EVE New Citizens Q&A

So I think I can safely say Im not completely new but im still a newbie. Ive been playing for a bit but the way Im mining seems a bit inneffective.
I have a ship making about 3 mil per half hour which feels, very slow. Is there any way to make this more effective so I can get some decent blueprints to produce and sell?

If you are mining alone in a T1 mining barge with T1 Strip miners, then 3 million per half hour sounds about right.

There are several ways to increase your profit, but they largely rest on either getting better skills, or fleeting and forming up with other people.

If you form up with other people, they can offer you boosts and orca support which will increase your yeild.

Other than that, if you are mining alone with only 1 character, the only thing you can do is get better skills so that you can fly and use T2 modules/ships. These will increase your isk to about 4-5 mill per half hour. Probably reach 6, if you ignore tank, and fit for yeild, but i do not recommend this, as it will make you an easier target.

Try skilling up for the Modulated Strip Miner 2, and get the relevant reprocessing skills to be able to use the Tech 2 crystals. I generally stay away from T2 mining ships, as i dont see them as worth the cost with regards to the risk of losing them. But they will increase your yeild as well.

Also remember that good reprocessing skills will allow you to increase your profit by about 10%. So if you have 100 million isk worth of Ore, and you refine it with good standings and good reprocessing skills, you will end up with about 110 million isk worth of minerals.

If you think that mining is something that should be netting you 100 mill an hour, youve chosen the wrong profession. Mining alone in hisec nets you about 10-12 mill an hour, at most.

Send me a mail, i have a mining alt I use and have a friend who offers me free boosts with his mining foreman 5, and i sometimes mine when im bored.

Doesn´t matter to me, whatever makes the most ISK is what I want but I dont want to take to big risks, meaning dying. What other alternatives are there?

Catalyst soon coming to a system near you.

In EVE, everything is a risk. If you don't want to take risks, then honestly, EVE probably isn't the game for you.

To answer your question about trading, though, it's where you purchase from Buy Orders (the ones on the bottom) and sell via Sell Orders (the ones on the top). You want to buy high, and sell low, meaning you'll need to keep a market order up at the top of the Buyers list, and when you get the item(s), keep reducing the price to keep it at the bottom of the Sellers list.

This involves plenty of risk on its own, though, even if you aren't going to die from it, as you have to invest a decent amount of ISK before you can actually make a decent amount of ISK.

As for financial opportunities in general, you may want to give ISK: The Guide a try (http://www.isktheguide.com/). Just understand that EVE is a game of risks, and higher risks generally means higher rewards. Being afraid of losing a ship in EVE is a quick way to end up hating the game and rage-quitting.

god don't listen to these ppl.

Mining is very profitable and will depend on what else you want to do. its a supplimental income that helps allot of people
when I mine I make 17m per hour, you can reach 32m with friends and protection in hulks and with rorqal support.


mining is and never will be the only thing you'll do in this game so yes plan on doing other things.
most will mine when they need a break and watch you tube ect. which is why there are allot of quiet ships in space.

dont believe me? well there are miners in every belt so take their word for it

If you like to nick pick things i would suggest mining while you research industry and learn how to build things. this is what I do, I produce 2 bill a week in T2 ships which make me a decent profit and require very little hauling with my various POS's

I can sit in a belt and mine while i invent, build and research or even while I am jumping or running missing arch

but mining is where your base income will start unless you go for busy mission running that wont make yo much until you get more ship skills.

so play both keep them all in mind when skilling up -mining, ships, shields and weapons, learn bout shield resists and weapon damage types (there are 4 of each)

now back to mining, skill for the procurer so most will leave you alone, a retriever is nice but it will be killed every other day.

last but not least download Eve Isk per hour and plug in your skills and API and do some mining research on what ships make what, while remembering that MACK, Retrievers and hulks may make you lots of cash they are costly losses, in the end a skiff is the way to go as it matches what a Mack can make but takes allot of skill to actually see that outcome.


Find friends as friends will help boost your mining yield in fleets, but not just any one, only ask avid miners that you know are miners, others will allow you to join fleet and then just legally kill you and salvage your lifeless corpse


If you want major cash then you need things like WH skills where you can make several billion a week killing sleepers, but i make that and more in industry so I'm happy mining away running blueprints and picking fights with local WHs and killing gankers, EVE is fun so skill for it!

Also to note you' should pay the $38 for 3 months, this will allow you to keep the isk you make in your pocket, after the 3 months you'll have no problems buying a 800m PLex every month, it's possible now but it will make you fell poor for the first few months and may make you hate the game.

Make most ISK and mining NEVER go hand in hand.


What else....a huge list after all you are in a sandbox.

Missions
incursions
ratting
exploration
trade
scamming
theft
piracy
etc. etc.



But with an ISK goal, I will give you about 6 months till you get bored and leave.

This game is an MMO, which means that a lot of the activities are designed for groups. For example if you're trying to mine so you can manufacture stuff, it will be too slow. Production is not a "craft" like in other games, it's an industry. You need the output of many miners, and even moon or planetary extracts, to make some of the ships.

So whenever this setup happens in a game, players end up having to use the market / auction house as intermediary. Mine -> refine -> sell minerals. Someone else buys huge quantities of minerals -> produces ships -> sells them. Others buy the ships -> shoot them up in PVP.

The profit comes from all the buying and selling activities, but you need to have money to invest before you can make money. So your idea of turning a PLEX into 700 million startup capital is ok. Just realize that it's not exactly easy to make profit after that, you still have to work or be smart about it.

Activities in high sec will yield less profit than activities in low or null sec space. The ores you can mine are crappy, the missions don't pay out as much and the NPC targets you kill are weak and have small bounties. Production does happen in high sec because of the security, but your customers who buy ships may be in lawless space, so they'll pay less because they have to come and transport the ships to the war zone themselves.

Otherwise, you're looking at get-rich-quick schemes, which depend on luck. Scam someone out of a few hundred million. Suicide-gank a fat target of opportunity. Join a corp that happens to be rich and clueless and steal all their stuff. You may make money, you may go a month without anything.

pretty much.

if you want to make good money doing anything in eve you will need to risk something,
trading is no different.

this might help https://eve-central.com/