EVE New Citizens Q&A

Trying to get the creative juices flowing here...

So, if I had some new players and wanted to try and make some Isk there are some good activities out there. I didn't hear any particular activities that may appeal to you and your group. I'm going throw out a couple of general ideas.

1. Faction Warfare - you're boys join up and while learning how to pvp in cheap frigs also make money by capturing FW Dungeons. It does have the downside of making 1/2 of empire space hate you while also being at war with large swathes of PVP minded individuals. It's fun when there's an opponent and you can make money in the space between fights.

2. Mining Fleets - While mining is incredibly boring (personal opinion!), as a fleet you can continue to shoot the *bull* in your voice or preferred chat channel. With an Orca pilot boosting, a couple of Covetors, and maybe a Miasmos you can really bring in a decent amount of Isk. Determining payouts can be a pain; and the money's may have to go to something tangible since this may not be everyone's cup of tea. If your crew is exceptionally green you can throw some ventures in there and anyone who has a barge and still just go to town. You're just obviously not going to make as much Isk.

3. Level 4 missions - While easy to run solo as a veteran player, getting a battleship with some remote repair and pairing it with an osprey or an augoror can keep most of your new players alive even if their flying in low skill frigates. *Note: They'll need a damage control, some kind of buffer, to understand transversal as well as staying away from MWD use. This is especially satisfying if you have someone collecting the salvage behind in a industrial with a tractor, a destroyer, or a noctis. You can throw the loot towards upgrading everyone's ships and in no time you'll be crushing missions in cruisers / battle cruisers with some new players that have a little cash in hand. Bonus: If you pick a corp to run for that has a decent LP store it can certainly accelerate the process.

There are a variety of other methods to make Isk. If you wanted to sink your 300 million into station trading and just use the proceeds to help fund corp activities it's an option. The world's your oyster here.

For making money as a newbro I suggest murder.

Thanks for the replies guys,

About FW, I know it's probably the best bet for me, but It's just not something that really tempts at the moment. The corp is not doing it, so I'd have to go at it solo, which is less than ideal. I also don't particularly like the idea of having half the universe be able to shoot you on sight. It might be something I'd pick up on later on.

Webvan, in terms of skills I'm mostly combat oriented, and can fly most sub-BS ships (though I can only afford the cheaper ones...). I use missiles (which, apparently, has been nerfed into oblivion since I last played. sigh). I'm terribad at anything industry related, gunnery related and armor related. I can also fly a mediocre Raven (no T2 launchers).



Could you go into more detail in regards to the mission arcs and cosmos thingies? It's something I think existed when I last played, but I've never really looked into it. DED Complexes can be nice, but it's really not a very stable income, is it? Any tips on running complexes in lowsec (I'm assuming highsec complexes don't really pay very well).

I'm pretty sure I can't do any incursions with my Battleships skill. (I guess I could fly a Basilisk, but I've never used the damn thing and would probably mess up and have a lot of people be angry with me :P)

Regular missions... well they're there I guess. You wouldn't happen to have a fast way to increase standings to access the better agents, would you? The corp is currently based in space where I can only access lvl 1 agents, and my old level 4 agent is over 20 jumps away...



1. Answered above. Probably won't be trying it any time soon :x

2. We are doing mining (well, my mining skills are less than desirable, so I'm just running security), sometimes. It's really for the corp though, so it doesn't really help my wallet in any way :P

3. Yeah, will probably end up doing missions in some way or the other.

4. I did do some station trading back in the day. I did make 100m or so doing that until I got frustrated with just logging in and staring at numbers, hah.



See, back in my day I could shoot a hauler fitted with T2 expanded cargoholds and net 20m a piece, or just ransom him. These days, ehn...

What about exploration and combat sites? Is it viable with Caldari missile ships? I do have access to a few lowsec systems that are sparsely populated, so I figure there's a possibility there, but I wouldn't know where to start.

Anyway, thanks again for the replies :)

How to make ISK in EVE Online? Check out the Making ISK guide.

We most often abbreviate it as CNR, especially when discussing it in the ships forum. Been flying it and discussing it for years. It's always been listed on market as RNI, but few actually call it that in discussions. Though EVEuni wiki mentions that CNR is sometimes used, it's actually more often called RNI in forums by newer players wile vets of the bird more often just roll with CNR. It's more common to see street names rather than technical manes for ships, but still easy to figure out the meanings, especially with a navy issue ship as this. always though, if in doubt, use google. No reason to complicate the matter.

As for the repair plan, I consider it more about repair. I think newer players will more often just sell the tags rather than buy them. Best thing to do is just get your social skills up and run missions if you run missions. If you mostly do PvP, then the repair plan will be of more use in time. Personally I pay it no mind, I'm not worried about loosing standings. That's why I mentioned it depends on a persons plan, where EVE gameplay really isn't universal.