EVE New Citizens Q&A

I really do understand that mining for the sake of mining (and making isk) might be coming to the end of the road.
If ISK making is the sole purpose of your activities in the game, you, in my opinion are doing something wrong.

I don't know what corp you are in (is it your own personal one for you and the alts?) but something that does serious industry projects, where they will appreciate a steady stream of minerals for their production - while giving you something to contribute towards together with other people and enjoying the company of others maybe would be nice? I find industry fun - producing stuff for others to use, is what gives me pleasure in the game - that I make some (very likely sub-optimal) decent income is an aside.

Or actually try something radically different like pvp - who knows, you might enjoy it =) Especially in a good corp.

Ok, first off I fixed the stuff you said.

Next, it seems from what you said that you have tried quite a bit of stuff, but only in high sec. Theres the problem. High sec is boring as hell, get yourself into a nice null sec corp and you will find many of the activities you listed above to be more fun, and even more lucrative.

Also - yes there are null sec corps that have nice people in them, yes there are null sec corps that don't require you to have 10^14 skill points to join, and yes there are null sec corps who aren't just out to **** you of everything you own.

So...
Besides more mining you ruled out pretty much the rest of the possibilities.

And I personally dont understand how you find mining the best of all the options. If I would have to sort them it would be the complete opposite.

Also understand that if you really dislike anything other then mining...EVE might not be your primairy game to play but more something that you should play on the side next to other games.

And that's one of the biggest problems with mining. There's no progression. What you are doing after two weeks is going to be the same you are doing after two years. It's telling that after a couple of months, the only way to scale up is adding more accounts. So... um. What you are experiencing is perfectly normal.

As for what to do now, i am not really sure why you are ruling all those things out without even trying them. And why do things need to be lucrative? Didn't you just post that you don't know what to do with your assets... Go ahead and get wasteful, this is a game after all.

Start a salvaging company to follow behind people doing missions? Give them a cut and take the rest.

Maybe exploration?

Create a new business venture of your own design?

That sounds kinda like a good plan. :)

Well, I've decided to stop playing.

Thank you everyone.

In 2 months I managed to collect around 5-6b ISK. I've read dozens of blogs, hundreds of forum threads, thousands (?) pages of guides and wikis.

I managed to get to know a few people, maybe make an occasional friend.

After all of these adventures I've decided that it is time for me to move on.

Good luck, and fly safe!

So, right. Turns out digging ditches isn't such a blast after all, I guess.

Which was fairly obviously the problem tbh.
Making ISK for the sake of making more bloody ISK will become pretty boring if all you do is mine ... Another one beaten by the "what do i do now, where is the x trail?" syndrome.

Things to do with isk:

PvP is the most common....
Invest in your self, or another business opportunity..

Or Start a collection: There are TONS of random things to collect....

The obvious: Each Ship, Each BPO's, Every Faction Module, etc, etc..
The fashionist: All the piece of clothing for your avatar...
The blatant: AT Player Cards, Vouchers, Dogtags, Datalogs...
The obscure: Story line items (Keron's Head, Kusan Niemenen's Missile Launcher, Nugoeihuvi Rifles)
The random: Blood Drop, DNA, Strippers, Runic Inscription, etc...
The Bling: Officer Modules, etc...

There are many ways you can spend your isk.... (you can even use it to fund your own account via PLEX).

p.s. You should sign up for a PvP Basic class to try Ship PvP before you leave... It's a huge side of this game that you're missing out on. Our next class will probably be late April, early May, but hasn't been completely arranged yet. Here's our enrollment forum.

p.s.s. If you do leave... you should use some of that isk to create a scholarship fund to PvP-U. We offer public classes that teach the basics of PvP to anyone who wishes to learn, and then we take students out into nullsec and practice what we teach. We have an excellent reputation, and have been offering classes for 5+ years!!