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Monday, 4 August 2025

Beginners Guide to Gate Ganking

This is a guide from MacGybo about Gate Ganking in HighSec on youtube.

For us, this is a useful guide on how to avoid being ganked and therefore makes it relevant to making isk!

This may also be a sign that MacGybo is coming back on youtube - which would be great, i loved his content.




I first wrote on MacGybo back in 2022 - his videos are helpful and he freely advises on what to do to avoid being ganged.  Well worth listening to them in the background - he has one of those easy listening voices that drift across the room and sinks in.

He explains clearly and in an easy manner what simple steps can be taken to persuade gankers to let you go.  In part because there are plenty of haulers who make easy and juicy targets.

And as far as i can tell, he does the show from an underground bunker or his kitchen table.

Tuesday, 29 July 2025

Eve Twitch Shows, Youtube channels, podcasts and blogs

I have put a page together to track the existing Eve Shows that held on Twitch, Youtube, podcasts, blogs and websites.

I have excluded twitch content that merely shows a player operating in Eve unless it is specifically to make ISK.

It includes the 3 remaining Eveblogs out of 30 that i tracked 12 years ago!  and includes 2 new Industry blogs.

The page of all this can be found on this blog here.

And the links are also on my sidebar to the right >>>>>

If you know of any other content that fits the bill then let me know - i would happily include it.

And is shown below with the links to the media format of the content:


Twitch

You Tube

PodCasts

Blogs

website

Talking in Stations

Twitch

You Tube

PodCasts

website

General Eve Commentary

Imperium News

Twitch

You Tube

PodCasts

website

General Eve Commentary

The Oz Show

Twitch

You Tube

PodCasts

website

Dedicated Eve Economy

CCP

Twitch

You Tube

website

General Eve Commentary

Declarations of War

PodCasts

General Eve Commentary

Strange Net

You Tube

Dedicated Eve Economy

Techmisek

You Tube

Dedicated Eve Economy

New Eden Post

Twitch

You Tube

General Eve Commentary

Federation Frontline Report

Twitch

You Tube

PodCasts

website

General Eve Commentary

Markets for isk

Blogs

Dedicated Eve Economy

I wanna be a Trillionaire, 
so frickin' bad...

Blogs

Dedicated Eve Economy

A noob's tale in eve

Blogs

Dedicated Eve Economy

Evehermit

Blogs

General Eve Commentary

Pust to Talk

Twitch

You Tube

website

General Eve Commentary

Ashterothi

You Tube

General Eve Commentary

Manufacturing for Wealth:
An EVE Online Industrialist's 
Log

Blogs

Dedicated Eve Economy

 



Friday, 25 July 2025

How close the game mechanics are to greatly expanding the financial environment such as banking and derivatives

The game mechanics today don't allow lending or shorting prices without using a trusted third party that is also willing to manually monitor it all.

But, with one small step within the contract mechanics we could be right there.


The simple change needed to set up a lending system within the contract mechanics

. . . . . basically, issuing a contract within a contract is what needs to be coded in.

OK, stick with me for these steps.

Player A wants to borrow 10 billion isk from Player B for 4 weeks and is willing to pay 1 billion isk in interest and give 12 billion in collateral.


All contracts set up by Player B (the lender):

Contract 1 = Player B buys 12 billion of items (say Plex, this is the collateral) for 10 billion isk +  Contract 2 (this is the issuing of a contact within a contract part and needs CCP to make this change to the Contract mechanics)

Contract 2 = Player B has a private sale of the items back to whoever accepted Contract 1 for 11 billion isk in 4 weeks time.  This will automatically put the items (collateral) into escrow.



So, how does this work for Player A (the borrower) if they pay the loan + interest back?

On day 1 Player A will get 10 billion isk in exchange for 12 billion Plex and will be holding Contact 2.

In 4 weeks time Player A will pay Player B 11 billion isk and get their 12 billion of Plex back.


And how does this work for Player B (the lender) if Player A pays the loan + interest?

On day 1 Player B pays 10 billion of isk and receives 12 billion of plex and Contract 2 will force that 12 billion of Plex to be put immediately into escrow.

In 4 weeks time Player B will receive 11 billion isk in exchange for the 12 billion of Plex.


So, how does this work for Player A (the borrower) if they DONT pay the loan + interest back?

On day 1 Player A will get 10 billion isk in exchange for 12 billion Plex and will be holding Contact 2.

In 4 weeks time if Player A defaults then they keep the 10 billion isk but lose their 12 billion Plex.


And how does this work for Player B (the lender) if Player A DOES NOT pay the loan + interest?

On day 1 Player B pays 10 billion of isk and receives 12 billion of plex and Contract 2 will force that 12 billion of Plex to be put immediately into escrow.

In 4 weeks time Player B will keep the 12 billion of Plex.


4 weeks is a short time, could this be set up for a longer time period?

4 weeks is the maximum time currently allowed in contracts.

The simplest way would be for CCP to add more time options in the contract mechanism.

The other way would be to issue Contract 2 within another Contract that ended in 4 weeks time.  That would increase the length of the loan to 8 weeks.  And this could keep on going for longer time periods.


The potential here is massive

I could use the same system to enter into a derivative contract.  But lets leave it at lending for now.

Saturday, 19 July 2025

A new Industry blog "Manufacturing for Wealth: An EVE Online Industrialist's Log"

We have a new Industrial Blog on the scene, started in June 2025: Manufacturing for Wealth: An EVE Online Industrialist's Log 

The author has been playing eve online for over 5 years as a solo industrialist, took a break for a few months and came back recently.

Started with one account with the 3 characters trained for industry, invention and reactions (30 slots total) + a net wealth of 66 billion isk with 23 billion isk as cash + hangers full of hauling ships + an established PI business in WH generating around 110 millions isk daily (doing P1 only) + a good library of BPOs and reaction formulas.

That PI operation would generate isk of 3.3 billion and therefore would be sufficient to omega the account.

Given the blog has only recently started we can read from the start and quickly catch up with what is being produced and why.


Tuesday, 15 July 2025

arrow keys / mouse roll to change prices

For those of us who put trades onto the market, a staple part of that operation is to change the price over time as competition comes in and undercuts us.

And therefore finding a fast and efficient process is important.  Inputting a new price is slow and prone to errors.

There are two ways to quickly change the price once the Modify Order box is opened:

1) when the curser is in the Price box, use the keyboard up/down arrow keys to change the price.  It will change the price by one tick.

2) place the mouse pointer over the price and use the mouse scroll button.  It will also change the price by one tick.  And the mouse scroll button can be rapidly scrolled to change the price by a larger amount (i.e. multiple ticks).











Thursday, 10 July 2025

Eve Business Blogs - a journey through time

Back in 2014 i listed 30 Eve Business blogs that were active that i was aware about at the time - all listed in the table below with their urls.  Back then i was looking for blogs that would discuss how the author made their isk in game.  Coming from World of Warcraft there was quite a vibrant community in discussing how they made their ingame money and Eve was no exception.

There are 4 left from that list today.  I would like to say this reflects the authors moving onto other media formats such as twitch . . . . . but, no.  This reflects an outright reduction in Business / Isk Making media content.

That said, there is one new Eve business blog i now read that are not on the list: I wanna be a Trillionaire, so frickin' bad...

For sure, we now have Twitch that has taken up the running in Eve content delivery - but, this is an interesting observation on how the delivery of content for Eve Online (and other games) has changed over time.

I will put together a new Content list at some stage that also includes Twitch and youtube but even then i suspect i will find less than 5 new authors who talk about making isk and perhaps 5 more than include it in the general shows.

Its a little bit sad - all those blogs lost in time, passed from memory to become part of the fabric of once what was.  Most of the blogs remain on the internet, so some small grain of comfort for those that want to immerse themselves in the a small piece of history.

I always wonder what happened to the authors and if their ventures in making isk in Eve helped them in their real life ambitions.

Blog

Type

Active?

1

A noob's tale in eve

General Business Blog

yes

2

A Scientist's Life in Eve

Industrial Blog

-

3

A Visit to New Eden

Trading Blog

-

4

Chasing the Black

General Business Blog

-

5

Curses!

Trading Blog

-

6

Deep in EVE

General Business Blog

-

7

EVE Altoholic

General Business Blog

-

8

Eve Bumbler

General Business Blog

-

9

Eve Mogul

General Business Blog

-

10

EVE Simplified

General Business Blog

-

11

EVE-fail

Trading & Industry Blog

-

12

Evehermit

Trading Blog

Yes

13

EvePLEX

Trading Blog

-

14

Extra-Vehicular - Lets go for a walk

General Business Blog

-

15

Foo's Eve Musings

General Business Blog

-

16

Fuzzwork Enterprises

Industrial Blog

Yes/No

17

Greedy goblin

General Business Blog

-

18

K162space

Industrial Blog

-

19

Low Sec Lifestyle

General Business Blog

-

20

Mabrick's Mumblings

General Business Blog

-

21

Manufacturing Confusion

Industrial Blog

-

22

Markets for ISK

General Business Blog

Yes

23

Merchant Monarchy

Trading Blog

-

24

Prosper: An EVE Online Tool Development Blog

Industrial Blog

-

25

Spaceships & Spreadsheets

General Business Blog

-

26

The Chronicles

General Business Blog

-

27

The Eve Industrialist

Industrial Blog

-

28

The Indecisive Noob

General Business Blog

-

29

The Lazy Pilot

Industrial Blog

-

30

EVE Plex in 21 Days

Trading Blog

-

31

tothebreach

General Business Blog

-

32

Twenty five Tons of Heavy Steel

General Business Blog

-

33

Vahrokh Vain

General Business Blog

-

34

Valkrrs Eve Industrial Journal

Industrial Blog

-

35

Yinmatook's EVE Wanderings

General Business Blog

-

36

Zero Gravity Geology

General Business Blog

-