Looping the Hen

Holy Robotics R.A.M. Batman!

Well, I had intended a 2nd part to my D&D post, but got swamped with Eve orders! Will do that tomorrow, honest! They had a 10 cent sale on placing orders at Ebay yesterday, and I went nuts and placed up for auction around 10 times what I normally have out there. To be honest, I should have been out of this racket in the last month or so, but an ingame price spike on something I had a huge inventory of literally raised its value by over 2000%, leaving me with another $1000 worth of credits to sell.
Damn, its such a cool game and has been a lifesaver for my checkbook, I hate to give it up! Its just so hard to compete and make money without being in a corporation ingame, and I just, well, hate most people.;) To be honest, most of the billions I made was darn near luck. I just happened onto a single type of item that almost noone else wanted, I bought it like crazy, and literally pushed everyone else out of the market for it. I got into three price wars at one point that I almost went to real in-game fighting over (not good for me and my corporation of, well, me), but managed to make the margins so small (or non-existent for one 3 day period or so) at one point the competition ended up bowing out and leaving me the market.

Most (99%) of the item (R.A.M, as per the title) I only sold for about 3 times what I bought for it...this last push took me by huge (but pleasant) surprise.=) If I had held onto all of it, I could have made over $25,000...oh, well, no way I could ever have known that! Plus I wouldn't have made everything I did moving along, so if I hadn't done it all along, I would most likely not be playing now anyway to take advantage of a short term spike.

Weird, its almost like...life, ya know? To be honest, some might want to look at Eve, its one game that keeps growing, and its more interesting than any of the hack and slash games out there. We broke the 19,000 simultaneously player barrier on Sunday. (there are no shards on Eve, its all one big universe) Not another game on the market can say anything close!