My EVE

I tried bringing this subject up a few days ago, but CCP Phantom told me I was trollin, so let's try this again. Before I start, I want to make it clear that this is not a thread about criticizing anyone in particular, but is about discussing various business models, their viability, and how difficult they would be to implement.

This thread is specifically about content producers, be they instructional vid makers, enterraining vid makers, podcasters, or whatever. I couldn't give a flying **** about your corp and about how pr0 you are at gate camps. I specifically want to talk about how people can raise iskies to fund the pvp without having to do any direct in game methods themselves like incursions.

In my opinion, the business models need to meet the following criteria: it needs to be scalable, it must have some kind of outside the game advertising, it must be relatively simple, and it must be easy to implement

The various models:

1. Donation base

This is by far the easiest to do. Make a video, post it, and hold out your hand and scream at people to give you money. Job done.

2. Ad based

This is what Kil2 and Kovorix do. It's a fantastic way for the REALLY well known people to go. Your vid making process doesn't change, all you do is plug the company before your videos and you're off.

3. Angel investing

I had not thought of this before an excellent thread had been posted here: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=98076&find=unread I would highly recommend you check it out. Essentially, it boils down to this, people who are enthusiasts, but aren't great at pvp themselves give money to people who are good at it money to fund their own projects. That's a bit of a generalization because I'm sure some of them are good at pvp, but the point still stands.

4. Subs base

This could be handled any number of ways, but essentially people pay isk to get access to the content that you produce.


What models do you like and why? Do you agree with my criteria? What implementations of the models do you think would be most effective? Have at it guys, I'm interested to see what you come up with.

tbh with the amount of retards flying about in expensive stuff they cant pilot, I get A LOT of money out of loot.

Not enough to replace sleipeners or 1bil t3's everytime I lose one but general when I fly around in like a drake or talos or even a frig, you can sometimes get a few kills and stuff like rapiers/arazu's like to fit expensive tackle xD