DaBeast on 1/8/2009 at 01:37
Also worth mentioning that high end modules and implants (losing a full HG slave/snake set can really ruin you're day) can cost more than the ship you fly.
I could easily lose billions in a single ship.
Trance on 1/8/2009 at 01:41
Yes, there is that. It is just madness going out to PVP with a head full of implants, unless you're a shameless minmaxer with a seriously fat wallet. If you're going to be plugging performance-enhancing hardware into your brain, it is well worth the time training Infomorph Psych to enable the use of jump clones, so that you can jump into a fresh, empty clone before heading out to pewpew.
Aerothorn on 1/8/2009 at 01:57
I just got podded for the first time - jumped into a militia capital ship battle to check it out, and when I lost my invisibility and had to jump out, there was some jump queue or lag or something, because it wouldn't jump out for a full minute after I told it to.
Fortunately, I was intelligent enough to bring a shuttle, though level-1 implants are horrendously overpriced at Jita so I'm having to jump elsewhere to replace them:(
*Zaccheus* on 1/8/2009 at 15:54
Loosing your ship in EVE online really can ruin your day.
One way of assessing how much something really is worth would be via the cost of Game Time Cards, also known as plexes, which let you play EVE online for a month. People can buy plexes from CCP and sell them for in game currency (ISK). A month's worth of game time costs around 350 million ISK. I can make between 10 million and 50 million ISK in a day doing NPC missions.
The most expensive ship in EVE online costs something like 50,000,000,000 ISK, that's the equivalent of around 12 years of game time, and needs to be built to order by people who control a group of solar systems! People do loose them: (
http://www.ushrakhan.com/alliance/edk/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=64467). Those ships are relatively rare though.
Most ships I fly cost between 20,000,000 and 100,000,000 ISK.
Trance on 1/8/2009 at 17:59
T2 cruisers used to be pretty cheap -- approx. 50 mil price tag. What caused them to double in price the last year or so?
DaBeast on 1/8/2009 at 18:11
T2 cruisers where never that cheap, They used to cost around 250 mil or there abouts, then the priced dropped to 120 ish, some even 90 because of T2 invention being introduced.
Then the Russians and other major alliances formed something of a cabal to raise the prices of minerals needed to make T2 ships, something like a 3000% increase in t2 mineral cost, this drove the prices back up.
Trance on 1/8/2009 at 18:52
That's not what I saw. Back in 2008 I could get a Deimos or Ishtar for around 50-60 mil. Supposedly the devs plugged some 0.0 exploit sometime last year and put a stop to that. Something having to do with moon mining, maybe?
Aerothorn on 1/8/2009 at 19:04
Dudes, LIST YOUR EVE NAMES.
DaBeast on 1/8/2009 at 20:55
Quote Posted by Trance
That's not what I saw. Back in 2008 I could get a Deimos or Ishtar for around 50-60 mil. Supposedly the devs plugged some 0.0 exploit sometime last year and put a stop to that. Something having to do with moon mining, maybe?
That exploit was an alliance abusing pos/moon mining mechanics.
It sounds like you bought them from someone during a firesale (selling stuff dirt cheap to get some quick isk). I've never seen a HAC at that price, thats like a half/third of its value.
I haven't played in a few months so maybe there have been some developments :confused:
dj_ivocha on 1/8/2009 at 21:42
When I was doing invention a year and a half ago, the deimoses were going for about 80-ish, ishtars for 80-90 and some of the other races' HACs for even a bit less.
