December 4th, 2009 by Jaralaxle Tam
I’m waiting for the shoe to drop.
For four straight days I’ve made huge strides profit growth. Today was no different. Despite being able to work the market for a shorter amount of time, I still made multiple millions on the day. Still small potato’s in the grand scheme but considerable growth all the same.
Even so, the percentage of growth is leveling out and I expect, even with additional funds available to me, I cannot keep up this pace. I have my eyes on some trade skills that I think will help me effectively try other market tactics. I think I’ll start those tomorrow.
Day Four Stats:
Starting ISK: 1415000.3
Ending ISK: 3972726.5
Profit/(Loss): 2557726.2 (181%)
Trasactional Data (CSV)
Tags: 100 Day Challenge
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December 3rd, 2009 by Jaralaxle Tam
I made my first million today. Not just my first million but my first million that was earn entirely in one day.
Today started out slow with two routes drying up before I even picked anything up. It’s annoying but the alternative of a route drying up while in transit is much bleaker. I finally hit a decent route that netted my some nice ISK, nearly doubling my money.
With each route I’m making more and more ISK because I can buy more units and thusly, make more ISK per trip. At one point I was making about 300k ISK per trip. That might not sound like much but to a guy who only three days ago was wallowing in a clone bay, I can’t complain.
After earning about 1.6M ISK I decided it was time to spend a little. I bought a skill book (270k ISK) that will teach me to fly an Iteron. One at least one occasion tonight I had to make multiple trips even though I could buy more units. I needed to secure more cargo space, so I picked up an Iteron for 200k ISK.
We’ll see what tomorrow brings. I took this picture tonight. Kinda cool
Day Three Stats:
Starting ISK: 228649.25
Ending ISK: 1415000.3
Profit/(Loss): 1186326.3 (619%)
Trasactional Data (CSV)
Tags: 100 Day Challenge
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December 2nd, 2009 by Jaralaxle Tam
Okay, okay. It’s no great shakes but I had a pretty successful day.
Once the curfew was lifted, I undocked and ran about to see what damage the radiation storms had done. I was amazed! It seemed the storms had washed away space dust and debris leaving behind brilliant vistas which mine eyes had never seen. Planets and moons were no longer dull and faded but now teemed with life and color. I must say that if this is what radiation storms bring, let’s see some more.
After I had gotten an eyeful I decided to get to work. Because of my limited bank roll and personal distaste for inefficient mining, I wanted to find some trade routes to exploit. I bounced between two regions checking prices on several items before I found something I could make a profit on. I set out to make my fortune. After only three trips I had exhausted that route but my wallet was virtually busting with over 120k ISK. With a little more ISK to work with I began searching for another route.
Soon enough I found another that I could profit from. I was making a pretty good rake on this item when the market suddenly dried up. Someone else had caught wind of my little gold mine and bought up all the product. Thankfully this happened on a pick up run and not a drop run and I wasn’t stuck holding a loss. In the end I made over 200k ISK.
I hope tomorrow brings similar success.
Day Two Stats:
Starting ISK: 6651.7
Ending ISK: 228649.25
Profit/(Loss): 221997.55 (3337%)
Trasactional Data (CSV)
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December 1st, 2009 by Jaralaxle Tam
The handlers seemed a little rough getting my pod in this ship I was given. I suppose this is what I signed up for. Five Thousand ISK, a ship that isn’t worth a damn and a single unit of tritanium. It will make a fine paperweight, I suppose.
I undocked from the station and tried to get a feel for my new ship. It wasn’t much but it would get me along to my next stop. My first order of business was to find a corporation that had lower taxes. The corporations that sponsor new pod pilots don’t do so cheaply. They take a hefty cut of any and all profits. I’m not interested in giving my ISK away.
I signed on with a small corp who asked for very little in return. Maybe the fella is looking for company. Who knows? He keeps to himself and that’s fine with me.
Now, where do I start? I could mine and make some seed money for my pending market takeover or I could try and find a way to turn my five thousand ISK into more. Then the local government answered for me. A broadcast came in over the net.
ATTENTION ALL POD PILOTS! DUE TO RADIATION STORMS, ALL PILOTS ARE REQUIRED TO DOCK UP AND UNPLUG. THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO LAST APPROXIMATELY 19-24 HOURS. THE STORMS WILL ARRIVE AT 02:00. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
02:00 was in less than an hour. No time for mining then. I pulled up the local market browser and began pouring over data. I was looking for something I could buy in one place and sell in another for profit. Without much time, I had to settle for some cheap ammo that would net me about 25% profit with only about 10 total jumps.
I bought the ammo, picked it up and hauled it to the seller with minutes to spare. My net worth: 6651.7 ISK. It isn’t much, but it’s a start. Maybe after these storm pass, I can do a little better. I have skills to buy.
Day One Stats:
Starting ISK: 5000
Ending ISK: 6651.7
Profit/(Loss): 1651.7 (33%)
As soon as I can muster, I’ll be posting transactional data.
Tags: 100 Day Challenge
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December 1st, 2009 by Jaralaxle Tam
Not more than a few hours did the careful clone bay workers pull my supple body from the goo and install me in a fresh new pod. The experience is surreal but I don’t have time to relish in the after-glow of my birth. No, I have work to do. You see, I am an experiment, much like an experiment that has come before.
Powerful people wish to know what a truly unknown pod-pilot can do in just 100 solar days. I am to amass as much wealth as possible without the assistance of others. Using market manipulation, trading and perhaps a little mining, I must prove that an inexperienced pilot can make a fair wage in this cold vacuum. I have no friends. I have no sponsors. What I earn is my own.
This is my story.
Tags: 100 Day Challenge
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March 12th, 2009 by Arkanis VonBerra
THIS COMMUNICATION IS BROADCAST BLINDLY FROM UNKNOWN SPACE...
The recent disturbing events around New Eden along with the discovery of an unstable network of wormholes has shaken the confidence of many throughout the known galaxy. Still reeling from the staggering death toll in the Seyllin, I tried to busy myself by investigating some of the anomalies that have sprung up in the neighboring systems.
After a brief search I found a worm hole in the Kemerk system using my new scanning systems and warped to it. As I came out of warp I was greeted with an amazing and terrifying sight. A gaping maw of ripping space as large as a small moon wobbled in space before me. I checked my propulsion systems, fearing I might be sucked in but I was in a stable orbit around the all-consuming wormhole.
I sent out a communication to my corp mates and soon we had a small gang of 4 ships ready to plunge into this cosmic anomaly. On the other side we found ourselves in an unfamiliar solar system with a star and several planets. After a cursory scan we found several signatures in space that might hold some interesting finds so we warped to the closest one.
Before I had come out of warp my sensors were already picking up some unrecognizable technology. Sure enough there was a ship I’d never seen before waiting for us and it immediately engaged. The [i]sleeper[/i] as I believe they are called, fought like a pod pilot and nearly took one of my mates out before it fell to our guns. Soon after, more ships came in and this time we were ready and we dispatched 2 more waves before the quiet of space returned.
We collected the spoils and set to head back to the safety of home, however when we returned to the wormhole it was gone. My sensors were picking nothing but the remnants of the collapsed rift.
Annoyed but undeterred, my mates went to another location to find more ships to destroy while I set about scanning down another exit. Apparently we were not the only pod pilots out here. Soon after my mates had engaged, a group of pod pilots warped in on them. My mates engaged while trying to tank the sleepers and took out one of the other pod pilots before losing their own ships.
They warped to safety in their pods and I continued scanning. After hours of scanning I finally narrowed down another worm hole only to find it led to yet another unknown system. My mates have all lost their patience and self destructed their pods, waking up in the clone vats of home. I hope I don’t have to resort to this same fate but I fear I may be trapped here for a very long time if I do not.
If only I had studied these new scanning systems more before embarking on this journey… If only…
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February 5th, 2009 by Arkanis VonBerra
The EVE Rumor-mill is buzzing with the news that the powerful alliance Band of Brothers has been infiltrated by Goonfleet and disbanded.
Check out the post over at Massively and the audio file released explaining what has happened.
Tags: EVE Online, EVE Politics
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January 26th, 2009 by bustacapho
Lol so there I was. Mining in my hulk in a system with no station. There was another hulk in the area but he was mining a different ore so I didn’t think he would mind the company. I mine for a while, popping rocks left and right. Eventually have to move away from my jet can far enough to have to jettison another one. So I bookmark both my cans, eventually tiring of the loneliness of mining solo. I go and get my hauler (a piddly bestower). After filling my hull, I see that I am going to have to make several trips to haul everything. I decide the best thing to do would be to warp to safespot, drop my cans and get a buddy with a better hauler to come get the stuff. On my last trip back to the belt, I notice the hulk was gone and his two cans were there. So I hurry up and bookmark his cans and run back to my safespot for the last drop off of “my ore”. I warp to his cans and after a few trips, I had them almost empty. At some point I became annoyed at how many bookmarks I had and decided to clean them up (lame. when a can pops I wish it would delete the bookmark). By now you can probably see where this is going. Yes, I deleted the bookmark to my “safe spot”. LOL. Oh well, I’m not seasoned enough yet on the scanning to find my spot. Oh well. That poor miner is going to have a surprise.
Tags: Close Encounters of the NUB Kind, Mining, Pirating
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January 19th, 2009 by Nefertiti Ram
So for the past week or so I’ve been running with this corp, Jaskur Corporation. They seem like a good bunch of guys. They are pretty new to the PVP game though and it shows, not that I’m a crusty ‘ole warrior myself. I adhere to the policy that if you sign on with a crew you obey the fleet commander without fail. Sure this might get your ship cracked from time to time but in the end you’ll know who was at fault.
Last night we went on a roam on Obalyu. Admittedly we were looking for trouble. Apparently these guys have a bit of an on going row with another corp that controls that system. Not long after we arrived it was clear we had found trouble. The Fleet Commander started chatting up local and soon the system was busy with the opposing corps forces. Now, in this case I would have moved us out. Several ships in local were going to be too much to handle for us alone and more than likely we wouldn’t be fighting anyone alone.
As we waited at a safe spot to decide what to do. The decision was made for us. A ship dropped out of warp right on top of us. the FC gave the order to warp out and I jumped to another safe spot in system. Before I had dropped out of warp he gave the order to warp back and we would engage. I bounced back as quickly as I could and asked for primary. I knew we were in trouble as soon as I dropped out of warp. No less than six ships were flashing red on my screen. I locked primary and opened fire. The ship quickly went pop and the order to warp out was given. It was too late for me however because I was warp scrammed and soon I was cracked as well.
I had fun, I got to shoot my guns but I would really like to get a kill without losing my ship.
Tags: PVP
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January 15th, 2009 by Nefertiti Ram
So to give you an update, after finding out about the move that the Black Wings made to join Southern Cross. I realized that being tied to low-sec might sound exciting but it’s really just a recipe for frustration at my skill level. Fortunately my old mates welcomed me back with open arms.
Tonight I decided that I would try my hand at some low-sec rats. I’d never really tried to rumble with them in the past and I wanted to see how I fared. I learned quickly that they were no match for me and the fight was quickly won. The problem was the Ishkur that cornered me as I was taking out one of them. I immediately dropped target on the rats and focused on the Ishkur when I saw him begin locking me.
I activated my tank and warp locked him. I wasn’t sure if I could take him but if I could I sure didn’t want him getting away. I got through his shields and began chipping away at his armor and he was beginning to get into mine when he opened comms with me. I was invited to a channel with the typical ransom option. Pay or die… His ransom was 10M ISK, which I should have rebuffed. I just looked and my fit only clocks in at about 8M but I agreed after a bit of banter.
The problem was… he didn’t turn off his guns. I had long since abandoned my tank so I was dropping fast and well into hull. I sent a message telling him I had paid but shortly after I went pop. Man. Do pirates have ANY honor? Turns out they do. No one will pay the ransom of a pirate who has the reputation of popping the ships of people who pay, and I reminded him of this. He said that it was accidental. He shut his guns down but they just kept firing. To prove it he gave me my ISK back.
Sure I lost my ship but I put myself in that situation so I’m the only one to blame for that. Like last time I chatted up with my attacker and after a few minutes of chat I was invited to refit and roam with them. We flew for a couple hours and had a good time. Two kills, neither of which I was a part of unfortunately. One-on-one battles.
It was a good time and at the end I was extended an invitation to join up with their corp. I’m not against the idea. I’ll see what my corp mates think.
Tags: Pirating
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