EVE New Citizens Q&A

Most people tend to find that struggling to pay for the game monthly turns the game into a job rather than a game

Pretty much this, it took me several months before I had a stable enough ingame income to purchase PLEX via the market. After nearly 5 years I still occasionally pay cash for my sub.

I used to PLEX my accounts. I stopped when PLEX became too expensive to justify spending the ISK and now I use my credit card instead. It's liberating and I don't know why I didn't do it sooner.

Agreed, I always chuckle when my cohorts talk about plexing their accounts.
I make plenty to do it but it is quite liberating to not worry about it.

Heh, I was doing some finances recently and realized, I pay more for beer while playing eve than I do to actually play eve.

I wouldn't expect to be PLEXing your account monthly until you're a few months in. I personally manage my PLEX (and some spare change) each month through planetary interaction (PI). I update my colonies once a day on each of my three characters and do some hauling every week or so, and that nets me around 1.4 bil per month. So for me, I have enough ISK income that I don't bore myself to death grinding for my PLEX.

Active income methods can be more or less profitable. You might look into faction warfare, gearing up for incursions (this will take some months' training), null sec exploration, and so on.

However, some people prefer to pay the $15/mo because it opens more doors for them. How useful your disposable income is depends on your skill level - I haven't been around long enough to be flying around carriers and jump freighters, much less have a use for them, so I'm fine putting half of my income per month into my PLEX.



but there's nothing wrong with wanting to save money. $15 in my wallet in real life is sometimes worth much more to me than hundreds of millions of ISK.

Trading is possible, but like the others I strongly recommend paying cash out of your entertainment budget. It is possible to acquire a PLEX within 14 days of starting but it is not even close to fun.

I understand that it's generally not worth it to spend ISK on a PLEX, but I'd really rather have that $15 a month for beer or something.

I get that, but are there any methods that work quite well for this? I just watched a YouTube video about EveMogul or something where he makes 700k ISK after half a day of trading from a fresh account.

I mean I have plenty of free time right now until school, and I'm not far enough into the game yet to know if I'll be sticking with it for the long haul - in the event that I don't I'd rather not have spent $15 for a couple months.

This is the exact reason I recommend you dont try to make enough to PLEX, you should be spending time learning the in and outs of the game, instead your time will be spent grinding instead of playing and you wont have much isk to actually buy the stuff you want.

If you think you can trade your way to success, by all means go ahead but it is a big market that takes most more than a month or two to get a grasp of what works and what doesn't.

The scamming route is also viable, but again, it will take time to become successful.

Either way you choose to go, seek out mentors that are successful that will give you pointers, as that is the quickest way to learn. There is plenty of info out there but making heads or tails of what info is still good and what is obsolete is why you need to seek mentors.

20 cents/hour or 60 cents/hour, you are converting ISK to USD. Just because a PLEX can get you ~800mil for $20 doesn't mean it's "worth" that much.

I'm the opposite.

I spent my first four years paying a sub on up to five accts. Then one day I thought, "I seem to have a couple of hundred billion ISKies I'm not using for anything ". I've been PLEXing ever since.

Although I agree with the above people in that if you are new and have only one acct, don't turn the game into a second job. Even at minimum wage it'll only cost you about an hours pay for a month of game time.

Mr Epeen