EVE player loses over $6k when ship is destroyed

[AccountingDrone]

Last time I checked, 500 million isk would buy a very well fitted battleship or a really good T2 cruiser, not merely a frigate. But that is the principle - there really is a sort of exchange rate between real money and isk these days. But *someone* has to have put in the time and effort in game to create the isk to buy PLEX with.

A I said, I was just pulling numbers out of my ass as I couldn't be arsed to log in and check. I normally build all my ships and equipment. Though last ship I helped build was actually a titan we sold for [obscene] profit.

[Gravekeeper]

500m would buy you an obscenely well fitted BS. The kind you get ganked in because its too bling to resist. ;p

[EricKei]

6K? Chicken feed ^_^ (note: language warning)

Checkpoint reports on a battle that cost the equivalent of 22K (or ~18ish K) -- article begins at around 2:16

Text version of just the relevant article

[KhirasHY]

I haven't done online RPGs since they were known as MUDs back in the 1990s

Which MUD(s) did you play, out of curiosity? I ask mainly because I helped build one back 18 years ago that's still running, and that became the code base for a ton of other MUDs called Realms of Despair I always love randomly finding people who play/played it at some point.

[AccountingDrone]

6K? Chicken feed ^_^ (note: language warning)

Checkpoint reports on a battle that cost the equivalent of 22K (or ~18ish K) -- article begins at around 2:16

Text version of just the relevant article

ROFLMAO. And the commentary on how winning was also getting people to stop logging in ... everybody in my corp have noncorp alternates [some we use as freight drivers, others have fighter types, and I have a 'spy' who is male, a fighter and in an enemy corp ... though I actually don't use him to spy, I use him to wander around and doing missions and the occasional friendly gate camp.] If we are at war, we don't sit in a station somewhere whinging about things, we get out and play on the alternate pilots. There *is* more than one character slot per account ....


[and besides, you can always go and play on the test server trying out different tactics and fits.]