Market Discussions

Hey everybody,

I have been toying with the idea of starting an actual business in EVE. I have the educational and work experience IRL to start a business in the financial sector. Before we get started, yes there is always the risk of scamming but thankfully all of my investments so far haven't been scams and I am not looking to scam anybody (easier said than trusted, I know). Being a relatively new player, I am mainly looking for feedback from the community at this point, kind of a market test if you will, to see what cool ideas I might be able to possibly turn into a business venture. To sweeten the deal, any ideas that end up being turned into a business venture, will have a profit sharing component. If you want to chat in game, add me as a contact and ping me when I'm available or respond here in this thread. I really want to find a way to make some ISK in game while embracing the unique "corporate" atmosphere of Eve. Thanks all!

I have an Associates Degree in Business with a concentration in Accounting, a Bachelor's in Accounting with a concentration in Internal Auditing. I am a Treasury Management professional with a major bank in the US and am close to getting my Certified Treasury Professional certification. I'm currently studying to start my Masters of Accountancy so if that doesn't qualify for real life work and educational experience for starting a business in the financial sector, than I'm not sure what does.

Quick question, what is the MD Community? I actually just found SCC tonight looking at other articles. I got inspired by the Frog Freight Companies and some other in game corps that caught my eye. I will take a look at the idea of a share driven, profit sharing corporation based off ownership %'s and seeing if that would be realistically feasible given some good excel-fu skills. I'll check out those links and see if I can post something later, thank god for memorial day weekend.

Just do what this guy did. It turned out to be a scam, but his story what well thought out enough to fool a lot of players, including the CEO and members of Red Frog Freight.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=182964&find=unread

All of the above has a nice value of zero in EvE.

In EvE I would trust and have trusted 100 times more a guy that in RL is a cook (F.) and one that is a philosophy teacher (R.) than 50 "bachelor professionals".

In RL I'd probably do the same choices.

I didn't know that the frog freight companies didn't generate a profit, I meant overall about creating an in game company that provides a service. As to the content of this thread, this isn't really what I was looking for but thanks for the replies I guess.

Thanks for the idea! i would be interested as to seeing how to automate isk withdrawals since I'm not on during the day time or overnight hours. I wonder how to do that without violating the EULA as I don't want to make people wait to withdraw isk as that would negatively affect their play. I'll take a look at the MD community via the Scc-lounge which I joined and try to get a direction on that. If I do get it implemented, I'll make sure to include the profit share Vera. Thanks again!

Bottle trust and sell it.

Best of luck

If you're really interested in this, you are going to have to do a hell of a lot more research than just how to deal with withdrawals. On this point in particular though, Hexxx was working on a distributed withdrawals system as part of his work on banking and insurance systems that could prove to be a solution. In fact I would encourage you to review everything he did on banking in EVE (the good and the bad) if you are going to look at banking, as well as the histories of all past EVE banks and the reasons for their failure.