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Samroski
Games Inc. The Night Crew Alliance
447
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Posted - 2014.02.20 13:43:00 -
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When I did not have a 100b, my goal was to get 100b and then hire some mercs to wardec some corps I did not like.
When I got to 100b, I did not dislike the corps so much, as I realized that they were just having fun when they shot me down, nothing personal.
Thus I gave most of it to charity during the last PLEX for good drive, and will do so again. Any colour you like. |

Vipre Morte
Team JK
92
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Posted - 2014.02.20 14:23:00 -
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Roxanne Dallas wrote:Hedge Fox wrote:Looking for some good ideas. If you had said a few trillion I would buy out the PLEX market and the CCP PLEX reserve then post them all for 2-3x the price then watch as the world burns. I think you could count that as winning eve. That's if CCP ddin't step in and just start printing PLEX's or just ban your account and take them all back. But I don't think they would do the latter considering its just market manipulation unless they trumped you up on some b*** s*** like griefing or something along those lines. However they could just say no we are reversing all of those transactions and probably at least a warning or a temporary ban and maybe if they have a mechanism in place they would put a limit on how many PLEX's you could buy on all the accounts that connect via your IP. When I want to quit eve and if I have enough liquid isk that what I want to do.
I don't see the problem CCP would have if you drove PLEX prices through the roof -- that gives people more incentive to give CCP money for PLEX, since they can sell it for more ISK in-game. That would actually be a good thing for CCP, not so good for EVE (though even that's arguable). |

flakeys
The Mjolnir Bloc The Bloc
2054
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Posted - 2014.02.20 14:36:00 -
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When i had 1 B i wanted to be able to fly a wyvern as that would be SO awsome .When i had the isk for the wyvern i wanted to have more so i could instantly get a new one when it would die.When i had that i thought **** that i'm going for a titan and when i had enough for 1 i did the same as with the wyvern cashing and grew till i could buy two.
When i could buy multiple titans i realised i was having fun in a harpy ... 
As in reall life cash means everything and then again it means absolutely nothing .
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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Bruce Kemp
Suddenly taken over
86
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Posted - 2014.02.20 15:13:00 -
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I would do exactly what i do in eve now, have fun.  |

Mr LaboratoryRat
Confederation of DuckTape Lovers
51
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Posted - 2014.02.20 16:24:00 -
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Invest some more in stuff to make more isk so i can skill up forever while playing more interesting games. |

Destination SkillQueue
Are We There Yet
6299
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Posted - 2014.02.20 21:04:00 -
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One time bump to fix forum. |

Hedge Fox
Leverage Investments
8
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Posted - 2014.03.08 00:34:00 -
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Love the ideas.
I've re-invested most of it, but I'm looking for some really good ideas here guys!
Lets see them. |

InterStellar Architect
InterStellar Architects Corporation
2
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Posted - 2014.03.08 01:28:00 -
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Hedge Fox wrote:Looking for some good ideas.
I would hedge like a fox |

InterStellar Architect
InterStellar Architects Corporation
2
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Posted - 2014.03.08 01:40:00 -
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flakeys wrote:When i had 1 B i wanted to be able to fly a wyvern as that would be SO awsome .When i had the isk for the wyvern i wanted to have more so i could instantly get a new one when it would die.When i had that i thought **** that i'm going for a titan and when i had enough for 1 i did the same as with the wyvern cashing and grew till i could buy two. When i could buy multiple titans i realised i was having fun in a harpy ...  As in reall life cash means everything and then again it means absolutely nothing .
same story, except I've never flown a Wyvern, nor a Titan. The most expensive ship hull i've used cost 200 million, and I spent all my time making ISK cuz I thought that was fun lol
Now I've got a level 5 titan pilot sitting in the oven, been training him for 4 years, and no corp history. And I'm kind of bored of Eve, with a busy work schedule.
Maybe I will use him some day when I start playing again =P |

mynnna
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
3073
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Posted - 2014.03.08 03:28:00 -
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Roxanne Dallas wrote:Hedge Fox wrote:Looking for some good ideas. If you had said a few trillion I would buy out the PLEX market and the CCP PLEX reserve then post them all for 2-3x the price then watch as the world burns. I think you could count that as winning eve. That's if CCP ddin't step in and just start printing PLEX's or just ban your account and take them all back. But I don't think they would do the latter considering its just market manipulation unless they trumped you up on some b*** s*** like griefing or something along those lines. However they could just say no we are reversing all of those transactions and probably at least a warning or a temporary ban and maybe if they have a mechanism in place they would put a limit on how many PLEX's you could buy on all the accounts that connect via your IP. When I want to quit eve and if I have enough liquid isk that what I want to do.
First stage of this happened once awhile back. PLEX were, without any apparent CCP intervention at all, back to their original price within a few days. Wouldn't be any different here - you'd wind up with a few trillion worth of overpriced PLEX. Member of the Goonswarm Economic Warfare Cabal |

Myriad Blaze
Common Sense Ltd Nulli Secunda
169
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Posted - 2014.03.08 11:01:00 -
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What would I do if I had 100 billion ISK?
I'd wonder where the rest of my money went. 
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Vaerah Vahrokha
Vahrokh Consulting
5263
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Posted - 2014.03.08 15:32:00 -
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"What would you do if you had 100 billion ISK?"
I'd start getting worried at how much I lost! Auditing | Collateral holding and insurance | Consulting | PLEX for Good Charity
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Meilandra Vanderganken
Aliastra Gallente Federation
88
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Posted - 2014.03.08 16:43:00 -
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I recently joined the 100 bill club, nothing changed cept for the fact that I grew depressed realizing how much time I must have invested in market order grinding over the years.... 
About half of the said 100 bill is liquid isk sitting idle in wallet, other than investing it in PLEX (which I would have done already if I wasn't a lazy ****) I have no idea how to make it 'work' for me, ideas welcome :P |

InterStellar Architect
InterStellar Architects Corporation
2
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Posted - 2014.03.08 17:04:00 -
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Meilandra Vanderganken wrote:I recently joined the 100 bill club, nothing changed cept for the fact that I grew depressed realizing how much time I must have invested in market order grinding over the years....  About half of the said 100 bill is liquid isk sitting idle in wallet, other than investing it in PLEX (which I would have done already if I wasn't a lazy ****) I have no idea how to make it 'work' for me, ideas welcome :P
You said it!! This is a great game and I'm not insulting it in any way, it's THE best mmo.
But looking back I should have spent all that time making real money lol. |

Elizabeth Norn
Nornir Research
176
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Posted - 2014.03.08 21:13:00 -
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Vaerah Vahrokha wrote:"What would you do if you had 100 billion ISK?"
I'd start getting worried at how much I lost!
Myriad Blaze wrote:What would I do if I had 100 billion ISK? I'd wonder where the rest of my money went. 
http://i.imgur.com/DdGahFW.jpg .
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Novien Aurella
BRAB0 The Volition Cult
0
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Posted - 2014.03.08 21:20:00 -
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With 100b isk.. I would probably buy myself a decent character then give the rest away to the new players to make the game more enjoyable. (I'm taking donations :D)
On another note, how much ISK do you people actually have? I heard somewhere that some of you people have 500b+, but with what I've been reading, are there any trillionairs on eve? |

Mr LaboratoryRat
Confederation of DuckTape Lovers
52
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Posted - 2014.03.08 21:24:00 -
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Novien Aurella wrote:, are there any trillionairs on eve?
Yes, the highest i have spotted was 76 tril |

Rhivre
TarNec Invisible Exchequer
731
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Posted - 2014.03.08 21:33:00 -
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Novien Aurella wrote:, but with what I've been reading, are there any trillionairs on eve?
Yes, there are more than you would think
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Novien Aurella
BRAB0 The Volition Cult
0
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Posted - 2014.03.08 21:47:00 -
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Rhivre wrote:Novien Aurella wrote:, but with what I've been reading, are there any trillionairs on eve? Yes, there are more than you would think
How are they able to get that much, though? |

mynnna
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
3082
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Posted - 2014.03.08 22:18:00 -
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Novien Aurella wrote:With 100b isk.. I would probably buy myself a decent character then give the rest away to the new players to make the game more enjoyable. (I'm taking donations :D)
On another note, how much ISK do you people actually have? I heard somewhere that some of you people have 500b+, but with what I've been reading, are there any trillionairs on eve? http://i.imgur.com/KaEnbCz.png
And I'm not even the richest guy around. Member of the Goonswarm Economic Warfare Cabal |

Darkstar01
Republic University Minmatar Republic
6
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Posted - 2014.03.09 02:31:00 -
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Novien Aurella wrote:Rhivre wrote:Novien Aurella wrote:, but with what I've been reading, are there any trillionairs on eve? Yes, there are more than you would think How are they able to get that much, though?
To my knowledge, making ISK in the trillions is done through the following:
1. Alliance relations, and social interaction.
2. Having computer programming expertise, and being able to data mine the test server patch to find out changes beforehand - gaining information advantage. So in this case, someone with computer programming expertise would be at an advantage.
3. Perhaps some people might also have some inside information
4. Starting a popular and lucrative service that everyone use - like Chribba's third party, or Somer Blink.
5. Tech 2 BPO's - if someone had the capital to invest in many, many tech 2 BPO's a long, long time ago.
6. Many Eve Online trillionaires started playing when the game was still at its infancy. As it evolved over the years, there have been many lucrative ways to make ISK that has changed, and is no longer available. Either due to a change in game mechanics, or market conditions. |

Novien Aurella
BRAB0 The Volition Cult
0
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Posted - 2014.03.09 03:55:00 -
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mynnna wrote:Novien Aurella wrote:With 100b isk.. I would probably buy myself a decent character then give the rest away to the new players to make the game more enjoyable. (I'm taking donations :D)
On another note, how much ISK do you people actually have? I heard somewhere that some of you people have 500b+, but with what I've been reading, are there any trillionairs on eve? http://i.imgur.com/KaEnbCz.pngAnd I'm not even the richest guy around.
.. I take donations.. :P
But seriously, cheers on having that much. How did you do it? |

Mohandar Sabezan
Hedion University Amarr Empire
0
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Posted - 2014.03.09 06:36:00 -
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Darkstar01 wrote:Novien Aurella wrote:Rhivre wrote:Novien Aurella wrote:, but with what I've been reading, are there any trillionairs on eve? Yes, there are more than you would think How are they able to get that much, though? To my knowledge, making ISK in the trillions is done through the following: 1. Alliance relations, and social interaction. 2. Having computer programming expertise. They look at the game from the programming level, and data mine to see what's different in the new patch. They will use this information to buy items that will go up in price, or exploit the new game mechanics. So in this case, someone with computer programming expertise would have an advantage. 3. Perhaps some people might also have some inside information 4. Starting a popular and lucrative service that everyone use - like Chribba's third party, or Somer Blink. 5. Tech 2 BPO's - if someone had the capital to invest in many, many tech 2 BPO's a long, long time ago. 6. Many Eve Online trillionaires started playing when the game was still at its infancy. As it evolved over the years, there have been many lucrative ways to make ISK that has changed, and is no longer available. Either due to a change in game mechanics, or market conditions. 7. Scamming a few hundred billion, and then use it to invest and make more ISK. However, since a few of these large scams have already happened, this makes future large-scale scams harder to pull off. Although in my observation, some of the biggest scams happened when the creators started with the intention of running a legitimate service, but later they changed, or they saw an opportunity and took it.
I wish I was a programming whiz =/
or actually any of the above
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Ramone Ormand
The Scope Gallente Federation
27
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Posted - 2014.03.09 06:38:00 -
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I'd buy 7 falcon alts, 7 logi alts, a set of slaves and a booster
I'd finally be able to win lowsec solo pvp |

Zahara Cody
Imperial Corrections Service.
87
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Posted - 2014.03.09 07:06:00 -
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Mr LaboratoryRat wrote:Novien Aurella wrote:, are there any trillionairs on eve? Yes, the highest i have spotted was 76 tril Your alt? http://imgur.com/vQehAX2 |

Lisa Vallino
Simian Advanced Inc.
6
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Posted - 2014.03.09 15:44:00 -
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Wow....just speechless. Does anyone own a JF bpo? |

Vaerah Vahrokha
Vahrokh Consulting
5268
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Posted - 2014.03.09 16:20:00 -
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InterStellar Architect wrote:Meilandra Vanderganken wrote:I recently joined the 100 bill club, nothing changed cept for the fact that I grew depressed realizing how much time I must have invested in market order grinding over the years....  About half of the said 100 bill is liquid isk sitting idle in wallet, other than investing it in PLEX (which I would have done already if I wasn't a lazy ****) I have no idea how to make it 'work' for me, ideas welcome :P You said it!! This is a great game and I'm not insulting it in any way, it's THE best mmo. But looking back I should have spent all that time making real money lol. However, this game did give me an introduction to how the stock market works, which is what I'm doing now, so I have this game to thank for that. The market mechanics in this game is similar to the stock market, except it's much simplified, and things happen much, much slower.
Welcome to the club. 
I too have started like you and now I do several things in RL including securities trading. Auditing | Collateral holding and insurance | Consulting | PLEX for Good Charity
Twitter channel |

mynnna
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
3086
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Posted - 2014.03.09 16:29:00 -
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Novien Aurella wrote:But seriously, cheers on having that much. How did you do it? I'm a market trader. These days I do what Darkstar01 said in his second point, though a) I'm an engineer, not a programmer and b) being either isn't necessary. Success in that kind of investment comes from making educated guesses as soon as possible (so, watching chaos, watching any dev appearance anywhere lest they leak something, watching the test server, etc) and being right. Knowing how systems in the game tie together is helpful as it uncovers things that are less obvious, including secondary and tertiary effects, but it's not required.
The full history? I'm new money, relatively speaking speaking. I've played for a long time and got in and out of various money making schemes but didn't really start on any serious path to fortune until mid-2008, when I took a humble 400m isk gleaned from exploration and started trading on the market. At first it was just regular daytrading on the margins, but over the course of six months, updating twice a day, that turned into 18b. Not much, but I'd started to identify interactions and cycles in the market, plus mechanics that tied things together.
Then I decided I was quitting and gave most of my isk to the corp.
Three months later when I came back I started trading again, but found the 3b isk I'd left myself to be boring, so I took out a bond inside Goonswarm for 50b isk and started trading with that, using what I'd learned previous doing a mix of margin trading and longer term cycle trading. Then someone made the suggestion to me that I setup as a faction resale business - buy at a discount in goonspace from our ratters, ship to Jita and sell. Back then, faction items were contract-only, which people found to me a huge hassle as sellers, so getting cash from me right away was a huge hit. Business flourished and quickly absorbed all my capital, then continued growing. As it grew I got back into trading, started stocking our nullsec markets in Delve, and other activities. After awhile I'd burned myself out, so I closed out the bond, liquidated my remaining stocks and closed out most of my trading activities. This included liquidating some highly speculative investments I'd made: a pile of Neodymium - it was what this guy had bought and with the quantities & date available in the blog, it wasn't much of a stretch to figure it out - and a pile of Technetium, unfortunately long before it really spiked hard.
Whoops.
While I was gone, I missed the introduction of PI, which was one of the largest wealth multipliers the game has seen in sometime. Goods sold for pennies at NPC prices instantly increased 1000% in value over night and have of course gone up since. Oh well.
I finally got active again sometime shortly before Crucible. I relaunched the faction trade business on a bond again, with similar success as before. I once again got into trading as well, but limited myself to cycle trading in highly liquid markets. Margin trading felt too much like grinding at this point and besides, I wanted to get into patch speculation anyway. Building on what I'd learned before, I started gobbling up knowledge. How do reactions and the T2 production chain work, how does the Tech III production chain work, fuel blocks, you name it. Armed with this, the twitter feed of CCP Diagoras (pbuh) was not the stream of innocuous statistics (well okay, most of it still was), but a literal goldmine of information.
While Crucible was well received in the wake of Incarna, it was a wet fart for major investment. This amusing thing happened and I made a lot of isk after it was patched and Nocx allowed to rise. Inferno was interesting. There was this little side-show. As the blog says, we wound up making nothing from it. I did however make lots of money cycle trading implants whose prices went nuts And there was also this, announced ahead of time. Made quite a lot of isk buying high ends and then selling them into the spike, then buying low ends and selling them into the next spike.
Retribution, largely another wet fart aside from continuing tiericide. With minerals stockpiled earlier I built cruisers, then BCs, then battleships. And then Odyssey. Remember what I said at the start of this post that key to maximizing success is using whatever info you can to get in early? At PAX East, early 2013, someone snapped this, talked about in context of "resource rebalancing". Isotopes were already literally as low as they could go, with nowhere to go but up from any changes. I took whatever profit I could get on my tiericide stocks and went all in. 250b on isotopes... and plenty more increasing the size of the pile of R64s I'd been accumulating for months as a hedge against an eventual revamp. A lotto ticket, if you will. Already at 140b in value, I piled isk onto it. After all, isotopes I merely expected to triple, but the moongoo? Technetium had been worth 80k after Alchemy... and the price range for R64s was 2k-10k per unit.
Fast forwarding, I unloaded ice, bought more R64s, diversified into R16s (which spiked due to alchemy and metamaterials usage and should continue to do so) and intermediates, and patiently wait for my investments to mature. It's all been rather convenient, really, I don't have to worry about sitting out due to inside information from the CSM - instead, my money's parked in a long term market that still has plenty of room to rise. Member of the Goonswarm Economic Warfare Cabal |

Zahara Cody
Imperial Corrections Service.
87
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Posted - 2014.03.09 18:44:00 -
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Lisa Vallino wrote:Wow....just speechless. Does anyone own a JF bpo?
They do not exist. |

Rhivre
TarNec Invisible Exchequer
732
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Posted - 2014.03.09 19:55:00 -
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Novien Aurella wrote:Rhivre wrote:Novien Aurella wrote:, but with what I've been reading, are there any trillionairs on eve? Yes, there are more than you would think How are they able to get that much, though?
Some of the ways have been mentioned, others got trillions by taking a big risk on something they noticed on the test server and invested heavily in, and it paid off.
Remember, you rarely hear of the "Oh, crap, my investment risk I took didnt work out" Fluffy Bunny Pic! |
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