It has been exactly 1 year since I returned to EVE Online, in what was my longest round yet, seeing as I’ve played off and on since 2009. I DID take a 3 month break, from the end of November, to the middle of February, but for the remainder of the time, EVE was my main MMORPG.
When I returned, I had 4b ISK to my name which I promptly reduced to 2b because I wanted to replace a Tengu that I lost. I also lost 600m worth of datacore to Safety, which was a valuable learning experience that I did not repeat (that year, at least). Over the months, I spent ISK on a LOT. I purchased 6 months of game time with RL money, but purchased the rest of my game time with ISK. I bought a lot of ships, and a lot of random things I needed. I sold off a bunch of stuff thinking I would no longer need it only to learn that I do indeed need it.
Through all of those months, whether I played or not, I kept track of the ISK I made. I’ve been waiting to see what the year long total would be and I finally have that number (note: I do also have blurbs for each month on what I spent that ISK on, but I’m keeping that out of the screenshot for intel reasons):
34,892,012,261
That’s overall ISK earned for the year after taking into account everything I’ve spent and what I started at.
What am I going to do with all of that ISK? I’m actually not sure. I’m feeling the urge to set up in a wormhole again, and I might decide to do that with a POS rather than my Orca (or rather, a POS AND my Orca) or I might just decide to fling ISK into the sky and purchase an athanor (under the assumption that the ISK is already lost). In any case, it has been fun tracking the spending habits of my EVE Online characters, and I don’t imagine I’ll be stopping any time soon. Despite the fact that I know Warcraft has player housing just around the corner, and I *am* still playing Wurm Online, too, EVE happens to scratch a gaming itch that other games can’t reach.
As always, fly your way! o7
A Pixel Nomad 