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How did you make your first billion?
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Vargan Armer
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2012-10-17 17:20:47 UTC
Well, the title pretty much sums it up. How did you make your first billion? If the story isn't exciting/you can't remember it, maybe you could do first 5b, 10b or whatever.

I made my first billion in maybe the most embarassing way possible. Through BLINK. To be frank, it's only recently I've really started doing much in the Market, and I've only made around 600m from that T_T. So yeah, not the most exciting of stories, but it was the most amazing feeling ever, knowing you're a billionaire.

So go on, share your stories!
Daniel Plain
Doomheim
#2 - 2012-10-17 18:44:41 UTC
daytripping into k162s in a drake. never lost one, at least not in wspace.

I should buy an Ishtar.
Cipio Hakoke
Tactical Manufacturing Group
#3 - 2012-10-17 18:52:45 UTC
Well I am only 5 months old but.. I made my first billion through mining and building/selling retrievers! This was pre mining buff. I made lots of iskies!
Perramas
DreddNaut
#4 - 2012-10-17 18:56:49 UTC
I bought items and ships at cheap prices in out of the way regions, transported them to more populated regions and sold them for a higher price. I also bought NPC goods and sold them to NPC buy orders while going between regions. I would take a load of items I bought from players and on my way back instead of flying an empty hauler/frieghter I transported NPC goods for sell to other NPCs. Now that bots have infested the NPC goods market it is no longer worth the time it takes to do the NPC trade goods route.

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people- Eleanor Roosevelt

Taji Taka
The Arcadian Sun
#5 - 2012-10-17 19:01:59 UTC
I ran a private investment corp that took ISK from known corp members and used it to place salvage buy orders in various regions. Each "Regional Manager" received a full set of researched rig blueprints to make what rigs they could then sold them in their respective hubs. This was when rigs were brand new so the margin was exceptionally high.
No More Heroes
Boomer Humor
Snuffed Out
#6 - 2012-10-17 19:23:17 UTC
Importing war goods from jita to VFK Smile

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Kyt Thrace
Lightspeed Enterprises
Goonswarm Federation
#7 - 2012-10-17 19:39:46 UTC
I am sad to say, but a s*%! load of lvl 4 missions.

R.I.P. Vile Rat
Tul Breetai
Impromptu Asset Requisition
#8 - 2012-10-17 19:44:58 UTC
Selling noob mission items as 'standings enhancers'.

There's nothing worse than an EVE player, generally considered to be top of the food chain in the MMO world, that cannot smacktalk with wit and coherency.
Caerfinon
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#9 - 2012-10-17 19:51:19 UTC
Buying up T1 mission loot and reprocessing it for minerals and selling garbage and tobacco to Quafe stations... ah the good old days.

Cheers C.

@Caerfinon - Twitter
De Guillaume
THORN Syndicate
Northern Coalition.
#10 - 2012-10-17 21:01:06 UTC
bought a plexShocked

Has you ever went so far as chose to go even use want to look more like do?
Darrien Hawkins
Doomheim
#11 - 2012-10-17 21:22:40 UTC
I made my first couple of billion isk through a combination of gifts from other players, ratting, mission running, station trading, and contract chasing (I bought a fully fitted rokh for 17 mil once just because it was one jump into low-sec). I don't remember exactly when I hit a billion, but I remember thinking when my wallet was ~500 mil or so: "man, I can buy ten more drakes if I lose mine!"
Felicity Love
Doomheim
#12 - 2012-10-17 21:27:34 UTC
Oxygen isotopes... the first time the Goons squeezed it for all it's worth Pirate

"EVE is dying." -- The Four Forum Trolls of the Apocalypse.   ( Pick four, any four. They all smell.  )
Roman Fuego
Brotherhood of Bankrupt Bastards
#13 - 2012-10-17 23:21:12 UTC
The first 100 mil I got from PI and the last 900 or so mil I got from PI plus building scourge fury heavy missiles. I read a nice writeup on ten ton hammer on how to make the missiles. I didn't know it at the time but one of the nice things about the missiles is that they do not require a lot of startup capital.
Milton von Friedman
Doomheim
#14 - 2012-10-17 23:56:58 UTC
Flipping meta junk in small hubs. I don't recall if my first billion came before I found myself in Jita full-time, but I know I didn't break 100b until I mastered the art of never undocking from 4-4.
Gogela
Epic Ganking Time
CODE.
#15 - 2012-10-18 00:03:07 UTC
Alt won Big Lottery #100. Big smile

Signatures should be used responsibly...
DarthNefarius
Minmatar Heavy Industries
#16 - 2012-10-18 04:29:57 UTC
Incursion running in my Harbi while trainning for large T2 guns Big smile for my first Incursion BS
An' then Chicken@little.com, he come scramblin outta the    Terminal room screaming "The system's crashing! The system's    crashing!" -Uncle RAMus, 'Tales for Cyberpsychotic Children'
Trader CiCi
Jack of all skills
#17 - 2012-10-18 05:58:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Trader CiCi
missing zero trades Big smileBig smile lots of them Twisted

Here's how I think of my money -- as soldiers -- I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them." - Kevin O'Leary/Shark Tank
Raiko Osburn
Advanced Resource Acquisition and Exploration
#18 - 2012-10-18 06:05:29 UTC
Searching for plexes in high sec. Mostly loot from Radar sites, but sometimes nice faction mods from DEDs

Forget numbers, play with ideas, look for solutions.

terzslave
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#19 - 2012-10-18 06:10:58 UTC
Station trading in Jita.
Tarik ThunderStorm
The Molden Heath Yacht Club
#20 - 2012-10-18 06:16:32 UTC
Mining and then group mining
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