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That is kind of the point.

So, .... better get started shooting then.

among many other reasons, because one of their directors, baki yuku, sold all of their r64s at crazy low prices to an alliance member coincidentally also named baki yuku

Tell us the notech story where he pretty much just dumped a big pile of TEST isk into our coffers.

They didn't actually have control over that much of the moongoo, that's the thing. There was a speculation spike, which made the CFC money, and possibly a certain Baki Yuku money, but the HBC didn't sell their stuff and the price went back down after people realized they couldn't constrain the supply enough.

Nope this is the moment where the best happens, small gang pvp, solo pvp, assault frigs fleets etc which awesome and from my point of view the most exciting pvp form in null.
Unless you get drop by a fake R&K elite dudes in faction battleships killing small stuff/pipe bombing and running away like cowards at the sight of a single fleet same size to get a real fight because loosingexpensivepinatasinKBisbad.AVI

Nope, they denationized all of the moons and dude bought them up after the fact from the corps.

It's not at all a joke. Early on in the fountain war, TEST was insisting that they weren't actually losing that many r64s, so blawrf found all of them. TEST then told us that because all of the r64s were privately owned, they didn't count. Baki Yuku then popped into the kugu thread and announced how he'd bought all of the r64s for a song because (like everyone else with a brain) he was sure they'd get rebalanced into being worth a lot. He then could not at all figure out why we all started basically rolling on the floor laughing at how open he was about how he'd ****** his alliance over.

He was also responsible for "NOTEC", where TEST stopped selling all their neo so the price would spike as an attempted economic warfare against goonswarm (back when tech was the bottleneck). Unfortunately for TEST, we'd been stockpiling massive amounts of r64s throughout the tech era because we figured they'd be rebalanced later (and this is why we didn't sell our r64s to random directors). So when the price was 70k, goonswarm was busy selling as much neo as the market could bear. There was no way NOTEC could actually work: neo wasn't bottlenecked, and TEST didnt' control enough to withhold enough to spike the market and make it up on the remainder. That meant they had to rely on other alliances to not cheat which was never, ever going to happen (especially since one of those alliances was PL, which owns their moons privately). The only thing TEST could do was not sell at all, build up a giant stockpile, then try to sell on the way down. That doesn't work well in the best of cases. When another alliance has huge amounts of neo, knows what's going on, and loves isk it reeeeeeeeeeeally doesn't work. We sold millions of units at prices much higher than they are today. TEST didn't make any money at all off of it. It was basically baki yuku handing us 300b+ (which we then spent on invading fountain, thanks baki) straight out of test's coffers.

baki was also responsible for the z9pp disaster that should have wiped out 100+ test capitals and only lost 30 or so thanks to :ccp:, responsible for the latest black legion disaster, and responsible for a fuckup so massively hilarious that test has kept it a complete secret from everybody after they finally figured it out and fixed it

FTFY



People need to get paid to log into an internet spaceship game and go shoot other people in internet spaceships?

Your calculations don't even scratch the surface. 6VDT alone took ~8 hours with what, 2500 CFC members? You send them out to a $10/hour job instead, that's $200,000 (!) or 108 Trillion ISK! Not even counting any other activities that took place that day both before and after, or the rest of the campaign.

Oh wait. But that's work, not fun. Kind of like ratting.

On a side note: The opportunity cost of me playing video games to begin with instead of getting an extra part time job, is somewhere in the neighborhood of $300,000. I wasted my life and I want it baaack! Oh well, I would have wasted it anyway.

Actually why AM I playing eve online.