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Contacts are the only way to set up auctions, a way to exchange items with alts without having to be in the station/region where you’re trading it, etc… You can set up a straight item for ISK exchange, or item for item sale, or auction, or a transportation contract (or at least, those are the ones you’d use most often)
Contracts are also the only single means of selling/buying faction and officer loot, which does not show up on the market.
As a side note, in general, never, ever, ever touch a ‘freeform’ contract, most of them are scams.

When talking about proximity and sales, you’re not talking contracts, you’re talking remote sell/buy orders. If you look at the description for Marketing, it says:

That means, say, you can sit in Jita and set up sell orders for things that you have in your hangar in Purjola.

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I’m having trouble putting an Imicus up for sale. I want to sell it for 110,000, the lowest I see in the region is about 115,000. Where can I set that up? I don’t want to do an insta-sale because the only offer I am getting there is 50,000. I tried to put it up for auction and it says minimum is 1,000,000. I am so confused.

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Does anyone know of any kind of website that gives a quick list of the rare/valuable loots?

I have like 900 various types of items, and I know some of them, like especially some of the implants were worth decent ISK, but I have no idea which ones and going through them all and checking the market will take hours :wink:

oh and I saw the rigging stuff, interesting, another track of learning to put in the queue.

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mswas

If you right click on the item while it is in your item bay for station(not ship cargo bay) and drag to “sell item” you will get a sell window. Then in the lower right corner is an advanced tab where you can put any price you want for it.

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[QUOTE=mswas]
I’m having trouble putting an Imicus up for sale. I want to sell it for 110,000, the lowest I see in the region is about 115,000. Where can I set that up?
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Go to sell the item via the market window.
Hit “advanced”. Enter the price you want to sell it at and the duration you want your sell order to be up for.
With the skills you probably have, you’ll have to be in the same station where your ship is in order to put it on the market.

[QUOTE=mswas]
I tried to put it up for auction and it says minimum is 1,000,000. I am so confused.
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Nobody will search auctions for a ship that’s not only on the market, but cheap as dirt and very common. Faction battleships/cruisers/frigates are sold via contracts. Standard hulls are not in any but the strangest situations.

[QUOTE=wolfman]
Does anyone know of any kind of website that gives a quick list of the rare/valuable loots?
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You’re not being descriptive enough. Are you talking faction/deadspace/officer gear? Then no, there’s no efficient way to track them as they’re all sold on contract, and the best way is either to watch contracts for a while to see how the items are selling, or ask for a price check at forums like Scrapheap. There are rough and ready rules that some people will come up with, but as always, the price for an item is what people will pay for it.

Conventional wisdom held, for instance, that Setele’s Modified Large Plasma Smartbomb was worth about 600 mil. I sold the one I got for 800 mil due to a bidding war.

[QUOTE=wolfman]

I have like 900 various types of items, and I know some of them, like especially some of the implants were worth decent ISK, but I have no idea which ones and going through them all and checking the market will take hours :wink:
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There’s absolutely no way around doing due diligence, I’m afraid. If you have two accounts, set your four alts in the prime trade hubs in Amarr, Minmatar, Gallente and Caldari space and see what the markets there look like. Eve Central only provides a very rough overview that isn’t terribly up to date and doesn’t show anything about price trends, distributions or the larger market picture in any of the regions.

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P.S. Don’t think of it as “instaselling” anything, think of it as filling a buy order rather than placing your own sell order.

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Pirate Bounties.

So I just killed three pirates and see no record of getting the bounties. What do I need to do to get the bounties? Do I need to show info on every one of them? That’s sort of tough to do in battle.

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Ok the bounties posted.

Thanks for all the tips guys, it’s really helped a lot.

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Donovan Thanks for the in game help, I have been getting booted today for some reason.

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[QUOTE=mswas]
Pirate Bounties.

So I just killed three pirates and see no record of getting the bounties. What do I need to do to get the bounties? Do I need to show info on every one of them? That’s sort of tough to do in battle.
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Dunno if this got answered in game for you or not, but pirate bounties are on a delayed timer. The game aggregates all your bounties until you change session by docking or leaving the system or a certain amount of time has passed.

Bounties used to be instant but they changed it to ease database congestion. (Eve’s low number of servers (there’s 2, not one as they always claim) leads to some unique challenges for database and other server work)

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And just so that other pilots in the game are on the same page as you, they’re not pirates you’re hunting, they’re “rats”. Pirates are players who generally hunt lowsec and will either point you down and ransom your ship/pod, or simply blow you up and loot your wreck.

Likewise, pirate bounties are the bounties that other players can set on the heads of players with low security standings.

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[QUOTE=FinnAgain]
Likewise, pirate bounties are the bounties that other players can set on the heads of players with low security standings.
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FWIW being a Bounty Hunter is a nearly useless pursuit in EVE sadly. Has been forever. Likewise never bother putting bounty money on someone else if you get the chance. Just a waste of your ISK.

Many players are clamoring for something like tradeable KillRights and CCP even hinted something like this may be coming but “glacial” overstates the rate at which CCP gets around to such changes (hell, they finally only just added the missing Amarr frig that has been missing for years).

And seconded on avoiding “Freeform Contracts” like the plague. Just don’t ever bother going there…no reason to and likely you will just be scammed.

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[QUOTE=Whack-a-Mole]
FWIW being a Bounty Hunter is a nearly useless pursuit in EVE sadly. Has been forever. Likewise never bother putting bounty money on someone else if you get the chance. Just a waste of your ISK.
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I dunno. You might get lucky. Pirates lose their ships, too, and it would be ever-so-sweet to run into one of their pods crossing your path. Not something to base a career on, though.

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[QUOTE=Balthisar]
I dunno. You might get lucky. Pirates lose their ships, too, and it would be ever-so-sweet to run into one of their pods crossing your path. Not something to base a career on, though.
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Yep…pretty much it comes down to luck and you manage to pod someone with a price on their head. But almost always that price is a drop in the bucket. Any decent bounty the pirate collected for himself by having an ALT kill him.

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Well crap, so much for being lazy. I know that there were some loots that were much rarer and worth enough to bother selling. I was just hoping for a list of them, rather than checking the market for each stupid type of item.

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This is a rough and ready list, but you still need to do due diligence. I mean, you can know that Arbalest launchers will sell well, but knowing if you’re missing out on millions in profit between regions won’t happen unless you do the research.

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Can anyone point me out a chart of the entire tech tree? I realize that Evemon probably has this option, but it requires you to already have a character.

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[QUOTE=Captain_C]
Can anyone point me out a chart of the entire tech tree? I realize that Evemon probably has this option, but it requires you to already have a character.
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None I know of. Once upon a time there were a few but they are long since gone and unavailable now (not to mention very out-of-date). It’d be a pretty huge and unwieldy thing anyway. There are something like 350+ skills in EVE each of which can be trained 5 levels. Skill dependencies can be complicated, (in some cases a skill requires several skills to train and each of those have requirements and so on).

Really the best bet is EVEMon and to set a training schedule and it will get you there in the most efficient manner (so, say you want to fly a Titan plug that in and it will list everything you need up till that point…missing of course some possibly very useful albeit not required skills along the way so you have to be careful even with EVEMon).

IIRC you can browse the EVEMon skill tree without a character input but not sure.

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[QUOTE=FinnAgain]
Damn, I haven’t played the tutorial since 2006. They’ve got invention as part of it now?
Nifty.
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I believe you have to start as a miner in order to get the arc with inventing (“Mountains to Molehills”, IIRC).

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[QUOTE=Whack-a-Mole]

IIRC you can browse the EVEMon skill tree without a character input but not sure.
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Or you can import a character from an XML file. I’ve created an example character and I’m just waiting for her to show up on my api, after which I’ll export her to XML and post her here for importing by others.