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i played eve for just over 3.5 years, but quit a year ago - it was just too time consuming (the way i was playing it), even though i worked online from home most of the time

playing from china on the us/euro server meant that i often didn't have many of my western peers and friends online at the same to play, as well as no broadband internet and horrendous ping times - so combat wasn't a readily available option

instead i slowly and efficiently surveyed literally thousands of moons for their mineable materials and carefully entered the results into a keyword-searchable spreadsheet -- at a time when very few people understood how the moon-mining and reaction to advanced-materials process worked, i became one of the few experts... and had all the information at my fingertips to build a massive mining/reaction operation deep in 0.0 space -- one that i ran with only my own four accounts (12 characters) and the help of another friend here in asia

we produced and stockpiled ferrogel for almost three years... until a year ago this past spring, when the price of ferrogel skyrocketed as players across the spectrum finally realized its rarity and importance

we slowly began selling, while constantly manipulating the market to drive the price ever higher -- i eventually amassed nearly half a trillion isk (eve currency), and then decided to leave the game - as far as i was concerned, i'd conquered it (in my own little way)

-=shameful postscript=- i sold the ingame eve money to chinese "gold farmers" for $30 us dollars per billion, even auctioning off all my very well-trained characters and all other assets for isk and selling that to the chinese (to resell to lazy american and euro players for $55 per billion)

my wife (and many o' friend) had often ranted at me regarding the time i spent playing the game and how much the four yearly subscriptions had cost me... but i ended up leaving the game with close to 13,000 us dollars and bought myself a new motorcycle and some other goodies

anyway, great game - but i won't miss it =)