From Rags to Riches in EVE Online
CrazyKinux has got a post up about something I wish I'd known about before it started-- there's a "Rags to Riches" contest going on in EVE Online right now. The participants started up a 14-day free trial account, and like a virtual world reality show, they are seeing who can raise the most ISK doing... whatever it is they come up with.
It looks like there's only three entrants (should have let us know about it, Duke!), but the 14 days started at the beginning of this week, so here's hoping they're feverishly working as we speak to get enough ISK together to win a 30-day game card. And sneaky starting it during patch week, too-- that cuts it down to 13 days, really considering all the downtime and downloading today. And they're going to be blogging about it the whole time-- Wiseones is up to about 819k on Day 2, just by doing the newbie missions and mining.
EVE players, what would you do for a ton of ISK in such a short time? The best thing I can think of would be to somehow gain access to a corporation's funds (perhaps by mining for them only for 13 days straight), and then shamelessly rip them off completely on the last day, pulling all their accounts and selling everything you can get your hands on. Hey, it's not pretty or nice, but you can't get to the top of the ladder without stepping on some hands, right?
