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a newbie
Kenbishi Heavy Industries Inc.
#1 - 2012-01-22 02:24:05 UTC
I am just putting out a feeler here..

I've decided to liquidate some assets that were doing nothing but collecting dust. So now I am stuck with the question of what to do with it. In any scale, 1 bil isk is nothing compared to some of the players in this game so I am looking for the best return on it. So what has been the most profitable thing others have done with 1 billion isk to invest?

Looking for practical ideas don't care for trolls, just want suggestions. Group solutions like POS mining are ok, but overall I think that would require more pocket money then 1bil to get up properly in lowsec or nullsec. That and they are still not balanced on the moons (CSM meeting holds promise though).

...um.. fire?
yarona
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2012-01-22 02:25:49 UTC
Buy a ship and ransom noobs that have unwittingly come into low/null sec.
Chesh Aideron
Androse Trinket Haus
#3 - 2012-01-22 02:41:16 UTC
Buy WH.

Buy POS.

Buy Tengu.

Solo Wh until bored/rich/both and then go find out about the wonders of PvP.

Don't do any more PvE until your quite large ISK buffer starts to run down because you are losing your ships.

Get better at killing and avoiding death.

Eventually PvP becomes profitable.

Rule the world.
...
At least, that's what I'm going to do.
Tian Nu
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#4 - 2012-01-22 02:46:00 UTC
buy T2 javelin thermal torps at 950 sell at 1570

did that in bach of 2mill two weeks ago fast money

Father O'Malley about Darius III begging for whelp: “Hows that working out for ya ? I make it 02:21 and all I see is you begging Riverini to get numbers and trying to recruit from the incursion public channel.”
mkint
#5 - 2012-01-22 02:52:20 UTC
I assume you're looking to make money from spending money. Depending on how you already make money, use the isk to upgrade your current operation. It'll take at least 3 bill to get a profitable moon mining/reacting setup going. WH space is an option, especially if you can talk your corp into doing it as a group activity. If I were you, I'd only put 500 mil into a corp WH project, so you have the rest to fall back on if things go south.

never ever ever just put the isk into some stranger's hands, or if you do, be aware that it's gone the instant you do.

Ultimately, there is not enough info to really point you in a good direction... no idea of what your skillbase is, your corp/alliance situation, your existing methods of income.

Maxim 6. If violence wasn’t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.
a newbie
Kenbishi Heavy Industries Inc.
#6 - 2012-01-22 02:57:37 UTC
mkint wrote:
I assume you're looking to make money from spending money. Depending on how you already make money, use the isk to upgrade your current operation. It'll take at least 3 bill to get a profitable moon mining/reacting setup going. WH space is an option, especially if you can talk your corp into doing it as a group activity. If I were you, I'd only put 500 mil into a corp WH project, so you have the rest to fall back on if things go south.

never ever ever just put the isk into some stranger's hands, or if you do, be aware that it's gone the instant you do.

Ultimately, there is not enough info to really point you in a good direction... no idea of what your skillbase is, your corp/alliance situation, your existing methods of income.



At the moment my skill base is unlimited. This character can fly just about any combat vessel, and my industrial is trained to the max on just about everything in existence that is not PVP.

Drugs, PVP, PVE, Manufacturing, Invention, Research, Mining, Moon Mining, BPC production, Planetary, hacking, archeo, capital ship consutrction, t2, t3, basically there is nothing in the game I cannot do skill wise. My only limit is on hand assets and what I would spend some of my money on to invest. I say 1 billion because I have prob 4-5 bil in assets floating around if necessary. This was just from selling a dusty BPO of my Orca.

...um.. fire?
Renan Ruivo
Forcas armadas
Brave Collective
#7 - 2012-01-22 03:01:13 UTC
The only thing you can do to make your money work for you, is trade.

However due to the nature of the trade (pun intended) nobody is going to give you any sort of helpfull tip. Quite the opposite, in fact.....

The world is a community of idiots doing a series of things until it explodes and we all die.
Tian Nu
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#8 - 2012-01-22 03:03:21 UTC
a newbie wrote:
I am just putting out a feeler here..

I've decided to liquidate some assets that were doing nothing but collecting dust. So now I am stuck with the question of what to do with it. In any scale, 1 bil isk is nothing compared to some of the players in this game so I am looking for the best return on it. So what has been the most profitable thing others have done with 1 billion isk to invest?

Looking for practical ideas don't care for trolls, just want suggestions. Group solutions like POS mining are ok, but overall I think that would require more pocket money then 1bil to get up properly in lowsec or nullsec. That and they are still not balanced on the moons (CSM meeting holds promise though).


i forgot the faster way you can send me the bill and i double it.

Father O'Malley about Darius III begging for whelp: “Hows that working out for ya ? I make it 02:21 and all I see is you begging Riverini to get numbers and trying to recruit from the incursion public channel.”