Comrade Commizzar
Eve Revolutionary Army
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Posted - 2011.12.02 17:39:00 -
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Oh come on Comrades! Does nobody have the heart to tell him the truth? If they won't, I will Comrade Chili.
You see most of the real wealth in Eve is only accessible in zero and most of that is accessible only by large alliances through highly coordinated methods of gathering. (This means you must have a lot of sheepishly loyal corpies to watch your back while you do this.) Once you understand this, the obvious answer is to join a good corporation/alliance in zero in order to "get in line" for the goods. This, unfortunately, is where the game breaks down in your ability to collect. You see no matter what they promise you, ninety percent of the promises are just BS (not "battleship" by the way) which they shovel out as regular propaganda to get you to join up and spend your game time and effort doing what they want you to.
What they want are "serfs". Low paid peasants to populate their RMT Plantations in Zero to defend their moon-mining and other isk making operations, while you as the serf are expected to be enthusiastically overjoyed that they will replace your ship, if lost, in return for your servitude (read slavery). If you ever got a look at the real accounting books for how much isk was generated by these "farms" and where and to whom it went, you would never set foot in zero to serve them. Nevermind the lies you will be told about "open" accounting reports (ala the Goons). These are all lies and they are skilled at burying the details under multiple shell Corporations and through transaction chains that not even CCP (who runs the game) came fathom. The amount of RMT metagaming that goes on in Eve is proof of this.
On the other hand, if you have no self respect and are willing slave material, then go too zero, sign up as cannon fodder and be happy with your free ship.
If you have any self respect, you should be asking the locals about Worm Holes. At least there you can make an isk without sucking Coka-Cola. (Of course it will take you quite a few months to skill up for this and it still takes a few close buddies to pull off and your buddies and you will know the size of the pie you are splitting) |