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My guess would be find the goose that laid said egg, forget to feed it, then have intercourse with its feathery, buttery corpse.

The pressure on the OI price is high. It's looking like that some have bought to much and try to panik sell the OI. Until now, I can't see a shortage of OI. The question is, how much is part of a speculation and how much part of a stockpiling to secure running POSes for some weeks.

One of the reasons why alliances do not (generally) take all the isk for "The alliance" has already been highlighted; You don't want to burnout your core teams and your core players who help keep your corp and your alliance running smoothly.

The reason for not wanting the isk, is rich corps and alliances do not make good gameplay. If all your members are mostly poor, making just enough to maintain their normal losses each week/month, while working their behinds off to see your alliance rich.... It puts all the emphasis on your corp/alliance infrastructure and leadership to do something with that isk.

This then results in your members becoming reliant on someone else doing everything for them. This is not good for the game, it causes detachment of the player. They have no care for the things they have because they didn't have to work for it, they just go out shoot stuff, and at the end get given a new one when it's lost. This means when bigger meaner alliance comes along and takes your space, or little corp thief walks off with your entire ship stock, your alliance and it's apparent wealth becomes useless.

The ultimate ideal is for all your members to make their own riches one way or another, and find their own enjoyment in the game.
The corp and the alliance become enablers to achieve that wealth, achieve their goals and maintain a level of entertainment.

If at the end of the month, your large alliance is capable of making 180bn isk per month, you have options for enhancing their experience within the game. It could be you buy some new supers for your trusted members to play in, buying 10,000 thorax to gank mack's in, buying BPO sets for your members to build new toys with, whatever that may be.
Watching 0's tick past on an alliance wallet does not enhance your members gameplay.

we make something like 350-400b a month

I don't get all the drama over the Goons' finances. To be honest, they sound like one of the most economically aware alliances out there. Sure, they could wring more out of their space at the alliance level, but that sort of thinking reminds me of the slack-jawed yuppies in those finance tv commercials who worry that their money could be "doing more". Their alliance could also be "doing less", say, if it broke up or got chased out of nullsec.

Edit: Finding a profitable use for "ADD-addled, barely literate man children" has got to count for something too.

alliances are often run as ponzi schemes to extract capital and then they fail militarily. see: every NC alliance

goonswarm is basically a stalinist institution, we try to spend all the isk our alliance accumulates on our members as rapidly as possible so they don't have to suffer through the worst aspects of the game (ie, PVE of any kind) and can focus on grief and hate

That is actually the only talent you need in life, to be an effective leader.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzC4hFK5P3g

Watch this on repeat for 24 hours.

It probably won't fix your boredom, or anything.

Dude, you're dissuading an opinionated, intelligent, independent wordsmith from tackling issues in the modern intellectual landscape? That's the contemporary version of stabbing the caveman who's showing everyone how to start fire.

argh you have found my achilles heel, my utter weakness to flattery and my monstrous, overweening ego and pride in the quality of my writing

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(i'd like to write a book but idk what about, i'm **** with fiction and the nonfiction market's a bit ****)