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How did you make your first billion?
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Lfod Shi
Lfod's Ratting and Salvage
#41 - 2012-10-19 16:48:04 UTC
The lure of harvesting Alloyed Tritanium, Armor Plates, and Tripped Power Circuits. Lots and lots and lots of them.

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Aineko Macx
#42 - 2012-10-19 19:25:49 UTC
I made my first bil using regional buy orders on low volume, high margin items. That, and some mission running.

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Hrothgar Nilsson
#43 - 2012-10-19 19:41:01 UTC
Combination of selling loot from ninja salvaging/looting and station trading meta items.

I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe...

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion...
Denal Umbra
Coffee Hub
#44 - 2012-10-19 20:02:11 UTC
Made the first bil with hauling PI from deep low sec in a badger. Running gate camps in a t1 indy fully rigged and modded for cargo space was... quite fun!

Only lost one ship load of goods in all the time.
Moondancer Starweaver
Hi-Sec Huggers
#45 - 2012-10-19 21:15:47 UTC
A combination of Taking scammers convincer money and then not paying out for them, and Mission running level 3's
thekiller2002us
The J8sters
#46 - 2012-10-20 08:53:34 UTC
made my first 5 bil in a few ways:

Grinding incursions
Pirating (i kid you not, my first ransom i received was 750mil from an orca in lowsec- I still regret letting him go)
PI

I currently have almost nothing in liquid isk- but i have 8 bil in market orders- which is great for me because

-it keeps my pvp funded
-Orders require updating perhaps 1 or 2 times a day
- My current levels of isk works for me- which means I don't need to grind anymore for sec or isk.

I agree that the statement is true- that you need isk to make isk - i personally only ever bought 2 plex for isk ( which i know is kinda cheating) but if you know how to make that isk work for you then i say go ahead and get the headstart you need.

I'm with Brick on this one- make thouse carebearing b******s squeal..
Privateer NoBody
Doomheim
#47 - 2012-10-20 09:56:03 UTC
Missions, missions and more missions.

Then PLEX came around and made things easy for everyone.........

Indy alts help building, PI and research mean you earn without needing to be on so much
Papa Sotken
Nothing Comes To Mind
Snuffed Out
#48 - 2012-10-20 11:21:32 UTC
i orbitted fw beacons my first month of playing eve.

Came out with many billions.

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Thirtyplus
Goonswarm Federation
#49 - 2012-10-20 16:02:52 UTC
I made my first billions mining for my corp, while others with better skills gun-mined the drones for shiny alloys. Unfortunately, we were communist, so all proceeds went into the wallet. Lol It wasn't a big deal, because I was contributing enough to the pot that I never had requests for shiny things turned down.

After that gig I made more billions in the hisec mining gig. Boring, but at the time it worked.

After that I moved back to 0.0 and mined mercoxit mercilessly, making many more billions.

It was at that point that I was able to buy into some moon reaction chains, which made enough that I really didn't need to mine unless I was bored. Add into that planetary interaction, and making POS fuels on 0.0 planets, and I was doing well.

Now I'm back in hisec due to Real Life, and making occasional billions on hisec ores or ice if I need to AFK.
YuuKnow
The Scope
#50 - 2012-10-21 18:43:59 UTC
Before the NPC loot nerf I would buy Meta 0 Loot in off hub mission systems and reprocess it for profit. Generally got 20% ROI. Now that the NPCs no longer drop Meta O loot, its not a profitable and the ROI is way down :(

Now I'm into WHs.. :)
Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#51 - 2012-10-22 07:09:39 UTC
I made my first billion mining kernite back in late '06 /early '07 On the advice of a friend who convinced me hauling it to mission hubs would make a tidy profit.

This was back when hulks were 500mil so I mined it in an Armageddon full of cargo expander 2s and miner 2s.

Not an experience I wish to repeat.

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Vaerah Vahrokha
Vahrokh Consulting
#52 - 2012-10-22 07:47:44 UTC
May 2009, I found out fleet PvPing does not make rich. With all of 50M on my name, I slapped an alt in Amarr and flipped stupid stuff like laser crystals M, T2 100MN AB and similar. One month later I dinged my first billion!

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Parris Colidi
Imperial Navy Research
#53 - 2012-10-22 14:04:18 UTC
On my original toon ( Before dropping the game for a year or so), it was when WHS first came out along with the probe launchers and probes..

For the first few days after the expansion came out Probe launchers were being sold at up to 1million each dropping to around 250k after a few days, then down to normal prices... considering they only cost around 10k to make... it was evil.. :-)



Jackie Fisher
Syrkos Technologies
#54 - 2012-10-22 14:15:38 UTC
Oddly big losses are easier to remember than the big wins.

Missions + Covert Ops cloak arbitrage (pre invention days) for the initial ISK

After that S+I, patch speculation insurance fraud, contract trading were/are the big winners. Also an honourable mention for the day they removed shuttles as NPC items - not huge ISK amounts (although great ROI) but a manic and fun few hours.

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Demolishar
United Aggression
#55 - 2012-10-22 15:03:42 UTC
Ran missions I think.
Virppi Jouhinen
Xiphias Ltd.
#56 - 2012-10-23 13:49:37 UTC
First billion was running a courier service for low-volume-high-value goods for my corp, took a 10 to 15% cut of the Jita price for myself.

The first 5b came through station trading which I started because of the low scalability and somewhat high risk of the courier service.

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flakeys
Doomheim
#57 - 2012-10-23 14:18:41 UTC
YuuKnow wrote:
Before the NPC loot nerf I would buy Meta 0 Loot in off hub mission systems and reprocess it for profit. Generally got 20% ROI. Now that the NPCs no longer drop Meta O loot, its not a profitable and the ROI is way down :(

Now I'm into WHs.. :)



Same here but then regional so average profits where around 50 to 70 %.Expanded to 4 regions witha minimum of 300 orders each region , then i went slightly insane ....

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Rakshasa Taisab
Sane Industries Inc.
#58 - 2012-10-24 08:29:10 UTC
Back in 2007/8 hauling rat poo from buy orders in Syndicate, running the gates in a T1 hauler.

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Dave stark
#59 - 2012-10-24 08:31:11 UTC
mining.

you can stop laughing now.
Heimdallofasgard
Ministry of Furious Retribution
Insidious.
#60 - 2012-10-24 14:05:20 UTC
Station Trading and trading between trade hubs