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Best way to pay for Eve Online

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DroneKing Aideron
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2013-01-09 21:22:16 UTC
What is the cheapest way to pay for Eve...and if you say Plex then please explain what activity you use to pay the bills? I am just curious? I did the math in my venture it would take me based on my skills and time 2.5 weeks of 24/7 straight mining at 1.5 mil an hour.

I can pay for Eve with money I am just curious what is the best way to get more bang for your buck? Time cards? Buying directly form CCP? etc

Thank you! Big smile

DroneKing
Rain6639
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#2 - 2013-01-09 21:23:28 UTC
<--annual subscriptions here
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2013-01-09 21:28:19 UTC
PLEX, just date a lot of older men Big smile

"Little ginger moron" ~David Hasselhoff 

Want to see what Surf is training or how little isk Surf has?  http://eveboard.com/pilot/Surfin%27s_PlunderBunny
Pewty McPew
EVE Corporation 2357451
#4 - 2013-01-09 21:28:45 UTC
DroneKing Aideron wrote:
What is the cheapest way to pay for Eve...and if you say Plex then please explain what activity you use to pay the bills? I am just curious? I did the math in my venture it would take me based on my skills and time 2.5 weeks of 24/7 straight mining at 1.5 mil an hour.

I can pay for Eve with money I am just curious what is the best way to get more bang for your buck? Time cards? Buying directly form CCP? etc

Thank you! Big smile


Money, paypal, right through website, the longer your subscription the cheaper it get.

Annual is by far the cheapest when averaged over the year.
RubyPorto
RubysRhymes
#5 - 2013-01-09 21:32:30 UTC
All of the Subscription options are significantly cheaper than buying PLEX with cash.

Annual subs come out at ~$12 compared to PLEX's ~$17.5.

If you're ISK rich enough, buying PLEX with ISK can become viable (it doesn't sound like you're ISK rich to that extent).

"It's easy to speak for the silent majority. They rarely object to what you put into their mouths." -Abrazzar "the risk of having your day ruined by other people is the cornerstone with which EVE was built" -CCP Solomon
DroneKing Aideron
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2013-01-09 21:34:22 UTC
RubyPorto wrote:
All of the Subscription options are significantly cheaper than buying PLEX with cash.

Annual subs come out at ~$12 compared to PLEX's ~$17.5.

If you're ISK rich enough, buying PLEX with ISK can become viable (it doesn't sound like you're ISK rich to that extent).


Nope not at all. I was just curious...it seems like even your hardcore gamers would have to spend some serious time grinding in order to play Eve for an extended time...I am not talking two or three months but say for a year.

DroneKing
Ayuren Aakiwa
Coven.
#7 - 2013-01-09 21:35:47 UTC
A credit card Shocked
Ginger Barbarella
#8 - 2013-01-09 21:38:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Ginger Barbarella
Watch Green Man Gaming for deals on PLEX; industry (right now I pay for half my accounts with plex from industry (not mining) proceeds); credit card when I'm too lazy to stay on top of my industry. Cash isn't an issue.

"Blow it all on Quafe and strippers." --- Sorlac
Ginger Barbarella
#9 - 2013-01-09 21:41:08 UTC
DroneKing Aideron wrote:
RubyPorto wrote:
All of the Subscription options are significantly cheaper than buying PLEX with cash.

Annual subs come out at ~$12 compared to PLEX's ~$17.5.

If you're ISK rich enough, buying PLEX with ISK can become viable (it doesn't sound like you're ISK rich to that extent).


Nope not at all. I was just curious...it seems like even your hardcore gamers would have to spend some serious time grinding in order to play Eve for an extended time...I am not talking two or three months but say for a year.


No. The hardcore gamers just "come into money" magically being null sec pew-pew'ers. No high sec alts involved at all, just CTAs and piracy to make all of their money.

No, really: just read all the anti-high sec threads. So many out there that would NEVER deign to set foot in high sec, so it's all gotta come from Goonie payroll and mining their own tech moons in null.

Where else could they POSSIBLY pay for game time from???

"Blow it all on Quafe and strippers." --- Sorlac
Feer Truelight
#10 - 2013-01-09 21:48:13 UTC
The cheapest way to pay for your subscription is buying ISK from botters and buy PLEX with the money. Unfortunately it is illegal.

8/7/2006 3:39:36 PM UTC FreeCCP Promotional Game Time 7 Days Paid

6/1/2012 5:48:57 PM UTC PayPal 1 x 1 Month EVE Subscription + Signup €19.95 Paid

CCP took 6 years to convert me to a (still) paying subscriber :)
Jamyl Khanid
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#11 - 2013-01-09 21:53:01 UTC
Rain6639 wrote:
<--annual subscriptions here


This would be an intelligent answer. I'm glad someone else posted it. That allows me to say, Blood of Minmatar children.
Kathern Aurilen
#12 - 2013-01-09 22:08:25 UTC
OP... it is possible to plex from just mining. Get a retriver at the very least. In my retriver I was making a bill every 2 weeks 5 loads a day at lvl 4 Mining Barge skill.

But its a grind with no real cash to show for it if your just mining for more time to mine.

No cuts, no butts, no coconuts!

Forum alt, unskilled in the ways of pewpew!
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#13 - 2013-01-09 22:15:47 UTC
I just go stand on the street corner and wait for a lonely wealthy old woman to drive by and after about an hour and a gallon of mouthwash, I find i can pay for the whole years worth of subscription.

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Romvex
TURN LEFT
#14 - 2013-01-09 22:49:23 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
I just go stand on the street corner and wait for a lonely wealthy old woman to drive by and after about an hour and a gallon of mouthwash, I find i can pay for the whole years worth of subscription.

Oh my god you owe me a coffee-free keyboard
Vaju Enki
Secular Wisdom
#15 - 2013-01-09 22:50:08 UTC
Use a credit card?

The Tears Must Flow
Beekeeper Bob
Beekeepers Anonymous
#16 - 2013-01-09 22:54:22 UTC
DroneKing Aideron wrote:
What is the cheapest way to pay for Eve...and if you say Plex then please explain what activity you use to pay the bills? I am just curious? I did the math in my venture it would take me based on my skills and time 2.5 weeks of 24/7 straight mining at 1.5 mil an hour.

I can pay for Eve with money I am just curious what is the best way to get more bang for your buck? Time cards? Buying directly form CCP? etc

Thank you! Big smile



Scam your corpmates and buy plex?





Cool



Signature removed - CCP Eterne
Shepard Wong Ogeko
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#17 - 2013-01-09 22:56:26 UTC
I use Plex for both my accounts and I pay for those doing PI on 25 planets. Industry and a bit of ratting cover all the rest of my in game costs.
SmilingVagrant
Doomheim
#18 - 2013-01-09 22:58:50 UTC
DroneKing Aideron wrote:
RubyPorto wrote:
All of the Subscription options are significantly cheaper than buying PLEX with cash.

Annual subs come out at ~$12 compared to PLEX's ~$17.5.

If you're ISK rich enough, buying PLEX with ISK can become viable (it doesn't sound like you're ISK rich to that extent).


Nope not at all. I was just curious...it seems like even your hardcore gamers would have to spend some serious time grinding in order to play Eve for an extended time...I am not talking two or three months but say for a year.


When I want to PVE I can make about give or take 120-150M an hour, call it an even 200m if I pop my second account out. But it requires a lot of boring work, which is 90% of the problem Eve online has. The PVE sucks. I just pay for my account because I honestly can't be arsed to rat any more than is necessary to keep me in ships and ammo.

I'd scam but oops I accidentally put myself into a position of responsibility where I'm not allowed to. Also would you trust a guy named Vagrant? I wouldn't.
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#19 - 2013-01-09 23:02:36 UTC
Just keep bugging your mom until she gives you her CC number.

All it will cost you is putting out the garbage for a week. Which you should be doing anyway as a good son, but we know you're not.

Mr Epeen Cool
RubyPorto
RubysRhymes
#20 - 2013-01-09 23:03:42 UTC
SmilingVagrant wrote:
I'd scam but oops I accidentally put myself into a position of responsibility where I'm not allowed to. Also would you trust a guy named Vagrant? I wouldn't.


Oh responsibility....

"It's easy to speak for the silent majority. They rarely object to what you put into their mouths." -Abrazzar "the risk of having your day ruined by other people is the cornerstone with which EVE was built" -CCP Solomon
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