Market Discussions

This was an enjoyable thread to follow, all the types of answers given ranging from severely altruistic to the desire to blow it all on hookers. :)

Regardless, pre-congrats to who gets it.

I would use it to completely turn the Intaki system (gallente trader racial) into a thriving trade hub, even though it is in lowsec.

Nice initiative !

Two options with this money for me :

- I'll create a fund for bot ganking. A very organized Corp which spend time to hunt and destroy bots everywhere in New Eden. The 20B will be used to buy ships and give them to my mates to do so.

Or

- i'll create a trading Hub in an isolated region with Jita prices to open a fair market to people living in this region.

You tell me what option do you prefer and i'll do it. Both are motivating to me.

i would rmt it

Right, here goes nothing.

I started playing EVE a couple of years ago and I feel like I have taken a wrong turning. Like most people, I started out playing the tutorials, running a few missions, mining a few asteroids, and so on. But then, instead of jumping in and enjoying all the things that EVE has to offer, I discovered something disappointing about myself: I'm much more risk-averse than I thought I was. When I say risk-averse, I really mean it. My character is still in the NPC corp he started in because I was too afraid of being ripped off to join any of the player corps that were recruiting. In all that time I've rarely left high-sec for fear of being ganked, and as a result my PvP experience is next to non-existent. In fact I think it's fair to say that my level of interaction with other players in the game is next to non-existent, which is pretty sad really, especially as I'm not the typical loner type. I spend almost all of my in-game time sitting in a station, reading local and fiddling with my spreadsheets, and when I do go into space I find myself scuttling from one NPC station to another hoping that nobody spots me and decides I might be easy pickings. The stupid thing is that I have the ISK and the skills to buy and fly quite a range of ships, but I'm too afraid of losing my hard-earned money to actually do so. It's pathetic, I admit it, and frankly I am bored. Bored to the point of feeling I may give up playing the game at all.

What I'm looking for is a chance to change all that. I have started a new account and a new character, and I want to make a fresh start. I want to go out there and take risks. I want to join a player corp, train skills to have fun instead of to make money, fly out into 0.0 space, pew-pew with other people who want to pew-pew, pod and get podded, maybe get scammed if I'm unlucky but not worry about it too much. In short I want to enjoy EVE the way it was meant to be played. Now of course you could say that I should do this with the my own money, and of course you'd be right, but in practice I know it would never happen. I know because I've tried starting a new character before, but because I was still trying to play it with my own hard-earned ISK I quickly ended up falling back into my old ways.

So, here's my "bid" for the money. I promise to go out and play the game. I promise not to waste your money but to enjoy it. I promise to play EVE with internet spaceships and pew-pew and other players, not spreadsheets-in-space all on my own. And hopefully by the time the money eventually runs out, I will have found a way past my risk-aversion and will be able to continue playing with my own money, instead of hoarding what I have like a fool while I watch everyone else having fun.

Thanks for reading.

Thank you all for your responses, no more requests will be considered.

Winner will be announced here shortly

dear Macks Artilius and The Mattius please can you take shareshot of your wallet journal showing all of us this is for real please

Congratulations are in order!

To the OP, wish you all the best and if one day you be back, drop me a evemail it would be a pleasure to fly with you.

Looks like I got to this thread late.

Oh well I would of just spent it all on hookers & blow.

Yeah I thought that was a little weird. The ISK was taken from a corp wallet and then sent from me to Macks. I guess the balance is shown after the transaction so would show no change?
Anyhow, I'm not here to prove anything, the ISK has been sent and hopefully Macks will confirm receipt.

TM