Monday, January 18, 2016

Citadel BPO Fund

I was selling a Moros on the market as I do a couple times a month thanks to the output of Project Vulcan and it was sitting in a sell order for 2.65 billion ISK, cheapest in the Placid region. Due to a recent Moros BPO purchase my corporate wallet was down in under 120 million ISK so I needed the sale to get going on the next build.

I logged in Saturday morning to see if the order needed updating to remain competitive with the North Placid sellers and I see the dreadnought has sold. I check the wallet and became very confused.

"Why does my wallet only have 20 million ISK?" I said aloud with confusion written on my face.

I stopped. I counted out, "thousands", "millions", "billions"... and then changed my question to "Why does my wallet have 20 billion ISK?!"

Did I have a BPO for sale I forgot about that someone bought? No, they are not that much. Was it a donation from a shareholder or something? I quickly scanned my wallet transactions and found the culprit.


Ah ha! Someone bought my Moros for 20 billion ISK. I sent off an evemail asking if it was a mistake or leaving the game donation and they confirmed it was an extra digit mistake and they congratulated me on the windfall.

With this sudden influx of capital I was left considering options of what to do. After checking the market for prices of Utu frigates (100 billion?! Ah man....) I decided to save the ISK for the upcoming Citadel expansion and see if there is a chance to invest in a Medium Citadel blueprint and get in on the ground floor of the citadel land rush. 

Spring is coming.

3 comments:

  1. How does an additional digit translate from 2,600 million to 20,012 million? And how does someone overpay on a contract when they just hit the accept button????

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    1. I sell on the market, not contracts. I believe the window defaults to your max ISK in wallet if you put in too much?

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  2. Ah OK, that makes way more sense then.

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