EVE New Citizens Q&A

Ok i really am not intending to flame / troll

i see people with pimp fit faction ships costing billions of isk, do they just do mission, after mission, after mission.. i don't see how someone could see this viable for making Isk, or is it not about the isk and the actual mission ?

When i think about some of these pimp fit level 4 mission ships. What does it average about to lets say 30 mil an hour.

The very thought of having to do missions for 3 hours for about 100 mil, x 10 so 30 hours of grinding missions for 1 bil?

Is my logic not correct?

i would rather pay 35 bucks for a GTC then spend 30 hours making that isk. That is just insane.

Yikes.


Also, how is it possible to make a good amount mining in hi sec? Sub 5 accounts, train 4 for exhumers and 1 for leadership orca and just got at it? How much isk could this get you?

Mining missions exist to give non-combat, non-industrial characters a way to increase standings. Doing them serves the same purpose to a miner that blitzing tons of level 1 security missions does for a combat pilot.

Faction Warfare and Faction standings.

The expensive PvE BS also do dual duty for incursion fleets (and those pay rather well, but have high skill requirements too).

If you go into manufacturing you'll need the faction standings for specific corporations. The bigger your ship the faster and cheaper (less ammo used) to complete those level 4s. And manufacturers extensively salvage them for even more profit.

Most mine for some added ISK (making 40mil just on the lowest roids isn't bad), but manufacturers will do it for production.

I mine and run low level missions and make a decent living out of it, so much so that I own everything from Macks to a fully fitted Noctis and a 1.6bn Obelisk..all from mining and missions. I much prefer to earn what I use rather than going your route, unlike some on here though I won't judge you or anyone else for how you fund your play style...each to their own. If anyone ever tells you your playing the game wrong tell them to go screw themselves. Oh and all with one account, although I have recently started a second to train in a different direction.

I left EVE 1 year ago, after playing for about 6 months.
At the time i didn't really care what i can do and what possibilities the universe was offering me, i just did combat missions.
i continued doing missions untile i got a Drake and went for lvl 3s... then i got bored becasue it was everytime the same thing...

now i'm back, began playing 1 week ago and i saw what opportunities EVE has!
The new tutorial show you different paths to choose from, i didn't even know about exploration an WHs!

My experience will be different this time. Or at least i hope it will!
going to do some exploration, some pvp, and definitely go into a corp with lots of people that offers lowsec, pvp, and exploration... at leat as long as my RL grants me some spare time to play... university will begin in september :-D


in conclusion i would say, missions and mining are enjoyble, bit get ripetitive after some time, but you don't have to play several houres to do something useful
a mission doesen't take that long, and mining can be interrupted at almost every time (especially in HiSec)

I find some missions fun. Yes they get repetitive if you do them a lot. But thats why i dont do them a lot i try and mix it up with Exploration and PvP.Doing htat i find the odd mission fun especially in a fleet. To mak it harder i try and run L2s and L3s with frigates for a challenge. As for mining. I have no clue why some people choose to do it. But i suppose its easy isk if you dont feel like paying attention or just want something to do while you chat with corpmates or whatever.

Most everybody has already covered the points in detail, but personally I find missions a fun and useful thing to do when RL gets hectic and I'm not sure when I'm going to be interrupted (which happens a lot more frequently with a newborn around, I'll tell you that).

It's something that you can do solo, something you can (usually) take breaks from by warping away, and it's something that has side effects that help your character in the long run (standings which help in many ways no matter what your preferred line of work). They can also be a nice place to test drive new ships and/or fits before doing more dangerous things with them.

I have a mining alt and it's the same sort of thing. Sometimes when I'm very busy (doing something else on my computer), talking with someone on the phone, or otherwise occupied) I'll log in my miner and start blasting rocks in the background. Sure sometimes I end up forgetting about him for an hour, but usually he's a passive way to generate a little extra ISK when I'm too busy to really pay attention to what's going on. At least he's being somewhat useful while training up for better (more entertaining) things (I have longterm plans for him being a blockade runner and wormhole resource harvester).

"Missions / Mining... Are there really people who enjoy these?"

How is this any more insane that going for a low sec roam in hopes of finding someone to blow up, getting nothing of real value for your troubles?

Killboard stats? Is there really anyone that cares about these stupid, easily manipulated, meaningless numbers?

That is insane.

i just ran 2x blockade back to back. there is nothing more relaxing than spending half an hour making battleships explode while watching news on youtube.

I quite often just fly my destroyer around corpmates who are mining.....which combines the tedium of mining with an almost total lack of isk making.....

But you get to make new friends in fleet chat, they (mostly) don't have to worry about being exploded...and it's as much fun as you make it. If 2 or 3 Catalysts (they always use Catalysts, for some reason) warp in, I may be the difference between them getting home or being 30+mill in the red. More likely the latter will still happen, at this early stage in my eve career, but at least they won't have to warp out because of a few 0.5 rats, which can be a real problem for a new player.

IMO, the game isn't about grinding isk, it's about interacting with other people, whether that's helping them stay alive and make money, or helping them have a quick ride home on the pod express.

People get so focused on ISK......it's about fun, and friends.