Getting Rich Quick and Quite by Accident

***CAUTION: NON-PIRACY RELATED CONTENT BELOW! ***

Did I tell you that recently I created a second account? I think I did...

Well, anyway. The second account was made to give me some flexibility to not compromise on Kiriths training whilst allowing me to have a character to haul, a character to mine/mission and a character to probe.

Its early days of course and the first character I am making is a Hulk pilot who is also a small time manufacturer. I have the bonus that a friend of mind is a high sec miner who runs a few accounts which pretty much sit and mine all day, one of these pilots sits in an Orca and I can tag along in the gang and semi-afk mine in his gang taking all the bonuses and the cherry on top is that he does all my refining too at 100% yield.

Anyway, I digressed lol

So I had done some manufacturing and was selling my pile of goods in Rens. My second account active on my other PC while I'm chasing a gang around in Adirain with Kirith. I notice the alts wallet flash and do a double-take on my wallet balance. What was a moment ago 41m ISK is now 227m ISK. My sell order only had around 2m ISK remaining so I was like, erm wtf just happened? Seems someone just tried to buy from a sell order that was set very high and I got the ISK! Woohoo. However it doesn't stop there, as within minutes it happens again and my alts wallet has jumped to 338m ISK! the same sell order but a different buyer. Unfortunately I ran out of products to sell, quite a profitable evening if I do say so myself.

Well, at least now I don't need to save for a Hulk for the miner!

PS. I am still a dirty filthy pirate, but we's all gotta make a living right? Plus its ok because I turn the tables and make an Amarr character my slave and mine for me. Irony

Funding Piracy

I have heard a lot of talk recently around the funding of Piracy;

- I have been asked how I do it.
- I have wondered how others do it.
- I have seen forum polls on how people do it.

It seems to consist of a variety of answers, I'll detail a few below;

- Ransoms
- Selling loot drops
- Mission running alt
- Exploration
- Trader alt
- Passive POS income
- Mining alt

I'm still undecided on how best I can fund piracy. To date Kirith has been self funding, but with the upcoming bigger ships it is a matter I probably need to think about some more. I've had success with my small-time same account trader alt but not to the degree of funding the loss of a couple of Cruisers/Battlecruisers per week.

Having tried the 21 day trial account mission running I'm not a fan of being boredozered by missions, even if I could get faction ammo and implants easily.

Passive POS income would be cool, but at my career stage in the game setting one up feels like mist and shadows, anyone know of a very good guide I can look at?

Trader alt, is ok. But I don't think I can make my income there.

Exploration, with the current ease of scanning the good stuff is gone fast and it fells like mission running all over again.

Mining, oh dear. I'll try it at some point but sound just as bad as Missions!

I have friends who make lots of ISK from mining & missions so there is no question of whether they are viable and would provide the ISK doubtless required, it's just whether I want to dilute my enjoyment of the game.