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best way to make money for a beginner?
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Ned Tivianne
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2013-08-01 10:50:06 UTC
So i have been mining and got around 7 mill ISK however others have been saying doing missions is a far better way of making money when you are starting off?

i am doing the business tutorial missions but they dont seem to give much cash. Where should a new player go for missions that turn a nice profit?

any tips on how to make a reasonable amount of money for a beginner would be very helpful!!

Thanks
Albori Elmodir
Pro Synergy
#2 - 2013-08-01 10:59:00 UTC
Do L2 missions and salvage the wrecks
Mining can net 10 mill/hr with a retriever and skills
Stealing stuff can be even more profitable
Exploring can be profitable too

And there is no magic trick that makes you millions upon millions in the first weeks if you have never played eve before.
Daniel Plain
Doomheim
#3 - 2013-08-01 11:07:43 UTC
if your brain has high boredom resistance, you can try station trading. check out the tutorials in this topic: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=3293160

I should buy an Ishtar.
Caitlyn Tufy
Perkone
Caldari State
#4 - 2013-08-01 11:12:08 UTC
Faction Warfare. It will teach you a lot about EVE and give you good money at the same time.
Grauth Thorner
Vicious Trading Company
#5 - 2013-08-01 11:29:55 UTC
Daniel Plain wrote:
if your brain has high boredom resistance, you can try station trading. check out the tutorials in this topic: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=3293160


This would need a start-capital though, as it's payoff rises significantly when you have more ISK to put into it.

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James Hakkar
Pro Synergy
#6 - 2013-08-01 12:57:45 UTC
If you just want to make money while you decide what to do, I would suggest you try out Salvaging for the guys running lvl 4 missions. Lots of money to be made there for a new character. Much more than mining or running lvl 1-2 missions yourself!

Want to earn a [u]lot[/u]** of money as a new player? Join channel: **Pro Synergy Salvage the leftovers from veteran missioners and get paid in large amounts. 
The Spod
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2013-08-01 13:19:26 UTC
The best way, IMHO, is to prove yourself useful and interesting for the old pilots who have isk.

The space rich veterans have no issue with giving billions to newbies if you make yourself worth it via your player contribution. You don't necessarily need billions to start off with, but just find the parties you should assist or amuse and they will pay your worth.
Cage Man
Fusion Enterprises Ltd
Pandemic Horde
#8 - 2013-08-02 00:50:09 UTC
Mission running will make you better isk than mining. Best is always to find a good corp, or at least someone who can do lvl4's that will let you tag along. Once you get better skills there will be far better ways to make isk.

I am always happy to help out new players.. drop we a mail and if you close to where I am you can tag along and keep salvage.
Jewel Noret
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#9 - 2013-08-02 16:14:10 UTC
Some of the best ISK in the game for a newer player is pure salvaging. What keeps most from making really good isk at it is the lack of steady work. Joining a salvaging corp eliminates this problem. While it's not the average, 1 billion isk per week is certainly possible as a salvager. Another bonus is that it doesn't take all that much training time to get into the Noctis, which is the dedicated salvage ship. And you can make decent isk in a very cheap, fly-in-12-minutes destroyer.
Yatama Kautsuo
Tencus
#10 - 2013-08-02 16:17:54 UTC
when you just started the game the best source of income is exploration in relative quiet high sec systems. you can find nothing of worth for an hour or even two but then you sometimes find some skillbooks which will go for 10 million or so.

just think of the amount of l2 missions you have to grind before you have that kind of isk... then again if you go for missioning you will have the standings needed to do lvl 4 missions which are vastly superior to highsec exploring...

i personaly did the missioning but if you are just looking for isk go for exploration.
Jewel Noret
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#11 - 2013-08-02 16:20:44 UTC
Yatama Kautsuo wrote:
when you just started the game the best source of income is exploration in relative quiet high sec systems. you can find nothing of worth for an hour or even two but then you sometimes find some skillbooks which will go for 10 million or so.

just think of the amount of l2 missions you have to grind before you have that kind of isk... then again if you go for missioning you will have the standings needed to do lvl 4 missions which are vastly superior to highsec exploring...

i personaly did the missioning but if you are just looking for isk go for exploration.


I'm pretty sure salvaging blows exploration away in terms of isk made.
Caleidascope
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#12 - 2013-08-02 18:45:59 UTC
Career tutorials are not regular missions.

If you want quick isk, salvage wrecks that minors make in the belts. One tripped circuit sells for 130k isk, that is about twice? what L1 mission pays.

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Mercedes Chance
GDC Enterprises
#13 - 2013-08-02 20:03:30 UTC
Okay, I am a fairly new player, started in January of 2013 and I do not pretend to think myself an expert at anything in this game, but I will give a concatenated version of what I have done to generate my ISK (eveboard links at bottom). I am not space rich but I can buy pretty much what I want. I am a PVE person, I do missions (only L1 so far) and mine and some exploration but as I am still new, I am still in highsec (except for that bungled foray into LowSec but it was just an Algos) and I am taking my time.

First off I did all of the Career Agent missions. They earned me ISK, ships, skill books, implants, fittings and most importantly allowed me to learn to fly, fight, mine and know when to pull chocks and GTFOOD. These saved me significant cash because I wasn't spending to get them, specially the skill books.

Second, I saw the cash that could be earned Salvaging. You can make an easy, quick million ISK in just 30 minutes with just a few tripped powers, and they drop a lot. Skill up salvagers, always fit one. And the best part of that is you get the salvage by fighting, so you aren't just mining. And this factors in low skills. If you want to skill up astrometrics and scan down abandoned drones in high population High-Sec areas, you can rake it in finding forgotten Salvage Drones. Plus you are mastering scanning. Again this is for beginners, further on down the line you are talking Noctis and DEDs and such but that is down the road, I am not there yet either.

Third is mining. Find yourself a nice .6 or .7 Belt that has a station, put two drones in your bay, a salvager on the deck and run a venture out there. Pyroxerses is real nice for its mix and cash return. You can make nice cash not even refining it. Plus, again, the belt has rats that your two little drones can kill while you mine and then you salvage. Extra gravy on the pancakes.

Fourth, don't buy big ships until you are ready for them. I slipped up when I was still in my frigate focused phase and dropped cash for a Thorax before really having my skills ready to fly it. Or say you discover you don't like the tedium of mining, better to figure that out early with the free Venture (or 2) you get instead of skilling and buying a Retriever or such then realizing it.

Anyway, that's my two ISK

Character 1 - Combat
Character 2 - Industrialist
Character 3 - Scientist
Bibosikus
Air
#14 - 2013-08-02 22:09:24 UTC
Get in there.

Forget all the walls of text in forums, and constantly remind yourself this is an online GAME.

So get online, and get chatting in local. Don't be afraid to private-conversation someone with a question.. Quite often that person might be chuffed you asked!

In Eve, it's common for new players to be somewhat overawed by what's going on around.

Don't be. Just ask.

That's where you'll find your answers.

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JAF Anders
Adenosine Inhibition
#15 - 2013-08-03 07:01:52 UTC
I think you'll find that that best way to make isk is the way you most enjoy making it... or not. The numbers will mean less as you make more.

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