Science & Industry

Who am I?

My name is Sinqlaison, supercapital (pack) producer, see my sales thread

Price

1 billion ISK for the the best idea to be paid out in Oct-31. The runner up idea earns 500 mln ISK, and #3 250mln ISK. I will be the judge of who the winners are and publish that in this thread. In case you have some concerns whether I will pay up, see my thread and references in that thread (and the old one going back 3-4 years)

Background & context

For my current business I employ some 2.8 trillion ISK in terms of titan BPOs/BPCs, capital construction BPOs/BPCs, cash, POS & fuel, capital construction components, etc etc. I have just expanded the business with an investment of 200 bln ISK to increase my capacity to produce titan BPC packs, in a big bet on the upcoming supercap nerf, assuming it will favor titans over supercarriers and create large demand.

However, I expect to have another 300 bln ISK at hand in 3 months and need plans to invest that.

What I believe in is investment opportunities that provide a sustainable advantage. Requiring massive capital is a good basis for providing sustainable advantage as there are limited people/corporations/alliances in Eve who can muster 100's of billions to invest. I view it like Shell or Exxon who can sink 13 bln dollar in a new LNG operations, they will be able to reap a nice rent thereafter - if they manage the political risks well. Am looking for similar ideas in Eve as well.

My constraint is time. As I am 1 person, not a big alliance, any idea must be executable with limited effort. Capital is no issue, time is.

Your idea

If you are interested to participate in the contest - post your idea here, or post a short note and write me in game. Your post here should then just say 'Idea on XYZ - sent you mail in game". That way you signify you participate, without spilling all the beans.

Idea description

In your post here, or your mail in game, please describe the nature of the business, the way it creates value, what investment is needed and wy you think it will create sustainable advantage

Fun ideas

Obviously we expect a few ideas like "donate it to me and I will pay you the double amount in 6 months" and the like. They are welcome too, though not likely to win a price

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May the best idea(s) win !!

Make a new lottery website. It can be pretty much 100% automated except you will need to contract over prizes once a day or so.

There are a couple of things I would do if I had that amount kind of isk:

1. Dreads are being buffed and as such a greater demand may arise. Copy, rent out manufacturing rights or even manufacture.


2. Sov structures, atm a fair few alliances that used be in 0.0, smaller ones mind you, are staying in high sec due to unreliable conditions in null atm, when they go back they will need infrastructure to build up systems and as such sov holding and upgrading structures will be needed.


3. Changes to salvage, there are talks about the possibility for melting t1 salvage into t2 salvage and vice versa, this for making t2 rigs more affordable, it would not be totally unthinkable that some of the now more or less useless salvage would increase in value significantly...


4. When you want to leverage great amounts of isk time will be your bottleneck, but if you had others to make use of the isk for you there is practically no limit to the amount of isk you can leverage. Options here would be run a corp/alliance, lend out money (with collateral) or own 0.0 space. Resonably priced space is in demand at the moment, if you somehow were able to buy/force or in other ways gain space in 0.0 then renting it out to an alliance or even a group of alliance will net you a fair income.

hire pl to invade 1/3rd of deklein............. oh wait


or buy up all the hydrogen and helium isotopes before goons do and resell at some silly high price

Hi friends, the tally until now is

#1 "1 billion ISK price" - Transport Sheep with the idea of Outposts & t2 lease
#2 "500 million ISK price" - Yuko Ostus with the ideas on dreads & salvage
#3 "250 mln ISK price"- no candidate yet

Keep them flowing guys! If your idea is better you can climb to #1 / 2 / 3 position... Oct-31 is the end date for the contest.

o/ SL

Monopolise the Dread Buff, details sent by in game eve mail.

Buy a bunch of supers and knock over the house of cards that is TEST alliance, stealing all of their delicious moons.

For profit:
1. long-term id say start a t2 bpo collection.
2. market manipulation. Kinda like the goons are doing now, pick a common item and force the price to double overnight.
3. pick a large nullsec tradehub. get an alt into whoever controls that. Control the markets for the common pvp mods and ships. You can buyout orders below yours and maintain at least a 50% profit margin on all your mods. If you persist with this, eventually others will stop competing and you will have to manage orders less.

For fun:
1. Sponsor the next hulkaggeden.
2. acquire an alliance tourney ship and start flying around highsec and see how many people get concorded while trying to kill you.
3. support the goons in killing off all ice miners... the results are quite funny atm. :D
4. give it to me! :P

Take the second best idea, and allow "Investors" to participate in this activity by way of a shareholding.

Dont give them their money back.

I would stop being a measly scrote by offering 0.3% of investment for good investment ideas. You probably do have the 300b, but alas, you like letting everyone know too.