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Reeva Annages
EVE University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2014.08.06 09:39:00 -
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Hi there,
Does anybody know why players sell their character for ISK, when they are leaving the game?
My presumption is so that they can give the ISK away to their corp/friends as a goodbye present. Is this correct, or am I missing something?
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J'Poll
CDG Playgrounds
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Posted - 2014.08.06 09:40:00 -
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Who says they are leaving the game.
Most characters sold are not the main character of people, they are alts trained specifically for the task of being sold as a character.
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ISD Rontea
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
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Posted - 2014.08.06 09:47:00 -
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Some players training special characters only for official sale (titan, carrier, tech3, leadership, covert cyno and other toons).
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Reeva Annages
EVE University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2014.08.06 15:21:00 -
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Makes sense, thank you for the replies. o7 |
Sabriz Adoudel
Mission BLITZ
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Posted - 2014.08.06 23:44:00 -
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There is a person I know of that is currently training 250 capital ship pilots for sale as a for-profit endeavour.
They anticipate investing two trillion ISK or so and hope to sell them for 2.5-2.7 total.
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Daniel Plain
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
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Posted - 2014.08.07 12:56:00 -
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Sabriz Adoudel wrote:There is a person I know of that is currently training 250 capital ship pilots for sale as a for-profit endeavour.
They anticipate investing two trillion ISK or so and hope to sell them for 2.5-2.7 total.
and this, friends, is what we call excessive.
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RomeStar
Brave Newbies Inc.
Brave Collective
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Posted - 2014.08.07 15:13:00 -
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Daniel Plain wrote:Sabriz Adoudel wrote:There is a person I know of that is currently training 250 capital ship pilots for sale as a for-profit endeavour.
They anticipate investing two trillion ISK or so and hope to sell them for 2.5-2.7 total. and this, friends, is what we call excessive.
Actually another word for it is RMT
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Daniel Plain
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
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Posted - 2014.08.07 15:33:00 -
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RomeStar wrote:Daniel Plain wrote:Sabriz Adoudel wrote:There is a person I know of that is currently training 250 capital ship pilots for sale as a for-profit endeavour.
They anticipate investing two trillion ISK or so and hope to sell them for 2.5-2.7 total. and this, friends, is what we call excessive. Actually another word for it is RMT
actually, it isn't, unless real money is involved.
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J'Poll
CDG Playgrounds
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Posted - 2014.08.07 15:50:00 -
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RomeStar wrote:Daniel Plain wrote:Sabriz Adoudel wrote:There is a person I know of that is currently training 250 capital ship pilots for sale as a for-profit endeavour.
They anticipate investing two trillion ISK or so and hope to sell them for 2.5-2.7 total. and this, friends, is what we call excessive. Actually another word for it is RMT
And you clearly dont have the slightest idea what RMT is.
As long as he sells the characters for ISK it is not RMT and perfectly legal.
But heh, keep believing the wrong information you try to spread. Maybe you find another clueless person who also believes you.
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Xuixien
The Dark Space Initiative
Scary Wormhole People
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Posted - 2014.08.07 17:18:00 -
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Sometimes your alt outlives its usefulness or you just don't use it anymore and want some bank.
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Ethikos
SniggWaffe
WAFFLES.
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Posted - 2014.08.07 21:01:00 -
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The other option I have seen is someone who is retiring from the game. A lot of EvE players have multiple accounts. If you decide to retire, you sell all the accounts but your main. Take the ISK and put it into something you think will hold value / rise in value over the long term (i.e. PLEX etc). That way if you decide to come back, you have something to build off of. Personally I would just keep the accounts you would want if you were still playing, but some people go the other route.
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Chainsaw Plankton
IDLE GUNS
IDLE EMPIRE
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Posted - 2014.08.08 08:20:00 -
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some people get sick of having too many skill points. a 100mil sp character doesn't fly an interdictor better than a focused 20mil sp pilot, but for the price of a clone you could pretty much buy another interdictor. My numbers may not be exact, but the point remains the same.
that said I love my main and have no plans to ever sell him, just might consider it if someone offered me a few trillion isk or something. But I just might consider selling one of my alts, but he keeps making himself useful. I could probably sell him and buy 2-3 other characters that do what he does, but I kinda like him.
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Maeltstome
Twisted Insanity.
The Kadeshi
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Posted - 2014.08.08 15:20:00 -
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J'Poll wrote:Who says they are leaving the game.
Most characters sold are not the main character of people, they are alts trained specifically for the task of being sold as a character.
Every character sold on the Bazaar makes a loss in the cost spent in training it.
In-Fact you end up with more skill points if you don't play eve for 1 year, save up the subscription cash instead, change it to plex, sell the plex, then buy a character on the Bazaar. |
Silver Dagger Kondur
Element Underground
Lawful Rebellion
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Posted - 2014.08.08 16:37:00 -
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Maeltstome wrote:J'Poll wrote:Who says they are leaving the game.
Most characters sold are not the main character of people, they are alts trained specifically for the task of being sold as a character. Every character sold on the Bazaar makes a loss in the cost spent in training it. In-Fact you end up with more skill points if you don't play eve for 1 year, save up the subscription cash instead, change it to plex, sell the plex, then buy a character on the Bazaar.
 Yeah, but then ya don't play Eve for a year! and who wants that? |
J'Poll
CDG Playgrounds
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Posted - 2014.08.08 18:44:00 -
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Maeltstome wrote:J'Poll wrote:Who says they are leaving the game.
Most characters sold are not the main character of people, they are alts trained specifically for the task of being sold as a character. Every character sold on the Bazaar makes a loss in the cost spent in training it. In-Fact you end up with more skill points if you don't play eve for 1 year, save up the subscription cash instead, change it to plex, sell the plex, then buy a character on the Bazaar.
The only difference.
The other person has 1 year more experience in EVE...
And we all know that experience >>> SP amount.
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Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
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Posted - 2014.08.08 20:17:00 -
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Maeltstome wrote:
Every character sold on the Bazaar makes a loss in the cost spent in training it.
You couldn't be more wrong.
People dumping alts generally take a loss because they need to sell before they have to PLEX again. Admittedly there are a lot of those right now.
Then again if you are basing ISK/SP on the current price of PLEX then you are seriously confused. High SP characters spent 350M per PLEX for the first year or two of training.
Lastly I see sellers in CB buying 30 or 40 PO2 accts. The last time I was doing that, you'd spend five PLEX and sell it for 7-10 PLEX. So 30 accts x 4 PLEX = 120 PLEX profit for six months of logging in long enough to switch skills once in a while. I don't think you could find anything else that makes more ISK for the amount of time logged in.
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Samantha Floyd
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2014.08.08 20:38:00 -
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Maeltstome wrote:J'Poll wrote:Who says they are leaving the game.
Most characters sold are not the main character of people, they are alts trained specifically for the task of being sold as a character. Every character sold on the Bazaar makes a loss in the cost spent in training it. In-Fact you end up with more skill points if you don't play eve for 1 year, save up the subscription cash instead, change it to plex, sell the plex, then buy a character on the Bazaar.
Mostly true, but not always. Players tend to sell their characters for under value, where as the sellers tend to sell them for over value. So it comes down to availability. Saturated character types will almost always sell for less value. Opposite for the rarer character types typically trained by actual sellers. |
Brink Albosa
Screaming Hayabusa
Neo-Bushido Movement
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Posted - 2014.08.08 23:09:00 -
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Lots of people start a cloaky eyes/links toon and eventually he gets burnt (been involved on too many km's with the main) so they sell.
Maybe they are null botters so another hulk will increase their isk an hour.
Maybe you wish you skilled into xxxx instead of xxxx
I dunno all the reasons I can come up with off the top of my head. Stuff I have observed. |
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