That would be me, I'd rather do this when both of us are online though.

is this still going on today?

can't rates be normalized to some form of the real money exchange that happens between the two games?

example:
$15 buys one plex = roughtly 600m Eve isk.

I think it was $10 buys 10000 aurum?
assuming a proto weapon is roughly 50k dust isk and generally about 100 aurum:
10000 aurum is 5mil dust isk.

just a fleeting thought of course and probably not the greatest idea for the exchange.
Also, can't corps get api verified? Couldn't you use that to help track exchanges?

Since that is a violation of the TOS, the only way to manage something like this is to base it off the supply/demand for EVE ISK vs. DUST ISK in the same way international currency exchange rates are determined.

Ok well right now I have my corp raising money to get like 2-3 batches so I can get money coming back in the other direction by getting my old accounts back on. Not sure how long it will take but I will be interested.

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If you're returning to Eve after a long break, I'll mention the "hours for plex" feature on the off chance you're not familiar with it. If you log on to the Eve Online account management website, there is an option to activate your account for 4 hours or so, so you can log on to Eve and apply a plex to your account. You no longer have to subscribe with real $ for a month to begin plexing an Eve account that had been inactive.

I mention it partly because its a feature lots of Dust players considering making an Eve account (the likely audience for this thread) might appreciate reading about, even if you were already familiar with it, Cash.

In regards to the order. Let Flint go first, I dont want to hold anyone up as it will take a fair amount of time for my corp to grind what we need. Definitely longer than a week for three batches. I was more concerned if this was still available to us as I can only grind Dust isk at the moment but could make substantially more with my EVE accounts and transferring EVE isk back to Dust isk for my DUST corp. Basically I wanted to know you were still alive and providing this service, now that I know we are working for three batches and when I am within a week I will let you know.

Sounds good, I'll update the first post and await word from Flint.

UPDATE to show rates available as of Nov. 22th, 2013:

80M Dust for 600M Eve, 45th batch; - Next available
80M Dust for 600M Eve, 46th batch;
90M Dust for 600M Eve, 47th batch;
90M Dust for 600M Eve, 48th batch;
100M Dust for 600M Eve, 49th batch;
100M Dust for 600M Eve, 50th batch;
110M Dust for 600M Eve, 51st batch;
110M Dust for 600M Eve, 52nd batch;
120M Dust for 600M Eve, 53rd batch;

For the opposite direction of transfers, from Eve to Dust isk, the initial offer rate of exchange has risen to:

600M Eve for 61M Dust isk, for the "A" batch;
600M Eve for 61M Dust isk, for the "B" batch;
600M Eve for 61M Dust isk for the "C" batch;
600M Eve for 61M Dust isk for the "D" batch;
600M Eve for 60M Dust isk for the "E" batch;
600M Eve for 60M Dust isk for the "F" batch;
600M Eve for 60M Dust isk for the "G" batch;

-Gyn Wallace/Min Lo


Original post follows:


I'd like to open an ISK exchange between Dust and Eve. It would operate as follows.

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An example,

A Dust player wants to try Eve, makes a 14-day free trial character, likes it, and wants to continue playing Eve, by plexing his Eve account. He was frugal and kicked ass within Dust, so he has plenty of Dust ISK sitting around. He pays 5 million ISK from his Dust character to me, in exchange for my Eve character giving 500 million Eve ISK to his Eve character. His Dust character can convert his Dust ISK into Eve ISK, through me (and my Eve character), at an 1 to 100 exchange rate.

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Another example,

A rich Eve player has lots of ISK and wants to help fund his Dust allies equipment for a FW or PC match. His Eve player gives 505 million ISK to my Eve character, in exchange for my paying 5 million ISK to his Dust buddies.

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Combining the two above examples, I make 5 million Eve-side ISK, while Dust and Eve players get to exchange their currencies at 1:100 and 101:1 exchange rates.

I'm not asking CCP to enforce my arrangements, or provide security to me or my potential clients, I just want to know:

#1 Is this kosher or would CCP consider it a violation of RMT rules, despite there being no "real" money involved? In other words, is Dust "outside" Eve Online such that my examples would be considered rule violations?

and

#2 What do Eve and Dust players think the initial exchange rate should be, if my above examples are way off? I don't want to rapidly run out of Dust or Eve currency. Until competition closes the gap in exchange rates, I'd probably begin with a larger margin than the above examples, but figuring out exactly how large, requires feedback/proposals from the rest of you.

I don't want to wait for CCP to implement a currency exchange if we don't have to, but I also don't want to break any of CCP's rules.

Thanks for your thoughtful replies,


Gyn Wallace, Dust-side
Min Lo, Eve-side

P.S. I'm hoping someone at CCP recognizes the advantage of giving Eve players the option of plexing their accounts by either playing eve well enough to make and extra ~550M ISK/month in Eve OR by playing Dust well enough to make ~5.5M ISK /month (or whatever the exchange rate wind up as). Since an exchange should be a boon to both Dust and Eve, I don't understand why it hasn't been implemented yet by CCP. So long as there is no rule standing in the way, I'll happily implement an exchange myself.

Interested, please contact me.

#1 You, the CE Code seller and I all agree on the terms of the exchange (including delivery schedule) on the Dust forums
#2 You pay me 110M Dust isk (105M +5% escrow fee, assuming that this doesn't happen quickly enough to get the lower exchange rate); I tell CE code seller that you've paid me.
#3 CE code seller gives me the code.
#4 I verify the validity of the code, somehow?
#5 I give the CE code seller his 700M Eve isk and give you the CE code.

I thought about suggesting a similar arrangement, but it is nice to see someone else had the same thought. I donGÇÖt have enough ISK on DUST side to run something like this myself anyway.

I now dub thee Gyn "Marcellus" Wallace.

Dux and I get to be Jules and Vincent - calling it!

Excellent service. Highly Recommended.

No one in EVE is buying DUST ISK (hence the super high rates here), so you only really need EVE ISK if you want to start a service like this. You'll have plenty of DUST ISK in no time.