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Nemoya Zelon
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2013.05.26 00:10:00 -
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Friends have been taunting me for years to get back into the game and my willpower has now given out, so here I am. Anyhow, I have to start over because I sold my character to a friend before I left. It is now his main (with which he runs a small corp) so I feel as though asking for her back would be rather rude and in any case, not in the cards for me.
So my situation is thus: I have around ~50 billion in liquid isk, another ~10 bil (rough estimate) in various assets which I kept on a throw-away alt and I am looking to re-establish myself.
I know there's no right or wrong answer, but I'm quite curious to know what you would do?
500 million isk to the answer that I find the most insightful or amusing. ;)
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Delireuz Simalia
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
0
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Posted - 2013.05.26 00:14:00 -
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Thats more than enough isk to buy yourself a decent character from someone alse tbh. Thats atleast what id have done, think about what kinda skill setup you want this time around and have a look on the forums for a neat char that suits your need. And welcome back!! |
Gloriana Thalanis
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.05.26 00:20:00 -
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I would buy this tengu. |
Garresh
Team Chicken and Waffles
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Posted - 2013.05.26 00:21:00 -
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Buy a freighter. Fill it with hookers, drugs holoreels, a couple addicts and homeless, lots of booze, and a few random trinkets and oddities. Name it the Party Cruise Ship, and autopilot it in a course to do one lap through lowsec.
This Space Intentionally Left Blank |
Gealbhan
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Posted - 2013.05.26 00:24:00 -
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Double it by saying the same story in local and adding if you send me x-amount I will double it.  |
Sahriah BloodStone
The Takmahl Syndicate
Nulli Tertius
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Posted - 2013.05.26 00:27:00 -
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Buy a bunch of good skilled characters in various pvp/industry roles. infiltrate 5 alliances in opposite coalitions etc. Work your way up in power in each and obtain ultimate knowledge of everything and then trade knowledge for more isk |
Felicity Love
STARKRAFT
Joint Venture Conglomerate
629
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Posted - 2013.05.26 00:27:00 -
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Buy a bunch of PLEX in Jita, buy an equal number of frigs or a shuttles, fly out with 1 PLEX each time and TAUNT people into shooting you up.
Hours of fun, and with the price of PLEX rising up you shouldn't have too much trouble getting pilots to take that 50/50 chance the PLEX will drop.
FRAPS it for the rest of us to enjoy watching later, and it you have VENT or TS then invite the lucky contestants into your channel to chat, whine, curse, and/or laugh it up while they try to shoot you.
Proud Beta Tester for "Bumping Uglies for Dummies" |
Mallak Azaria
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
2937
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Posted - 2013.05.26 00:29:00 -
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I've just started a supercap building business that is capable of pumping out 4 supcaps a week. Invest with us & see huge profits. Invest enough & we can increase production which means more profit.
The guy who was sitting next to me in the first nullsec round table who had obviously not had a shower since before boarding his flight to Iceland, you really stank. You know who you are. |
Zimmy Zeta
Red Federation
RvB - RED Federation
19494
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Posted - 2013.05.26 00:31:00 -
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Buy a t2 BPO, jettison, shoot the can and fraps it to become instantly e-famous.
e-fame > isks
Just think of how bad an average post by me is, and then realize half of them are even worse |
Tom Gerard
Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
1059
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Posted - 2013.05.26 00:31:00 -
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I would use the money to purchase a toon you like from the Character Bazaar, and join your friend's corp.
I would literally murder anyone, anytime anywhere to have one of my RL friends playing this game.
One of the oldest mission players in EVE designed a chart that explains stat priority in regards to mission running, compared Alpha, DPS, Ship Speed and Sig Radius and scores them.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m24dbrfuWn1r86ax8o1_1280.jpg |
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Tuttomenui II
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.05.26 00:33:00 -
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Options are buy a character from the bazaar, or buy 8 years worth of game time in PLEX and stay on the path of starting fresh.
You could get 4 years worth of plex and use the rest to fund yourself in t1 ships for FW for the foreseeable future.
You could invest into an industry character and buy some BPOs and build stuff.
You might have enough to build an outpost in some backwater 0.0 system =). That is pretty much like throwing it away though. |
Hessian Arcturus
S.W.O.R.D. Navy
113
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Posted - 2013.05.26 00:38:00 -
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Firstly, welcome back. Secondly, personally, I would invest... Not in anything to do with anyone else though, I would invest in yourself.
Although you haven't stated what it is in EVE you're interested in, I will give you an idea of what I would do/plan to do eventually. Start a corp. Not just a small one that has a few members or only specialising in one aspect. I mean the full shibang, with different sectors of the corp. Combat Division, Industrial Division, Logistics (remote repair, shield/armour transfer) Division.
A corp that offers things like ore buyback, ship replacement, incursions, pvp roams. I mean really think about this and do it properly. Invest into recruiting manufacturing directors for the Indy side and FC's for the combat side. Hell, even invest in a load of BPO's and the like.
Also have a hisec, lowsec and nullsec presence. A corp like that, that actually does well, will get you your money back, because afterall, its an investment, you take the money back from an investment.
Obviously dont put all your isk into in. Save a load for yourself so you can just have a laugh losing ships or whatever. Or accumulate it.
Just an idea...
It's human nature to want to explore. To find your line and go beyond it. The only limit, is the one you set yourself. |
Caelis Drael
Soylent Industries
0
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Posted - 2013.05.26 00:46:00 -
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I would post on the EvE forum and ask other capsuleers, whose opinions don't really mean jack, don't care about you or your situation and ask them what I should do...then sit back and read all the BS and do what I want anyways.
/shrug
Welcome back to EvE.
I, too, came back to the game...no other game like it. Gotta love it.
Regards.
Caelis |
Madlof Chev
Sniggerdly
Pandemic Legion
163
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Posted - 2013.05.26 00:51:00 -
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Should totally use the money to pay out to every idea in this thread~ |
Ruskarn Andedare
Lion Investments
181
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Posted - 2013.05.26 00:53:00 -
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Play this new character until you're settled back in and use the time to decide what to do next. |
Pure Rnd
The Eden Trading International Corporation
Gentlemen's Agreement
3
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Posted - 2013.05.26 00:56:00 -
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Send me the money and I'll double it and then you buy several chars with your 120b. |
KuroVolt
The Legion of Spoon
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
271
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Posted - 2013.05.26 00:56:00 -
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Id spend it all on livestock, wait for the prices on livestock to inevitably shoot up in a couple of years, sell with profit and retire rich! |
Mr M
Agony Unleashed
237
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Posted - 2013.05.26 01:00:00 -
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Don't come back. Stay away. Be strong! You know you can do it.
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Zak Breen
Aliastra
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Posted - 2013.05.26 01:03:00 -
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I'd pretend to be scamming but in actuality be giving it away in local.
The people who respond - who normally would be called stupid to do so - would get a nice reward.
Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of not knowing. |
Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
Cosmic Consortium
3441
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Posted - 2013.05.26 01:05:00 -
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Re-establish yourself in what way?
One option could be to join Rixx Javix's "Stay Frosty" corp, and just have fun with casual small fleet PvP for the rest of your natural life 
Form a PvP corp, recruit like mad, then hire mercenaries to throw themselves at you to ensure a plentiful supply of good fights :)
Day 0 advice for new players: Day 0 Advice for New Players |
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RubyPorto
SniggWaffe
YOUR VOTES DON'T COUNT
3417
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Posted - 2013.05.26 01:07:00 -
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Sorry, my opinion is worth more than that.
This is EVE - Everybody Versus Everybody.
"the risk of having your day ruined by other people is the cornerstone with which EVE was built and we want to keep that (infact, this is much more representative of the consensus opinion within CCP)." -CCP Solomon |
Cilgil Arbosa
0.0 Axis Fleet
Stealth Syndicate
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Posted - 2013.05.26 01:07:00 -
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Nobody gives away 500 M for a cheap answer. But here is what I would do: Set up a completely unrelated character, join his corp as an interested, fast learning newbie. Slowly you'll gain his trust with engagement and well dosed applications of leadership and encouragment.
Whenever the opportunity arises, you seed discontent among the members and fan the flames of drama. After months of low boiling discord, lost battles, dwindling profits and chains of crippling wardecs his corp will be only a husk of what it used to be. He won't recognize you as his worst enemy though, rather he will ask you if you'd like to assume the role of a director with all rights and privileges. Clearly
You steal all assets and empty the wallets, disbanding the corp. Biomass the alt or not, he played his role.
A few days, maybe two weeks later you log in with a char he knows. You catch up, you talk about stuff. EVE isn't that much fun anymore now, he says, his corp gone through the actions of a single infiltrator. He never had any serious enemies but this game is choke full with jackasses and traitors. It's funny how you seem to be about the only guy left in New Eden he can call a true friend.
A long hiatus may be just the thing he needs to get his head free of eve for a while.
"Say, would you hold this char warm for me for a while while I'm away? In the end, I know I can trust you" |
Bane Veradun
Band of Blobbers
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Posted - 2013.05.26 01:11:00 -
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Nemoya Zelon wrote:Friends have been taunting me for years to get back into the game and my willpower has now given out, so here I am. Anyhow, I have to start over because I sold my character to a friend before I left. It is now his main (with which he runs a small corp) so I feel as though asking for her back would be rather rude and in any case, not in the cards for me.
So my situation is thus: I have around ~50 billion in liquid isk, another ~10 bil (rough estimate) in various assets which I kept on a throw-away alt and I am looking to re-establish myself.
I know there's no right or wrong answer, but I'm quite curious to know what you would do?
500 million isk to the answer that I find the most insightful or amusing. ;)
Buy your friend a comparable toon (or maybe a toon he or she likes) from the bazaar with the stipulation that he or she will return your main to you. The can CEO the new toon, and transfer all assets to the new toon and you get the character that you started with. (I wish I could get my main back, but I have no money for him now. : \)
If you are looking for something harsh, you could join his corp, train up a bit and then AWOX the everloving **** out of your pixelated former self and then shrug and explain that 'You hated yourself for what you did and wanted to die'. Extra points for doing it while he or she is flying a pimped bling boat with serious head bling hardwired in their soft matter.
A lion that needs his prey to lay down in front of him, is no lion at all. He's a pet. |
Nyancat Audeles
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
232
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Posted - 2013.05.26 01:17:00 -
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Nemoya Zelon wrote:Friends have been taunting me for years to get back into the game and my willpower has now given out, so here I am. Anyhow, I have to start over because I sold my character to a friend before I left. It is now his main (with which he runs a small corp) so I feel as though asking for her back would be rather rude and in any case, not in the cards for me.
So my situation is thus: I have around ~50 billion in liquid isk, another ~10 bil (rough estimate) in various assets which I kept on a throw-away alt and I am looking to re-establish myself.
I know there's no right or wrong answer, but I'm quite curious to know what you would do?
500 million isk to the answer that I find the most insightful or amusing. ;)
50 billion ISK? HOW DID YOU DO THAT! No, seriously... how does one make that money?
Anyways, to address your question:
I have been really wanting to get into trade. To conquer the market, or at least feel like I'm doing it 
I realize that this is no easy task and requires quite a bit of capital. I would love to get a head start. I have done investment and station trading before, so I know a bit of my way around it, but it takes a long time for trades to turn up money... a head start of 500M would triple my investment power, and if you couple that with the Margin Trading skills in trading, I think it would give me a viable future in trading (station trading, at least!)
If the whole new "hauler" skill rebalance will reduce the time it takes for me to train into a hauler I might even put some training time into haulers, as well as some ISK...
Anyways, I would appreciate if you could also answer my first question - as the famous saying goes,
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
One day, hopefully, I will be making enough through trade that I do not have to grind 3 hours to fit a Curse for PvP. |
Beekeeper Bob
Beekeepers Anonymous
620
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Posted - 2013.05.26 01:42:00 -
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Nemoya Zelon wrote:Friends have been taunting me for years to get back into the game and my willpower has now given out, so here I am. Anyhow, I have to start over because I sold my character to a friend before I left. It is now his main (with which he runs a small corp) so I feel as though asking for her back would be rather rude and in any case, not in the cards for me.
So my situation is thus: I have around ~50 billion in liquid isk, another ~10 bil (rough estimate) in various assets which I kept on a throw-away alt and I am looking to re-establish myself.
I know there's no right or wrong answer, but I'm quite curious to know what you would do?
500 million isk to the answer that I find the most insightful or amusing. ;)
If they sucked you back into this game, they are no friends of your's......
The single biggest danger to EVE is the proliferation of ALTS! Kill an alt today!
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ACE McFACE
Radical Astronauts Plundering Eve
1304
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Posted - 2013.05.26 01:48:00 -
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Depends what you want to do.
If you're more into the PvE side of things I would suggest wormholes (or Incursions if you don't want to deal with towers and holding a WH, or just day-trip)
For PvP join FW (any faction will do) and start hunting. If you want to PvP in null join a PvP alliance like RnK, they'll provide large fleets than FW and have a bit more of a goal.
You should be notified if someone quotes your post so you can continue the argument! |
Robertis Olacar
Blackgate Mining and Exploration
8
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Posted - 2013.05.26 01:55:00 -
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Start a cult that scams scammers[ into donating to charity |
Corey Fumimasa
Kiith Paktu
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
523
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Posted - 2013.05.26 02:05:00 -
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Wardec all your friends. Hire mercs to help you burn their holdings and wreck their mission opportunities. They will whine and cry and chuckle nervously sometimes, but in the end they will have a new understanding of Eve, and of you.
What is gaming when compared to rl? -á http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=V7-1ndsiVNA&feature=endscreen |
Gimme more Cynos
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
50
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Posted - 2013.05.26 02:12:00 -
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Just buy yourself a suitable character, and blow the rest of isks on whatever seems fun to you.
Easy, isn't it? |
Charlie Jacobson
114
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Posted - 2013.05.26 02:29:00 -
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You should donate the 500 mil to me so I can make 5000 players feel Wanted with 100k bounties. |
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