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How long did it take people to get 1bn ISK?
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Hevymetal
POT Corp
#61 - 2013-07-19 23:27:29 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?


A long time, but when I started playing way back when, a billion ISK actually meant something.
Sir Spottington
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#62 - 2013-07-19 23:35:08 UTC
about 2 weeks, i spent a week making nothing from missons, then just asked my ceo at the time for a loan and just screwed about on the market.
dexington
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#63 - 2013-07-19 23:45:11 UTC
not long enough, and i lost it just as quick... happened a time or time...

1B does you no good when you lose you x-type repper battleship you are flying with skill 2 and clueless about what resist to use :)

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.
Zifrian
The Frog Pond
Ribbit.
#64 - 2013-07-19 23:46:35 UTC
Erm...one day it just happened I guess. I didn't even really notice because I was at the point of buying and selling millions every trip to jita. Now I can blow a bill and not even think about it. All relative really.

You just gotta figure out how to maximize money in and minimize money out....yeah...simple! LOL P

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mechtech
Ice Liberation Army
#65 - 2013-07-20 00:49:28 UTC
It took me about a year back in '05
Xearal
Dead's Prostitutes
The Initiative.
#66 - 2013-07-20 00:59:15 UTC
Took me about a month, hauling and trading goods in highsec.

This was about 4 years ago, when I just started.

Nowadays, I idle waay too much, and still make 1-2B a month. if I were to put in more effort, I'd probably be pushing 5-6 easy, and if I'd get really serious, 10B a month should be doable.

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Vortexo VonBrenner
Doomheim
#67 - 2013-07-20 02:03:45 UTC
Eurydia Vespasian wrote:
took about 15 minutes of skype time.


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Marcus Harikari
#68 - 2013-07-20 03:22:06 UTC
i made enough isk to buy plex in my 2nd month of playing...i think my 1st month i mostly did lowsec courier running, but then got into mining? so i'm not sure which one it was that made me the money, but both are pretty good (unless you get ganked with a high collateral courier onboard)
Jake Warbird
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#69 - 2013-07-20 04:40:28 UTC
Whenever I make a billion my ship autopilots to Jita and buys some crap I don't even use.

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Cipher Jones
The Thomas Edwards Taco Tuesday All Stars
#70 - 2013-07-20 05:38:37 UTC
I had a drake before they changed the Sleeper AI to neut the way it does now. It took a couple of days to make a bil in a c3.

So however long it takes to train a mediocre drake.

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Don Purple
Snuggle Society
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#71 - 2013-07-20 05:49:35 UTC
Got my first big contract a month in? 1.5b

I am just here to snuggle and do spy stuff.
Anabella Rella
Gradient
Electus Matari
#72 - 2013-07-20 06:41:33 UTC
According to one of the high sec haters in another thread it only takes a day to earn a billion isk. Roll

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Cam Mikaels
Infinicraft Industries
#73 - 2013-07-20 07:03:35 UTC
I have yet to actually have that amount in my wallet, but I've made a TOTAL of a billion by hisec mining over the course of maybe 4 or 5 months.

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Whitehound
#74 - 2013-07-20 08:18:16 UTC
Anabella Rella wrote:
According to one of the high sec haters in another thread it only takes a day to earn a billion isk. Roll

If low-sec and null-sec was as populated as high-sec could one make just as much or likely more ISKs in a day than in high-sec.

These billions of ISKs then do not come from game mechanics (ISK wells), but these come from players and it rather costs taxes and fees. Anyone who hates players who make billions with trading also hates all the players who give their ISKs to the traders. The traders in hubs like Jita then keep the prices low and everyone wins. Players who hate high-sec for that are too stupid to profit from it.

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Nocturnal Romance
Cynosural Field Theory.
#75 - 2013-07-20 08:24:01 UTC
I was given my first 1bil isk, From a Member of Outbreak (Pyrosoft - the toon has since been sold)

I guess he felt sorry for me, I learned to pvp by heading to null sec and losing Rifter after Rifter to Outbreak.

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Universal Exos
#76 - 2013-07-20 20:05:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Daniel Jackson
Miilla wrote:
Well, if you are going to play like mr goodie two shoes, it may take a looooong while. Good luck.

ya i play it goody two shoe because i have a bad consious i cant scam people or pirate people for there stuff or even steal without me regreting it alot so i just plan dont do it

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Daniel Jackson
Universal Exos
#77 - 2013-07-20 20:07:29 UTC  |  Edited by: Daniel Jackson
Hevymetal wrote:
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?


A long time, but when I started playing way back when, a billion ISK actually meant something.

1 word, INFLATION.

* PLEX Cards (buy with real money sell for ingame money, you are literly creating A LOAD of money out of nowhere)
* Wormholes (the money is in the salvage and relic sites)
* Incursions (HIGHSEC fly with ISN you can make 120/h)
* Faction Warfare (due to alot lower LP cost and very easy to get thoes said LP's, if at t3 or t4 its just an godly amount, but theres even a T5 u can get to)

FW LP Chart = click here

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Damsel in Distress
The Scope
#78 - 2013-07-20 20:24:51 UTC
2 weeks - started in FW.
Large Collidable Object
morons.
#79 - 2013-07-20 20:42:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Large Collidable Object
Daniel Jackson wrote:
1 word, INFLATION.

PLEX Cards (buy with real money sell for ingame money, you are literly creating A LOAD of money out of nowhere),




The very important point is that actually, the money is absolutely not created out of nowhere but has been made by other players.
The bounties, insurance money etc.. they pay the plex with isk that has been created out of nowhere, but selling Plex doesn't create isk.
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Erufen Rito
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#80 - 2013-07-20 20:45:54 UTC
Hm, 1b liquid isk. The first time that comes to mind was when I saved up for a Machariel and fit, for incursions. Then, every subsequent time I sat down and incursioned for a day.

To actually get the first bill, it took me somewhere around a month running level 4 missions, and spending very little.

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