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How long did it take people to get 1bn ISK?
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Paul Otichoda
Perkone
Caldari State
#1 - 2013-07-19 11:11:21 UTC  |  Edited by: Paul Otichoda
I do have to ask, how long did it take people to get 1bn ISK.

While I doubt that I'll ever achieve take (can't even make 100m ISK) I do have to ask how long it took people.

Or are all the Freighter pilots in the game buying and sell PLEX?
Ritsum
Perkone
Caldari State
#2 - 2013-07-19 11:16:33 UTC
Depends on what you do.... One afternoon of exploration got me over 1.3bill. Though that is rare for me it is still steady enough to let me whelp ships onto T3 linked gangs.

Play EvE how you want to play it and do not let others dictate how you play. Evolve your playstyle to protect yourself from others! Even in "PVE", "PVP" is there, lurking in the shadows.
Le Badass
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2013-07-19 11:16:46 UTC
Just rounded that corner three months ago.
Before that, I just didn't take the time to grind. I'd rather go out and have my ships destroyed in glorious battle :)
Adunh Slavy
#4 - 2013-07-19 11:17:27 UTC
Longer than it will take this thread to fill up with exaggerated epeen stories of victory and self praise based on no evidence.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.  - William Pitt
Cannibal Kane
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#5 - 2013-07-19 11:19:50 UTC
Paul Otichoda wrote:
I do have to ask, how long did it take people to get 1bn ISK.

While I doubt that I'll ever achieve take (can't even make 100m ISK) I do have to ask how long it took people.

Or are all the Freighter pilots in the game buying and sell PLEX?


It can take less than a day. But considering your post on the forums so far you might need to go the plex route.

"Kane is the End Boss of Highsec." -Psychotic Monk
Victoria Sin
Doomheim
#6 - 2013-07-19 11:20:16 UTC
It took me years because my Iterons full of megacyte kept getting blown up.
Seven Koskanaiken
Shadow Legions.
SONS of BANE
#7 - 2013-07-19 11:22:24 UTC
14 months.
ShipToaster
#8 - 2013-07-19 11:23:49 UTC  |  Edited by: ShipToaster
Incursions will earn you a hundred million easily per hour.

First billion took about a month as sp were too low to support big plans. ISK flowed in after about a month thanks to l4's.

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Miilla
Hulkageddon Orphanage
#9 - 2013-07-19 11:24:49 UTC  |  Edited by: Miilla
Since Eve is a game of crime and so forth (says so on the box), crime pays and it pays well and fast.

If it takes you more than a month to earn 1 billion you're doing it wrong. It is very possible to make 10b a month or more solo, you can imagine what corps earn, and alliances earn.

Also depends if you are using the long number or short number definition of billion :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales

Quote:

Long scale is the English translation of the French term échelle longue. It refers to a system of large-number names in which every new term greater than million is a million times the previous term. Thus, billion means a million millions (1012), trillion means a million billions (1018), and so on.[1][2]

Short scale is the English translation of the French term échelle courte. It refers to a system of large-number names in which every new term greater than million is 1,000 times the previous term. Thus, billion means a thousand millions (109), trillion means a thousand billions (1012), and so on.[1][


Which scale are you using?
TharOkha
0asis Group
#10 - 2013-07-19 11:36:07 UTC  |  Edited by: TharOkha
A year maybe? And 10B next year. But that was back in 2007-8. now you can earn first B much much sooner.

CODE. Venture hunt contest in a nutshell
Miilla
Hulkageddon Orphanage
#11 - 2013-07-19 11:43:42 UTC  |  Edited by: Miilla
TharOkha wrote:
A year maybe? And 10B next year etc.


Flip PLEXs if you have good trading skills it passes time or can be done while you do something else, remote trading.

Also buy up a region and hike the prices up very high, then for a short period you get massive profit and the rest you can dump once people haul more in then buy them up in a price war cheaper. Repeat wrinse laughter.

Also, salvage and loot and pillage.

And the golden contract of selling 80m worth of fittings but no ship for 1 billion :)
Paul Otichoda
Perkone
Caldari State
#12 - 2013-07-19 11:48:38 UTC
Miilla wrote:
Since Eve is a game of crime and so forth (says so on the box), crime pays and it pays well and fast.


I would like some morals.
kraiklyn Asatru
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#13 - 2013-07-19 11:52:51 UTC
Miilla is my hero.


Anyway. I cant remember. I do know that I am in a situation where I don't have to make money more then a day every few months.
Lilan Kahn
The Littlest Hobos
The Whale Hunters Association
#14 - 2013-07-19 11:53:13 UTC
Paul Otichoda wrote:
I do have to ask, how long did it take people to get 1bn ISK.

While I doubt that I'll ever achieve take (can't even make 100m ISK) I do have to ask how long it took people.

Or are all the Freighter pilots in the game buying and sell PLEX?



1b isk?

in 2003 about 200 hours of ratting with no good drops in 0.0
Rich Uncle PennyBags
EVE Online Monopoly
#15 - 2013-07-19 12:04:41 UTC
With good multitasking. (1 Tengu + 1 Noctis alt) you make ~ 100m in 30 minutes in a Class 4 wormhole.
So at that rate, 5 hours of straight ratting.

The sort of Tengu you need for that will set you back around 2B at least though. So a bit of a catch 22 there.
handige harrie
Vereenigde Handels Compagnie
#16 - 2013-07-19 12:11:46 UTC
around 8 hours running anomalies with 2 dominixes, costing less than 400M total.
around 8 hours running anomalies with 1 machariel, costing somewere around 2B
around 8 hours running anomalies with 1 carrier, costing 1.6B

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Paul Otichoda
Perkone
Caldari State
#17 - 2013-07-19 12:18:48 UTC
handige harrie wrote:
around 8 hours running anomalies with 2 dominixes, costing less than 400M total.
around 8 hours running anomalies with 1 machariel, costing somewere around 2B
around 8 hours running anomalies with 1 carrier, costing 1.6B


How long would that be for a Drake?

Most people here appears to be talking about ways that involve sleepers and really extensive ships. Did anyone achieve 1bn in anything smaller than a BC?
Move99
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#18 - 2013-07-19 12:26:39 UTC
About 2 days doing sites in faction war

only need a frig
Ruskarn Andedare
Lion Investments
#19 - 2013-07-19 12:28:02 UTC
Paul Otichoda wrote:
handige harrie wrote:
around 8 hours running anomalies with 2 dominixes, costing less than 400M total.
around 8 hours running anomalies with 1 machariel, costing somewere around 2B
around 8 hours running anomalies with 1 carrier, costing 1.6B


How long would that be for a Drake?

Most people here appears to be talking about ways that involve sleepers and really extensive ships. Did anyone achieve 1bn in anything smaller than a BC?


I hit 1 bil in a Myrm doing L3s - and then pretty much stopped doing missions as I was bored with them Ugh
Maximillian German
Task Force Coalition
#20 - 2013-07-19 12:29:44 UTC
You could do it in a day running incursions, but it get's tedious after a while.
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