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Posted - 2015.04.18 14:38:49 -
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Amarrchecko wrote:I'm not too up on the changes that have taken place in Eve over the last 3+ years. Pretty frequently I see mention, usually on the forums but sometimes ingame, of players who make boatloads of isk doing different activities. People who say they make hundreds of millions of isk per hour with 1-3 accounts running escalations or station trading or in some manufacturing or PI niche, or in a few other activities.
How much truth is there to these claims? What percentage of Eve players really make that much isk that quickly?
Personally I run 5 accounts in small mining ops that I am the only real player involved in, and I generally enjoy doing so because it lets me play when I want to for how long I want to with the amount of effort that I feel like putting into the game during that time. While actively mining, my handful of characters (who have like 4-5 months of skill training each) can make perhaps 60 million isk per hour in high sec, but I'm not "actively mining" all the time since there's some logistics to do and I spend some of my play time working on other things ingame that don't make me much (or any) isk.
Despite generally enjoying what I do, it bums me out a little when I think that what I'm working towards, amassing wealth, is being done so much better by others. Please spare me the "well play smarter then" comments though, because I know that if I have the will, there are ways to do "better" for myself. I'm just curious how many people really are out there generating that kind of wealth compared to how many people are just running level 4s solo or mining somewhere or another with a single account or dabbling in station trading or roaming around lowsec trying to ransom random people, and more likely making just a bit more isk than they need to get by rather than stockpiling isk and other assets.
You are doing fine, for what you do. Most of the people who say and do make 'boatloads of ISK' are very selective about what they tell you. That they have been playing for a decade and did what you do now for years to build a base ISK amount that they compound, or they dropped $2000 on Plex to get it, or they abused an exploit that has since been removed, or pick the scenario but they all did their time in the grind prison of EVE Online.
The only other advice I can offer you is to make use of your passive assets too. You have 5 accounts, that's 15 characters. If you get 5 mains to PI 4, 10 alts to PI 3 that's 75 planets. Tier One PI in High Sec from 75 planets is A LOT of PI. Set your extractions to a week. Don't get caught up in the process of PI Online. It will still work out to a billion a month with minimal effort. You can add that to your total earning. You will also find there are predictable patterns in many markets. They are patterns over as much as a year though but they are there. If you are playing, doing your thing and content, look for them, find them and make use of them. Never more than you can afford and never in rare things.
Also understand that this is EVE and someone will always be in line to **** in your cornflakes and make you feel inadequate. Ignore it as best you can. |