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When was your big break?
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Steppa Musana
Doomheim
#21 - 2014-09-21 01:56:34 UTC  |  Edited by: Steppa Musana
There was this guy who moved into my mining system with 15 mining barges. He would ruthlessly mine the ice belts, all day and with perfect timing and efficiency. If you weren't at a spawn within the first 20 minutes, good luck getting any appreciable amount.

We tried getting rid of him in multiple ways, but nothing worked. He knew what he was doing. So I did the only sensible thing: Created more accounts and counterblobbed him with 14 of my own mining barges. He eventually left, and I took his spot as "that jackass who mines all the ice"

12 figures later, I've stopped mining. But 12 figures Smile

Hey guys.
JC Anderson
RED ROSE THORN
#22 - 2014-09-21 03:16:29 UTC  |  Edited by: JC Anderson
Heh, mine is somewhat strange.

I have been playing this game since 05, but for years I never really put much effort into gathering wealth or resources. I just kind of flew around and had fun here and there.

And then, some dude posted one of those I'M QUITTING EVE HERE IS WHY threads on the old forums. You know, the ones where everybody posts troll replies and demands to give them stuff?

I must have not been feeling well or something because I opted not to join the troll brigade that one time, and instead replied with a simple post consisting of two words.

"Be well"

Every other reply in that thread was exactly what you would expect. ;)

Days later I suddenly had multiple escrow/contracts assigned to me. I thought it was a mistake because I did not recognize the name at all. THEN I started looking through the list of items and my jaw dropped. Between ships (lots of freighters and expensive faction battleships), minerals, and a hodge podge of other stuff including officer mods, I was able to later sell what I didn't need for around 6 billion and kept the rest. And what I kept still made up for at least 75% the total ISK value of everything I was given.

I had tried to figure out who the hell this person was and why they gave me so much stuff, and after never getting a reply (the guy quit) via Eve-Mail I kind of gave up bothering trying to figure it out in the first place.

Maybe two weeks later or so somebody replied to the I quit thread, ranting how that guy quit without ever returning all the stuff he owed him.

I then noticed the name of the OP in that thread when reading the new post and realized it was the same guy that gave me everything. :P I went through the thread and took note of the fact that my post was the only one that wasn't an insulting reply.

In any sense, I stopped posting insulting replies in the "I quit" forum threads from that day forward. ;)
Sobaan Tali
Caldari Quick Reaction Force
#23 - 2014-09-21 12:15:46 UTC
Working on it. I'll let you know when I get there.

"Tomahawks?"

"----in' A, right?"

"Trouble is, those things cost like a million and a half each."

"----, you pay me half that and I'll hump in some c4 and blow the ---- out of it my own damn self."
pinkajoo
#24 - 2014-09-21 13:45:53 UTC
When I started trusting someone, and he started trusting me..
Marlenus
Ironfleet Towing And Salvage
#25 - 2014-09-21 16:11:47 UTC
For me it was when salvage entered the game, and I noticed that Armor Plates didn't have any use whatsoever in the initial rig recipes. For that reason they were available very cheap on the market ... they were utterly useless!

Well, I decided to invest essentially all of my liquid assets (maybe fifty million ISK at the time?) into buying armor plates as cheap as possible. My thinking was that even LOLCCP -- which in those days took minimum of six months to fix any bugs and iterated very rarely on anything -- would have to fix that glitch EVENTUALLY, since a useless salvage item didn't make much sense long term.

So, I set up buy orders in five regions and tended them sufficiently to keep my orders the best. For months.

Eventually I took a couple of months off -- my second vacation from EVE if I recall -- and when I came back, I suddenly had six billion ISK worth of armor plates because there was a recipe for them and they were now one of the bottleneck salvage items.

I sold heavily because I figured the price would eventually decline from its peak (and it has!) but I still have a billion ISK or so in armor plates sitting around. I am frugal with my losses and expenditures, so I've never had to worry about being broke from that day to this.

Buying worthless items and waiting for shifts in the game to increase their value has been pretty good to me. But I'm starting to wonder about this five year old stack of ten thousand or so of Zor's Custom Navigation Links. Maybe someday CCP will rebalance all the implants and I will suddenly feel smart, but I am not holding my breath. Lol
Vyl Vit
#26 - 2014-09-22 01:14:31 UTC
I would tell you...but then
I'd have to report you to your mother.

Paradise is like where you are right now, only much, much better.
45thtiger 0109
Pan-Intergalatic Business Community
#27 - 2014-09-22 01:34:13 UTC
Had CCP chase me across the EvE universe for whatever reason I do not know why Big smileP j/ k CCP



**You Have to take the good with the bad and the bad with the good.

Welcome to EvE OnLiNe**
Veers Belvar
Swordmasters of New Eden
#28 - 2014-09-22 02:42:59 UTC
Just run L4 SOE's and incursions...don't do anything stupid....and ISK accumulates.
Oracle of Machina
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#29 - 2014-09-22 03:00:16 UTC
While I haven't made billions upon untold billions of ISK, I did end up finding out from a friend about incursions. At the time, I was extremely new to the game (I'm not exactly an old salt now) and I had no idea what I wanted to do... and my skills can attest to that. A friend suggested that despite the extreme variation in skills, I could probably work towards getting into incursions in about 2-3 weeks of skill training. It would be a bit of a shitfit, but it was (barely) acceptable.

Finally! Something to work towards! No longer will I randomly accumulate skill for no particular goal! I had a set goal to work towards for the first time ever. I set a goal. And then I achieved it. No longer did I plug in the random cool-looking skill and train it. No longer was I trying to train all four gunnery types at once. I think that, more than any money I made from Incursions, was the real wake-up call. If you set a goal in EVE, no matter how lofty, and work at it one step at a time, you can pretty much do anything in EVE. Being able to run incursions isn't exactly sky-high, I realize, but it was still a huge accomplishment for me.

Oh, and the 3-4 billion I made in a few of days of Incursions was quite nice, too.
CERA Elitist
The Prometheus Society
#30 - 2014-09-22 03:20:02 UTC
Proud to be one of the elite few who profited off the 2008 market crash.
Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#31 - 2014-09-22 04:15:30 UTC
My big break was when I finally had the fitting skills to fill all the slots on my Golem. I still didn't have the skills to fit rigs, but just the move to T2 launchers alone was excellent. Caldari Navy launchers get expensive.

Help, I can't download EVE

President of the Commissar Kate Fanclub

PLEX: A Giffen good? (It's 1B?)
Prince Sanguine
#32 - 2014-09-22 05:42:53 UTC
No break yet. Never really needed much isk for what i do.

Everytime you read this you are required to send 100 million isk directly to me.
Kalishka Ashkulf
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#33 - 2014-09-22 07:09:48 UTC
Wow, there's quite a few great stories going on here. How many of them were interrupted by general gunfire and tomfoolery?

Why, thank you, Thing!
Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#34 - 2014-09-22 07:41:30 UTC
making it past the hump of grinding enough CN standings for a level 4 agent was sweet too.

Help, I can't download EVE

President of the Commissar Kate Fanclub

PLEX: A Giffen good? (It's 1B?)
om rootingking
Brave Newbies Inc.
Brave Collective
#35 - 2014-09-22 09:17:56 UTC
Wanted to quit eve every week the forst six months, salvaging and missions made me some space money.
Ratting lowsec in a thrasher was good because the turrets were worth getting, that got nerfed.
Then it was shooting npc haulers in hisec to feed a science pos and selling the excess, hit 800m and stopped caring about losses, then the hauler loot got nerfed.
After 800m in wallet and assets, the balance stopped being the space scorecard. From then on it was fun derived from doing new things or making others upset.
THEN a friend raegquit and left me all his stuff.
THEN i found what seemed to be the assets of an entire corp (or extremely rich maniac) floating in space in freight containers.
Coincidentally, Enormous Freight Containers got nerfed that week.
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#36 - 2014-09-22 09:29:39 UTC
Kalishka Ashkulf wrote:
Wow, there's quite a few great stories going on here. How many of them were interrupted by general gunfire and tomfoolery?

yup
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Murderers of Negotiable Motivations

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Mike Adoulin
Happys Happy Hamster Hunting Club
#37 - 2014-09-22 09:33:46 UTC
I used to grind missions and stuff, but now I just look at market PLEX prices, cackle evilly, and buy PLEX from CCP when they have a sale.

.....

Wat?

DONT JUDGE ME

Bear

Everything in EVE is a trap.

And if it isn't, it's your job to make it a trap...:)

You want to know what immorality in EVE Online looks like? Look no further than Ripard "Jester" Teg.

Chribba is the Chuck Norris of EVE.
Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#38 - 2014-09-22 09:35:24 UTC
Kalishka Ashkulf wrote:
Wow, there's quite a few great stories going on here. How many of them were interrupted by general gunfire and tomfoolery?

lately the only thing that interrupts me are closed sockets

Help, I can't download EVE

President of the Commissar Kate Fanclub

PLEX: A Giffen good? (It's 1B?)
Toriessian
Helion Production Labs
Independent Operators Consortium
#39 - 2014-09-22 20:06:22 UTC
Year ago right after WHs started I joined a bad "noob" WH corp and they left me there alone for months with only my drake, a harbi, and some mining stuff.

One day he logged in and pulled everything down, told me he was shutting corp down and all of a sudden I was rolling in the dough because he liquidated everything and gave it to me.


Every day I'm wafflin!
Val'Dore
PlanetCorp InterStellar
#40 - 2014-09-22 20:42:11 UTC
When I stopped giving a damn what my wallet looked like is when it got fat and lazy.

Star Jump Drive A new way to traverse the galaxy.

I invented Tiericide
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