EVE General Discussion

I'd like to give you my honest opinion of people who can't think for themselves and come running to the forum for a hand to hold, but It's not worth the forum ban I'd get if I did.

Mr Epeen

Hire around 50 ~100 player and try to make a fireworks with the festival launcher , making the time and syncro and try to make a show.

Let's see... I'd probably have 2 accounts or so running, so I could train two characters on divergent routes. Also alt or two trained on those accounts for various purposes as needed. Anyway, I would do very different things in different areas in time there could be some crosstraining and use as needed, but the principle here is that I'd be able to do all the things I want to do as fast as I can in as wide area (both in space and specialization) as possible.

OK! I have yet to get paid so here's my best attempt at insight and amusement.

The first and most important part of enjoying EVE is being surrounded in like-minded players. Failing that, surrounding yourself in sycophants will do. The latter is much easier to accomplish.

Take your alt, or some character you buy, and collude with your friends. Get a rookie corp going. You'll need to focus on things the newbs can do so pick something ridiculously simple and stick with it. That will be your corp's thing.

The next step is to find a highsec island somewhere far, far away from a trade hub; preferably one that requires quite a few jumps to access. Take your newbs out there and establish a base of operations. Inform the newbs that they should let you know what mods they need and you will bring them in to sell at a "discount," to members. Secondly, inform them that they must work hard to keep the local economy stocked with the goods they need.

At first they'll probably balk a bit. This is where your friends out of corp, or mercs, come in handy. Arrange for any of the dissident newbs taking a trip to a real hub to have an accident. Be sure that anyone who mentions the words "mwd," and "cloak," in the same sentence be immediately demonized. Have your friends, or mercs, camp the rookies into the island for a while. You won't need the blockade to last forever, just long enough to make them fearful of going anywhere to resupply.

Repeat this process as needed and trim the skeptics as you go. Eventually you'll have a lovingly sycophantic cult of personality surrounding you. Black frog will allow you to buy what you need to keep the newbs pacified and have it delivered for a nominal fee. You'll mark the price up significantly AND skim off the tax funds.

Eventually you'll have like-minded directors to keep the show going who can take their own small cut of the action and you can retire to a pure pvp character, stopping by on your "main," once in a while to make sure that the protection money is still flowing and the peasants are continuing to provide for their lord.

You would not be the first to do this, but I've never actually seen it fail. Now send me that money!

send 5b to me and get 25b back.

Once you receive the isk, kindly report about your experience on forums and tip the 500m on my bounty.

Oh well, biomassed through the virtual woodchipper... we'll always have Paris ! ! !

Seeing as you decided to come back, you must have some reason to.

Buy a character that can do whatever you feel like doing, then go do it :)

As your character is now in the great corp of Doomheim (quite a few there myself) I can only guess that the character has served it's purpose. So you've either bought a character from the market, started another new character or posting in GD has restored your willpower.

First. you already HAVE lots of ISKs, so all the answers that give you some hair brained sheeme to make more should be irelevant to you. You left the game, and yet it pulled you back in. There is an allure, a siren call that you heed. So the key to finding out what to do, is to find out WHAT made you come back to EvE. Was it the pew? The cameraderie? The sandboxiness? Go within yourself, and find out what made you come back. Then think on how to explore and enhance that aspect.

Purchasing a suitable character is a good idea, no one really would want to retrain all the skills you once had. Then, let the fun begin. You have enough isk to fly solid ships, set up a WH corp, heck, even rent SoV null. Or start a very shooty mining corp in High Sec. The world is your ouster.

Personally, I do detect a slight devious, almost decadent desire for lulz and maybe even tears (forgive me if i am wrong). Thus, take some of that wealth and give in to your personal dark side. Smartboming ice miners (with a BS or two) comes to mind, or silly station games in Jita with REALLY expensive ships....

On the other hand, if I am wrong and you have your dark side savely stored away, I would suggest some random acts of sensles kindness. Like dropping a well fitted cruiser or BC in a noobie system, and offering it to the first pilot who successfully scans you down, etc. Harvesting smiles can be just as rewarding as harvesting tears...

Whatever you do, have fun. And welcome back!

Eli.

I would buy a well-skilled subcap character on the Bazaar and pay to have a high-sec tower in an alt corp put up close to Jita, maybe even in Maurasi / Muvo (paying mercs a couple bil to remove a POS).

Use current throwaway alt as an industrial/trade character to make money, maybe add another industrial character or two on that account.

That setup would make bank on ISK and let you jump right into PVP.

Oh, I'd also give me half a bil.