EVE General Discussion

Well, i'm struggling to make money, apart from making absolute bank using the markets, i make about 5m isk an hour dowing low sec exploration, a dozen mill a week from my planets and then a dozen more million isk a week from makets. But all together, alot of my major income is passive and i don't really know how to make money in this game.
I've never been good at combat, i got up to level 3 missions using my drake before they changed missile around and gave up on missions because i was making more doing mining ( i think that was like 12m isk an hour, i was making 2-3m isk an hour doing missions) with the change to how shields work and missiles, i've completely given up on combat.

The pros of my account
-good hauler skills (1 day off of minimatar blockade runner)
-good exploration skills
-T2 cloaking
-good drone, shield tanking, missile and caldari ship skills
-T2 frigates
-access to mining barges (lost last two barges from corps being in wars)
-PI skills

gank with fleet and share stuff ,I just had 1.3m sp and got 92m isk yet

I use Erotica 1's isk doubling service on a weekly basis. She is my main source of income, just make sure you read her rules properly.

I'll try that, I'm in reddits brave corp and i'm used to teamspeak rather then mumble, i think that's my biggest problem, second problem is that they're far too nomadic for me.
Also, i don't have any friends that play this game and finding a suitable corp is hard as most small corps are very unorganized and inactive whilst the larger corps in my opinion lack team cohesion as i stated earlier

Would people invite me to join them via local?

I'd be interested in doing wormholes but i understand theres alot of trust involved, that's where the whole idea of team cohesion comes into play.

Also, i have a 'sidekick' account which is just training nothing but combat skills, i'm specced for caldari but he's doing gallente. Would that be useful for a wormhole corp as i know it's good for incursions

5m/hr for lowsec exploration is much too low imho. You said you have good exploration skills. So may I assume that you are able to hack every site you find? And you are able to scan down Data/Relic sites fast (usually with 3-5 scan cycles)? And you have a cargo scanner fitted to your exploring vessel so you know what loot cans you have to grab to get the good stuff? And you know which item goes where when the "loot spew" comes (i.e. decryptors in 'parts', skillbooks, blueprints in 'data' etc.)? I also assume you use a Helios (best choice imho) or Buzzard for exploring? (Cheeta and Anathema lack the mid slots to fit all the exploration mods you want.)

12m/week for PI is also too low. Do you have the skills needed? I would suggest to get all skills in the Planetary Management section to L4 at least (except Remote Sensing: L3). On a dedicated PI toon you might want to get Command Center Upgrade and Interplanetary Consolidation to L5. Are your colonies on hi-sec planets? They are the worst for PI harvesting. If you don't have access to Null or WH planets you might want to try setting up factory planets instead of harvesters (you should do some research on this topic if you don't know what a factory planet is). Btw, I would suggest to setup one or both of your alt characters as PI toons (leaving your main to do other stuff like missions or PvP). Especially when you are doing PI in w-space you might want to keep one of the alts logged near your colonies.

Trading can be VERY good for making ISK. The largest part of my monthly ingame income is from trading. However, it is much easier if you have some investment capital to work with. For the moment it might be better for you if you would concentrate on one of your other problem areas to fix them first. Besides, trading is one of the few areas in this game where "real" experience helps (real as in monitoring the market for some time, understanding the nature of the items you want to trade: where they come from, who sells them, who buys them, what they are used for, etc).

Drake is still good for L3 missions. However, with 9m SP and having a lot of SP in different areas, your mission/combat skills are probably not good enough to use a decent fit (which makes mission running slow and sometimes painful). If you decide to develop your skills in this area you should look for a good Drake (or whatever suitable ship you want to fly) fit and skill up to be able to field that fit. Check out the Missions&Complexes and the Ships&Modules sections of this forum.

Oh, and I would suggest to avoid solo mining. Almost everything else should give you better ISK/hr, plus it's quite boring (imho, of course).

wishful thinking.

In reality Solstice is constantly broke and relies on donations to fund his ganking adventures. Not the person you want to take advice from when it comes to ISK.

I like that you have no clue, yet believe otherwise.

1) join brave newbies
2) get cheap ship
3) fly around making things explode and having fun
4) ???
5) profit

Seriously, some how I've got 120mil of sellable stuff in my hanger and excluding the zealot I've spent maybe 50mil.

T1 frigates, faction warfare, isk and fun.