EVE General Discussion

So lets say, you were gifted 300 million isk, but didnt have high skills, How would you invest the isk to set up a business for yourself / what would you train towards

I've not ventured much out of amarr, is that lo-sec?

Ostingle is heavy pvp lowsec.

Invest in the buy low, sell high. Choose what to buy and sell and where to do so wisely to avoid losing isk until you have enough time to properly get and fit proper ships. Train anything that helps with trading, and reduces trading costs. The wise investor can buy minerals, make stuff with them then sell the higher value produced goods.

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If I were to give serious advice?

Train for BS -> L4 mish. (easy reliable ISK, focus on blitzing. No loot, and pick your LP store wisely)
Train lvl 5 in a BS, preferably crosstrain gallente for uber thanny and uber vindi
As soon as you can get in a thanny start running L5, this will easily fund a PvP habit with a taste for ludicrously pimped ships (Hangers full bru)

You'll be able to run L5's as a neutral, but will require a bit of vigilance on the part of scanning. Much easier to join a PvP corp around the systems your l5 agent is at.


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Amarr can be a good race, but I find they are a bit confining in PvE/PvP due to fairly restrictive slot layout and middle of the line dps. But keep in mind that I'm in lowsec, and doctrine is a bit different to null, things work here that don't out there and vice-versa.

Of course there's always the abaddon, or probably better would be a Navy Geddon, either would be within your funds and a good 0SP upgrade to the apoc you have. I would be dicey on doing that without T2 weaponry though

Long term archon is great for missions if you're new to L5's and also is fantastic small gang support.


If you're looking at being a combat oriented player, with a good PvP activity I really can't overstress crosstraining into minmatar BS to lvl 4, then Gal BS to 4/5 (depending on rush to thanny), then large T2 hybrids, then large T2 proj (train proj first if you plan on going into null), then finally minm BS 5.

Fit BC5 in there somewhere and you have a well balanced combat char, suited for almost any small gang, solo, or fleet situation, with the use of probably the 2 best faction ships in game, one's a BS with 2.1k dps (on a cheap fit) the other one warps like a BC and goes 3km/s :p

Thanny will easily make 250+m/h if you were to take it into L5's

The apoc is actually a great lv 4 mission ship if fit properly actually used to rat in null with it till I flew the tengu. And in many ways Copine is right cross training is never a bad idea though in my oppinion is stressing gallante to much. Your original question though is how to invest the Isk you currently have. Aron had a good point though he kinda gave you a list of options, the real thing is where do you wanna go in eve? Are you looking to pvp, mine, manufacture, grind missions, run incursions. Figure out where you wanna go then your method is more obvious. Also it is never bad to save the is after all some of the best missioning ships are over a bil nightmare, carriers, vindi, marauders.

Don't get me wrong I have a great appreciation for gallante I will admitt that it my last race to finish maxing out. But what I was trying to impress upon the point that there are great ships of all races should one get the skills up to properly fly them. As you said though in pvp there are more useful ships depending where you fly, who you fly with, and the ships the FC calls for. This instance though he is looking where to spend his Isk, he still needs to figure out a goal or direction.

I'd spend it on implants. On a new character SP is a far worse impediment than lack of ISK.

I would agree with buying a Navy Geddon, I own one and its very good. However you will need t2 guns and t2 Heavy drones/sentry drones for it to work to its best. Stick with your Apoc for now until you get those skills