of a trade good by strategically seeding layered buy orders. That made it possible to acquire the required volume of a given trade good necessary to make meaningful profits. *First Trillion* January, 2004 - January 2012. Large-scale manufacturing and industrial material speculation. After a few months away from the game (but continuing training), I returned to join a couple of industrially-minded colleagues to develop a manufacturing venture. We started with missiles GÇô low initial capital investment, high volume and decent profit margin GÇô and as capital resources grew and T2 became available, moved into components and T2 ships. Our leading product was the Hulk, manufacturing and selling 20,000 units over the course of 3 years of production. Midway through the manufacturing era, we began supplementing income by investing heavily in industrial materials, with favorable results. Major expansions, in particular, were very good to us; technetium-heavy products and player-produced planetary materials being noteworthy examples of investment opportunities driven by game changes. *First Quadrillion* Well, after making that first million, I thought a billion would be impossible. At a billion, I thought getting to a trillion would take forever. Right now, the notion of reaching a quadrillion ISK is downright ludicrous. But maybe anything is possible given time, luck and execution of a sound business model. Future efforts will focus on continuing to refine and execute large-scale investment and trade strategies.
Kari Juptris Dreddit Test Alliance Please Ignore 28	Posted - 2012.10.18 20:50:00 - [40] - Quote Ratting. Lots of ratting. I no longer rat.

Lfod Shi Lfod's Ratting and Salvage 29	Posted - 2012.10.19 16:48:00 - [41] - Quote The lure of harvesting Alloyed Tritanium, Armor Plates, and Tripped Power Circuits. Lots and lots and lots of them. GÖ¬ They'll always be bloodclaws to me GÖ½
Aineko Macx Royal Amarr Institute Amarr Empire 209	Posted - 2012.10.19 19:25:00 - [42] - Quote I made my first bil using regional buy orders on low volume, high margin items. That, and some mission running.
Hrothgar Nilsson Black Core Federation Black Core Alliance 146	Posted - 2012.10.19 19:41:00 - [43] - Quote Combination of selling loot from ninja salvaging/looting and station trading meta items. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTzA_xesrL8
Denal Umbra Coffee Hub 21	Posted - 2012.10.19 20:02:00 - [44] - Quote Made the first bil with hauling PI from deep low sec in a badger. Running gate camps in a t1 indy fully rigged and modded for cargo space was... quite fun! Only lost one ship load of goods in all the time.
Moondancer Starweaver The Drones Club Shoot 2 Thrill 7	Posted - 2012.10.19 21:15:00 - [45] - Quote A combination of Taking scammers convincer money and then not paying out for them, and Mission running level 3's
thekiller2002us Mind Games. Suddenly Spaceships. 105	Posted - 2012.10.20 08:53:00 - [46] - Quote made my first 5 bil in a few ways: Grinding incursions Pirating (i kid you not, my first ransom i received was 750mil from an orca in lowsec- I still regret letting him go) PI I currently have almost nothing in liquid isk- but i have 8 bil in market orders- which is great for me because -it keeps my pvp funded -Orders require updating perhaps 1 or 2 times a day - My current levels of isk works for me- which means I don't need to grind anymore for sec or isk. I agree that the statement is true- that you need isk to make isk - i personally only ever bought 2 plex for isk ( which i know is kinda cheating) but if you know how to make that isk work for you then i say go ahead and get the headstart you need. I'm with Brick on this one- make thouse carebearing b******s squeal..
Privateer NoBody New Eden Ship Yards Back To Earth 6	Posted - 2012.10.20 09:56:00 - [47] - Quote Missions, missions and more missions. Then PLEX came around and made things easy for everyone......... Indy alts help building, PI and research mean you earn without needing to be on so much
Papa Sotken Cadre Assault Force This is why we cant have nice things 747	Posted - 2012.10.20 11:21:00 - [48] - Quote i orbitted fw beacons my first month of playing eve. Came out with many billions. https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1671223#post1671223 Cadre Assault Force Recruiting New/Old players who are looking for gang pvp. EU TZ Based.
Moon Dogg All For One 3	Posted - 2012.10.20 16:02:00 - [49] - Quote I made my first billions mining for my corp, while others with better skills gun-mined the drones for shiny alloys. Unfortunately, we were communist, so all proceeds went into the wallet. It wasn't a big deal, because I was contributing enough to the pot that I never had requests for shiny things turned down. After that gig I made more billions in the hisec mining gig. Boring, but at the time it worked. After that I moved back to 0.0 and mined mercoxit mercilessly, making many more billions. It was at that point that I was able to buy into some moon reaction chains, which made enough that I really didn't need to mine unless I was bored. Add into that planetary interaction, and making POS fuels on 0.0 planets, and I was doing well. Now I'm back in hisec due to Real Life, and making occasional billions on hisec ores or ice if I need to AFK. Burn the land, boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me.
YuuKnow Inner 5phere 422	Posted - 2012.10.21 18:43:00 - [50] - Quote Before the NPC loot nerf I would buy Meta 0 Loot in off hub mission systems and reprocess it for profit. Generally got 20% ROI. Now that the NPCs no longer drop Meta O loot, its not a profitable and the ROI is way down :( Now I'm into WHs.. :)

Graygor 1kB Realty 1kB Galactic 0	Posted - 2012.10.22 07:09:00 - [51] - Quote I made my first billion mining kernite back in late '06 /early '07 On the advice of a friend who convinced me hauling it to mission hubs would make a tidy profit. This was back when hulks were 500mil so I mined it in an Armageddon full of cargo expander 2s and miner 2s. Not an experience I wish to repeat.
Vaerah Vahrokha Vahrokh Consulting 1941	Posted - 2012.10.22 07:47:00 - [52] - Quote May 2009, I found out fleet PvPing does not make rich. With all of 50M on my name, I slapped an alt in Amarr and flipped stupid stuff like laser crystals M, T2 100MN AB and similar. One month later I dinged my first billion! Auditing \| Collateral holding and insurance \| Consulting \| PLEX for Good Charity Twitter channel
Parris Colidi Imperial Navy Research 0	Posted - 2012.10.22 14:04:00 - [53] - Quote On my original toon ( Before dropping the game for a year or so), it was when WHS first came out along with the probe launchers and probes.. For the first few days after the expansion came out Probe launchers were being sold at up to 1million each dropping to around 250k after a few days, then down to normal prices... considering they only cost around 10k to make... it was evil.. :-)
Jackie Fisher syrkos technologies Joint Venture Conglomerate 137	Posted - 2012.10.22 14:15:00 - [54] - Quote Oddly big losses are easier to remember than the big wins. Missions + Covert Ops cloak arbitrage (pre invention days) for the initial ISK After that S+I, patch speculation insurance fraud, contract trading were/are the big winners. Also an honourable mention for the day they removed shuttles as NPC items - not huge ISK amounts (although great ROI) but a manic and fun few hours. Fear God and Thread Nought
Demolishar United Aggression 371	Posted - 2012.10.22 15:03:00 - [55] - Quote Ran missions I think.
Virppi Jouhinen Xiphias Ltd. 8	Posted - 2012.10.23 13:49:00 - [56] - Quote First billion was running a courier service for low-volume-high-value goods for my corp, took a 10 to 15% cut of the Jita price for myself. The first 5b came through station trading which I started because of the low scalability and somewhat high risk of the courier service. Elinor - lightweight semi-automatic daytrading helper Current version: 1.1.2 Beta
flakeys Angels of Anarchy Interstellar Confederation 388	Posted - 2012.10.23 14:18:00 - [57] - Quote YuuKnow wrote: Before the NPC loot nerf I would buy Meta 0 Loot in off hub mission systems and reprocess it for profit. Generally got 20% ROI. Now that the NPCs no longer drop Meta O loot, its not a profitable and the ROI is way down :( Now I'm into WHs.. :) Same here but then regional so average profits where around 50 to 70 %.Expanded to 4 regions witha minimum of 300 orders each region , then i went slightly insane .... There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.-á
Rakshasa Taisab Sane Industries Inc. 1027	Posted - 2012.10.24 08:29:00 - [58] - Quote Back in 2007/8 hauling rat poo from buy orders in Syndicate, running the gates in a T1 hauler. Nyan
Dave stark Black Nova Corp. R O G U E 472	Posted - 2012.10.24 08:31:00 - [59] - Quote mining. you can stop laughing now. Reading my posts is like panning for gold; most it will be useless, but occasionally you'll find a nugget of gold.
Heimdallofasgard Apex Overplayed Coalition Fatal Ascension 272	Posted - 2012.10.24 14:05:00 - [60] - Quote Station Trading and trading between trade hubs Kick Heim... MATE

Krixtal Icefluxor INLAND EMPIRE Galactic 952	Posted - 2012.10.24 15:50:00 - [61] - Quote Nocxium and Fuel Blocks. Now I just stay hovering around 3 Billion so I can fly what I can afford to lose. That's more than enough for a player without Capital combat ships.
Bovine Solution New Millineon Paper Tiger Coalition 0	Posted - 2012.10.24 19:48:00 - [62] - Quote Someone bought my jumpfreighter for a zero too much :)
shags Marginal Inc. 0	Posted - 2012.10.24 19:59:00 - [63] - Quote Ratting in Venal/Tenal many years ago after MC cleared out the north and installed the alliance I was in at the time as the new owners. We got kicked out a few months later when MC left and thats when i really started trading.
Svodola Darkfury Heaven's End League of Infamy 74	Posted - 2012.10.24 20:20:00 - [64] - Quote 1st billion: Got a shield booster of some kind from a low-sec ded (gist A-type large maybe?) back in 2009 that sold for about 800 mil, popped me over the top. 1st time sustained over a billion: day-tripping C1-C3s. 5 billion: Running C4 sites in current corp 10 billion: same as above 20 billion: same as above, plus getting a 5 billion ISK carrier kill that split out into payments of 500 million to pop me over. Some measurements in assets because I'm a ship *****. Svo.
Ravenclaw2kk Blue Republic RvB - BLUE Republic 10	Posted - 2012.10.25 02:08:00 - [65] - Quote I bought a GTC, sold it for 700m then bought a bunch of Rig BPOs and salvage when the small and medium sized rigs were introduced. I changed 700m into about 4bn then bought my 2 plex back and used them for game time.
Tali Ambraelle Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation 113	Posted - 2012.10.26 13:11:00 - [66] - Quote Station/Regional trading. Finding a niche market is for the weak. TRADE ALL THE THINGS.
Arkadelphia Day Trippers 0	Posted - 2012.10.27 14:03:00 - [67] - Quote Buying low and selling high meta items. Last year back before meta item changes and when meta 3 and meta 4 energy neutralizers were multi millions isk (gremlin, unstable- both medium and heavy). Well good old molden heath mission hub saw lots of these items drop from level three and four mission runners. I realized the only buy orders for these medium unstables (meta 4) were at like 1000 isk when they were selling for close to ten million in other regions. Well people were selling these to the thousand isk orders..so I upped them to 50-100k and saw a massive dump of these neuts. I also found this in faction ammo (plenty of isk to make) and scout projectile weapons showed similar success. For a few months I had no buying competition of these multi million isk items I was acquiring for mere thousands. Eventually a few traders caught on and I lost the desire to one isk. I didn't even realize at the time what I had done as I was still very new to market stuff and thought I'd make a few hundred million. One day I realized I had hundreads of medium and heavvy gremlin and unstables each. I took a large chunk to syndicate and made silly isk with null inflation. The rest I dumped to the highest buy orders in major hubs...still making millions per unit sold (some cases 8 million per medium unstable. So ultimately turned into my first billions I was visibly seeing made and added to my wallet, I had always hovered around a billion isk but that was long term accumulation of isknot instant dumpage. Just because I feel like sharing for new guys likely reading through here looking to become affluent in the universe. I've since not done much market stuff to that extent in 8 months. I have experimented with tags used in lp purchases. I found regions that lvl4 faction missions dropped tags but the Npc buy orders were five jumps away. I placed buy orders at fraction of the Npc prices in hi and low sec pockets not reached by the Npc order. People are dumb and sold me these tags for 125k and I went and sold them for 1.8-2.2 mil in RENs and hek. I also used these tags for my own lp trade but don't mission or facwar so usually spent points fast but saw almost 80% profit on republic fleet warp disruptors. My first two years of eve I ran lvl4s and never broke a billion while maintaining a pvp career. It's possible but I now believe its quite hard to be a level 4 running pvp guy with one account making billions. Of late combat boosters..absurd. I ran a pos for three months constantly reacting and producing with all materials self-attained, aka 100% pi'd pos fuel, harvested gas, acquire bpc through Ladar combats. I took my pos down a few weeks back because it became irrelevant. This kind of isk only becomes available with several accounts. I'm not here bragging by any means but showing you don't need big sov moons and towers or even expensive dives in wh space to be space rich isn't needed, but yes surely give tremendously. Yeah I'm not even close to some people doing that and couldn't replace multiple supers or fund an alliance, but I can run three accounts now with plex and and got there with just one account.
Ireland VonVicious Vicious Trading Company Alliance of Abandoned Cybernetic Rejects 78	Posted - 2012.10.30 06:14:00 - [68] - Quote First toon I had did it ninjaing peoples missions before they changed the probing system. This toons first bil came from salvage for hire business after the changes to the probing system. Took place before the noctis was added.
Koen L Order Carebears Solar Citizens 14	Posted - 2012.10.30 15:43:00 - [69] - Quote 1st Billion : mining veldspar. Mass buying Veldspar and trit from noob system and hauling it to other places, buy cheap sell high. Also high sec autopiloting and trading stuff around, always buy cheap, sell high. This is the magic secret i still make make iskies. And Diversity. Do not focus on one, do it all a bit. Small passive isk income sums up to 1 bn after some time with out doing a lot. GÖ½ When your ship gets blown to bits GÖ¬ GÖ½ And you lose your Faction fits GÖ¬ \Gÿ+/ Don't worry GÖ¬ GÖ½ GÖ¬ GÖ½ GÖ½ GÖ¬ GÖ½ GÖ¬ Be Happy \Gÿ+/
JohnathanGalt Imperial Academy Amarr Empire 37	Posted - 2012.10.30 17:46:00 - [70] - Quote Honestly, I don't remember, it probably had to do with J5B warp scrams, cause you can double your isk on those things pretty easily. It definitely involved inter-regional trading.

NoT KwarK LP Incorporated 0	Posted - 2012.10.30 18:17:00 - [71] - Quote Nothing particularly exciting, I just ran a bunch of l4s.
Vargan Armer Red Federation RvB - RED Federation 8	Posted - 2012.10.30 18:36:00 - [72] - Quote NoT KwarK wrote: Nothing particularly exciting, I just ran a bunch of l4s. Assuming you are KwarK, tell use the story of your first trillion please :)
Samroski Games Inc. 75	Posted - 2012.10.30 19:41:00 - [73] - Quote I sold skillbooks. After 2-3 months of playing Eve I was penniless most of the time. Invested 5m in skillbooks on a whim, and put them up one jump away at Hek at high margins. Overnight I had made 15m. I sold skills at Hek initially, and once I had some money (and trained up some market orders), I filled up my cargo with skillbooks and put them up for sale all over the galaxy, at really high margins. Never looked back.
Jori McKie Friends Of Harassment 34	Posted - 2012.10.30 19:57:00 - [74] - Quote My story is simple, i'm lazy and was sick shooting red boxes after 2 weeks so i started trading. In late 2009 i loaned 40m from a friend and started trading meta 4 buying regionwide in Tash Murkon and selling with ridiculous profit in Jita. After 3 weeks i was raking in cash and expanded to buy/sell in Amarr, Dodi and Rens. I was using the buy/sell difference in all four main hubs to my advantage and let Red Frog doing all the hauling work back then the profit was crazy but i was getting sick of handling 300 buy/sell orders in each hub. Late 2010 i was going to quit meta 4 trading but not before some market manipulation to maximize my cash out, the one that i still won't forget was getting Focused Modulated Pulse Energy Beam I up to 59m sell and almost 40m buy. Sometime in between i made my first 1b. After the cash out i had about 50b cash and started contract trading and if meta 4 trading was very lucrative contract trading was like having a personal ISK printing machine with a lot less work. My weekly profit was in between 3b and 6b depending on how often i updated my contracts and the best part i just needed 1h daily to maintain the 6b weekly profit. If you break that down to ISK/h, it's absolute crazy. I intentionally missed the good times of west and grey and Kwark and co. although i knew what they were doing and how many cash they were making it sounded like a lot of work. After Kwark revealed how many accounts and contracts he handled, i knew it was right for me i didn't joined the gold rush. After CCP killed the whole contract market and transfered it to the regular market i sticked to faction and deadspace stuff trading. First i thought my profit would dimish a lot but the major advantage of having faction and deadspace stuff in the regular market, the orders arn't expiring after 14 days, so i can be more lazy after all. Today i'm just trading a little bit here and there still having a decent 3b weekly profit with minimal effort.
Smodab Ongalot Shadows Of The Federation Drunk 'n' Disorderly 126	Posted - 2012.10.30 21:54:00 - [75] - Quote I bought 2 PLEX with cash.
NoT KwarK LP Incorporated 0	Posted - 2012.10.31 05:44:00 - [76] - Quote Vargan Armer wrote: NoT KwarK wrote: Nothing particularly exciting, I just ran a bunch of l4s. Assuming you are KwarK, tell use the story of your first trillion please :) I'm not Kwark; however, the real Kwark made his first trillion by abusing a trading trick called "West and Greying", named after the guy who Kwark stole the trick from. It basically entailed selling faction mods for 2 or 3 times their actual value due to a sorting glitch in the old contract system. More on this tale can be found here
Vargan Armer Red Federation RvB - RED Federation 8	Posted - 2012.10.31 09:14:00 - [77] - Quote NoT KwarK wrote: Vargan Armer wrote: NoT KwarK wrote: Nothing particularly exciting, I just ran a bunch of l4s. Assuming you are KwarK, tell use the story of your first trillion please :) I'm not Kwark; however, the real Kwark made his first trillion by abusing a trading trick called "West and Greying", named after the guy who Kwark stole the trick from. It basically entailed selling faction mods for 2 or 3 times their actual value due to a sorting glitch in the old contract system. More on this tale can be found here Yeah, I know, I was in the hatch for a while and I'm kollin on TL :D
NoT KwarK LP Incorporated 0	Posted - 2012.10.31 15:02:00 - [78] - Quote I know, but you asked so I provided a link.
Chiralos Merchant Princes 7	Posted - 2012.11.05 00:45:00 - [79] - Quote Many years ago ... aggregating and hauling isogen and noxcium to trade hubs, T2 goods going the other way.
serras bang Lucien Coven 45	Posted - 2012.11.05 00:56:00 - [80] - Quote made me first billion and the second for me tengu thinking of it prolly my third also in lvl 3 missions

PorkJerky Cutting Edge Incorporated RAZOR Alliance 5	Posted - 2012.11.05 04:30:00 - [81] - Quote suicide ganking
HalfArse Dark Matter Avionics 12	Posted - 2012.11.06 13:30:00 - [82] - Quote rigs
Watooshi Makoochji Republic University Minmatar Republic 9	Posted - 2012.11.07 03:29:00 - [83] - Quote scamming and station trading.
pyronatic Mecha Enterprises Fleet Villore Accords 12	Posted - 2012.11.07 05:58:00 - [84] - Quote first selling all my things in high sec in order to have money for null. second FACTION WARFARE!
Xuixien Rifterlings Damu'Khonde 179	Posted - 2012.11.07 23:58:00 - [85] - Quote I took it. Everyone vs Everyone Xuixien - Space Cat, Queen of Rens
Ristlin Wakefield Wanderers of the Eternal Darkness Eternal Pretorian Alliance 134	Posted - 2012.11.09 15:09:00 - [86] - Quote low-/null-sec exploration; little over a month old at the time. I have a lover, her name is EVE. I see her every night and all she asks in return is that I have a pilot's license.
Bugsy VanHalen Society of lost Souls 243	Posted - 2012.11.09 18:23:00 - [87] - Quote Well I do not recall exactly when I made my first billion as the isk still goes out as fast as it comes in. I have has many billions of isk in assets for years. But the first time I had several billion in my wallet at once was when I sold my first jump freighter. It cost me about 6.4 billion to make and I sold it for 7.9 billion. Market was actually 8.2 when I brought it to Jita to sell, but since these ships sell in low volume, the 0.01 or in this case 50,000 isking brought me down to 7.9 before it actually sold. only took about 30 minutes to sell though. I just wish they were easier to sell, I really liked the challenge of building it at the lowest possible cost. After all they are the only T2 capital ship in the game. I plan on building many more.
Joatmo Dred Nots 2	Posted - 2012.11.14 19:12:00 - [88] - Quote Bump for awesome thread
jyppy Under Heavy Fire Mordus Angels 42	Posted - 2012.11.14 20:34:00 - [89] - Quote ECM modules and ships. I used to fly these a lot in gangs, if ever I died I'd have to jump forever to refit. Well screw that. I started to buy in bulk, and putting them up for sale in the local market I found out that I was obviously not the only one in that situation. Aha! It then expanded into hauling a whole range of modules, and selling basic T1 ships - that was probably around the time I made my first billion. From there it became buy orders for modules and building shed loads of T1 ships and rigs Frell
Barakach Caldari Provisions Caldari State 89	Posted - 2012.11.15 17:59:00 - [90] - Quote Inter-regional trit trading.

Vadane Deninard Procyon Technologies 9	Posted - 2012.11.15 20:46:00 - [91] - Quote Margin Trading (all markets... best profit came from ships, turrets and ammo). Didn't trade commodities back then though.
piecakes's brother Blunderbuss Trade Co 0	Posted - 2012.11.15 20:50:00 - [92] - Quote scamming people back in the day... Made about 60 odd billion total before they nerfed my scam.
CapBaby IX Fleet of Fail Usurper. 0	Posted - 2012.11.16 00:04:00 - [93] - Quote A specific skillbook dropping in specific lowsec Ladar sites that was 350m at the time... found seven books in tem days, and then no more for three weeks .
David Forge Forge Enterprises 142	Posted - 2012.11.16 07:53:00 - [94] - Quote Regional arbitrage and sexual favors.
Mathews Premium Blotter 0	Posted - 2012.11.16 09:38:00 - [95] - Quote Back when it was the norm to haul large amounts of zyd and mega in t1 haulers, i would wait for someone selling in the trade channel, tell hem the system i was in which was normally a system with one exit/entrance and gank em in my torp caracel.
Every One Omni Galactic Resource Excavation Inc. Tri-Star Galactic Industries 8	Posted - 2012.11.16 09:57:00 - [96] - Quote terzslave wrote: Station trading in Jita. Meaning scamming?
Every One Omni Galactic Resource Excavation Inc. Tri-Star Galactic Industries 8	Posted - 2012.11.16 09:58:00 - [97] - Quote Watooshi Makoochji wrote: scamming and station trading. Thanks, another one on my red list
E'dyn Order Of Steel 6	Posted - 2012.11.26 00:50:00 - [98] - Quote Luck, I was doing a whole bunch of jumps and just looking at prices of different ships when in one system I noticed that there was a sell older of a whole bunch of wolves that seemed to have a zero too little on them. I quickly asked a friend of mine for money so I could buy them and then asked him to haul them for me, made the money back and then some all because of a person's mistake. Was a long time ago and am now training up a second character to try my hand at trading(if anyone is willing to mentor me with that feel free to mail btw :-P)
Ocih Space Mermaids Somethin Awfull Forums 306	Posted - 2012.11.26 01:21:00 - [99] - Quote I buy stuff, find stuff, mine stuff, loot stuff. Then forget. Every now and then I sell it. Some times maybe for only 50 mill, some times for as much as 5 billion. One of the sell days I didn't have a billion, then I did.
Ed Blackadder The Scope Gallente Federation 0	Posted - 2012.11.26 01:43:00 - [100] - Quote Mining. Left that behind me now. Don't regret it though.

Robus Muvila GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation 79	Posted - 2012.11.27 07:32:00 - [101] - Quote Scammed a dutch guy out of 1.3 billion 3 weeks after I started. He'd just finished a tour of Iraq and wanted to get back into eve. There's a special place in hell for me. http://themittani.com - Because EvE has needed a proper news site for ages
TriadSte IronPig Sev3rance 131	Posted - 2012.11.27 12:29:00 - [102] - Quote First billion was just grinding lvl4 missions - boring boring boring First fun billion and sustaining it was making robotics before CCP gave PI the big FU. It took me 8 accounts to make the isk I was making but it was alot of fun doing it. Thank you CCP for making me kill 6 accounts more money/isk for me and less for you :D
Anslo The Scope Gallente Federation 621	Posted - 2012.11.27 14:16:00 - [103] - Quote Level 5's in a carrier and cross regional trading/market cornering -\_For the Proveldtariat_/-
Toku Jiang Jiang Laboratories and Discovery 3	Posted - 2012.11.28 16:08:00 - [104] - Quote Mining. Ya it's not very flashy, but hey 3 hulks mining ark and bist all day you can get to 1 billion pretty quick, or you used to anyway I miss 2007
Missette Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation 6	Posted - 2012.11.28 20:53:00 - [105] - Quote Buying and selling Cold Gas arc jet thrusters in Dodoxie. Thats it. I basically owned the market. bought for about 15,000 each, sold for about 60,000 each. Traded about 50 to 100 a day, for almost a year. Low effort, low reward, but got to a billion at last.
Lilan Kahn The Littlest Hobos En Garde 44	Posted - 2012.11.29 05:38:00 - [106] - Quote joined a 0.0 corp and stole there hanger


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