"Getting back into the game maybe" update

I'm now at a point in RL where I can play eve again. This is a list of things I want to do:

1. Clean up science and industry. My low-effort iskmaking projects over the last few years have gotten me to a point where I can print isk at will, and as a result making money is no longer interesting. If there was a second level to it, like stock and bond markets, I'd be interested in those, but the game doesn't have systems to make them possible.

a. Capital manufacturing: I have a new capital spreadsheet ready to go. I'm planning to do one production run so I can make a guide, then shut down production but not sell my blueprints.

b. Research: About a year ago I started a project to see what sort of profits can be made resarching blueprints post-Crius. The blueprints are all researched, and when they finish selling I can publish the results. If I keep playing eve, this will probably be my long-term income stream.

c. Research labs. I ended up with 452 of these, which I puchased for between 30 and 32 million. I can sell them now for a profit of a few billion, or I can wait for the price to go up. Unfortunately, the price seems to be pegged to reprocessing cost because nobody uses research labs any more. I think I'll hold on to them for now, in hopes that a POS revamp will result in them either being used again or refunded for current manufacturing price.

2. Try and get back into eve.

a. Try ~solo elitepvp~.

b. Maybe try merc work again?

c. Try nullsec bigfites.

d. Maybe turn the isk printers back on and give it away for luls.

Stuff's in progress. I'll let you know how it goes.

Indy contributor: September update

 

Another month. 

I wasn't surprised when I saw price of plex. This is one of reasons why people with intentions of playing more than three years should have some form of passive income. It doesn't look like much per month, but it adds up in the long run. Eve has some diehard long-term fans, and offers infinite possibilities to actually get what you want independent of your gamestyle. I personally play the marketing and stock shares market of whole eve online more than anything else, investing my money into capital blueprints and plex. While far from most wealthy groups, being able to pile up around 150 bil capital and 300 mil sp+ over the span of five years isn't bad.

Parasoja's notes:

I'm not sure what's up with that blank line. There were several of them in the item list. If it happens again next month I'll have to see what's up.

Indy contributor: August update

 

Learning all the time. Last month proved to be profitable due to a single customer -- someone bought my cynosural field generator by setting up a buy order with three more zeroes than usual, and so instead of getting it for 1.5 million ISK he bought it for 1.5 billion. About as lucky for me as winning lottery, but hey -- if you wanna win the lottery you need to buy the ticket, be it keeping 450 orders on the market for 2 years or having capital blueprints increase in market value over time due to patching. The more you learn about business, and the more things you're involved in, the more holes you can see in its systems and the more opportunities come your way.

Parasoja's notes:

My first thought was "Aww crap, it broke and I'm going to have to manually the database again."

Nope.

Indy contributor: July update

To passive income or not to passive income? As the number of players with the ability to generate superb amounts of wealth increases, so does the price of plex due to demand. Without any nerf to 0.0 enviroment - and, to be honest, this is not going to happen any time soon - the price of plex is going to reach 1 billion not go down. Even so, it's a great time to be the one player who enables other players do what they like to do, be it buying stuff on hubs or building super-sized ships.

Indy contributor: June update

 

Hello, my readers. I've seen many players coming and leaving Eve Online over the years, and I can safely say that most players will eventually leave and sell their characters on the bazaar at some point, usually during the span of 2-3 years.

This leads into a general rule which I got from the audiobook "Rich dad, poor dad", which also help if you want to be rich in Eve: Make money at the time of buying, not just at the time of selling. Finding good offers can help you immensely in your growth, just like it helped me in the beginning. Watch contracts, watch market. The further from Jita you look, the better the money you can make.

On a real-life note, I'm taking an online illustration course during the next three months. With my skills I'll fail so hard it will hurt, but that's is okay as long as I don't give up.

Indy contributor: Combined April and May update

Sales went down due to parasites invading my station orders, but I am pretty safe. I have too many orders set up to be beaten by t2 market refillers, so instead of stopping me these people are actually helping me keep my trade hub in shape -- I just don't have 12 hours per month to invest into the game, but they do, and I'm willing to take a back seat and watch the clockwork tick. Money I made on market I invested into research on my capital blueprints, specifically chimearas, thanatoses and one naglfar.

I think it would be wise to give some advice to people who might want to set up their own personal hubs. First and foremost, you need to work really hard -- set up as many different orders for PvP, POS, Sov, Support, and PI items, and so on, as you can. The more you put there, the more customers you get. Second, you need to be persistent. Customers don't come during first day, week, or month, they come over time randomly. You need to wait a certain amount of time before they discover you. Three, you need little bit of luck to draw hard workers who buy large quantities of items

Proximity to PVPers matters a lot. Put your trade hub in a far corner of space and nobody will ever see it. A good location also means good margins, and this past month I was able to increase margins on few items I've had in stock for a while and they're still selling well. Don't work harder, work smarter!

Parasoja's Notes:

Because I'm lazy, that's why.

Also, the list of months is getting long, so I reversed the order. Newer entries are now on top.

Indy contributor: March update

Sales went down due to parasites invading my station orders, but I am pretty safe. I did set up too many to be beaten by t2 market refillers, and now these people, instead of stopping me, are actually helping me keep my trade hub in shape -- I just dont have real life time to invest 12 hours per month into the game right now, but they do and I am willing to take a back seat and watch the clockwork tick. Money I made on market was invested into research of my capital blueprints -- specifically chimearas, thanatoses, and one naglfar.
 
Parasoja's notes:

"Slightly more delayed than normal because a windows update broke virtualbox" edition.