EVE New Citizens Q&A

I am thinking of spending US$10 on ISK, to subsidize the purchase of 2 skill injectors. I have been Googled and calculating, and I think this is the most value for money...

1) Spend US$10 on 2000 Aurums: https://secure.eveonline.com/AurStore/

2) Sell Aurums in the in-game market, to buy orders. E.g. https://eve-central.com/home/quicklook.html?typeid=2833#buys

So, US$10 -> 2000 Aurums -> ~800 mil ISK, is the most amount of ISK I can get for US$10?

1 PLEX is US$19.95: https://secure.eveonline.com/PLEX/

1 PLEX goes for around 1000 mil ISK: https://eve-central.com/home/quicklook.html?typeid=29668#buys

I think it's more worth it to spend US$10 for ~800 mil ISK. Also, I just wanna spend US$10.

Something sounds off to me. I don't have personal experience in this specific instance, but basic economics should be pushing for only a single $ -> isk conversion rate, especially when there aren't many avenues for inefficiencies to develop. Even if that aur is on sale, it still feels off. Check in game, not 3rd party, double check prices, double check all your math. I suppose it wouldn't be surprising if CCP built in a loss in $ > plex > aur (assuming that conversion is even still available) over $ > aur, but that still sounds like a huge discrepancy.

I am selling Aurum to a buy order because I checked the volume and it is extremely low. Might take a week to sell those Aurum and face competition from other sellers playing the 0.01 ISK game.



GREAT advice. Thanks!

That is a nice alternative idea. Subscribe an alt to use as a skill farm. Nice. Probably the cheapest way to get skill injectors. I'll keep that in mind.

I'm going for the 2x injectors right away though. Don't have an alt with > 5mil SP so it'll be too long a way. :p

This was such an IMPORTANT piece of information!

I almost got stuck with 2000 Aurums!!!!

Thank you so much!!

Take it to Jita and double it?

If you buy two PLEX you get a price break (from CCP, US$ normal list pricing) and they're $17.50 each. There is *no* additional discount for larger quantities, thus no point in buying more than two at a time if you don't immediately need it.

So buying two PLEX at a time is probably the best return.

If you want to put up Sell orders for them, keep in mind that the fees are substantial to put one up for sale, so if you're just starting out you might not be able to afford to do anything but sell to an existing buy order for your first one. So buy two, sell one instantly to clear ~900M, then put up the second one for sale at a better price.

There are two ways of looking at this.

The first is to see what you can buy from CCP with $10, and how much you can sell it for in game. This gives you an amount of capital to play with. An example of this would be buying skill extractors and selling them on the market.

The second approach is to buy a one month subscription and use it to train skills that generate an income. An example of this would be training PI skills to III on three characters across your account. With a small additional ISK injection at the end of the first month (because some of those characters will have just finished training their skills), you can probably then generate enough income each month to maintain Omega status (and all the benefits that flow from that).

In the long run, the second approach is more profitable. But the rewards are delayed, and sometimes you just want cash right now.