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Tiirae
The New Era
HUZZAH FEDERATION
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Posted - 2009.01.05 18:35:00 -
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What a bunch of ****s. The guy said the average salary in his country in 120 euros. not that *his* average income is 120 euros. about 90% of your comments are totally invalid if you actually bother to grasp this simple fact.
"You'll spend more if you don't play" - no he won't. The local costs of living are geared to low income. Eve is 12% of his monthly income which for me would mean paying $800 a month to play.
"You're ******ed to spend that much of your income on a game" - He's not. He plays with GTCs. If he couldn't pay with ISK then he can't play.
"Get a job" - He's got a fuggin job already.
The problem, Mr Two, is that most people do not pay to play with ISK, they pay with real $. So then they only need to farm or trade or build enough to pay for their ships. Some months that might be zero. So no, there isn't too much farming needed to play eve. It just so happens that Eve is the only game that lets you pay with ISK so some people end up farming a lot to play.
Now, this scheme was intended so that people with no money and lots of time could trade some of their time with people with the opposite problem: lots of money but no time. This works pretty well, but you live in a little corner where the equation is fubar'd because of the low value of your local currency.
So you haven't got lots of time to spend farming, but you haven't got enough RL money either. It's a catch-22.
There's really not a lot that CCP can do to help you out. I can see your options as:
- Stop playing Eve. Face the fact that due to your geographical location, you just can't play the game without lots of farming. If you don't want to do that, then too bad.
- Play eve a lot more. It seems to me that you could turn you problem into a solution: Play eve as a fulltime job and sell the isk you farm to one of the big isk-selling outfits. Obviously illegal but if there are people in China supporting a family doing this then it sounds like you could probably support yourself.
- Play smarter. I make several billion a month manufacturing and trading. I spend about 2 hours a day doing this. If I only wanted to make enough money to buy GTC I could probably spend 2 hours a week on trading. A lot of people try trading/manufacturing and give up. Don't be like that; persevere and eventually it will pay you back 10x.
- Play for a living: Join a proper Merc corp so you get paid to PvP. Take up pirating as a proper profession. You can make enough to buy GTC just by shooting people.
That's about all I can think of for now. Hope you figure something out, but basically because of your location you are stuck with a much harsher deal than most of us. That's life.
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Tiirae
The New Era
HUZZAH FEDERATION
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Posted - 2009.01.05 18:40:00 -
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 Originally by: Concorduck
1) GTC Sellers are still there, the reason the price skyrocketed is the RL Money cost of a 60D GTC. RMT don't mind at prices, so they just put WTB GTC on the forum and someone will eventually give 'em.
2) Your average salary is extremely low.
3) Stop playing then.
4) YOu'll spend over 90% of your playtime in WOW Farming, no matter how much a GTC costs there.
5) your name should be agriculture two.
there, i proved you wrong.
The only thing proved by that is that you can't read. Come back when you've left elementary school.
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Tiirae
The New Era
HUZZAH FEDERATION
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Posted - 2009.01.06 04:16:00 -
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Originally by: Sedious Bloke
I'm under a week old and have been working on nothing but learning skills the entire time and i can still bring in 10mill in a few hours 
Eve is harsher than wow in every way, if you miss wow so much mebe you should go back and hug a gnome or two?
to sum it up
lrn2play or give me your stuff?
Shut up. At a week old you shouldn't even be allowed to post. You can't have experienced even 1% of what this game has to offer. And here you are telling someone who's been playing for years to 'lrn2play' ?
Get out.
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Tiirae
The New Era
HUZZAH FEDERATION
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Posted - 2009.01.06 04:24:00 -
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Originally by: Vaal Erit
Originally by: agroculture two
ok English is not my first language and i have difficulties to explain... i compared that i need to spend 65% of my playtime in EVE in farming and only 20% in WOW (to play for GTC and PVP)
i love that "eve is harsher in every way",but i hate that i must spend 65%of my time in eve farming... its crapy boring.
WE GET IT.
If you can't afford it then don't play. If you don't have the time then don't play. I don't feel that you need to farm much, I pvp all the time in fully rigged and T2 fit hacs/recons/BS/capital ships.
You choose to pay via GTC. You choose to grind to get that money. You don't have the time, so stop playing and stop the whining ffs. We aren't going to RUIN the game by having missions give out 10 times more isk or set a max price on GTC so people go back to using illegal methods just so you can pay to play EVE better. Stop being so selfish, gd.
Stop being so selfish? The guy lives in a 3rd world country and has to live for a month on what most people here earn in a day. You're calling him selfish? What an ass you are. Having lived and worked in some 3rd world countries myself, I can promise you that the idea of 'selfishness' doesn't even exist. Nor laziness. In order to be selfish you must first have something to be selfish with. Can you even comprehend what life is like for this guy?
I wish some of the people in this thread could swap places with agro culture for a few months. Then we'd hear some real whining. The arrogance and childishness on display here is breathtaking.
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Tiirae
The New Era
HUZZAH FEDERATION
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Posted - 2009.01.06 05:59:00 -
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Originally by: Yalezorn
If you can't afford $15 a month, I suggest you stop wasting 3 hours a day on video games and do something with your life.
/facepalm
I have to laugh. You can't beat forums. You're lucky if people read half the OP, let alone the 4 pages of discussion following it. Even if I explain it all too this guy as well, another idiot will come along, read 2 lines and then post something similar, and similarly worthless.
/emote waves white flag
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