Crime & Punishment

“For the truly wronged, real satisfaction can only be found in one of two places: absolute forgiveness or mortal vindication. This is not a story of someone who has been truly wronged.”

It's been almost 2 years since my exile from incursions, the lust for revenge no longer burns red hot like a c6 wolf-rayat. Truth be told getting out of incursions was probably the best thing that had ever happened to me...

But it really doesn't matter now, because I've been to Nullsec…I've seen C6 sleepers. I may not get back to incursions. But I want you to know tonight, that I, as a player, just made a ****load of isk at the expense of incursion runners and Jita traders.

Part I: The Plan

It was a simple plan, incursion runners would pay just about any amount of isk to get an edge over their competition. I found this edge in a not so common product: Standard Drop Boosters. Illegal drugs that provide a 25% bonus to tracking; undeniably a massive boost for any battleship incursion fleet. In preparation, I produced this product in wormholes and gathered a decent sized stock to sell to the incursion runners at more then 100% mark-up of production cost.

With my commodity ready, It was time to create a demand... I was going to sell Drop boosters to incursion runners at ridiculously inflated prices.

Part II: A voice in the Crowd

Creating a market for my new "Incursion Drug Running" service was easy. I created some alts and spent a few days dropping rumors and rabble rousing. It's amazing what a conversation with yourself in incursion local can accomplish. Every community thought the other communities were already doping, they wanted to be cool kids too! Like a fed mid-carry, the need for boosters started to snowball..

Using alts and propaganda, I had gotten the entire greater-incursion community addicted to boosters.

Part III: "No Longer In need of your services"

It was a few weeks before someone smarter then the average incursion runner realized just how marked up their drugs were, competition services moved in and most of the bigger communities figured out all you need to run drugs is a Cov-Ops. My drug-running business was no longer needed, but my boosters still were.

The demand for boosters wasn't gone, It had moved to Jita.

Part IV: The Trap

With the new need for Drop to fuel incursion e-peen inflation, many leaders and competitors flocked to Jita to buy up the cheap boosters that used to be nearly half the price that I was selling them for. Unfortunately, it was too late for them... I had bought up the remaining Jita stock of Drop, emptied out Ez and Whizz of their stock, and re-posted it all on the market in fake separate orders... Priced at what I had been charging the incursion runners...

I was still making the same ISK, but now from my comfy couch in Jita.

Part V: Sunshine and Donchians

With a sharp rise in moving price and a massive increase of moving items, it was only a matter of time before the retailers caught onto Drop. They started fighting over the buy orders, outbidding each other by tenths of an isk at a time... They were falling into my trap, for I was also manipulating the buy price; placing buy orders higher and higher for hundreds of boosters (with a large minimum order). No one could fill these orders due to the minimum order size, but the mindless trade warriors kept bumping up their buy prices higher, seeing that there was still a margin of profit to be had. With such wonderful figures, you would have been a fool not to invest in Drop. It's just a shame my unfulfillable buy orders kept bumping up the prices and reducing profits...

Using an old margin trading trick from scammers, I started creating unfulfillable buy orders, the Jita traders followed suit and kept out bidding me. The buy orders for Drop were now as high as I had been selling them for originally.

Part VI: Return of the Pone

The profits from selling via sell orders would not last forever though. The hype that once surrounded boosters started to fail in incursions. I was no longer seeing hundreds of millions of isk a day move into my wallet. Demand had stagnated overnight and the market was still plagued and bloated with people trying to make margin profits.

The buy orders from the Jita traders were now more then double what I had produced/bought the boosters for, it was time...

Part VII: J.J. Abram's Abortion

Suddenly and without warning, the entire market for Drop crashed. There were less then 100 Drop on the market, most of the buy orders had been fulfilled; dropping prices drastically. I had sold off the entire market to inflated buy orders that would never see a profit...

To most, this means a few million isk in a lost investment...

To me, this meant PvP and Plex for the next 4 years.