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Resiin
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Posted - 2012.03.19 16:08:00 -
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Hi,
I've been subbed to EvE on and off for a month at a time for the past couple of years. I love this game, I just get bored because of how I currently make money. I station trade. While I think I make pretty good money from it (About 15% total return daily from 90% total investment) it's incredibly boring, and it just doesn't feel like I'm 'playing' the game due to it being pretty much an AFK profession. Despite my account being a couple of years old, I usually only play for a couple of weeks then come back several months later like I said, so I'm sitting on about 600m right now. I would much rather get into the inter-regional trading game, but I've tried it several times and I just haven't been able to make as much money as I could station trading, not to mention it being even more time consuming.
My end game goal is to be investment orientated, and still doing some Jita trading on the side in larger quantities on only a couple of items. (Right now I've spread my orders through various items to reduce my risk of loss, which is time consuming.)
I've also wanted to get into manufacturing, and have almost trained up all the relevant skills, but again taking the cost of T1 BPC's into account, the returns would still be pretty poor. I'm also not interested in combat as of now, but it will be something I will do once I have made enough money for me not to worry about being blown up in a fitted battleship.
I guess what I'm basically asking is am I a sucker out of luck right now? Have I entered a phase where you simply have to grind it out until you have enough capital to start doing the higher end things?
Apologies if this sounds incoherent, I'm not sure what I was going for here. I'm not asking for any insider secrets or anything, just a general idea of relevant trading activities that are out there I suppose, as station trading is killing my love for this game. |
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Posted - 2012.03.19 16:29:00 -
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Tekota wrote:>
If the cost of the BPOs is an issue then look around for other things, in terms of isk per slot per day you'll very often find that there's little correlation between the cost of a BPO and the profit it can deliver - ie. there are a *LOT* of people churning from billion isk battleship prints, but identical (and often much better) profit on 50m prints.
Thanks, this is good advice, sounds pretty similar to general trading. More expensive item/print != bigger margins. |
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Posted - 2012.03.19 17:21:00 -
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Maria Yumeno wrote:You say that trading is ruining the game for you, but that you don't want to try any sort of combat. Even PVE?
There are ways to trade and then spend the rest of the month doing something else, but you don't have the capital to get into any serious kind of industry and you say you don't want to try combat yet. I am at a loss as to what you actually want.
Trading isn't ruining the game for me, it's just station trading I have a problem with, but I lack the necessary funds to do inter-regional trading on a larger (and more worthwhile) scale. And yeah, like I noted I don't have enough capital to get into serious industry, so what I want is to be able to reach the stage where I do. Now, I could do this through station trading, sure, at the risk of me getting insanely bored with it and leaving again. So what I'm essentially asking is are there any other viable activities I could do to increase my capital at a faster rate than station trading? (15% daily) Or am I at a stage where you have to soldier on through it? |
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Posted - 2012.03.19 17:24:00 -
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I guess another solution is just to get some PLEX cards to get over this expansion stage. |
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Posted - 2012.03.19 18:29:00 -
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Ford Chicago wrote:Resiin wrote:[quote=Maria Yumeno] are there any other viable activities I could do to increase my capital at a faster rate than station trading? (15% daily) You claimed twice to be making 15% PER DAY. Why do you need to increase your capital rate? Based on your stated 600M wallet, you should have 2.4B in ten days and 40B in a month.
Because its insanely boring, and a cap will undoubtedly appear after a certain point, being able to get 15% per day from 40B seems way too overambitious (maybe I'm wrong). I suppose you do have a point though, I could just toughen it out for another 10 days, reach 2B or so and then continue on with something else. |
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Posted - 2012.03.19 18:29:00 -
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Adunh Slavy wrote:Resiin wrote:I guess another solution is just to get some PLEX cards to get over this expansion stage. I would suggest you do not do that if you want to keep the experince of making your way in Eve. Might as well turn on cheat mode.
Yeah, fair point. |
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