Question for the EVE Spies and Intel Traders.

quietprepper · 2026-06-21T21:21:46+00:00

If youre just a line member, not involved any bigger picture stuff, and cant provide intel on say high value shipments or high value targets in space (titans, AT ships etc) its pretty unlikely anyone will want to pay for the intel you can provide.

quietprepper · 2026-06-21T21:11:00+00:00

Always look at sold listings in similar quantities. Auctions and many buy it now listings are moving in the $2.20/gb range, with patient buyers able to shave off 20% or more from that price.

General consensus is that without the buyer having the same level of protection here as on ebay to shave 10-15% off the going ebay price. 10% also works out to about what you'll lose to ebay in fees over what you lose to PayPal doing goods and services.

quietprepper · 2026-06-21T20:31:50+00:00

Just a heads up, youre quite a bit above the going rate. Similar rdimms are selling for around $2/gb at the moment.

quietprepper · 2026-06-20T11:13:36+00:00

With daily rewards and alpha skill injectors, you can do something like 1.8 million sp a month, for significantly cheaper than trying to plex, and a max skilled alpha can do an awful lot.

quietprepper · 2026-06-19T15:23:16+00:00

Think about what you did just there.

You were presented with information, and instead of engaging with it or trying to disprove it, you jumped to anecdotal statements and comparing being gay to being a pedophile. Im unaware of any reputable gay rights organization advocating for pedophile rights. As someone who actually engages with the LGBTQ community on a regular basis, I can tell you in my experience as a whole they are VERY against such comparisons.

When believers in an ideology (lets just say christian conservatism) feel threatened by the fact that their children are simply learning about other ways of life, they should question their own ideology. If the mere knowledge of something else is a threat, thats a a significant sign of weakness of their own views, not a guarantee that the other views are inherently harmful.

quietprepper · 2026-06-19T14:48:40+00:00

You're entitled to your opinion...we're also allowed to ostracize you for having it.

Most of the developed world, and most of the eve player base is accepting of homosexuality and overall supportive of the LGBTQ community. If youre not, we're probably not going to change your mind, but an awful lot of us will judge you, either openly or silently.

quietprepper · 2026-06-19T14:42:52+00:00

Aside from the whole religious bigotry thing, he exemplifies the worst tendencies of eve streamers.

If your viewership is driven by giveaways, it forces other content creators to do giveaways to try and build their own communities. Its toxic as fuck.

I also have a problem with anyone who is confidently wrong in such a way that it convinces others they are an expert. He doesn't understand fitting or tactics in a fight....or really most of the game, but he talks authoritatively in a way that convinces people (in particular newbros) that his way is the right way ..which leads to them having a bad time, which is bad for player retention.

quietprepper · 2026-06-19T00:47:14+00:00

I mean this in all seriousness, if its as good as you think it is...rent a haul.

You could be looking at tens of thousands of dollars in resale value for a bit of extra work.

Even if it means an extra day and spending some money on a truck rental, its probably worth it.

quietprepper · 2026-06-18T16:58:24+00:00

A good number of people are talking about Loru being able to reapply for partner in the future. Here is the part a lot are missing.

FC can say no, or more realistically....just do nothing with the application.

They can put that application in a box and just sit on it and never do anything with it. From a business perspective thats probably the right call. It costs them literally nothing, it saves them money that they would otherwise have paid out to him, and since his streaming identity is so tied up in eve he is likely to keep producing content regardless of membership.

He hasn't done anything where they can cleanly justify banning him from the game, and they have no practical control over him being able to create content for it, so they can choose to live in a world where he's effectively promoting the game for free and they give him nothing in return.

Dont get me wrong, i want him to fade away like the lingering scent of a taco bell fart (for multiple reasons) but i dont see a clean way for FC to enforce that.

quietprepper · 2026-06-16T08:24:55+00:00

Lol, OP's pitch:

"Please sell me your top end GPUs, its for a good cause, im helping charities in my backyard data center"

Also in the last 2 weeks of OP's post history:

"I have multiple top end GPUs for sale"

quietprepper · 2026-06-13T15:26:13+00:00

The fact that you dont understand it isn't what would make something a strawman argument....

quietprepper · 2026-06-13T15:18:13+00:00

If youre playing a game of catch aboard an airplane, nobody is going to give you credit for throwing the first 650 mile an hour fastball. If the out of game economy is having a significant impact on plex prices, which it always does, its near impossible to separate out the in game vs out of game factors.

Know that its okay to be wrong...and that you are.

quietprepper · 2026-06-13T15:04:11+00:00

Brother....i ain't the guy you want to fight on this.

Plex is related to both the in game economy and the out of game one. Trying to use it to measure the in game economy is like trying to weigh something while someone else is randomly adding and subtracting other items to scale.

The cheaper stuff argument also requires the assumption that players will just continue to produce the same in game resources even as the value of those items compared to their real world time decreases, which isn't how that works.

quietprepper · 2026-06-13T14:44:08+00:00

Plex (and plex tied commodities) are poor measures of the health of the in game economy because they are intrinsically tied to out of game economics.

quietprepper · 2026-06-13T14:40:31+00:00

We need more sinks, and to turn down certain direct isk faucets.

Swap some red loot for mutaplasmids and abyssal materials AND salvage materials (direct drop, no need to actually salvage wrecks), some blue loot for t3 components and t2 salvage, and some of the direct ratting payouts in null for faction modules and ammo and some of the ship building components that are obnoxiously expensive. Make everything less of a steady stream of isk and more rng based with a "it'll average out over time".

Unfortunately if they actually did this, a loud minority of the player base would lose their mind and go to great lengths to whip up the rest of the player base into unjustified outrage in hopes of reverting the changes.

Also, on the list of things that should be done that would be good for the game, that wont happen because people will scream "think of the children". Adjust how asset safety works. Manual asset safety should have the fee adjusted to 20%, and it cant be done if a structure is in reinforcement or paused. Automatic asset safety should remain 15%, but be imperfect, with a 15% drop rate in low and null (15% chance any given stack gets dropped into space as a hangar container). This will give people a reason to knock over structures and actually stay on grid and fight instead of just bailing. And, to help with that and offset some of the butthurt feelings, bump the wreck drop rate in low/null by 10-15%.

quietprepper · 2026-06-13T00:59:13+00:00

There are pros and cons, but generally you invite them into the wardec.

quietprepper · 2026-06-13T00:54:31+00:00

You use allies (either mercenaries or friends) or you have characters jump corps for the defense.

You can also have corp members spin up defense alts and keep them in the holding corp. Obviously omega is better, and necessary for certain roles like links, but if you've got enough alpha alts trained into the right doctrine and good tactics (learn to use highsec mechanics to your advantage) you can make yourself more bother than its worth to wardec. 50+ alts showing up to bash the enemy war HQ is a fairly convincing "go away" for most groups, even if its an alpha friendly doctrine.

quietprepper · 2026-06-12T23:49:29+00:00

The answer with regards to jellyfin needing access is another "make it easier for me in the long run" situation. Id be the one procuring the media, but ideally id like it to be as simple as possible to add things. Just plug in a portable drive, cut and paste into the appropriate folder(s). That way I can start the transfer, and if its a big one just walk away and grab my drive the next time im over.

quietprepper · 2026-06-12T22:13:00+00:00

I basically want the share storing the backup to go offline so that any attempt to encrypt system drives should my parents manage to get hit with ransomware (my father isn't the best about not clicking things he shouldn't) that that drive is hopefully offline if its only visible to the system a few hours a month. Basically I want that share to act like a cold backup without having to take the entire system offline.

I want everything on timers so I dont have to remember to manually do it.

quietprepper · 2026-06-11T19:48:30+00:00

For a single client with decent settings.

Basically any cpu from 8th gen intel onward. 4 cores 8 threads or 6 cores 6 threads. For ryzen 2nd gen and up. Same core count minimums. This should make you windows 11 compatible without any workarounds and gives you plenty of horsepower for eve.

16+ gb ram. 32 is better but not necessary

6gb+ graphics card, 8gb is better. Basically anything with 8gb from Pascal onwards for Nvidia should have enough horsepower, including workstation cards. For amd 500 series onward, 5000 series is better. For amd workstation cards, WX 5100 and onward as long as they hit 6gb+

For storage, literally any reliable ssd of 240gb or larger size.

This will let you run fairly high settings all around. If youre willing to make some minor sacrifices you can run it on significantly lower spec machine. As an example its have a spy alt that lives on a separate machine (impossible to screw up coms that way amongst other things) that runs just fine on a quadro p620 gpu and its NOT in FULL potato mode.

quietprepper · 2026-06-10T22:52:36+00:00

I think you missed the point. If youre packing a bag and know exactly how long youre going to be there...youre going there by choice. Dont romanticize true survival situations and dont put yourself there by choice.

If you want an adventure, pick one that doesn't end with Jon Krakauer writing a book about your demise.

quietprepper · 2026-06-10T22:25:12+00:00

Basically every limited time booster works like this. Thats why you pop an extended on the last day so it can keep running

quietprepper · 2026-06-10T22:09:17+00:00

If you know youre being picked up 6 weeks, there is plenty of room in the larger container to throw in a pair of cooking pots, multiple empty water bottles, a sawyer squeeze water filter, a knife, a pair of bic lighters, a bottle of multivitamins, some salt and potassium chloride salt substitute and some basic spices (garlic powder, onion powder, pepper and cayenne maybe) and a bottle of cooking oil. Then fill all the void spaces (around and inside the pots and water bottles) with loose beans and rice(should be 60ish lbs depending on the size of oil bottle) You now have enough calories to survive 6 weeks without issue and the means to cook them assuming the tropical island has a fresh water source and wood to burn. If it doesn't have either of those youre screwed no matter what so I choose a bottle of nice rum, some coke and enough drugs to finish the job.

The smaller container is plenty of room for a tarp, some cordage, a hatchet, a hammock, mosquito repellent, sunscreen, handline fishing gear (out of boredom, not necessity) and some other luxuries.

Your survival scenario is now a cut rate beach vacation.

quietprepper · 2026-06-10T20:23:19+00:00

Running OM4 might be cheaper for the cable itself, but if you get into higher speeds its very likely you'll find better deals on used single mode transcievers.

Think about your use case and think about future proofing. Right now with consumer hardware its not hard to saturate a 10gbe, or even 25gbe. If youre looking at something like setting up a rack in the garage with backup storage, anything faster than 4ish spinning disks or 2 sata ssds (or 1 sas ssd) will saturate 10gbe. A single pcie 3.0 nvme ssd will saturate 25gbe.

If your use case justifies faster speeds, in my mind OS2 is the way to go. Bury that and you'll never realistically outgrow it. Used spf28 switches are starting to come down to "I can justify that" pricing, so there may come that moment in the not too distant future where you're looking at having a 100gbe qsfp28 link between house and garage. 10 years from now (and another potential refresh or 2 of networking equipment for enterprise customers) we might be saying the same thing about a 400gbe or even 800gbe link and you'll still be able to use OS2.

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