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Taking a break from Eve. How do I prepare?
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Knitram Relik
State War Academy
Caldari State
#1 - 2016-11-20 02:17:21 UTC
I'm taking a break from Eve for a while but I plan on coming back when/if the spirit moves me again.

My question: Where's a good place to park my ISK while I'm gone? Buy a bunch of PLEX or just hang on to my assets? Probably have about 50 bil in ships 'n' stuff scattered about.

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Keno Skir
#2 - 2016-11-20 02:19:06 UTC
Contract it all to me. I'll invest it and pay you back double.

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Scipio Artelius
Weaponised Vegemite
Flying Dangerous
#3 - 2016-11-20 02:29:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Scipio Artelius
Liquidate it then find a good investment in the Market Discussion forum that is going to pay monthly interest over the period of the loan.

Make some passive ISK for the first few months you are away.
Skydell
Bad Girl Posse
#4 - 2016-11-20 02:52:51 UTC
There really is no demand to go in to storage mode now. You can log in as an Alpha clone at any time and evaluate the trends of your assets.
CistaCista
EVE Museum
#5 - 2016-11-20 07:44:43 UTC
That calls for a mention of EVE Museum
Cutter Isaacson
DEDSEC SAN FRANCISCO
#6 - 2016-11-20 07:53:16 UTC
Don't do what I did and give away everything you own, and all your money. Just log off, and take a break. That's it. You don't need to do anything else.

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Vigirr
#7 - 2016-11-20 08:33:04 UTC
Make sure to move out any assets you have in 0.0 before you quit.
Geronimo McVain
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2016-11-20 08:42:10 UTC
Vigirr wrote:
Make sure to move out any assets you have in 0.0 before you quit.

and everything in citadels.
Jake Warbird
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2016-11-20 08:46:58 UTC
Well I had a bunch of plex before I left, I'd bought it for 600mil then.

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Sapheni
Black Moon Mining
#10 - 2016-11-20 12:16:42 UTC
Knitram Relik wrote:
I'm taking a break from Eve for a while but I plan on coming back when/if the spirit moves me again.

My question: Where's a good place to park my ISK while I'm gone? Buy a bunch of PLEX or just hang on to my assets? Probably have about 50 bil in ships 'n' stuff scattered about.


Depends on your risk appetite. Leaving it as isk is probably a risk, but with 50bn you can probably afford to lose a bit...

For safety (i.e. a reasonable expectation that asset will track inflation) I'd suggest basic minerals (trit/pye) and/or large (non capital) T1 ships with well defined roles that are less likely to get hit with a Fozzie nerf-bat.
Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#11 - 2016-11-20 13:14:56 UTC
Knitram Relik wrote:
I'm taking a break from Eve for a while but I plan on coming back when/if the spirit moves me again.

My question: Where's a good place to park my ISK while I'm gone? Buy a bunch of PLEX or just hang on to my assets? Probably have about 50 bil in ships 'n' stuff scattered about.


PLEX are about as good an inflation proof investment as you can hope for, with the additional bonus that you can always use them yourself if you wish.

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Chopper Rollins
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#12 - 2016-11-20 14:37:18 UTC
Nothing depreciates faster than isk.
Turn it into plex.


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Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#13 - 2016-11-20 14:40:01 UTC
buy plexes or just don't buy nothing
playing for free means more demand on Plex it will keep rising imo
Iwo Sh'ivah
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#14 - 2016-11-20 15:42:39 UTC
Here's what i would do.

All the stuff you're likely to use - leave as is.

Stuff you're unlikely to use - cash it either by contracting, reprocessing or just selling on the market. Faction ships are a bit slippery - their value can go down fast with a balancing pass (like it was with Rattlesnake and Vindicator) so I'd consider selling them also.

Isk - use it all to buy PLEX. Than use it to pay for the game and set a long skill queue with skills You're likely to use when You come back, but never had patience to train. Isk itself is not a good investment and if You managed to gather 50bn You won't have a problem earning more when You come back.
Kousaka Otsu Shigure
#15 - 2016-11-20 16:47:54 UTC
The Market Discussions subforum has investment options, look at posting histories to filter out the good from the bad.

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Myriad Blaze
Common Sense Ltd
Nulli Secunda
#16 - 2016-11-20 20:17:03 UTC
I was in the same situation when I left the game.

I just came back (to check the status of the game) after a longish break. When I left I was somewhat worried with inflation and decided to store most of my isk in assets.

I think I lost roughly 30-40 Bn that way, maybe more. I was lucky that some speculative items increased a lot (10,000% profit ftw Big smile), else I would face losses much bigger. Would have been better and easier to just keep the liquid isk.

You might want to invest some isk in PLEX, although it's not really the right time of the year to buy. Other than that, I would suggest to leave as you are. If you prefer to gamble on future changes, though, I would focus on stuff that's easy to sell, for example minerals.
Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
EDENCOM DEFENSIVE INITIATIVE
#17 - 2016-11-20 20:28:25 UTC
You can give stuff to me, I will sell it and buy PLEX that I will use to add time to my account.
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Brokk Witgenstein
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#18 - 2016-11-21 02:40:04 UTC
Assets keep their value -- ISK doesn't.

Don't keep assets in Citadels tho.

Good luck!