EVE New Citizens Q&A

Moved to EVE New Citizens Q&A.

Notice how he says new player here not new character. I think it is important to point out that your understanding of the game and not your character's skill points are the biggest factor holding you back if not the only factor.

Aside from the low isk nothing else that you say here is inherently true about mining and could be true about any activity depending on how you are doing it and what you have fun doing.

If you had ever been involved in large mining fleets that are extreemely effective you would know that there is far more interaction mining than anything else that I have done in game. There is also a certain amount of skill in doing it well and what you learn is how to mine effectively in a large fleet.

Yes if you solo mine while watching TV and don't care about isk per hour and just warp to station when your ore hold if full then yes mining can be boring. The same could be said about ratting or missions or anoms or anything else.

OP make friends and do what you like in fleet and it will be fun.

The quickest way for a new player to make isk in hs is to tag along on lvl 4 missions and take the loot/salvage. Mining with one toon is never going to get you far.
My advice is join a new player friendly corp, eve is hard solo.

I liked missions when I started. zonk some lv1s with a destroyer, move up to a cruiser and lv 2s, then a BC and lv 3s, and then a BS in lv4s. The pay kinda sucks till you hit 3s, but standings go up rather quickly. With connections lv 3 you only need to run one mission to have enough standings to access level 2s so that helps, since you seem to have some experience and isk might be easier to just jump in there.

then I got bored went to lowsec and lived the pirate life for a few years.

are there better ways, well yea probably, but at least some of that depends on how you define better.

What people have been sort of talking circles around is that the answer to your question IS somewhat defined, it just depends on what you generally enjoy doing.

If you're in the game for the PVP, the way to make money is pretty much FW as a new player.

If you enjoy scanning more than the other starter stuff, rolling into Low-sec relic sites and sometimes data sites is about the optimum isk return on effort for someone in their first few months.

If what you're interested in is the industrial simulations, you'll want to find a few T1 blueprints that you can produce at a small but reliable margin, most likely some form of ammunition, while you mess around learning, training, and coming up with something more complicated and clever.

If you're in the game because no one would ever willingly hang out with you socially in real life and you're so boring you can't even stand your own company for more than a minute or two without falling asleep, roll with mining for your new-player isk.

So... yeah, there's your answer-space, work out your vector on what you want to spend your time on and roll out from there. And always remember: isk only have value in your imagination, your _time_ has actual real value in real life. If you're making isk hand over fist doing something you don't enjoy, you are running a financial LOSS.

lol you forgot to be insulting about the other traits commong with other activities, like ego's and such. Oh, what? Not everyones like that? ... yeah, same with mining, funnyily enough. :)