EVE Search - investment plan 500m 2.5% a week

Originally by: Kazuo Ishiguro
At the moment, a relatively small number of people here seem to hold a near-monopoly in this valuable commodity, and I don't think that this is necessarily a healthy situation.

That is a very very misguided way of perceiving the current state of affairs. Trustworthy people did not go on a campaign to make everyone else untrustworthy. We simply (yes we - me included) exercised the restraint that demonstrates our own trustworthiness.

Is this a healthy situation? No.
Would I change it if I could? Yes.

Alas, I have not the power to make people decent just by willpower alone. So I do take some offense at your way of stating the current situation. It is not so much I need credit for being one of the very few... it is that people need to realize that there is a far greater sense of accomplishment and fulfillment from being trustworthy than there is in walking off with someone else's belongings.

Some call it role play, some call it just a game. To me, if you can do it at any time regardless of venue... you are still slime. In game or out of game.

Originally by: Kazuo Ishiguro
if Kyrias is willing to provide his limited API key to me, so that I can link him to his main; this costs him nothing but at least means that he's putting a meaningful reputation on the line if everything goes pear-shaped.

Kyrias chooses to be a "maverick" investment. That is a perfectly acceptable choice. One does not need to follow common convention in the practice of one's online profession or hobby. He is obviously intelligent, as is shown by the content of his posts, however what is most telling, of maturity level, is his ire of his lack of success. Further proof of his immaturity is the need to externalize the cause of that failure. (i.e. blaming some sort of "clique"-ish nature of the MD forums)

A maverick investment vehicle requires a person to have something unique. Very well known person, very high security, total transparency, etc., etc.. None of these things are present here with Kyrias or his investment vehicle(s). Thus it is, when objectively viewed, no big surprise that he can't get 2 isk from the community to buy the hole of a donut.

Kyrias: Simply put. The only way you are going to get any success is if some one with spare cash tosses it at you. Your investment vehicle is just one notch above cyber panhandling and only just barely. The amount you ask for is minuscule compared many of the failed ipo's or ipo scam's but ... for a newb player with a disposable alt or two.... 500M a pop every month or so is still a 90 day gtc for free.

And, sadly, that is where you rate.