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When was your big break?
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Kalishka Ashkulf
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2014-09-20 13:11:28 UTC
Howdy fellow pilots.

Been away for a good (or bad) number of weeks, and now I'm back. Anyway, just for fun, when was your "big break"? By this, when did you turn from someone counting the .01 isk to someone who couldn't get rid of it fast enough? Let's hear your tales of from rags to riches!

Why, thank you, Thing!
Belesia Velorea
The Fiendish Pixies
#2 - 2014-09-20 14:14:19 UTC
When I left highsec behind.

I guess a big milestone was when I got my first Pithum A-Type Adaptive Invulnerability Field drop, I sold it for 1.6 billion at the time. I stopped counting my iskies shortly after.
Jur Tissant
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2014-09-20 14:19:27 UTC
Well, I imagine I'm still in the "99%" so to speak but spreading my PI to all three character slots provides me with a PLEX and then some each month.
flakeys
Doomheim
#4 - 2014-09-20 14:31:53 UTC  |  Edited by: flakeys
About 4 years ago , hence why i started a new break atm.Hardly active ingama at all for the last months , if my account wouldn't still have over a year playtime on it it prob would be my final break Blink.




Kalishka Ashkulf wrote:
Howdy fellow pilots.

Been away for a good (or bad) number of weeks, and now I'm back. Anyway, just for fun, when was your "big break"? By this, when did you turn from someone counting the .01 isk to someone who couldn't get rid of it fast enough? Let's hear your tales of from rags to riches!



MMM o wait i missread that appearantly.Well i got close to 1 Trillion isk but it has hardly to do with ''having had a break''' at a certain point.Just playing the markets , and as you can see from my comment above if you got 1B or 1T it doesn't change **** at all to how much you enjoy the game so those who are reading this thread and thinking ''i never had a big break'' , you're not missing out on much Blink.



Aaaand now back to watching netflix ...

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Paranoid Loyd
#5 - 2014-09-20 14:38:33 UTC  |  Edited by: Paranoid Loyd
This may sound odd but my big break was getting counter ganked when I first started ganking, I was still figuring it all out and got baited into attacking a ship that appeared to be shitfit, he knew I was a rookie and had me scan a shitfit badger, then warped to an orca and switched ships to a much tankier badger before he jumped to the system I was ganking in, I got about 10% into shields and failed miserably. I convoed him to figure out wtf happened and ended up making a friend and mentor that turned me into the killer I am today Twisted

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Neven Cengari
Perkone
Caldari State
#6 - 2014-09-20 15:01:42 UTC
I made this character in 2011, played for about 3 months and left. Didn't come back until August this year. On a whim decided to try a Sov Null corp that claimed to be newb friendly.

What do you know, they weren't lying. The people here were absolutely awesome from day one, and when I mentioned wanting to do exploration one of the older members immediately traded me an Astero to use for as long as I liked. That was my break. In a few hours I had enough isk to buy a ratting ship, in a few days enough to not worry about replacing any of my PvP ships (to be fair we do have a very good SRP as well).

I am not filthy rich but I have more than enough to cover all my possible expenses, and a way to make more if needed at any point. I never want to turn isk-making into a goal in and of itself, so this works very well for me.
DaReaper
Net 7
Cannon.Fodder
#7 - 2014-09-20 15:30:59 UTC
honestly? never.

10 years here, and i usually have just enough isk to pay for the ship i just lost and a new clone. I rarely, if ever break a billion. Only three times in 10 years.

1) i sold basically everything good i had had about 23b, and bought a nyx. Said nyx died a month later.

2) had a few billion in insurance after my nyx died, i stretched this for about a year

3) sold an alt and had a few billion, same as above, stretched this for about a year

My play style is a bit odd. I tend to do things for others, as ceo i usually wind up doing everything myself. My players make isk, and i barely make anything. It never bothers me cause i don;t pay with plex.

I know HOW to make money, i just usually am too damn busy running pos', recruiting, or dealing with alliance crap. Its only been now that i stopped doing that stuff and left my corp super small that i have time to make money... and well its boring, so i'll prolly recruit and ignore my own money again soon. lol.

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Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#8 - 2014-09-20 15:50:08 UTC
Cannibal Kane and some others were slagging me off for some expensive Legion derp losses a while ago,
some big scary meanie faced mercs liked the way i laughed it off and recruited me,

been having a blast since

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Ssabat Thraxx
DUST Expeditionary Team
Good Sax
#9 - 2014-09-20 16:26:18 UTC
Decided to get into trading close to a year ago. Corpie who had become a good friend gave me a plex to sell for startup capital, told me to just pay him back half the value of said plex. This is when plex were around 550m isk.

Flipped it, turned it, reinvested, rinse and repeat.

Why do u think I have so much time on the forums? I'm camping orders on a couple of my trader alts, browsing the forums, listening to and downloading music.... just check orders for undercuts every so often.

a-chinga-ching-chang! Blink

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Schmata Bastanold
In Boobiez We Trust
#10 - 2014-09-20 16:28:01 UTC
A year ago when finances got better and I could finally afford casually buying PLEX. Well, maybe casually is not a good word, I just bought few full batches of PLEX during seasonal sale and still have like 3/4 of them. Healthy RL income fixes all ISK problems. If only not skill queue...

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Hiasa Kite
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#11 - 2014-09-20 16:40:22 UTC
Started LoSec exploration yesterday, expecting an income of about 10m per hour. Not too bad for a toon less than 2 weeks old. Very first jump into LoSec I stumble on a fight at the gate. Loser pops and the victor left some stuff on the wreck and flew off. I try my luck and ninjaloot.

200m+ ISK of various T2, dead space and faction mods.

<- mfw

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Erika Tsurpalen
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#12 - 2014-09-20 16:51:49 UTC
Well, when i first joined a few years ago, my first break was some lucky exploring stuff where i netted 300mil in my first couple weeks.

Although my "Biggest break" was a scam where I nicked about 15bil.
gave that up now though.
Crumplecorn
Eve Cluster Explorations
#13 - 2014-09-20 17:57:01 UTC
I was an industrial player from day one so I've always had far more ISK than I've needed for lossmaking activities like PvP.

Looking back at my old spreadsheets, it seems my 'big break' was when I stopped mining my own minerals.

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Hiply Rustic
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2014-09-20 18:23:03 UTC
Biggest financial break? Leaving for a while after dumping every isk I had into plex when they were selling @300 or so, as an inflation hedge, and returning to find them at 800.

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ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#15 - 2014-09-20 21:53:29 UTC  |  Edited by: ShahFluffers
I joined Faction Warfare.

How did you Veterans start?
Liam Inkuras
Furnace
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
#16 - 2014-09-20 22:37:42 UTC  |  Edited by: Liam Inkuras
Still poor, no change in sight. As long as I can afford a new ship, I'm happy Big smile

Edit: actually I'd say it was when I became an international k-pop sensation and can now buy as many PLEX as there are people in Madagascar.

I wear my goggles at night.

Any spelling/grammatical errors come complimentary with my typing on a phone
Eternus8lux8lucis
Guardians of the Gate
RAZOR Alliance
#17 - 2014-09-20 22:41:38 UTC
I never had much of a big break I might add. Ive just steadily increased over time by making goals and exceeding them most of the time. Made a lot running invention years ago with 4 toons and selling rig bpo packs boy did those things sell like hot cakes, as well as the times that I tried multiboxing ore and ice before the ice changes hit. But not really something Id classify as a break.

Have you heard anything I've said?

You said it's all circling the drain, the whole universe. Right?

That's right.

Had to end sometime.
Xuixien
Solar Winds Security Solutions
#18 - 2014-09-20 23:02:24 UTC
my first "break" was when i was passing through a system and i saw someone post "21day free trial + 150 million isk starter money! convo me for details!" whats good to do on one character is good to do on several... and the forums. thus began the great buddy invite fiasco, which resulted in ccp laying down rules about invites and tank ceo having a nervous breakdown in the eve mirc channel and later jita local. i didnt make much isk but i had a lot of game time on my accnts.

my 2nd break was joining fw before the great goon caper nerf. talk about some dough.

my 3rd break, and really my big break, was discovering reverse safaris. KACHING

my best break though was getting to join tdsin, not because isk, but because i have a great time.

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BrundleMeth
State War Academy
Caldari State
#19 - 2014-09-20 23:35:55 UTC
6 years...not yet...flying alone and bored shitless...
DaReaper
Net 7
Cannon.Fodder
#20 - 2014-09-21 01:22:18 UTC
BrundleMeth wrote:
6 years...not yet...flying alone and bored shitless...



then stop flying alone

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