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Serious Question - What to do with 150b?
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idont havefriends
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#1 - 2017-05-04 23:58:00 UTC
I have a feeling that if I dumped 150b in Jita, my actual profit would be less than 1% return for a day. If I'm not mistaken, diminishing returns would kill it. I used to station trade and did just fine, but this is a bit too much money for camping Jita.

Currently, for inactive players, it seems that character investments are the way to go. The value of some of my characters have doubled in the past 6 months or so of my inactivity. I have a feeling that this is mainly from inflation, however, and not necessarily from an actual increase in value. So, that being said, if you had limited play time, how would you grow 150b? With this much money, even 1-2% for a few hours of work is a substantial amount, but is 3-5% a reasonable expectation? What about 5-7%?
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Zero Zentharis
#2 - 2017-05-05 00:57:48 UTC
If you have a limited time, consider mainly character farms. Realistically you can grow 300bil+ even at 15-20% but chances are, you are not in position of power to do it.
idont havefriends
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#3 - 2017-05-05 01:57:34 UTC
0000000000ZERO0000000000 wrote:
If you have a limited time, consider mainly character farms. Realistically you can grow 300bil+ even at 15-20% but chances are, you are not in position of power to do it.


What is a character farm?
Gimme Sake
State War Academy
Caldari State
#4 - 2017-05-05 08:56:20 UTC
idont havefriends wrote:
0000000000ZERO0000000000 wrote:
If you have a limited time, consider mainly character farms. Realistically you can grow 300bil+ even at 15-20% but chances are, you are not in position of power to do it.


What is a character farm?



You buy or start new characters and then sell them. Doesn't require any time spent except for setting up training queues. Keep an eye on the character market forum thread and figure out what to train. Use injectors or extractors as needed.

"Never not blob!" ~ Plato
Do Little
Bluenose Trading
#5 - 2017-05-05 12:19:33 UTC
If you have market experience you should be able to play the cycle for a few select commodities. Buy in the bottom half, relist in the top half and let the market come to you. This requires little of your time but can take a fair amount of calendar time.

There are also speculative opportunities in moon materials with the upcoming expansion. Right now, I would consider this fairly high risk since there is still a lot of time for CCP to change their mind but the plan they announced at fanfest will see the market supplied from stockpiles between patch day and delivery of material produced in the new refineries - at least a couple of weeks.

The transition from outposts to faction citadels will also give people something to fight over which is always good for business!