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Actually i am leaving Eve after playing for almost 8 years, no rage quit, not particularly bitter either. Simply i have done it all, over several characters and practically everyone i started out with left ages ago and i find myself logging in less and less.

I don't intend to return, and would rather someone else had the benefit of the ISK in my wallet than it gathering dust on a dormant character. I have either lost, given away or just can't be bothered to collect all my stuff together, but have the sum of 20 Billion ISK to give to away to someone who could make use of it.

What do i have to do to get it i hear you ask?

Simply, i would like to hear how it would change the way you play Eve (hopefully for the better). Ideas like i would buy expensive ships and fly them through 0.0 are unlikely to get you far, i'm looking for orginal ideas on how you would use this ISK.

Thats it, no other conditions and this offer is open to anyone, one day old characters to beta (and probably bitter) vets


TM

N.B. I have posted this here as i have spent most of my time for the last year or two hanging about in MD. Also, please note only replies to this post here will be considered, i have no plans to log on much so will not be reading Eve mail.
I will leave the topic open for 1 week, and then decide who i would like to have the ISK which will be then sent to them.

I would like to create more oppertunities for new players to get involved in the market. I currently do this by putting out reasonable courier contracts and paying out members of my corp for raw PI. What I have come to find is that most of the corps I have been in, including ones I have personally formed, can't grow fast enough to retain its members. I would like to create an alliance built around the idea of keeping new players both busy and protected, but im in no position to do so atm. With the funding I can create projects that not only are profitable for myself, but give others a chance to get involved and learn from these projects. EVE needs to continue to encourage new players to stay. Your years of work could contribute to that.

In addition I find it hard to beleive that you are NEVER comming back. I would invest your funds in POS fuels and other commodities that would hold value. If you changed your mind you wouldn't come back totally empty handed. I understand you are done, but you have to consider the possiblity of your return....I certainly would.

I would perfer not to go into too much detail as this is a public forum. Yet, my point is there are people who could really use it and people who will cause havoc with it. There are those who have enough power and those who know what to do with what they have. I hope you choose wisely.

Hi there,

I would use the Isk to fund my plans to try and seed my local null hub with t2 modules through invention.

I currently have some capital but nothing on the scale needed. I would use the isk to put up multiple POS's from which the mutliple toons i have access to will copy blueprints, invention etc. The isk will also be used to purchase BPO to copy from as i currently only posses some of the nessecary ones required.

The isk made from the selling of products on the market would then be put back to fuel the POS's and put up more.

In addition to this depending on how much you helped me with my venture, I would consider purchasing a Jump freighter to aid in bringing materials down so there is no strenuous back and fourth journeys to empire in haulers/ t1 freighters.

Thankyou for taking the time to read this, If you have any further questions please do get in contract with me.

I look forward to your response.

Since I am the manager of said Emergency Relief Initiative I am humanly biased into suggesting it.

But also, since I don't want to sound like an opportunist, feel free to send:

1) ISK to Chribba with "Donation to VAERT Sister Fund"

2) EvE-mail to Chribba about this thread

3) Once done please notify me here or in game so that I may add the donation both to the Public Donors list and the balance sheet.

With that type of ISK I would go and use it to restart the faction wars on a grand scale. Offer training to all 4 militas and a ship supply stash to hep bring back the PVP between them. Yes i know not very detials but hey we need some really faction war action so i figured i would give it a go and post this up.

One thing that has always troubled me with EVE is the incredibly steep learning curve. As a veteran myself (through several different characters) the spirit of EVE is what captured me when I was first beta testing it. Since those days EVE has grown a lot and moved on from the day when owning an Apocalypse battleship was highly respected.

I often see in local chat reports of this person being ganked, that person being ganked and how much they have lost due to mistakes they have made through not having either enough experience of simply not knowing how to play the game safely.

I have seen new players leave because EVE is difficult to support financially during the first stages of character training and whilst they are grinding level 1 agents in the hope of earning meager amounts of isk.

Please, don't get me wrong, I agree that if EVE were to be made too easy from the outset then everyone would progress far too quickly and goals would be reached in rapid time. This is not what I am thinknig about.

My idea if I had the isk would be to set up a "New Player Compensation Scheme". I would not ask for anything before players were elligible for this scheme and at no time would any repayment be expected. I would simply offer those players that have been affected by the harsh reality that EVE is not a friendly place and have lost something that may of been of value to them.

For example, that miner that just lost his Hulk from Hulkageddon, that mission runner that just lost his mission objective due to thieves and ninja salvagers, that shuttle that was carrying a PLEX that just got ganked outside Jita or Niarja because they were on autopilot. All too often new players give up thinking that they simply are not good enough to play the game.

I would like to help these new players in an effort to give them some hope that all is not lost, there is compassion within the game. There is someone they can turn to instead of being laughed at in Local Chat because they are a "Noob".

Although it may not be an idea that would be on a huge scale, the thought that I could give cookies to those pilots that indeed need them would make me all warm and fuzzy inside.

Some could call it carebear loving, I dont mind, flamers flame. Sometimes the carebears need loving in other areas

As someone who has tried many things in the world of New Eden, I would love the opportunity to give back. Using these funds as a start-up, I would like to throw my production into overdrive. The main goal at the end of this drive, is to have my corpmates and alliancemates well stocked with free ships provided from within. I would like to help out my fellow miners by offering subsidies and bonuses for returns on their investments of time and effort. Really, the industrial sector of large alliances are the unsung heroes, and I would like to help them get their dues. Funds would be used to fuel towers, replace mining ships, provide incentives to miners/producers, and buy minerals at prices above market value.

A program such as this has the ability to draw in those that have skills which go unused, and infuses industrial programs with goals and people. It literally cycles throughout the rest of an alliance by kickstarting growth at the roots. With a strong industrial core, the rest of the branch members may bear fruit in whatever their aims are.

Thank you for your consideration.

As others have already mentioned in their posts, this game has a steep and sometimes brutal learned curve. I started with my first character in June 2009, which I guess means I have enough knowledge about eve to be dangerous, but not enough time in game to be a vet. I still remember my first trip into low sec blindly following a mission, it lasted approximately 2 minutes. My first destroyer, a Catalyst, something which I had worked hard to get, destroyed in a blink of an eye by Caldari Navy Trauma Torpedos fired from a Manticore. That was 954days, 2 hours, 29 minutes and 50 seconds ago, I have lost other ships since and will no doubt loose more in the future.

The most useful thing I found in this game was a friendly corp, who were always ready to help, not just with isk, but with advice on a whole range of subjects, who made available ships and modules, implants and skill books, who helped me develope a training plan for what I wanted to do in the game.

I have 2 goals should I be lucky enough to recive the 20billion isk, firstly to repay my former corp makes, I won't mentioned them here but if they are reading they know who they are. Secondly, to create a corp who's goal it is to educate those new to New Eden, in all those things that make this game enjoyable to me today. I don't want to create another eve University, I want to create a environment where people feel free to make supid mistakes and not be laughed at, where ships are replaced modules made availble, new players to be helped with training, isk or whatever they need to get into this game, and get the enjoyment out of it that I do.

(I should have possibly written this when I had had slightly less to drink)

No. Funds such as these should not, and will not be squandered for such low-brow and temporary joy. Opportunities such as this don't generally come around often, and I personally would like to make sure the effects are quite vast in scope; yet focused enough that a measurable shift can be observed.

I don't want the 20 bil, but about 1.5 bil should cover skill books and New BPC'S to produce, produce, produce, even as odd as it seems I am happy making and selling items at a reasonable cost, and if you got a Nighthawk laying about it be nice to replace my lost one. Thanks for the consideration.