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Best way for newbies to make 500m a month?

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Elisk Skyforge
State War Academy
#1 - 2013-06-06 07:06:41 UTC
So i just started this game 10 days ago and im more a dps character at the moment but i was wondering whats the easiest AND/OR fastest way for me to make 500m isk each month?
Barlkin
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2013-06-06 07:20:40 UTC
Scamming.

but honestly as a new player making 500m or more will be tough unless your a good station trader.

Under new management
Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#3 - 2013-06-06 07:50:18 UTC
Check the Making ISK guide for ideas, but in general,if you want to make more money it really helps to have other people making money for you. That is where scamming and piracy come in.

Although I am a hisec carebear, here is a simple experiment to run to see just how lucrative piracy might be: get a cargo scanner, ship scanner and passive targeter, then proceed to scan all the ships autopiloting in and out of your local market hub. Calculate the value of the ship's modules and cargo, then halve it. If you can blow up that ship for less than the resulting value, you make a profit! There is more to it than that of course.

A simpler option could be to ninja salvage, or look into Pro Synergy and form a symbiotic relationship with mission runners nearby.

Good luck!

Day 0 Advice for New Players
Elena Thiesant
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2013-06-06 08:17:59 UTC
Don't fall into the mistake of trying to pay for EVE with ISK every month, not as a new player. While it's possible what you're going to end up doing is grinding the entire month to make enough money to pay for another month of grinding to make enough money to pay for another month, etc. Eve shouldn't be a second job.
Threndir
ISK Enterprises Ltd
#5 - 2013-06-06 08:30:33 UTC
Elena Thiesant wrote:
Don't fall into the mistake of trying to pay for EVE with ISK every month, not as a new player. While it's possible what you're going to end up doing is grinding the entire month to make enough money to pay for another month of grinding to make enough money to pay for another month, etc. Eve shouldn't be a second job.


I second this.

Eventually you are able to buy a plex every now and then but as a new player, please don't make it that tough for yourself.

I usually just pay my account with real life money too, and i'm a few years into this game. I could pay with a plex though, it's just I dont need that pressure of making 17-18 mil a day to fund a plex at the end. Whenever I play with alts I do subscribe them with a plex, but I only enable them when I have the funds to do so :)

As a new player, you need to work really hard to get the 500m isk every month. Before you know it, all you're doing is gring isk to get to the next month.
Elisk Skyforge
State War Academy
#6 - 2013-06-06 08:31:35 UTC
Is it worth spending time getting required skills for ice mining and planetary interaction ?
Elena Thiesant
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2013-06-06 08:53:57 UTC
Depends whether you enjoy mining or not, whether you're interested in the industry side or not, whether you're interested in doing the research to find the best PI stuff to make or not.

If you don't enjoy mining, don't mine, ore or ice.
PI's decent semi-passive income, lowish income in highsec, better in lowsec, best in null or WH space (with increasingly higher risks and more interesting logistics). The more work you put in, the better the income but the easier it is to burn out doing it. Updating several planets every day gets old fast.
Solutio Letum
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2013-06-06 08:55:27 UTC
doing faction Warfare
Ovv Topik
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2013-06-06 09:24:32 UTC
Whats your RL circumstances?

If you're housebound and putting 8hrs a day into the game, it's doable in half a hundred ways.

But if like the rest of us your logged in time is limited to a couple of hours most days if your lucky:

The I agree with everyone else, don't even try.

Pay for the account and spend more time spending your isk and enjoying it. Don't spend your game time making isk.

"Nicknack, I'm in a shoe in space, on my computer, in my house, with a cup of coffee, in't that something." - Fly Safe PopPaddi. o7

Elisk Skyforge
State War Academy
#10 - 2013-06-06 09:49:10 UTC
Ovv Topik wrote:
Whats your RL circumstances?

If you're housebound and putting 8hrs a day into the game, it's doable in half a hundred ways.

But if like the rest of us your logged in time is limited to a couple of hours most days if your lucky:

The I agree with everyone else, don't even try.

Pay for the account and spend more time spending your isk and enjoying it. Don't spend your game time making isk.


Well I have like 2 months till my next semester begins at uni so I have all the time I need...
Ovv Topik
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#11 - 2013-06-06 10:02:16 UTC
Elisk Skyforge wrote:
Ovv Topik wrote:
Whats your RL circumstances?

If you're housebound and putting 8hrs a day into the game, it's doable in half a hundred ways.

But if like the rest of us your logged in time is limited to a couple of hours most days if your lucky:

The I agree with everyone else, don't even try.

Pay for the account and spend more time spending your isk and enjoying it. Don't spend your game time making isk.


Well I have like 2 months till my next semester begins at uni so I have all the time I need...

Right, so either save $10 a month, play EvE for free and get a 'Third Class Degree',
or Cough up, enjoy the game, and get a 'First'!
Oh, and live happily ever after I suppose.

"Nicknack, I'm in a shoe in space, on my computer, in my house, with a cup of coffee, in't that something." - Fly Safe PopPaddi. o7

Elena Thiesant
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2013-06-06 10:06:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Elena Thiesant
And you'd prefer to spend ~8 hours a day for a couple weeks grinding for ISK in a game, getting bored, frustrated and likely quitting instead of paying a monthly sub that's around $15 and having fun in game for the time you can play?

I've been playing over a year and I still can't easily plex my account every month. Some months, yes, most no. It's not something you should, as a new player, really be trying to do, it'll turn the game into a very, very, very low paying job.
Cipher7
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#13 - 2013-06-06 11:06:06 UTC
Grinding isk sucks

Pay your $10 and go enjoy your playtime
Kyra Quinn
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2013-06-06 11:49:37 UTC
I've made my "fortune" with exploration, might be something to look into.
Thomas Builder
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#15 - 2013-06-06 20:44:06 UTC
Well, the easiest and fastest way to make 500m ISK is to cut your neighbours' lawn and buy a PLEX with the payment.

If it was easy to make 500m in game, everyone would be doing it.
Always remember that for every player that buys a PLEX there is another player who finds it to bothersome to make ISK and bought a PLEX for real money.

I agree with most of the posts here: EVE is a game, do something you enjoy, don't turn it into a (very badly paying) job.
Darkson Darksky
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#16 - 2013-06-07 00:53:44 UTC
I was gonna say fastest way to make 500 mill isk is spend $20 and buy a plex even a minimum wage job earns $20 in 4 hours or less vs probably 100 hours as a new player
Charlie Jacobson
#17 - 2013-06-07 00:56:37 UTC
Unless you live in an extremely poor country your time is most likely bettter spent paying your subscription with real money and using isk for ships, modules and fun. A lot of people claim to make billions effortlessly, but most of them are either lying or understating how much work it is to set it up.

I support James 315 and the New Order of Highsec
Sylvester Slake
Eve Gamer's Structure Tanking Association
#18 - 2013-06-07 01:01:21 UTC
Elisk Skyforge wrote:
So i just started this game 10 days ago and im more a dps character at the moment but i was wondering whats the easiest AND/OR fastest way for me to make 500m isk each month?




You prolly wont like my answer, but I will give it to you cause you asked..

Easiest way:

Go mow your neibors lawn for $15 and buy a plex.

Im sorry.. You ask the easiest possible way..

But if you are reffering to teh easiest IN GAME way, well... Easiest would be to mine. Very long. very boring. But very well possible to make 1 bil a month (easily) with a retriever, and with good fleet boosts.

Ya could get lucky exploring, but I dont know how much that has changed since odessey.

Missioning is a steady income, slightly more thn mining IMHO but, much more work then mining..

Best way to make isk downright would be incursions. Join up with an HQ incursion fleet and ya can be making 100's millions a night (so I hear)

I havn't done the last one as ya need a good ship to do it with.. Takes about 6 months to get that ... But that is my list.. hope it helps..
Disastro
Wrecking Shots
#19 - 2013-06-07 02:30:55 UTC
Elisk Skyforge wrote:
So i just started this game 10 days ago and im more a dps character at the moment but i was wondering whats the easiest AND/OR fastest way for me to make 500m isk each month?


Go to jita and keep doubling your money until you have 500 mil.
Noxisia Arkana
Deadspace Knights
#20 - 2013-06-07 12:57:14 UTC
As multiple people have suggested, if you want to play 'Space Grind' for a couple hundred hours a month (less for scamming, more for the first 2 months of eve, less for incursions... yeah, I understand there are details)- go for it.

May I suggest mining, since you could potentially be working on a project and just cycle your lasers when you hear that an asteroid has been depleted. That is, if you're a good student.

As for as grinding for isk - maybe you could try a free to play MMO where all you do is grind for gear and cash anyway? That way, perhaps, if you suddenly find yourself hopelessly bored with the game (say, oh, TERA) and wonder why am I running the same max level content for the .01% shield drop, you can quit and come back here with cash in hand.

When that time comes, I would call CCP and say something like, "Please take my money so that I can play your textured excel pack game; and find internet spaceship friends that will slowly erode any necessity to go outside except to earn cash to pay for multiple eve accounts."

On that day, we will welcome you into our basement abodes and a few may trim their neck-beards in homage to your enlightened path.

-Nox
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