Missions & Complexes

What are some of the most productive best ways for me make isk outside of incursions? I can fly a t2 criuse CNR, Tengu, T2 Nightmare & logi5 basilisk . http://eveboard.com/pilot/Mixedblood

Started off training for CNR & t2 cruise for missions, then learned about incursions & trained for a t2 nightmare, then decided to get a tengu for everything non-incursion, then got a basilisk to use in incursions. Freaking hilarious that a day or two after i'm done training logi5 i'll lose the reason I trained it in the first place, but i'll just find something else to do to get isk.

I know this seems like a dumb question but I have been inactive for the most part since starting college about a year & a half ago. I actually only put in enough time into inc's to get my nm/tengu/plex to last from november till may

NOT looking into lv 4 missions... Was thinking about WH space though after the semesters over in a few weeks.

PS: Is now a good time to sell my NM? (only lv 4's & inc's come to mind when I try to think of what I could use it for)

Personally I choose not to look at it as finding one thing to do to make ISK, that way youd end up just thinking of it as a job and get bored grinding away. As it is I run missions half the time and then do high-sec exploration when I cba with missions.

Its not the best income but it stops me from changing my mind and getting bored all the time like you said you have. As Fynen said people arent going to tell you their secrets, though from what I gather either running incursions or getting in a good WH corp is a good way of getting money.

lvl4s are currently the second-best source of income, especially with good combat skills and Pro Synergy support. they will get nerfed next patch though, and 0.0 mining ops as well as WHs should become more profitable.

I hate to inform you of this, but the "nerf" to incursions isn't really going to have that big an effect. Lets take this point by point

Vanguards 10% nerf - if you were in a shiny fleet, you were already making between 100 and 150mil isk/hour. Now you are making between 90 and 135mil isk/hour

But then, they are going to be making them random and not blitzable? Ohs noes, the sky is falling. Erm... before the "buff" to OTA's, way back when, when you still had to swat all the frigs and cruisers to be able to leave the field, my fleets were still completing them in 4-5 minutes. Which if you take 5 min between sites and make 9mil isk/site, you now make over 100mil isk/hour. NCO's aren't going to have any real change, unless they actually add something new instead of just making the trigger random. And NMC's, well... i don't really see any way that they can really reduce your time running those

Assaults
OMG the trigger is random/last ship on field. Well... from how I ran assaults way back when, I don't really see any major change here

HQ's if the trigger is the last ship in a wave, no real difference. If it is the last ship of a specific type, again, no real difference.

So to conclude... if you made your isk running vanguards you get a 10% dps nerf. And incursions become slightly more entertaining, because there is now the (slim) possibility that something might go wrong

But to answer the question of what is the most profitable
C5/C6 sites w/ capital escalatio
farming C3/C4 static
incursion
Mission blitzin
C1/C2 site
nullsec farmin
lvl 4 mission

I am not putting exploration in the list, simply because the results tend to be so random. Its one thing to run the maze and get just an overseer artifact, and another to run serpentis fleet shipyard, get an overseer artifact, a vindi BPC, and 4 X-type mods. Last time I did the maze it took me 2-3 hours (mostly, getting through the damn maze). And that payout comes out to about 30mil isk/hour (split several ways), not counting the time it took to find it. The serpentis fleet shipyard took about 45 minutes and the payout was something like 2-3bil. Thats not saying that exploration is bad, just that it varies too widely to be put in a spot on the list

-Arazel

level 4s as far as ive seen

Indeed. Mission running is always something I am reluctant to do, even after hitting Level 4's. The payouts are pathetic TBH. I've made more money selling a week of Fuel Blocks than a month of Missions.

Missions are great for Standings, for me, and that's about it IMHO.

And with the current mineral market, missions are about the worst moneymakers around tbh.

you are wrong and here is why:
I log on, decline missions until i get the blockade. I grind down the mission, sell the wrecks and LP and log yout again. I just made a reliable 40mil in 20 minutes with 0 ramp-up time, 0 need to fleet up, next to 0 travel time and 0 risk to lose any of my assets. tell me if that is true for wormholes or exploration.

tastes differ

20mil in bounties
8k LP
5mil for the wrecks
5mil mission reward

something like this:
http://eve.battleclinic.com/loadout/40407-Nightmare-Mission-blazer-with-tachs.html