EVE New Citizens Q&A

What I am looking for is general advice and guidance on how to become financially secure in EVE online. Let me elaborate on that point a bit though, this means to me not having to worry about losing ships and getting podded, which in turn opens the door for me to get into some pew-pew and piracy. I am not looking for some get rich quick scheme I am willing to actually put in the time and effort to make the ISK but I want to know the most time and work effective methods to achieve this. This toon has relatively low SP less than two million but it is generally well balanced in most areas.

Don't forget the market. For a newer player looking to get involved in eve, deep space transport can be pretty lucrative, exciting, and rewarding (knowing you're helping a war effort or somesuch).

Just make sure you know how to conduct yourself safely through dangerous space before you try it. You can start in hi-sec, but the margins are not as good, takes much more 'paperwork' to figure out where your profits are.

Get an industrial.
Buy low at the source, sell high someplace else.
In certain areas of lowsec and nullsec, you can essentially corner the market.

Most people do use several characters to keep track of the market.
But that doesn't mean you need multiple accounts.
A single account gets three character slots for a reason; there's no need for a market alt to have any skills.

There are also external sites such as eve-central that can provide you with some market data.

There are more ideas in the Making ISK guide in the EVElopedia.

I've been playing of 3 months and I'm still pretty much broke. The market is too complex and there is always going to be someone who instantly undercuts you. Mission running goes so boring. Exploration takes too long and so often the rewards aren't worth it. And you can never make a profit from pvp when your new. mining and industry is slow and often not worth it.

In other words unless you want to spend hours grinding then plex really is the only way to make money. This gain panders relentlessly to the old player base and dooms new players to oblivion.

I've been flying around Nullsec doing Relic and Data sites for the past 2 weeks. According to Aura on my phone this month I've made around 1.2 billion, so 600m a week. This also includes losing a Buzzard, which was my own stupid fault... I've also just fitted a manticore for roaming and killing explorers like myself.... gotta take the rough with the smooth I guess

I used to run level 4's in my RNI but after a while that gets a little boring and overall I don't earn as much as exploring. I dabbled in market pvp in JITA, that was fun and I made around 300m in maybe a week, not super money but again... it got old quick

As a guy with little play time and other external factors, like a wife.. I find exploring to be perfect for me most of the time I'm afking (cloak) in nullsec while attending to other thigns. And when I'm bored I jump back through the WH to Hisec, grab my manticore and go explorer hunting

edit:
Only been explorer hunting for a day, so can't comment on how profitable that is.

Sakotz

We get bitter newbs now
Anyway, don't listen to this guy, the logic is broken here.

First of, PVP is not an income source, unless you get a very lucky draw with the loot fairy and get your paws on an officer mod, it most likely is an ISK drain.

What the guy didn't get, is that you're never locked into one single career in EVE unless you lock yourself into it. A good bunch of friends to play with can make even mining, an entertaining moment.

Trying to do just one thing to gather some wealth, will just lead to a burnout or boredom. It also takes a lot more time to do well alone. There again, doing stuff with corpmates can change a lot on the perceived entertainment and help even the newest players getting a grasp on stuff earlier than they would if trying to figure it out by themselves.

All those vets ripping the benefits away from new players, have one thing in common, they're experienced in the game and their experience can benefit their corp members, thus granting the new players joining their corp, much greater insight and knowledge of the game.

This.

Also joining corpmates on higher level missions than you can solo is a great way to gain experience and top up your isk.

New players who haven't trained anything can't do anything, that sounds about right... While it can be argued that it only takes some 2 or 3 months to train into a basi if you focus on it, thus kind of breaking your logic again, incursions are high-end content, they're close to C5/C6 wh PVE and it surprises you that new players can't easily participate?
There again, asking to join fleets at random as a new player will surely get you discarded, because just like other games, there's the leet-bros that only associate with other leet-bros. While being in a good corp, can actually have you doing incursions early in game with underskilled fits because your corp is helping you up, not holding you down. It's up to them to decide if they want the most optimized fleet or if they want to be les efficient but also helping the new bro along with another logi.