Jack of all trades…
In my continuing exposure to eve, I decided to take a look at the trading aspect of the game last night. After some searching I found an excellent link from crazy kinux’s website on the basics. I have to say, I find this aspect absolutely fascinating and while I have no experience of this concept either in game or in real life, the guide was easy to follow and has opened up a whole world of (financial) possibility. I took the scatter gun approach and put sell orders for my maximum allowable trades (currently 41) for a cross section of my higher value junk that I’m unlikely to need, certainly in my current experience of the game. If I had’ve simply ‘right click-sell’ on these items I would made tens of thousands of ISK’s.. 20 mins of placing sell orders however and I have made 1.4mil…whilst asleep!
Now this might not be much in the larger scheme of things but for someone with a current bankroll of 20mil total, this is a large increase to my current funds for little work on a fraction of the items I have for sale. Now some of them might not be wanted but if I pick only the top 5 sellers it should be possible to learn enough about the rise and fall of the markets to gain a reasonable amount of experience to suppliment my income from mission running and pirating.
So while I don’t think this is my calling, it can be set up with minimum effort and as long as you don’t need immediate funds this looks to be a great way to make some extra whilst away from the game.
