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Ever just sold it all and started over with a large bank?

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Throne of Games
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#1 - 2015-03-28 18:21:03 UTC
Been playing Skillqueue Online for I can't even think how long any more. Have toyed with the idea of just selling it all on the bazaar and starting over fresh with a large bank, like an inheritance that grandfather passed on when he left.

Have any of you actually ever done this? Toyed with the idea? How'd it go for you if you did so?
Kiandoshia
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2015-03-28 19:06:59 UTC
Toyed with the idea a couple of years ago. A few people I know have actually done it. It hasn't made them enjoy the game any more, incase that is what you are trying to figure out.

Starting from scratch entirely can be quite fun, like... Give away everything except for a noob ship and 5k ISK to an alt and see what happens ^^
Noriko Mai
#3 - 2015-03-28 19:07:41 UTC
I would never sell my character. It's like selling my soul.

"Meh.." - Albert Einstein
stoicfaux
#4 - 2015-03-28 19:16:14 UTC
Noriko Mai wrote:
I would never sell my character. It's like selling my soul.

Wal-mart sells souls. I normally wait for the post-Easter sale to pick up a replacement.


Pon Farr Memorial: once every 7 years, all the carebears in high-sec must PvP or they will be temp-banned.
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#5 - 2015-03-28 19:18:38 UTC
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Ever just sold it all and started over with a large bank?
I do it all the time. It's how I make most of my ISK.

Only not with a character. I have up to six at a time training for up to a year or more that never even undock. Best passive income in the game, in my opinion.

Mr Epeen Cool
Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
#6 - 2015-03-28 19:24:57 UTC
I've thought about it, but hey, I really like my main so don't think I'd ever actually do it. maybe sell an alt, but I like them too. I've started a few new characters and every time I do that, or think of doing it, I just miss the flexibility a certain level of SP brings. I remember how painful it was training weapon upgrades to 5 while running lv3s in a drake as a rookie. Heck even now I have trouble playing my 100+ mil sp alts, as Chainsaw is just a bit ahead in SP

I think my main benefit would be liquidating all my assets. I have so much stuff just everywhere.

@ChainsawPlankto on twitter
Jack Hayson
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2015-03-28 19:43:37 UTC
What would be the point in doing that?
You would have tons of ISK for buying shiny ships but no character that could fly them.
Flaming Butterfly
Banana-Republic.
Shadow Cartel
#8 - 2015-03-28 20:15:23 UTC
yes, did that twice. both times because EVE took over everything.

Sometimes you gotta put the ***** in check and let her know who is in charge.

https://youtu.be/b-pcFLs3TM0
Violet Hurst
Fedaya Recon
#9 - 2015-03-28 20:16:02 UTC
Now and then i get this idea of loading up a venture with blueprints and holing up in a certain lowsec system, never to leave it, using the modules i can find or build myself. But soon after it usually dawns on me that playing a hermit in an mmorpg is kinda ridiculous, also i've practiced saying "You kids get off my lawn!", but i can't seem to get it right.
Serene Repose
#10 - 2015-03-28 20:24:35 UTC  |  Edited by: Serene Repose
"Interesting misapprehension" underlying this OP. The assumption being how much ISK you got...if you've done this any length of time, it's the SP, stupid. It's the SP. You'd have to really have a good reason to dump a significant amount of skill points. Screw the ISK. That comes and goes. SP? Heh. If you don't know by now, you'll figure it out....
eventually....hopefully...

or not. Big smile

We must accommodate the idiocracy.
Antihrist Pripravnik
Cultural Enrichment and Synergy of Diversity
Stain Neurodiverse Democracy
#11 - 2015-03-28 21:46:11 UTC
I did a couple of asset cleanups in the past, but that's all. Selling all of my stuff except for a couple of ships I use every day and starting over (so to speak). It makes sense when you're moving from one play style to some other. It's the best of both worlds: you keep your SP and ship type flexibility and fill up your bank considerably.
Amarrchecko
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#12 - 2015-03-28 22:10:14 UTC
Serene Repose wrote:
"Interesting misapprehension" underlying this OP. The assumption being how much ISK you got...if you've done this any length of time, it's the SP, stupid. It's the SP. You'd have to really have a good reason to dump a significant amount of skill points. Screw the ISK. That comes and goes. SP? Heh. If you don't know by now, you'll figure it out....
eventually....hopefully...

or not. Big smile


He knows he would have a ton of isk if he sold stuff. He knows he wouldn't have any skillpoints if he sold his characters. That IS what he is talking about.
Desimus Maximus
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#13 - 2015-03-28 22:12:24 UTC
Consider it all the time...

89.5m SP.

35b

anyone?
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#14 - 2015-03-28 22:13:16 UTC
Yeah, it's called "Test Leadership Syndrome".

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.
SeenButNotHeard
Perkone
Caldari State
#15 - 2015-03-28 22:18:11 UTC
My word, this forum is really degenerating fast just to get likes.

Nicolai Serkanner
Incredible.
Brave Collective
#16 - 2015-03-28 22:19:15 UTC
No.
Olivia Alcott
Doomheim
#17 - 2015-03-28 22:20:15 UTC
I was a player who made a lot of money buying and selling characters on the Bazzarr, I eventually traded my way up to a character with 150 million skill points, who could fly pretty much everything in the game with decent fits.

Though I was happy at the time I always just thought "but this character isn't really mine"... felt like I was renting it and that I hadn't earned it.

So I sold it and all the other characters I had amassed to sit on a large sum of ISK and start over. It's funny, because If I had just kept playing one character since I started I would have been at least 130 mil SP by now and it would've been mine.

But now I have a character with about 1 million skill points, a fat wallet and I'm no happier. All I think about now is "im 12 years behind the people who started on release :("

So I'm just lost, forever wandering in the void of space and time with a lot of ISK and no SP to fly the things I want to fly. Maybe I will just buy another character again... ShockedUgh
Jonas Kanjus
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#18 - 2015-03-28 22:31:30 UTC
Throne of Games wrote:
Been playing Skillqueue Online for I can't even think how long any more. Have toyed with the idea of just selling it all on the bazaar and starting over fresh with a large bank, like an inheritance that grandfather passed on when he left.

Have any of you actually ever done this? Toyed with the idea? How'd it go for you if you did so?



Yes, I have done this several times over the past decade. My last toon sold earned me 15 billion isk.

My start date to EVE Online: 6/25/2005 8:24:57 AM UTC
Gimme Sake
State War Academy
Caldari State
#19 - 2015-03-28 22:46:43 UTC
No amount of isk is worth starting over the SP grind.

"Never not blob!" ~ Plato
Memphis Baas
#20 - 2015-03-28 23:02:19 UTC
Done it 3 times, basically after returning from 1- or 2-year breaks. I usually do it because I feel disconnected from characters that I haven't played in a long time.

Starting over is somewhat annoying, because as a veteran you get used to having all the core and support skills trained already, and as a newbie you must spend several months training up stuff to unlock various ships or weapons that you want to use. CCP has made it much much faster in the past few years, by getting rid of the learning skills and also by reducing the prerequisites on a lot of T2 modules from having the skill at 4 to having the skill at 3.

Another thing is the ISK that you can get from characters; as posted above, there's a whole team of character traders, and they can only make the kind of money they're talking about if they buy cheaply and sell overpriced. Compared to the cost of a subscription (based on the value of a PLEX), you always lose when you sell, and when you buy, a character. On top of it, ISK devalues with time; for example 6 billion ISK 4 years ago was a fortune, now it's almost chump change.

Finally, recent and future changes to the game may dissuade character trading. Clone grades are no longer in the game, so you no longer lose a fortune if you get podded with 150m SP vs. only 15m SP, so it no longer makes sense to stop training or to start low-SP alts for frigate combat for example. Any upcoming nerf to capital ships will probably slash the prices you can get for capital pilots. And finally, if CCP ever implements skillpoint reallocation, it will probably make sense to keep your character and just reallocate your points, instead of selling.
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