EVE New Citizens Q&A

Some people have more time than money and for others it's the other way around

I've been playing for free on semi-passive income since plexes became available. It's cute what a few BPOs and some capital can achieve.

Depends on your personal definition of fun imo. For me it's playing 3 accounts, lots of isk and shiney ships and not spending a dime in RL currency.

I also enjoy the market meta game, crunching numbers and finding trends to manipulate. The skills built up over the years has allowed me to be able to jump in and out of the market to make a quick 15-20b a week when needed.

Play the game to have fun and figure out your means to an end; buying plex, missions, trading, pirating and yes, even mining.

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Why, looks more like a GD thread to me

Well, if you have the RL cash and can spend it, sure. But somebody has to buy you the plex, and those are the people who either can not, or don't want to pay IRL money for ISK and subscription. I am pretty sure that the ones with the big wallets, are already set up to positions where their effort isn't that big in game time, because of their knowledge of the market.

This is an astute observation and indeed simply selling a plex now and then is a viable option. It's what I do to make up the gap.

I was put off the entire MMO genre for *years* because of grinding. I don't need a second job. I play games to have fun. Grinding PvE missions or mining for ISK is the very definition of un-fun for me. YMMV.

Not all PvE is necessarily bad though, IMO. Exploration is at least interesting, for a while at least, if you stick to Low/Null/WH. FW missions are lucrative enough that they aren't as grind-intensive and are at least dangerous. But if I'd been forced to PvE for everything I would not have made it past month 1.

Generally, it seems to me to be a lot more fun to make ISK in-game where other players are involved. There's lots of ways to interact with other players in this game. You might be interested in the Gameplay forums section for "Warfare and Tactics" and "Crime and Punishment".

In the end, I am pretty happy to just sell plex every couple months to fund my Frigate habit. At least for now.

This is basically my game style to atm.

I tend to keep my ships small and affordable, which in term means I can just spent a bit of RL money now and then to keep my wallet healthy.

But if in the case RL says no, I still have my in game stuff I can fall back too for my ISK creation.

It's a fragile balance between maximizing fun and doing what needs to be done...

Yeah. I was actually relatively concerned about this before leaving Faction War. I found myself thinking "OMG, how will I make money like this without FW?"

At which point I realized I was going down a bad, locked-in path to quitting the game. For me, selling a plex occasionally is much more healthy, and I am having a lot more fun now.

Here is something to ponder...

If everyone bought PLEX to sell for ISK and nobody ran missions, who would make the ISK to trade for PLEX?

That ISK that one receives when they sell a PLEX does not come from nowhere, somebody had to make that ISK somehow, and right now I think there are only a couple means in game where ISK is injected (ISK faucets if you will) and I am pretty sure running missions is a major one of the faucets...