EVE General Discussion

Hey PvP elitists,

out of curiosity I'd like to know how do you finance your pewpew life? Shooting NPCs? You own a POS? Buy low, sell high? Ransom only? PI or production? Tell me!

I prefer honest answers by PvPers without 15 alts

Thanks and happy shootin' !

I have a PLEX BPO.

Free frigates.

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We really want to know the extent of your care-bear-ism. C'mon, don't be shy.

Incursions

not making money for a long time. A bout 1 and half year ago was cloaked near a group killing a mom, ninja looted 2 officer mods and that is paying for my PVP since then :P

During the day, I dance naked for Japanese business men and drown my sorrows with a bottle of Jack afterward. At night I work the local corners and sell my body for whatever I can get so that I can pay for PLEX.

It's a rough way to keep myself in officer fitted pvp violence boats...

Angel missions, these days, plus the occasional market opportunity that's so positive-sum that even a thicko like me can extract some profit from it: "Hmmm, CCP are boosting AFs, I know I'll buy a couple of bill worth of AFs and sell them for 2.5B in a week, sweet that's this month's PLEX paid for with 2 minutes work"

I made out like a bandit when Logis were buffed also, that was p good. Also one time a long time ago I found like 25 Stilletoes for sale at like 3.5M ISK each in Curse, hauled them god knows how many jumps to the warzone in Feythabolis or somewhere a self-scouted iteron 5 (5 journeys!) with a cloak and sold them for about 18 or 20 each. That was when I had only a few mill SP and the biggest ship PvP I could fly was a Flycatcher or a Manticore, so it paid for about 10 ships for me (plus I made a good margin reselling the Ity5 )

Rule of thumb if you're living in 0.0 and you find yourself importing some ship or mod because it's not available locally: import another 5 or 10 for the local market and sell them for enough to get 2-3 free for yourself. Your alliance mates will; be happy that the ship or mod is available, you effectively get your stuff for free.

If all you want is enough ISK to pay for PvP ships, and you can take the trouble to pick it up, then EVE pretty much rains ISK on you. The only really hard work part is acquiring your initial working ISK - once you've got a bill or two in your wallet, you almost have to be trying not to make enough ISK to putter along.

PS Oh yeah and also try not to lose ships like an idiot too often; not doing that so much helps balance the books a lot.

I used to just go into someone elses territory in a cloaked ratting ship and find a valuable system that a bot has been working, then I just ran the belts he chained.