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The richest players in EVE: How did they do it?
Baseline
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I remember back in my days of SWG, I loved being a renown armorsmith, and raking in the dough day after day, playing the market, figuring out how to get in that top 10 richest on the server. I've done the PvP thing in other games, a very small bit in eve, and I'm tired of it. I'm going back to my roots of being a currency whore / business / entrepreneur / call it what you like.
If you took the top 500 list of the richest players in EVE, what did they specialize their characters in? what did they do? I'm talking about the players that NEVER PVP. The carebears. Aside from the lucky ones that scored T2 BPO's (googling about the richest in eve consistently came back with that). I'm not talking about being lucky. I'm talking about the skills that consistently pay off.
Specialized in Mining? Industry? Science? I'm clueless about the tycoon / entrepeneur angle of EVE. I was going for the specializing in industry angle, maybe trying to get in a corp eventually and build stuff for them and profit from the rest, but guides on this subject (becoming a successful industrialist) aren't exactly easy to find, for some reason. Plus I'd like a second opinion on if this is the best route.
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Many of todays t2 tycoons did not initially start with t2 bpos, but bought them.
Take Entity as an example. He did not win all of his bpos in the lottery.
I'd say the richest persons in eve are those who mastered trade and manufracturing. It's not so much about character age, it's about your connections to other people and dedication and skill.
They aren't easy to find because in buisness you don't tell your trade secrets no matter how much the Tel-marketers wish you would believe that they really do want to share thier instant wealth plan.
Well your right its definitly not those that pvp..but thats a given for anyone whos played for a while.Even all teh way down to pirating, pvpers don't pvp for isk. They pvp because they enjoy pvp. I've played since early 2006 (not long compared to many others) and the majority of that time was spent in 0.0 pvping..its fun but I sure as hell never made money off it.... lossed it if anything. (replacing ships)
But like someone else said, the people that manufacture and work the markets are the rich ones no doubt.
I just quit EVE yesterday actually and sold my accounts. I wish i could have sold the 20 billion isk i had in liquid cash. Too bad most morons would pay $70 per 1 billion from CCP when i was offering 20 billion at $500. Oh well.
Either way, I made about 1 billion isk per week. With limited time. I did the following.
1) Make buy orders to buy minerals and refinables dropped from drone region rats.
2) I refined them.
3) Had zydrine, morphite, megacyte, noxcium, isogen jumped up to Jita and sold to the buy orders. (the excess minerals)
4) I then sold the trit, pyerite, and mexallon in the 0.0 region i was in or made ships and what not.
Essentially, what I did was take the small profit margin between the buy orders in my 0.0 region and the buy orders in Jita and pocket it all.
The key to making money in EVE is buy orders. Once again, the key is buy orders. Having a t2 bpo is something that isn't going to happen. I literally, made 1 billion isk per week from june till now and then quit. I coudl have had my titan if i wanted to, but no point really.
I've spoken to people who had 30 billion+ worth of assets but two of them i spoke to must have killed a dumbass hauler carrying newly bought blueprints using ebay or whatever. Two other guys in my corp had ridiculous assets from doing what i was doing for years instead of months. I could have made 1.5x more if i actually played much. I spent most of my time changing buy orders (a hassle) and hauling the stuff. If i had time, i would have mined and ratted, which even though not worth that much would significantly augment.
Feel free to pm me. But traders/entrepreneurs make the most money by far. I also lent a friend of mine 8.5 billion isk (he hasn't paid back yet) for a PoS network which supposedly had 2.4 billion isk in profit per month. I also believe i could have made 1 billion isk per day in Jita if i kept up with things. My next project was going to manipulate the Jita market, i feel i needed 30 billion liquid for that. Oh well, i quit the game cuz i needed to quit games in general. I hope i won't kick myself in the ass for it lol.
You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
They aren't easy to find because in buisness you don't tell your trade secrets no matter how much the Tel-marketers wish you would believe that they really do want to share thier instant wealth plan.
i once heard someone say something about real-world women-folk, vent, and isk...
could we please get correspondent writers and moderators, on the eve forum at mmorpg.com, who are well-versed on eve-online and aren't just passersby pushing buttons? pretty please?
want to be rich in eve is "quite simple"
1) get 500 m isk
2) if you dont have that money make mission for caldari navy you need money and standings
3) get trade skills 3% are market tax you have to lower that
4) look at marker traffic and buy things
5) play 5-10 m every hour and change you orders you have to be on top of the list
6) you have to "play" 5-10 min every hour at last 5-6 times every day to get some money
BestSigEver :P
pretty sure the richest is that chibba guy or however you spell it who acts as an escrow service. Dude flys around in 1.0 mining with a dread lol.
He isn't. Of course he would never tell me his wallet balance, just as i would never give anyone mine, but i'm pretty sure that he isn't the wealthiest. Entity probably has more moneys than him in assets. Chribbas most valuable asset is trust, not isk.
I bet the richest person in Eve is some alt char of someone who is rarely known to the public. The big bank scam a few years ago was quite huge.
Could you expand on these steps?
buy low, sell high.
when the pos exploit broke, i bought a billion isk worth of hacs, resold them when prices shot up and made a nice 400 million. that 1.4 billion is being invested into something else, which yields a 30% return, once that money comes in again, ill reexamine the market and see if im better off using my isk to trade, build or haul.
money in your wallet is not earning you any more money. money on the market is.
I told a group of players last night that real friends gave me isk to buy a freighter skillbook.
So naturally one of them sent me 85 million isk. Woooo!