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Leaving EVE and donating an Obelisk

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JohnLewis
Jovian Development and Logistics Corporation
#1 - 2015-01-07 13:59:07 UTC
I have played EVE on and off since 2007 and have never flown a freighter. I have spent the last few weeks liquidating all my assets and manufacturing all the components required to build an Obelisk.

I now have all the components and have started the job to build the Obelisk (finishes on 17th January). I want to fly the Obelisk so I can tick off that milestone but then what do I do?

I only have a few hours each week to play EVE and can't commit to any set times so spend most of my time doing missions, industry, trading, PI.

The way I look at it I have two options:

Option 1 - fly the Obelisk for a while then sell it for 1.3 billion and have some spending money for if I ever play EVE again OR

Option 2 - donate my Obelisk to some deserving cause and reduce my net worth to almost zero thus removing the temptation of playing EVE again.

Any thoughts or suggestions welcome,

JohnLewis
Crumplecorn
Eve Cluster Explorations
#2 - 2015-01-07 14:00:35 UTC  |  Edited by: Crumplecorn
Give me the obelisk and I'll give you 2 back.



Protip: Keep the obelisk, you'll be back

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Signal11th
#3 - 2015-01-07 14:01:11 UTC
blow it up and leave.

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Maeltstome
Ten Thousand Days
#4 - 2015-01-07 14:02:17 UTC
Join a large corp for newer/casual players. Use the Obelisk to help them out when you have free time.

Eve is the one MMO you should never cash in on, because coming back is so much harder than just hittng a new level cap and doing some instances with pugs.
Dradis Aulmais
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2015-01-07 14:08:12 UTC
JohnLewis wrote:
I have played EVE on and off since 2007 and have never flown a freighter. I have spent the last few weeks liquidating all my assets and manufacturing all the components required to build an Obelisk.

I now have all the components and have started the job to build the Obelisk (finishes on 17th January). I want to fly the Obelisk so I can tick off that milestone but then what do I do?

I only have a few hours each week to play EVE and can't commit to any set times so spend most of my time doing missions, industry, trading, PI.

The way I look at it I have two options:

Option 1 - fly the Obelisk for a while then sell it for 1.3 billion and have some spending money for if I ever play EVE again OR

Option 2 - donate my Obelisk to some deserving cause and reduce my net worth to almost zero thus removing the temptation of playing EVE again.

Any thoughts or suggestions welcome,

JohnLewis


Send it to mike azariah and operation magic school bus to hep the newbros

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Crystalline Entity
Black Dragon PHP
#6 - 2015-01-07 14:13:08 UTC
Good luck man, real life can really kick EVE play time in the teeth sometimesSad

Donate it to somebody in need.
Sol Project
Shitt Outta Luck - GANKING4GOOD
#7 - 2015-01-07 14:13:22 UTC
Contact Chribba and ask him to donate it to the next PLEX4GOOD.

Don't give it to anyone else, they're all sinister and eat babies.

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Primary Suspect
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#8 - 2015-01-07 14:35:04 UTC
Fly to Uedama during US TZ prime, park 200km from the gate and start talking **** to goons and code. Mission accomplished.
Chal0ner
Hideaway Hunters
The Hideaway.
#9 - 2015-01-07 14:57:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Chal0ner
Primary Suspect wrote:
Fly to Uedama during US TZ prime, park 200km from the gate and start talking **** to goons and code. Mission accomplished.


Sounds like a plan
Kharaxus
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#10 - 2015-01-07 15:05:48 UTC
Chal0ner wrote:
Primary Suspect wrote:
Fly to Uedama during US TZ prime, park 200km from the gate and start talking **** to goons and code. Mission accomplished.


Sounds like a plan


That sounds like fun whether you have an Obselisk or not.
Ruskarn Andedare
Lion Investments
#11 - 2015-01-07 15:45:40 UTC
Maeltstome wrote:
Join a large corp for newer/casual players. Use the Obelisk to help them out when you have free time.

Eve is the one MMO you should never cash in on, because coming back is so much harder than just hittng a new level cap and doing some instances with pugs.

Excellent plan. New player corps always need stuff shipped around plus just seeing how big a freighter is can be quite something to totally new guys.
Vorran
Doomheim
#12 - 2015-01-07 16:07:23 UTC
I can take that off your hands please :)
Xtreem
Knockaround Guys Inc.
#13 - 2015-01-07 16:20:49 UTC
Give it to me! I am already quite well off in eve and want more as i am greedy :-D

honesty pays right? :-D
Lord LazyGhost
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#14 - 2015-01-07 16:27:16 UTC
keep it never know if you will return and the prices will probs go up. best best fly it for a while liquidate it buy plex with your cash and if ya do ever come back and cash them in for a profit and of ya go again
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#15 - 2015-01-07 16:53:22 UTC
You'll be back. That's just the way it is.

So don't do anything rash. Hang onto your assets (except the leftover blueprints that you can give to me) and you'll not be starting over at zero when you next resub.

Mr Epeen Cool
AeonOfTime
Syrkos Technologies
#16 - 2015-01-07 18:11:13 UTC
I have a Fenrir I built a few years ago. I must have used it three or four times, but those were times it really, really came in handy and spared me a huge transport grind. One might argue that's what courier contracts are for, but I like owning lots of different ships, and use the right one for the task at hand when needed.

If you have the slightest doubts that you may come back from quitting, keep the ship. See it this way: if you get rid of it as an incentive not to return, you still might - and that would just be sad. Freighter's aren't the most fun ships in EVE, but they are a noteworthy achievement, especially if you built it yourself.

My advice: give it a meaningful name and keep it. Dust it off now and then. Be proud that you built it yourself.

Lone wolf and nomad extraordinaire. eve.aeonoftime.com
VaIefar Drekavac
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#17 - 2015-01-07 19:03:31 UTC
Sol Project wrote:
Contact Chribba and ask him to donate it to the next PLEX4GOOD.

Don't give it to anyone else, they're all sinister and eat babies.



Only if they cry without reason.
Bienator II
madmen of the skies
#18 - 2015-01-07 19:10:09 UTC
if you don't have time to play eve, don't play eve. Giving stuff away is stupid. If you come back in a few years you will need it. If you don't come back it won't hurt you to keep it.

just don't play when you don't have time ;)

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Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#19 - 2015-01-07 19:32:25 UTC
Option 1

EVE is a game where you want to come back after a time, maybe just for checking what changed, maybe because you want to feel again how it is to lose a ship to gank or gatecamp or overpowered rats or just enemy fleet.

Custom ship skins, character creator style "repaint". Bring it!
Bud
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#20 - 2015-01-07 19:35:59 UTC
Do a bit of option one and option 2
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