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On December 21 2014 17:28 abominare wrote:Show nested quote +On December 21 2014 01:09 VioleTAK wrote:Wow you're really rich. I'm curious what pilots as rich as you do with all that ISK? This is interesting. If you don't mind sharing some general notions as to what.. say Trillion 'level' pilots.. do with so much ISK? I've done business (sponsorships) with entities such as Somers (pre-fail of course) and others before, and I've seen how, generally speaking, they just don't even know what to do with all that ISK anymore, just looking for ways to spend it, at least that's how it felt in communications anyway. I remember when I first started making videos, roaming solo, I was really poor. I collected every abandoned drone I saw in space... That kind of stuff. It had its own charm, that survival-style behaviour, way of Eve-life. But tbh it got old after a while and quickly I realized its time to either stop and find better means of "living". And knowing myself well enough to state the fact that I'll never agree to any kind of time-consuming grinding activity (where probably the game feels like job, "probably" because I never even tired it), it meant either find some kind of passive income, or find some sponsorships. I already "quit" eve like 3 times. When I do log on it's for very short periods of time, in which I usually roam enough to make a video or two, and fade away again. But in the greater point of view, I got to this place where ISK is not a problem anymore. It is a good place for any PvPer I guess. It's a bit sad to see really good PvPers "grind" to fit those ships and end up losing most of them to blobs anyway, then frustration just builds up. I ended up giving most of the ISK I ever got to other pilots. But even all the ISK I gave in the last 3 years probably doesn't go over 200 billion total. So it's funny to see you talk about 220billion like it's not worth your time :-) Anyway back to the point, already I could see that there's only so much ISK I can spend on my own PvP (unless I'd start roaming extremely blinged out stuff, which is just not my style), and the rest just accumulates if I don't give it away. I mean PLEXing my account for X time in the distant future (and if I had an alt, which I don't I could do the same for it), but for me this accumulation becomes tiresome, and I honestly can't understand how some people only make tons of ISK in order to... Just have it, and keep it? What's the point? But that's when talking about billions. When it comes to trillion/s I'm really curious what people do with those kind of sums. Actually it's one of the articles I want to write on Eve during 2015 (got a list hehe), interviewing some super rich pilots. I found it truly amazing to see what a couple billions can do to motivate a PvPer that is usually in a rather space-poor place, it can inject a whole lot of life. So I guess to be extremely space-rich is also a position where you can be of incredible help to others. But its funny how those entities that reach that really rich place, get a bit disconnected from "the people", it's a lot like in RL I guess... And then their very access/ability to help feels 'out of reach'. Interesting this whole topic. Same thing as real life, they pile on top of their heads and stick their tongues out at everyone. I had a lot of clients who had simply amassed fortunes and never knew what to do with it or had any goals for it. They still simply came to me to help the pile get larger. A lot of trusts just terminated into giving the money to charity at the death of the second spouse. I suppose thats good in the end but it always just seemed silly at times when they'd complain that the pile just wasn't big enough even though they were putting away nearly all of their gains to begin with. Most of them didn't even like to spend things on comforts. In more related news, I'm in the market for a link alt. My bored alt's name is too close to my main to be a not noticeable link alt.
Let me know if you're interested...
http://eveboard.com/pilot/Battousai_Uta
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United States44409 Posts
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Russian Federation3632 Posts
have you considered skynetting with your retriever set up?
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hahah, confessor blowup. Nice kill m8.
Also I second BBQ's suggestion of skynetting would be epic.
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My Christmas wish is to see Kwark gatecamp EC- with skynet mining barges and win actual fleet fights when the locals form up to break your camp.
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On December 23 2014 13:10 s0Li wrote:Show nested quote +On December 21 2014 17:28 abominare wrote:On December 21 2014 01:09 VioleTAK wrote:Wow you're really rich. I'm curious what pilots as rich as you do with all that ISK? This is interesting. If you don't mind sharing some general notions as to what.. say Trillion 'level' pilots.. do with so much ISK? I've done business (sponsorships) with entities such as Somers (pre-fail of course) and others before, and I've seen how, generally speaking, they just don't even know what to do with all that ISK anymore, just looking for ways to spend it, at least that's how it felt in communications anyway. I remember when I first started making videos, roaming solo, I was really poor. I collected every abandoned drone I saw in space... That kind of stuff. It had its own charm, that survival-style behaviour, way of Eve-life. But tbh it got old after a while and quickly I realized its time to either stop and find better means of "living". And knowing myself well enough to state the fact that I'll never agree to any kind of time-consuming grinding activity (where probably the game feels like job, "probably" because I never even tired it), it meant either find some kind of passive income, or find some sponsorships. I already "quit" eve like 3 times. When I do log on it's for very short periods of time, in which I usually roam enough to make a video or two, and fade away again. But in the greater point of view, I got to this place where ISK is not a problem anymore. It is a good place for any PvPer I guess. It's a bit sad to see really good PvPers "grind" to fit those ships and end up losing most of them to blobs anyway, then frustration just builds up. I ended up giving most of the ISK I ever got to other pilots. But even all the ISK I gave in the last 3 years probably doesn't go over 200 billion total. So it's funny to see you talk about 220billion like it's not worth your time :-) Anyway back to the point, already I could see that there's only so much ISK I can spend on my own PvP (unless I'd start roaming extremely blinged out stuff, which is just not my style), and the rest just accumulates if I don't give it away. I mean PLEXing my account for X time in the distant future (and if I had an alt, which I don't I could do the same for it), but for me this accumulation becomes tiresome, and I honestly can't understand how some people only make tons of ISK in order to... Just have it, and keep it? What's the point? But that's when talking about billions. When it comes to trillion/s I'm really curious what people do with those kind of sums. Actually it's one of the articles I want to write on Eve during 2015 (got a list hehe), interviewing some super rich pilots. I found it truly amazing to see what a couple billions can do to motivate a PvPer that is usually in a rather space-poor place, it can inject a whole lot of life. So I guess to be extremely space-rich is also a position where you can be of incredible help to others. But its funny how those entities that reach that really rich place, get a bit disconnected from "the people", it's a lot like in RL I guess... And then their very access/ability to help feels 'out of reach'. Interesting this whole topic. Same thing as real life, they pile on top of their heads and stick their tongues out at everyone. I had a lot of clients who had simply amassed fortunes and never knew what to do with it or had any goals for it. They still simply came to me to help the pile get larger. A lot of trusts just terminated into giving the money to charity at the death of the second spouse. I suppose thats good in the end but it always just seemed silly at times when they'd complain that the pile just wasn't big enough even though they were putting away nearly all of their gains to begin with. Most of them didn't even like to spend things on comforts. In more related news, I'm in the market for a link alt. My bored alt's name is too close to my main to be a not noticeable link alt. Let me know if you're interested... http://eveboard.com/pilot/Battousai_Uta
Definitely interested, though i did get carried away plugging in implants on my jump clones this week. Shoot me a price though.
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On December 24 2014 17:25 abominare wrote:Show nested quote +On December 23 2014 13:10 s0Li wrote:On December 21 2014 17:28 abominare wrote:On December 21 2014 01:09 VioleTAK wrote:Wow you're really rich. I'm curious what pilots as rich as you do with all that ISK? This is interesting. If you don't mind sharing some general notions as to what.. say Trillion 'level' pilots.. do with so much ISK? I've done business (sponsorships) with entities such as Somers (pre-fail of course) and others before, and I've seen how, generally speaking, they just don't even know what to do with all that ISK anymore, just looking for ways to spend it, at least that's how it felt in communications anyway. I remember when I first started making videos, roaming solo, I was really poor. I collected every abandoned drone I saw in space... That kind of stuff. It had its own charm, that survival-style behaviour, way of Eve-life. But tbh it got old after a while and quickly I realized its time to either stop and find better means of "living". And knowing myself well enough to state the fact that I'll never agree to any kind of time-consuming grinding activity (where probably the game feels like job, "probably" because I never even tired it), it meant either find some kind of passive income, or find some sponsorships. I already "quit" eve like 3 times. When I do log on it's for very short periods of time, in which I usually roam enough to make a video or two, and fade away again. But in the greater point of view, I got to this place where ISK is not a problem anymore. It is a good place for any PvPer I guess. It's a bit sad to see really good PvPers "grind" to fit those ships and end up losing most of them to blobs anyway, then frustration just builds up. I ended up giving most of the ISK I ever got to other pilots. But even all the ISK I gave in the last 3 years probably doesn't go over 200 billion total. So it's funny to see you talk about 220billion like it's not worth your time :-) Anyway back to the point, already I could see that there's only so much ISK I can spend on my own PvP (unless I'd start roaming extremely blinged out stuff, which is just not my style), and the rest just accumulates if I don't give it away. I mean PLEXing my account for X time in the distant future (and if I had an alt, which I don't I could do the same for it), but for me this accumulation becomes tiresome, and I honestly can't understand how some people only make tons of ISK in order to... Just have it, and keep it? What's the point? But that's when talking about billions. When it comes to trillion/s I'm really curious what people do with those kind of sums. Actually it's one of the articles I want to write on Eve during 2015 (got a list hehe), interviewing some super rich pilots. I found it truly amazing to see what a couple billions can do to motivate a PvPer that is usually in a rather space-poor place, it can inject a whole lot of life. So I guess to be extremely space-rich is also a position where you can be of incredible help to others. But its funny how those entities that reach that really rich place, get a bit disconnected from "the people", it's a lot like in RL I guess... And then their very access/ability to help feels 'out of reach'. Interesting this whole topic. Same thing as real life, they pile on top of their heads and stick their tongues out at everyone. I had a lot of clients who had simply amassed fortunes and never knew what to do with it or had any goals for it. They still simply came to me to help the pile get larger. A lot of trusts just terminated into giving the money to charity at the death of the second spouse. I suppose thats good in the end but it always just seemed silly at times when they'd complain that the pile just wasn't big enough even though they were putting away nearly all of their gains to begin with. Most of them didn't even like to spend things on comforts. In more related news, I'm in the market for a link alt. My bored alt's name is too close to my main to be a not noticeable link alt. Let me know if you're interested... http://eveboard.com/pilot/Battousai_Uta Definitely interested, though i did get carried away plugging in implants on my jump clones this week. Shoot me a price though.
Kwark.... what is a good price for said character?
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None of the lines are taut.
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On December 26 2014 11:53 DefMatrixUltra wrote:None of the lines are taut.
In a game where spaceships fly like submarines, that's what you're picky about?
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Merry Xmas guys!
downloading atm...
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On December 26 2014 14:30 Impervious wrote:In a game where spaceships fly like submarines, that's what you're picky about?
"In a game where [unrealistic things happen], this one particular thing bothers you?"
Read up on realism vs. verisimilitude. This is one of the most common false equivalence arguments on the internet, and I'm surprised it's still going strong.
But yes, I am that guy. Don't watch science fiction movies with me. I've been told it's a horrible experience.
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On December 27 2014 15:46 Pufftrees wrote:
Merry Xmas guys!
downloading atm...
Welcome back!
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Damn it's been so long since I've been away... I think I need a mentor again to answer a bunch of questions I have...
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United States44409 Posts
Take the example given somewhere in this thread of a low sec camp with 2 Vexors and 2 Rooks. Before these changes, the gang considering fighting them never would because they know they can't deal with the Rooks. After, they won't see them and so they will probably engage. That's more fights because people are risk averse.
Rise 2014
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I gave up on that thread. there is just no point trying to argue with Rise.
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