Banksy

*blows some dust off*

Well, it's been a while, eh?
Mayn many things have happened since my last post. I made my first billion ISK, made an alt account, got my first PvP kill...but I'm not going to talk about any of those things.

I'll go meta-meta and link to a reddit post I just wrote just now right there just now here there:

EVE's market is an almost fully-fledged stock market. EVE is pretty much a small country in that aspect, and that to me is a big aspect of its greatness as an MMO. However, corporations shares are still monetarily and speculatively worthless. Additionally, there is no system in place for people to borrow money from institutions, with loan repayments, sleazy interest rates, or put money in the bank and have varying degrees of risk for your investment, ranging from low profit guaranteed return to high-risk investments with more lucrative possibilities.
I don't think there are any insurmountable technical difficulties in establishing this, even in having player-run banks, so I was wondering today why this doesn't exist. Is it because it's too many more spreadsheets? Would it just escalate the "rich get richer" phenomenon, like it does in the real world?
Whichever it would go, I'd love to see actual simulated economics with a degree of detail approaching the real world.

Give your thought on reddit if you're into that sort of thing, or just comment below!

mathtertainment

We had a little argument with Jackus in chat today.
And as most things in EVE, we resorted to mathin order to come to terms. because our opinions were divided. and math is an integral part of any capsuleer's arsenal, when wanting to stay rational, in addition his imaginary spaceship....fraction warfare?
Pun overload. What was I even talking about?

Jackus had me lookup some price for him, because he was too lazy, implying that's my job description. I asked if he paid me, he retorted he pays me in blog posts.

But much is a blog post worth? And does anyone care about his hair care flair?
Let's see here, about 1 post a month. Assuming if this blog were monetized I'd get 0,01 currency (USD or EUR, makes no difference in this context) for ever 10'000 pageviews.
PLEX sells for 15 € or 15 USD, or 540 million ISK.

So...

PLEXpriceISK / PLEXpriceEUR / Pageviews / 10 000 *0,01

= 540 000 000 / 15 / 20 /10 000 *0,01

= 720 ISK

One blog post would be worth 720 ISK...that is pretty shitty.
Then again, this blog is not monetized, so I really make 0, but hey, mathtertainment!

Fabulous Jackus!

So I got an appointment with a stylist! Or rather, Jackus Loftus did. He was getting tired of his old, scruffy, hobo look and wanted to look more commanding, have a more shining presence (no homo). His old look didn't really evoke a lot of trust from fleetmates when ordering them around. "That guy looks like a burger flipper in McDonald's that 420's erryday rather than an FC, he's gonna get us all killed!". I present the new, intimidating, yet oh-so-beautiful Commander Jackus!

Hopefully people will stop snickering at my haircut behind my back now.

Anyway, news of Derelus, things have been quiet for the most part. Have gotten quite settled into my new nullsec base of operations and pickings have been okay. Caught a 2,6bil Machariel for my gang the other day, that was pretty nice. Am still getting acquainted to the layout of the region and have been taking my Hound out a lot for some exploring of the local populace. Have yet to score a solo kill as I haven't gotten into any solo fights yet, but it will come, yarrrr!

Other than just roaming about, looking for trouble, not much else has been happening. Some new found love for the Hound though, ohhhh that glorious piece of a ship. I also scored two corpses, awww yeah! Busy nights ahead!

A week in the life

Word of the day: pecuniary: something related to money (no, really the word means "something related to money")

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Music to accompany this post

Well it sure has been an eventful week, in an out of EVE, but you only care about the former of course.

We recently saw what may have been the biggest battle in EVE history at Asakai, all because someone was drunk at the wheel and jumped his Avatar instead of bridging for his fleet...silly people.
Still, just like Israel and Palestine kicking the crap out of each other has little to no actual bearing on my life, neither did this EVE battle. I was too busy selling off all the minerals I'd accumulated over a month and a half of playing to care, that took quite a bit of hauling. Then I finally liquidated all of my heavy water. Selling off one and a half million units of the stuff took a while, but it was worth it in the end.
I'd also been building 61 Bestowers for resale, and they netted me a tidy profit, selling them at between 1 and 1,2 million ISK for a manufacturing price of around 800k ISK.
However, I'd gotten so used to transporting multiple ships for resale in my own Bestower, Belly Beluga III that my brain farted and I caught myself transporting by bestowers for resale inside...my bestower.

Yo dawg, I heard...yeah you know the rest.

I ended up hiring red frog freight, an extremely well respected freighting company to move 43 of my 61 bestowers to a better sales location. It only cost me a few million, easily recouped by the sale of the said bestowers.

Nearing 700 million ISK in cash, I was feeling pretty good about my life as a capsuleer, and figured it's time to step up my game in the mining business. Enter exhumers to replace my mining barges and significantly boost my productivity (Bless you, ORE!). Sadly, I've gotten too emotionally attached the my Tuggy the Tugboat Retriever and couldn't bear to leave it behind. Therefore, I bought a MAckinaw BPC and all the T2 parts needed and asked my corp boss skimore1 to build me a Mackinaw out of Tuggy...Frankentuggy.
Sadly, since I'm a bit daft, I'd forgotten a skill and miscalculated my training time for exhumers, so it'll still be close to a month of training yet. Getting Astrogeology and Mining Barge to level 5 sure is a bitch.

I also bought a Harbinger on a whim, because why not. I can fly it, as long as I don't have any fittings on it...but one day..yes...one day. I will obliterate everything in my path with it, but more about that at a later date.

Oh, I almost forgot, Cesare and Waifu had a baby! ... a full grown hairy adult baby.
Due to complications in the in-vitro meiosis process, he came out a bit...shall we say "under-performing", but we couldn't put him down (cloning babies isn't cheap). We just parked him at a trade hub to keep a lookout on good prices, just like his mum does in Jita.

My "special" little guy, Sonny Romero.