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Question for capital pilots: how do you afford your ships?
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Eram Fidard
Doomheim
#61 - 2013-10-04 15:09:45 UTC
To Be Me wrote:
Well if can fly a drake just run lvl 3 missions and salvage the wrecks


10 years later, you can afford a PLEX

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Mocam
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#62 - 2013-10-05 00:11:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Mocam
James Amril-Kesh wrote:
Mocam wrote:
Look at it this way - a well fit carrier doesn't cost more than a high-end L4 mission or incursion ship (Mach or Nightmare).

If players can afford those ships readily, what is so hard to see for affording a capital?

That's not high-end mission running, that's "let's see what kind of ridiculous **** I can fit to my ship and still get away with it."


I haven't bought nor priced the stuff in a while but here are the prices I paid.

Not quite "ridiculous". My mach fit is about 1.5 billion. Hull cost was about 1 billion and deadspace in a couple slots isn't that big a deal for a highsec ship. Carrier - hull + fit for 1.6 billion - T2 style.

Fully insured you get back around half the total costs of the carrier if it's popped - over 830 million but it costs over 200 mill to insure - worth it for the difference if you're going out with a carrier into combat.

Taking 1.6 billion and divide it by income per hour and you can figure out how long it would take to earn it.

At 60 mill/hr you're looking at about 27 hours "earning" to pay for a ship. Incursions, null ratting, mission running... 60 can be tough to reach some times so just adjust it to the level appropriate for your activity. At 6 hours gaming time per week, you'd be looking at a bit over 4 weeks per fully fitted ship. (and 6 hrs per week is *NOT* "hard-core" gaming)

Nothing ridiculous about that kind of layout nor cost - especially for chars that are able to fit & fly these kinds of hulls decently.
Johan Civire
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#63 - 2013-10-05 00:17:57 UTC
Stealing tbh
Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe
#64 - 2013-10-05 02:40:06 UTC
^ This is a problem, since the elite pvp n3/pl can't rely on having capitals. Because we can blob those pretty hard, they are rather affordable.

So you really need to get supercaps in order to see progodlegend's 0.0 dream. I doubt you will accomplish it by trying to blob battleships, sentry carriers or blap dreads.

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Solaris Ecladia
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#65 - 2013-10-05 03:44:54 UTC
flakeys wrote:
Solaris Ecladia wrote:
Every suggestion in here except maybe the guy who said scamming is a ****** one. Corp theft is the way to roll. You ever hear about those guys who join random wormhole corps with an alt and leave like 3 hours later and make off with 10b+? Or the nulsec corp thieves that make 100b or more? Where else you going to make 3b an hour? ******* nowhere.

Be a man, embrace the darker side of EVE and make some actual money for once.




If you take your logic then sommer blink is the way to go , or haven't you heard about the guys who won titan bpo's and god knows what else with only a few minutes of their time invested in it.

On a sidenote the '' be a man '' line made me giggle ... because only thieves are reall men Roll.A miner takes more risk then a scammer or awoxer and that alone speaks volume .


No. In what way does some scrubby ******* pathetic miner take any risk at all? "oh they might lose a ship!" Oh golly gee no! That would be terrible! Go put your reputation and future in the game on the line then say anybody takes more risk.
Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe
#66 - 2013-10-05 06:44:35 UTC
Join somber blink, get ship worth 15 fit carriers or 10 fit dreadnaughts huh.

Hm...

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Evangelina Nolen
Sama Guild
#67 - 2013-10-05 07:15:44 UTC
Moon Goo, WH operations, or massive industry. Nothing else really comes close to being able to provide the isk flow to support a Cap fleet.