Jita

After spending your entire game time in low and null sec coming to Jita is like heading to New York after living on a farm your entire life.  At first you are taken aback by how many players are zooming around and how every item in the game is available to buy.  You didn't even know that some of these items existed.  Billions and billions of isk seem to be trading every few minutes and the amount of money sorta takes your breath away.

Visually its beautiful as always, especially when you hit CTRL-F9 so that you can see things without the overview.  But local chat is a nightmare, just scam after scam.  If you play with the trading a little bit it also becomes clear that this trading is either full of bots or just full of really intense players.  Price modifications happen all the time and items are adjusted at almost a minuscule level.  For someone like me who never really spent a lot of time thinking about the items I use and shoot every day it was kind of eye opening.  I just sat stationary outside of one of the main stations and just watched as huge industrial cargo ships fly in and out.  The millions and millions of m3 being moved around the entire universe is truly amazing.  

However I'm glad I don't live here.  This seems to be the most mathematical of all the EvE players I've encountered.  Information is really power here and they don't like to share any, which I totally understand.  But this is the opposite of low and null players.  Information is traded often out in null, especially among frigate pilots.  Since we are so weak we rely on maps and planning along with communication to stay alive.  Every single person in Jita seems to exist in a world of all spreadsheets.  The one trader who I got to talk to me a bit was pretty clear that this is the whole game for him and he loves it.  He said he has been playing for over a year and playing the market was the only thing he liked to do.  It was weird to think of a player who logged in every single day but whose only ship was a shuttle.  

He gave me an idea of his net worth and I have no reason to think he is lying.  So I asked if he was ever curious about what the other players in the game were doing.  He seemed to hesitate and admitted he was not.  His trade corporation had evolved over the years to really get good at a few key markets.  The only thing he really cared about out there was when a large war was declared so he could adjust prices and suppliers.  I thanked him for his time and jetted off.  Next I'm heading to the EvE gate, 20 million isk richer thanks to a donation from the trader.  

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