re: Eve online player loses $9,000 starship in ambush attack

$9000 real money? Wtf is wrong with people

Hearing that guy rage was pretty entertaining, made better by the "whatever" kid

It's worth 9k USD when converted from in game currency. He did not spend 9k USD and then lose it.

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This is awesome. They have an entire economy.

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i remember when they hired actual economists to overview and suggest tweaks to their economy - and actually listened to him

Have people spent that kind of IRL money for Eve Online shite in the past? It's like antiques roadshow. It's one thing to say something's worth X amount of dollars, but actually finding a buyer is a different story.

The unique thing about EVE is that the developers will not get involved, the economy and rules are completely up to the players short of hacks and such.

I sold my WoW account in highschool for 1200 bucks right before burning crusade came out.


I was main tank for a guild that would compete for world kills in the range of like top10- top20 so I had literally every single tank item you could get.

And I made $1200 right before it all became worthless with the expansion pack from some fool in austrailia.

Needless to say, my guild was not impressed

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But there are people who spend real dollars in the thousands to buy virtual starhships?

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I doubt anyone has bought something like that for USD in EVE

It takes a huge alliance of people and resources and in-game skills to build one of these ships, so often times it is owned by like 30 people technically and is absolutely critical to the alliances control of their space; hence why an opposing alliance would go through so much trouble to relieve them of it.

This is just the ISK value converted to USD through their exchange program. It's like an imaginary value.

It would be more accurate to convert the ship into days of production that it took the alliance; I'm sure that number would be even more shocking.

I'm pretty sure to train the skill to just pilot one of these things takes like a year of time; and that's not even including building the thing.

Imperial Order

We had a couple of top ten kills, one of which was the c'thun? The final in that one instance where everyone on server had to work together to unlock the gate. I think we were like 7th. We also killed the optional slime guy in that same instance top 10.

Then we were in top 20 for nefarious.

I rerolled another toon and still played with my guild after TBC, but I was never really serious again once my multi-year project became worthless overnight. Expansions destroy most mmorpg's for me.



Man, I don't remmber the names of any of this shite, suprising considering I played that game like 6 hrs a day for like 3 years of my life; but it was like 2004-2006. That was before my long college career majoring in destroying brain cells.

ETA: We switched servers like 3 times, I think we were on deathmaul or something and then moved to illidan or something, I cant remember. Mannoroth sounds really familiar too, I'm looking at a list now. I think we may have started on mannoroth