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Rath Kelbore
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#41 - 2012-06-19 20:34:40 UTC
Mara Tessidar wrote:
There was nothing sexual involved. Ugh. Perverts.


Sounds made up.

I plan on living forever.......so far, so good.
Bloodpetal
Tir Capital Management Group
#42 - 2012-06-19 20:39:44 UTC
400m in one month = 13m isk a day, perfecty plausible for a hard working noobie.

Where I am.
IGNATIUS HOOD
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#43 - 2012-06-19 20:48:20 UTC
terzho wrote:
Chribba wrote:
CCP Guard wrote:
Welcome! Sounds like you're off to a pretty strong start. I was playing a lot longer than you before I ever saw 400 million.

My 4 weeks in - saved enough to buy a Vexor... new players have it way too easy nowdays Lol

Wouldn't trade it for anything though.

/c


To be fair though, another very nice player gave me 50 mil when he saw I was having trouble getting started.



Rule #234 always pay it forward. I usually spot new dooders enough for +3 plants.

@OP - great to see that you've been seduced by the ***** mistress that is EVE. Welcome to the Support Group!

@Mara - You should feel terrible. The buddy who got me into this game was like, 'Dood, this is EVE, but don't play it. I'm serious.' I didn't listen and now look at me.
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."   --H.L. Mencken
IGNATIUS HOOD
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#44 - 2012-06-19 20:49:39 UTC
Morganta wrote:
Ana Vyr wrote:
Welcome to the community! Take the forums with a grain of salt, as they are typically over the top.


no, Spiderman turn off the dark is over the top
eveo forums are more like underneath the septic tank

anyhow, sounds like you are doing eve right, good show


Your smile pretties the joint up though. 
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."   --H.L. Mencken
Annie Anomie
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#45 - 2012-06-19 23:29:40 UTC
BuckStrider wrote:
Let me finsh your EVE experience for you OP.....

You'll go to a 0.0 corp....You'll rat your little heart out until (A) Some cloaky guy parks in your ratting system and you all dock up or (B) You'll get bored to tears ratting your little heart out.....OFC you can do exploration for plexes and sites, but they'll most likely be found and farmed out by the time you go looking for them.

Oh wait, you went out there for the epic space battles! The battles where hundreds of players slug it out for control of a vital solar system!

It does not exist in EVE under it's current mechanics...It's blobbed or be blobbed and 9 times out of 10 these days the defenders would rather pack up and leave if the know that the aggressor is even slightly stronger than them.

Sure, you can go out on a roam with your corp/alliance...20,30 or 40 guys! Personally, I'd go to church first (or whatever religious domination you are,if you are) and pray that you might actually get someone or don't get hotdropped within 40 jumps of your starting point....Oh and take your time at church, it will most likely take at least and hour for a gang to form.


If this is your EVE experience you are doing it wrong.
Creat Posudol
German Oldies
#46 - 2012-06-20 07:07:00 UTC
CCP Guard wrote:
Sivir Iska wrote:
Wow, 400 mil in a month, grats. I wonder why people cry about Lvl4s after seeing that. Shocked


As a fan of the market trading profession, I'd be curious to know what the OP was buying and selling to make his first 400 million.


Telling this to everybody in a public thread (with dev badges, no less) doesn't seem like a great idea to me - unless it was generic trading. Finding specific items that can be bought & sold for a good profit are better kept private ;)
Good times - I remember making my first serious amount of money (back when 100 mil was still a huge amount of ISK) flying my trusty Iteron IV for dozens of jumps, trading mostly NPC trade goods.
Shepard Wong Ogeko
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#47 - 2012-06-20 07:50:53 UTC
If you do the math, he could have taken 50mil, and rolled it up to 400mil just by flipping items for 10% in under a month. And it could be done during breaks while doing mining/mission/etc. Going from 50mil to 400mil sounds like a big jump, but it can be done fairly easily in lots of smaller but growing leaps.

People think the big secret is what item and where, but really the big secret is understanding compounding numbers, and things that can be flipped for small amounts lots of times can be just as good as trying to do few massively profitable flips.
terzho
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#48 - 2012-06-20 09:03:16 UTC
Shepard Wong Ogeko wrote:
If you do the math, he could have taken 50mil, and rolled it up to 400mil just by flipping items for 10% in under a month. And it could be done during breaks while doing mining/mission/etc. Going from 50mil to 400mil sounds like a big jump, but it can be done fairly easily in lots of smaller but growing leaps.

People think the big secret is what item and where, but really the big secret is understanding compounding numbers, and things that can be flipped for small amounts lots of times can be just as good as trying to do few massively profitable flips.


Yeah pretty much what he said, I just sold anything that had a decent margin and every week my isk doubled and as soon as I made any money I would put up more buy orders, so I've only been able to see all my money together on rare occasions.
Vaerah Vahrokha
Vahrokh Consulting
#49 - 2012-06-20 10:08:10 UTC
Chribba wrote:
CCP Guard wrote:
Welcome! Sounds like you're off to a pretty strong start. I was playing a lot longer than you before I ever saw 400 million.

My 4 weeks in - saved enough to buy a Vexor... new players have it way too easy nowdays Lol

Wouldn't trade it for anything though.

/c


I joined the game and immediately started doing what the ISD suggested: read Halada's glorious mining guide, buy a Bantam and hauler.

After some guy can flipped me and killed my Bantam I went to take revenge on my powerful first Rifter (had to use MAPC because I could not even fit T1 modules on it Lol).

The can flipper quickly warped in vagabond + 2 RR ships Shocked and killed my rifter (you know, he feared my Rifter).

I started to... let's say it mildly... "speak" in local chat about that guy till a Man, a soon to be Friend called Roful Koptur convoed me and invited me in his corp.

5 mins later I was out with a new bantam and let the flipper do it again.
This time when he arrived with his stuff, he found multiple battleships, tacklers and whatever and he lost ALL his ships.

About 2 weeks later I was in 0.0 with them and loved every instant with them till Roful had RL problems with work and had to quit EvE Sad


I then joined Dark Rising (still with T1 fit Rifter!), where more epic moments were to be had, from FW to low to null sec, till my job commitment made impossible for me to stay online and I had to leave them.

If I had not joined those 2 corps, I bet my idea of EvE would have been much different, and certainly worse.

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Signal11th
#50 - 2012-06-20 10:42:26 UTC
EVE is all about Corps, join a good corp you'll love EVE and stay join a bad corp/alliance and you'll leave quickly. Nice to hear your enjoying yourself OP , well done you have basically done in one month that some of the others never figure out.


There are expections to the rule though as the Goons and FA seem to continually get and keep new players. (sorry chaps couldn't resist Blink )

God Said "Come Forth and receive eternal life!" I came fifth and won a toaster!
Taranius De Consolville
Doomheim
#51 - 2012-06-20 10:45:38 UTC
terzho wrote:
So my first month of eve is over (still have 3 weeks because of 21 day trial) and I must say I'm addicted to this game. I have not experienced the road bumps that is basically the advertising for this game and I guess I can count myself lucky. The learning curve has not been that steep for me as I have my corpmates to thank for answering all my noobish questions. In my first month I have
-joined a corp
-made 400mil station trading
-gone into a c2 wormhole with a corp before subsequently being tossed back out.

.........yeah that's about it. Will be moving to nullsec soon where the real fun is so definitely will be resubscribing. Congratulations CCP, eve online playerbase +1.



gief it time mate, ull quit, everyone does :0
terzho
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#52 - 2012-06-20 10:47:39 UTC
well yeah.....it is a game so obviously people won't be playing it for their entire lives.
Signal11th
#53 - 2012-06-20 10:48:51 UTC
terzho wrote:
well yeah.....it is a game so obviously people won't be playing it for their entire lives.



Ahhh, how little you know....you can try to leave but like the Godfather "They just keep dragging me back"

God Said "Come Forth and receive eternal life!" I came fifth and won a toaster!
Yolanta Geezenstack
GWA Corp
#54 - 2012-06-20 12:06:08 UTC
Vaerah Vahrokha wrote:
I joined the game and immediately started doing what the ISD suggested: read Halada's glorious mining guide, buy a Bantam and hauler.

After some guy can flipped me and killed my Bantam I went to take revenge on my powerful first Rifter (had to use MAPC because I could not even fit T1 modules on it Lol).

The can flipper quickly warped in vagabond + 2 RR ships Shocked and killed my rifter (you know, he feared my Rifter).

I started to... let's say it mildly... "speak" in local chat about that guy till a Man, a soon to be Friend called Roful Koptur convoed me and invited me in his corp.

5 mins later I was out with a new bantam and let the flipper do it again.
This time when he arrived with his stuff, he found multiple battleships, tacklers and whatever and he lost ALL his ships.

About 2 weeks later I was in 0.0 with them and loved every instant with them till Roful had RL problems with work and had to quit EvE Sad


I then joined Dark Rising (still with T1 fit Rifter!), where more epic moments were to be had, from FW to low to null sec, till my job commitment made impossible for me to stay online and I had to leave them.

If I had not joined those 2 corps, I bet my idea of EvE would have been much different, and certainly worse.


Try that again today - somehow I think you might get a different experience, because a) either nobody will care that your ship got destroyed and just tell you "HTFU" or b) you will get an invite from a corp named "Hard Rock Mining" which promise to revenge you only to discover that next time to undock you get killed by members from this corporation... Roll

/grats on the OP for a very well-done start!
BuckStrider
Nano-Tech Experiments
#55 - 2012-06-20 12:20:50 UTC
Annie Anomie wrote:

If this is your EVE experience you are doing it wrong.


I'm not doing it wrong, Annie.

I've just done it all.

Mine smart. Mine safe. Purchase your mining permit today...... www.minerbumping.com
CCP Guard
C C P
C C P Alliance
#56 - 2012-06-20 12:41:58 UTC
Creat Posudol wrote:
CCP Guard wrote:
Sivir Iska wrote:
Wow, 400 mil in a month, grats. I wonder why people cry about Lvl4s after seeing that. Shocked


As a fan of the market trading profession, I'd be curious to know what the OP was buying and selling to make his first 400 million.


Telling this to everybody in a public thread (with dev badges, no less) doesn't seem like a great idea to me - unless it was generic trading. Finding specific items that can be bought & sold for a good profit are better kept private ;)
Good times - I remember making my first serious amount of money (back when 100 mil was still a huge amount of ISK) flying my trusty Iteron IV for dozens of jumps, trading mostly NPC trade goods.


Yeah, it may be best not to go into too many specifics if you've still got a good thing going Blink.

Personally I made a bit of money back in the day by trading in named launchers, named ballistic controls, named turrets and similar stuff. The margin on that stuff was decent back then but as more people figured it out, the margin became too thin for my tastes. Bought the stuff all over the place and collected it once a week or so and put it up for sale in a trade hub. Had lot of fun doing it for the same reasons I like fishing probably...putting out the bait and waiting for someone to bite has it's charm Smile

Margin trading is rightfully known as a good way to make money these days, but maybe somewhat underrated as a fun way to make money.

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Reaver Glitterstim
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#57 - 2012-06-20 15:52:52 UTC
terzho wrote:
So my first month of eve is over...
-made 400mil station trading

Any business tips for the rest of us?

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Sil le
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#58 - 2012-06-20 16:03:12 UTC
terzho wrote:

-joined a corp
-made 400mil station trading
-gone into a c2 wormhole with a corp before subsequently being tossed back out.

.........yeah that's about it. Will be moving to nullsec soon where the real fun is so definitely will be resubscribing. Congratulations CCP, eve online playerbase +1.


Nice post terzho. +1 The forum needs more people posting like this!

You will love nullsec.
CCP Punkturis
C C P
C C P Alliance
#59 - 2012-06-20 16:07:44 UTC
when I first started playing EVE I was running a mission and the agent said "bring your friends" and I realized I didn't have any friends in EVE. it was the saddest day of my life!

so terzho you're doing it right and other newbies should follow your example Smile

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Tony Two Bullet
Monocle Madness
#60 - 2012-06-20 16:11:10 UTC

I think it's awesome that he had such a great start.

I remember way back when there used to be an article done by an EVE player on his attempts on making a Billion ISK on the market purely from trading within the first few weeks of gameplay with purely starting money.

Anyone remember what happened/who wrote that? Would be a good dig up for this thread.


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