EVE General Discussion

Btw, your character looks like Anyong.

You could also make a bit of Isk by scanning down cosmic anoms and the clear them in a kiting destroyer. Cheap ship to fly and easy to clear with if you can maintain your distance properly.

Making ISK in the first few weeks is tough, not because it can't be done, but because there is so much to learn. Play an hour then read an hour is a good rule of thumb for the first month or 3.

Your clones are free now, and its short money to fit a rookie ship with MicroWarpDrive and a couple or nanofiber internal structures. I use those all the time for scouting and mapping, they are surprisingly effective. Setup region wide buy orders for skill books and go around, pick them up, and bring them to places where they sell at a profit.

Explore lowsec, and null, get blownup! Try bumping ships out of align at gates, and scanning their fits and cargoes. learn your D-scan.

Join one of the trader channels and ask if they need a runner for anything, explain that you are brand new to the game. Talk to people in game. So many new players get lost to the ISK grind its refreshing to find one looking to experiment a bit. People will "help" you. Some of what they do will not seem helpful, but all lessons about how the game works are useful.

Be fearless, you have little to nothing to lose. Use that fact to your advantage, its one of the few that you have.

Best of luck, and welcome to New Eden.

Hey all you galactic fools, I'm also new and plan to burn all of your ISK . . . or spend it on some cheap Amarr fix.

Thank you all very much! There has been an interesting mix of jackasses and totally cool people so far on this game. Hope to see you all in space :3

Welcome to the game, another thing which no one mentioned is Faction Warfare, which can earn you pretty good isk and will get you started in PvP, you may want to train up some combat skills before you start. Good Luck.

Ways to make ISK:

Mining Minerals in high security space
* very low SP entry, moderate SP range
* pretty safe
* moderate income
* moderate micromanagement
* boring

Mining Ice in high security space
* moderate SP entry, less than moderate SP range
* pretty safe
* low income
* less than moderate micromanagement
* very boring

Running courier contracts
* very low SP entry, moderate SP range
* pretty safe to very unsafe
* low income unless you are willing to manage lots of contracts at a time
* moderate to high micromanagement
* fairly boring

Running courier missions
* very low SP entry, low SP range
* pretty safe to very safe
* very low income unless you know the tricks
* moderate to low micromanagement
* boring

Running mining missions
* very low SP entry, moderate SP range
* pretty safe
* low income, but sometimes the loyalty points sell well
* moderate micromanagement
* boring

Running security missions
* very low SP entry, high SP range
* unsafe at first, pretty safe once you learn it well enough
* moderate income
* high micromanagement
* fairly interesting

Research agents
* moderate SP entry, moderate SP range
* very safe
* very low income (at least mine are)
* no micromanagement at all
* research agents work indefinitely while you're away

Planetary Interaction
* very low SP entry, low SP range
* pretty safe to very safe
* very low income
* very low micromanagement
* you can set it up and let it run for several days without you

Ratting
* very low SP entry, very high SP range
* extremely safe to extremely unsafe
* very low income to very high income
* high micromanagement
* slightly interesting

Sleeper sites in wormhole space
* moderate SP entry, very high SP range
* always unsafe, though threats may be rare
* high to very high income
* very high micromanagement, stressful
* pretty interesting

Incursions
* very high SP entry
* pretty safe if you have a good FC and follow instructions
* very high income
* high micromanagement
* fairly interesting

Industry
* moderate SP entry, high SP and ISK before you get anywhere
* pretty safe until you start making expensive shipments
* low to very high income
* low micromanagement
* fairly boring

Marketing/merchandising
* low SP entry, moderate SP range
* pretty safe until you start making expensive shipments
* depends on your micromanagement
* as much as you choose to do
* fairly boring

Scamming
* no SP entry at all
* not as safe as you'd think
* for most people: no income at all, but some profess to make tons doing it
* moderate micromanagement
* extremely boring unless you frequently talk to the people in local

Probe exploration
* low SP entry, high SP range
* moderately unsafe
* no steady income--like gambling
* high micromanagement
* boring to exciting

Ganking
* low SP entry, high SP range
* tricky and unsafe
* no steady income--like gambling
* fairly high micromanagement
* can be very exciting

Nullsec sovereignty control
* very low SP entry, extremely high SP range
* only as safe as you make it
* you're lucky if you profit off of it, most people spend money to do it
* low to very high micromanagement
* often boring, but every once in a while extremely exciting

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^^ this last one is where you spend all your ill-gotten money

The best way to make money is stealing things from people. It takes relatively little effort and no character skills at all. If you want to get really advanced you can train up to a scanning ship and hauler and rob a wormhole.

Also join a player corporation and start killing people. Not necessarily the people in the corporation you join, but that can be a good way to make money too.

Dance on a mailbox outside the AH in Stormwind?

More seriously; try your tutorial agents and learn the basic game first before you worry about that. The best way to make ISK turns out to be the way you enjoy most. The fastest way? Buy and sell PLEX.

Scamming idiots out of their hard-earned spacemonies is the best/easiest way to make isk