Otto Runkter
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2014.03.18 00:53:00 -
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To be honest I've always been perplexed (get it?) as to just how cheap PLEX have been. When you think of what you get for your money; would you really spend, what, almost $70 for a fitted dred? Maybe not quite, but damn close. That seems ridiculous. I would think $10-$20 would be tops. Even that seems plenty for something that can get blown apart in an instant. Yeah, I'm sure some Russian billionaire's kid has bought a titan with PLEX before, but that sort of thing has to be really rare. If I had no idea and never knew, if I had to guess what a PLEX price would be I'd say 2-4 billion. I can't believe people spend money and get so little ISK in return. When I first started I knew the program existed, but figured I'd never be able to use it as I'm not "that hardcore guy." Little did I know just how easy it was. In small time trading and a little manufacturing (not T2 either) on just one character I used to net about a quarter billion a day, then I kinda got started on another guy who got up to about .1 bil,/day, until I decided it was too much work and to move to a minimum effort plan where I still make ~.15 billion a day (with just the one guy- I abandoned the other account completely) with as little work as possible. It takes about 6 minutes to update orders, which I do several times a day, and every 4-5 days I spend about an hour moving **** around. Sometimes I guess if I'm watching TV I'll update the important ones frequently on the commercials too, as when I'm watching TV or reading I have it open to mine a little (hey, every little bit helps!), but that's it. I'm not that hardcore.
I looked around in some neighboring regions the other day to see if there were opportunities there in places without one of the "big 5" hubs, and opportunities abound. There's actually some volume there! In the end though I decided it was too much effort to get off my fat ass to move back and forth, and even more effort to train up another trader. If I ran four traders on two accounts and really worked it I know I could get well over a billion- closer to two-every day (average anyway). It would be a ****-ton of work, which is why I don't, but I could PLEX both accounts in a day. Hell, I could keep all six training and get my PLEX back in half a week! I'm just amazed (and thankful!!) that so many people spend money on PLEX only to sell them so cheaply. I'd never have believed there would be so many when there's so many players with soooooooo much ISK. I don't believe for a second that I'm unusually wealthy. I see some of the big transactions going on, and there's people with almost limitless ISK, and lots of them. There's lots of **** or extreme quantities that I could never afford. So how is it that people buying PLEX outnumber these ultra-rich so much, especially when selling a PLEX gets you so little??? If PLEX do go to a billion, I still think it's a pretty good deal. Yeah, it's gonna he hard to get it ratting, and the multi-box mining fleets will suffer (unless, for just that reason, mineral prices explode), but I never thought I'd be someone who would be able to PLEX at all. I figured that rare honor would be reserved only for the most hardcore players that did little else other than play EVE. Instead I find it to be not a big deal at all, even though I'm not one of the big shots. That was a huge shocker to discover that, "Wait a minute!... let me check the math again...I don't have to pay for this!!!" No my friend, PLEX are cheap, even now, and even at a billion. Not that I want them to go up, I don't at all, but I'm just continually amazed how cheap they are when you consider their cost/reward ratio for the people who buy them with money. |