Science & Industry

Hello Eve Gate I thought it would be nice to have a thread for people to recommend guides for making ISK in eve online. This would help me but I think this can also help a lot of other players if there are enough suggestions! Right now I have the question of how do you make a substantial amount of isk from mining? Now if any other players need a guide like this post here and ask I bet someone will want to reply and help out!

Simply put, you don't. You can multibox miners but at the end of the day you're still only making 8-10 million ISK (a bit more if you mine the high yield) per character per hour.

Mining is more like residual income than a serious profession. The ISK/Hour is abysmal and no self-respecting player should live on it.

It serves a very particular niche for me; at-keyboard mining whilst talking across several channels and making extensive use of all of the 'remote management' skills. The income is extremely negligible but the alternative to that for me is to do the same activities from within a station so I figure 'Eh.' Mining is roughly as intensive as sitting in station, anyway.

You can make some decent ISK from multiboxing a medium-sized fleet, but at that point you're having to do so much micromanagement that it hardly seems worthwhile. I'd rather fill the Manufacturing slots of 20 characters and then simply not mine and suffer that opportunity cost, than fill the Manufacturing slots of 20 characters and then spend the time the jobs are running managing a mining fleet.

Short story:

Disregard a job as a career miner if you're serious about Industry or Trade at all.

That pretty much defines my mining activity to a "T." Work on a paper while hauling ore every once in a while, with just enough of the client window visible to see the overview.

I find mining boring when I'm actively playing, but it's ok in semi-afk mode.

Multiboxing miners gives me a net yield of ~30 mil per account/hour.

I have 5 miners, 1 orca pilot and one freighter pilot.

I do this in a remote highsec system, and it suits me fine :)

Altho it might be a bit boring to mine with 1 account, Id like to point out that it is an entierly diffrent story when mining with my 7 accounts.


Just my 0.5 isks.

er, my mining hydra of 9 miners + 1 orca + 1 hauler brings in 25-30m/hr per miner account. That's 250-270m hourly for you nonmath nuts. I can pay a teensy tinsey fee to red frog to haul to jita and barely cut in to any profit.

I'm a masochist. I enjoy popping 27 rocks at a time. Clearly it's not something you can do afk to maximize your isk/hr so yes it's not a semi-afk kind of job given that out of 27 rocks you're going to be micro'ing something every few seconds. About 20 hrs of my game time each month goes towards account plexing and the rest just goes in to the trade machine.

Sure, I could sit in the station and trade all day (i only do it for 20~ minutes) but I enjoy stripping ore belts. Dunno why. I just do. I'm looking forward to moving to null in the near future and taking the mining hydra to some indy class systems and pumping up the levels ;D

Or dig ditches for the rich and stupid.

Though to be honest I don't really know how that translates to Eve.

Well.... I don't know much about some ways of making isk but I've been able to make money from the following activities at one time or other

- Ratting. Pays well in nullsec
- Missions. Pay fairly well if you use level 4 and 5 agents
- Killing sleepers in WH's. Pays well if you have the isk to invest in decent ratting ships
- Plexing. Can be time intenstive but the payday can be quite good.

- Mining / manufacturing. Utlimately pays about double what ratting does in terms of isk/hr of effort once you know what you're doing.
- PI. Pays well if you have access to good planets.
- Reactions. Pays well if you can moon-mine one of the components you need. Pays very well if your moon is a good one.
- Gas mining. Pays well in certain gas sites
- Market trading/transport. Time intensive until you have some isk to leverage and a (jump) freighter but can pay right proper profits once you're able to invest in some hair brained schemes. This activity alone is worthy of it's own thread since there are so many ways to make money from trading/transport
- Character trading

Things I've never tried but I hear can pay well:

- Incursions
- FW LP farming
- scamming / stealing. for example, I know someone whose main source of income is to infiltrate (wormhole) corps and steal their stuff
- high-sec ganking (time intensive but can pay a big payday if you're lucky)

Things that don't pay overly well but people still do them:

- Level 1, 2 or 3 missions unless you're grinding them to get level 4 and 5 agents
- courier contracts unless you can pick up in the station where you are and drop off in the station where you're going
- ratting anywhere in high-sec or low-sec
- ice mining in high-sec *unless* you're doing it in afk mode and only checking once per hour to see if you hold is full. The isk/hr is abysmal unless you're doing something else for 58 minutes of that hour.
- "Helping" people, which usually translates into you doing the work and them getting the isk.
- (ninja) salvaging. Salvaging can actually pay reasonably well in null-sec if you're working with someone who is ratting and doesn't want the wrecks but it's a lot of clicking.

In any case, I would strongly advise to try every way you can think of to make isk so you know how the mechanics work and then settle on a couple of things for a while, trading off for something new every now and then. It really helps to keep your game fresh when you have a new goal (learn how something works) or a change of pace.

i'll second this. the more accounts you have, the less boring it becomes. especially if you're using hulks.

It isn't too hard to find ways to make ISK. The hard part is finding a way to make ISK that you can do over and over and over without it seeming like working.