EVE General Discussion

Step 1: do tutorial missions
Step 2: train up for mwd, salvager and a fast boat with a bigger cargo
Step 3: sit in Uedama or Niarja and wait for CODE to pop something, then scuttle and loot that ship (possibly try to salvage it)
Step 4: similar tactic at Jita IV-4 on undock but you gotta be quick with the looting
Step 5: market margin trading is always a plus, requires patience
Step 6: as you loot and salvage, work your way towards a thrasher or catalyst, with gunnery skills included, improve them
Step 7: when you get all dessie skills to 3, start camping gates and wait for covert ops to go on auto pilot, sometimes shuttles have good loot too
Step 8: as you are ganking and ganking, work towards cloakie explorer, possibly the t2 cov ops frigs (anathema, buzzard etc)
Step 9: go to low sec / 0.0 Providence / Great Wildlands and scan out some Relic sites, sell the loot
Step 10: as you scan away in EVE, work towards Planetary Skills for PI
Step 11: when you reach this step you should already have some decent skills to fly cruisers, scan out a c2 wh, jump in and run sites, tank 'em heavy
Step 12: probe out WHs and sell them on forums
Step 13: hunt out dead towers with cargo bays and ship arrays still attached, blow them up with a bomber and scoop the loot with a hauler

If you follow these steps, you will get fat and rich. You will lose ships along this route, but you will eventually land a big score. Forget 0.0 offers, unless you want to rat and rat and rat into oblivion or get yelled at by walmart cashiers or paperboys, it dulls the mind. Production is an awesome way to generate isk. Market trading is also cool. Mind the ganking, dont let sec status drop below a certain level so you can still use hi sec to your own benefit.

The 13th step program is free of charge. But feel free to send some isk my way if you consider it a helpful gesture.

The insight is strong in this one, Obi Wan.

Buy frigate. Attach warp core stabs. Defensive plex in FW. Congratulations on free isk.

damn... came thinking I would learn the billions of isk "weekly" secret vets know playing for free. Leaving disappointed.

Death to passive income.

Did I over simplify something? :)

While this guide would give you a taste of a lot of different things it does seem a bit random and some of the activities are not exactly high income.

Step 7: when you get all dessie skills to 3, start camping gates and wait for covert ops to go on auto pilot, sometimes shuttles have good loot too.

You cant loot people you have ganked unless you have a non blinky alt. You also kill you sec status which I would not recommended to a noob unless they want to stay out of HS/stay a ganker.

Step 8-10 + 13

Did you plan on selling the loot in low/null? Being that you are Red moving around in a hauler is not great in HS.

Step 13

Pretty hit and miss as far as income goes.



Personally I would recommend a focused path once you know what you like. So rather than ending up having scanning/trading/PI ect ect skills focus on one area and then move on once you are maxed/bored.

Could be done (C1 is also ok), but with low skills the payout won't be very high. You would probably be better off just doing the hacking sites.



I would not really recommend that. You have to leave a scout in the system when you put it on sale. And having your main char not available for days, normally isn't really worth it.



Doesn't work - at all. My (non forum) mains are in a WH-corp, we scan hundreds of wormholes a week. Do you want to know how often we find a pos pinata? 2 or 3 times a year, maybe 4 if really lucky.
And let's assume a new player in his scan frig finds one, how much of the loot - and especially how many of the ships - he finds, will he get out of the hole to safety?
Of course, always check if towers without force fields have hangars still attached, but do not try to make this any kind of profession. And watch out for bait towers, there are a few in WH-space.