Six months to 100bil!!! Here I thought I was doing good at 15bil teach me master.

Step 1 - Get job that allows you to work from home (or lose current job and don't replace, either is good).

Step 2 - Get a solid grip on your relationship with your wife or girlfriend. Then, using that solid grip, grasp firmly by the scruff of the neck and eject relationship through window. Or I suppose you could get a girl who doesn't think that all computer games were hatched by Satan himself and exist only to vex her. Either way, you will now be ready to begin.

Step 3 - Spend a week analysing your options for making isk. Crunch numbers. Crunch more numbers. Work out production margins on everything you can. Explore eve central to find possible trade routes. Work your way through as many market items in Jita as you can noting which have good margins, good volumes or, preferably, both.

Step 4 - Select the best isk making options that will fit in the time available in your new work- and love-free life, slotting them into your schedule from the most profitable on down.

Step 5 - Have a shower. It's been a week for gods sake!

Step 6 - Take the most profitable option available to you and work it relentlessly, no matter how tedious it is. See how much time it takes up before returns diminish below the level of the next best thing.

Step 7 - Add in the next best thing and so on and so forth.

Step 8 - As your isk starts rolling in learn to love it. Count your NAV, stroke it, tickle it under the chin. It won't love you back but, then, nor will anyone else at this point and a one-way relationship is better than nothing.

Step 9 - Borrow money to accelerate your growth.

Step 10 - As the seasons turn the leaves outside from one stage to the next, look up from time to time to reflect on the futility of your keyboard bound existence. But by no means give up. That's just your socialisation speaking. That's just what other 'people' would say with their 'reasons' and 'choices' and their fancy 'communities'. You have no choice. You are strong, strong enough to endure the cold hard loneliness of eve, where the community is so sharp you could easily slit your wrists on it.

Step 11 - As your NAV turns over the 100bil mark, congratulate yourself! For you have achieved ... something?

I don't think getting rich bores anyone. I think it's running out of new challenges and experiences that does that. This is more likely to happen to you if you have a narrow play style.

Bravo.

I have to agree with all the above.

On a more personal note, once I achieved becoming "rich" I now no longer play EVE and just log in to change skills every so often. Once you learn the secrets to becoming a "billionaire" the drive to continue playing the game seems to decline. Sure you can always make more ISK, blow up more ships, lose more ships, buy the most expansive BPOs, ect... but the fun is gone.

OH NOES!!! I just lost a deadspace fitted alliance tournament ship that cost 30+ billion ISK. Well I can just make that back in a couple of weeks and act like nothing happened.

I have a feeling my views are shared with many others due to the large number of people that I never see online anymore even when I do manage to log onto EVE. The chat channels that used to have 40+ people now rarely have 10 people in them. Old friends I've worked with for the few years I've been in EVE have long since unsubbed and moved on. Even though EVE is "just a game", I still miss all the friends I have made along the way and I know that I will probably never see most of them again .

I have to agree with all the above.

On a more personal note, once I achieved becoming "rich" I now no longer play EVE and just log in to change skills every so often. Once you learn the secrets to becoming a "billionaire" the drive to continue playing the game seems to decline. Sure you can always make more ISK, blow up more ships, lose more ships, buy the most expansive BPOs, ect... but the fun is gone.

I decided to take up trading and manufacturing with a loan on certain items that had a great profit margin and I could sell over 500 a day. So I fired up my 9 slots and blasted out a crap ton of this item (each netting 40%+ profit). For 3 weeks now I watched my initial loan of 100m grow to over 15 billion as I trade, manufacture and do some PI stuff and now.....the game isn't fun. I currently have 9billion in materials pumping out things that will gain me constant returns. I've learned how to make unlimited isk and the urge to get into the game and do something has declined quite significantly Sure I don't have the 100billion but so what, I personally feel the challenge is gone and there isn't much to do but blow it .

Of course one highlight of this isk is being able to completely crash 4 markets in Jita and Amarr while scoring some nice profit off da bots who stupidly followed my moves.

Yes I'm sure you magically found a high demand item with 40% manufacturing profit margin that almost no one knows about. Seems about as likely as needing a 100m loan while having a character with good trading, manufacturing and PI skills.

It turned me into a ****

How about Philanthropy? There are so many new players all the time, and just a few million here and there would go so far to help them out.

That makes the game less interesting for new players. Half the fun is trying to get ahead. Look at the title of this thread.

There was a sale on plex yesterday, $5 off 2, sold for 455 mil each. And this morning R&D agents will now talk to me, so I can start to do things that will earn me ISK. Does rich count if you use RL cash to buy ISK?