Missions & Complexes

a while? osprey is nice but...a total waste of time in my opinion unless he find a nice organized mining corp.

This 100%

There's an important lesson here. It goes something like...

Just because you can fly it, doesn't mean you should.

Hello and welcome to EVE.

I'd like to interest you in trying some other aspects of the game if you haven't already. Besides hitting the Epic Arc as someone already suggested, you should also try exploration. It is much more demanding than missions but also much more rewarding. Aside from that, it can open some new perspectives to you as a new player and help you define your goals. It will push your Piloting, Fitting and Market/Contract skills a bit more than the missions do, but that's the idea.

I wouldn't be suggesting it if it weren't accessible to new players such as yourself, so if you have some cash stockpiled from missioning I recommend that you buy yourself 1-2 Probes and several Rifters. Those should be dispensable for you at this point. After acquiring mentioned hulls, scan in HighSec for some of the mentioned here and desired BC will be in your hangar before you know it as well as several new ideas and hopefully some new contacts ;)

To minimize your losses, you should absolutely check out
EVElopedia
ISK Guide
EVE Survival

and this section of the forums.

Best of luck.

I bought my first BC off money from mining. If I had it to over again I'd probably do PI and exploration for the cash. And as everyone else is saying: Don't rush the BC. They're great ships but if you're skills are low your going to get it blown up. Here's the best piece of advice I've received in eve: Don't fly things until you have the skills to fly them well. Under skilling things just leads to lots of losses and frustration.

And you can run level 3s in a cruiser. Join a corp and fly with friends. Missions are more fun with friends and frankly almost everything in eve was designed for cooperation. It's not wow.

you should try to work your way through the Sisters of Eve epic arc... the time it takes you will give you better ship fitting skills and the isk you make should be enough to get you a battlecruiser, easy.

This is what I did. I mined what I felt safe enough mining, purchased a 1-run BPC, and had to purchase the megacyte and zydrine to build it. Including the 1-run BPC, I spent about 7-8 million isk, not counting the lost opportunity time spent mining (rather than missioning). Looking back on the situation, it probably was not a brilliant scheme, as I really didn't save more than about 5% over the cost of an already-made Drake, and I am sure that I could have made more isk in less time by missioning then purchasing a ship in contrast to carving one by hand out of asteroids.

The remarks about skills are important. I built the ship several days before I could even sit in it and drive it around naked. And it was another week before I could put heavy missile launchers on it. Not that I've really learned that lesson, I'm still building ships I can't even sit in for another 3-20+ weeks.

Another good way to make ISK through missions is do what I have done (admittedly unintentionally) is to fleet up with some more vet players and go on missions of a higher level then your skilled for.

Example I'm fleeted with two vet players flying BC/BS doing lvl3/4s in a t1 Maller and punisher, yes your dps wont be really high (mines at around 150-200 per volley on the Maller when the npc is webbed carrying two meta 3 heat sinks) and the vets will need to collect on most of the aggro and carry rep drones purely to help you tank the damage otherwise your going to pop fast (almost happened to my punisher on a lvl4).

But the rewards you can get from the shared bounty and mission reward plus any loot and salvage they let you keep which in my case is all of it (this might be rare though I'm not sure still relatively new myself). This can easily make you around 10mil every two lvl3s and more on the lvl4s.....and if not its always nice when you manage to explode a BC or even a BS (with a little help) in your T1 frigate.

Lucas

Greetings !

Let me tell you what i`ve been doing (being a new player myself. Been playing a little more than a month now). Since i have a very limited time to actively engage myself in any activity in the universe i`m taking a semi-passive approach. I conduct station trading and in the meantime i learn any necessary skills for the path i`ve decided to choose.

Market system in the game looked difficult at a first glance however with a little bit of practice you can easily understand how it works, what commodities` prices are volatile and what you could invest into.

How station trading works ? You can find hundreds of blogs, posts on forums, guides and other helpful stuff regarding the subject so i won`t elaborate on this too much. You basically sit in your chosen, cozy trading hub and place buy/sell orders according to what might provide some profit for you. Just type "eve online station trading" in google

To give you an example i currently sit at 900mln ISK and constantly keep reinvesting what i earn for even more profit. Currently this is the only option for me since i have a demanding job and i work around the clock and i believe the abovementioned approach towards ISK acquisition is the best choice for new players that`d like to earn some ISK semi-passively or if they have limited time to play the game.

Some trading days can really be disappointing to you, you`ll be barely making any cash while some other day might bring you fortune. That is the nature of the market. Of course if you want to make more profit sit in front of your screen for 20h a day and updated your buy/sell orders every 5 minutes, but i wouldn`t recommend it.

Regards
T.K.

Wat. No.

Faction is not a class of ships. Chart should look more like this:

Ship Classes: Frigate > Destroyer > Cruiser > Battlecruiser > Battleship > Capital Ship
Ship Tiers: T1 > T2 > Faction > T3
Module Tiers: T1 > Meta > T2 > Faction > Deadspace > Officer