Smartbomb Ratting: Your guide to a high investment, high payoff activity

Sep 17, 2016 Kojaimea Sakamoto

Eve has one focus, war. Everything in Eve revolves around it, particularly the economy. ISK is both forever elusive and at the same time so easy to find. Many (myself…

Portfolio of PVE

Sep 3, 2016 Jakob Anedalle

PVE has gotten a renewed interest in the meta of Eve, including an upcoming PVE townhall being organized by the CSM. This is a good time to take a step…

The Affluent Society

Sep 10, 2015 Tarek Raimo

The Affluent Society is a 1958 book by economist John Kenneth Galbraith in which he describes his view of the socioeconomic challenges faced by the post-war United States. He viewed…

CZ Minutes: The Greed Carrot

Jul 12, 2015 Niden

Since the announcement of Fozziesov, one of the constant topics within the nullsec community has been income that makes taking, maintaining and defending sov worthwhile. CCPs response, as revealed in…

Collision of Twitch Business Model and EVE ISK

Jun 6, 2015 Mukk Barovian

Twitch streamers have been giving away things worth ISK to their viewers for a while now. As long as no actual money is involved, this is not a problem. Typically,…

Death, But No Taxes

Dec 4, 2014 Niden

“The lack of money is the root of all evil.” – Mark Twain 2014 has been a relatively one-sided affair in the Gallente – Caldari war zone, as Lowlife has…

The Economy of EVE – Part 2

Nov 3, 2014 Tarek Raimo

In the first part of this series I mentioned the lack of a financial sector in EVE Online because previous scams made EVE players wary to such a degree that…

Obalyu Blues

Jul 25, 2014 Forlorn Wongraven

On Tuesday CCP deployed Crius, their first six week sprint expansion for EVE online. It was known for about four weeks beforehand that CCP would implement changes to anchoring of…

CZ Minutes: Filthy

Jul 6, 2014 Xander Phoena

Last week on CZ Minutes, we discussed the prevalence of alts in Eve and their necessity for certain play styles. This week, it’s all about the dolla dolla bill yo……

PLEX for ISK

Jun 13, 2014 Forlorn Wongraven

PLEX has been a constant topic for debate since CCP introduced them. Prices have steadily increased from 300 mil ISK to currently 730 mil ISK per PLEX, CSM member Mynnna…