Warfare & Tactics

Here's how a typical day in EVE will go for me lately.
Go out in frig/dessie, join alliance or militia fleet, get blown up or have a fun time assist the war effort but make little ISK from looted wrecks.

My security status is awful, I can't go into the high sec market or do good paying missions or basically anything I feel to make a coin. Why my sec status is awful? Well I wanted to see what piracy was like in this game, it does encourage you to do new things right? Little did I know its super impossible for me to make money unless you have like a alt account or something.

Anyway, I can't keep playing this game with such a beat wallet, I lost a firetail earlier today and refitting a new one i had in my hangar left me with 10mil....I'm going to have to sell a battlecruiser of mine to pay for any dues that come up for now on, 10mil is a joke. I will gladly farm something or do missions for hours to earn a lot of cash but i can't keep enjoying myself in this game without money.

So I need to firstly tackle the sec status issues. These low sec rats around the minmatar warfront blow, ill go belt to belt my sec status doesn't move log shows Im getting such a small like 0.000119% increase or something. I heard rattting in null sec is highly profitable and will give me quick sec status, but aren't those rats hard? I would need a stealth bomber or something, which would require me to train the skills and I don't want to wait any longer for this predicament to change I wont to stop it now.

Any assistance would be awesome, I need the community to get out of this hole that I've been dug into.

Isn't there some rule against begging on the forums?

*puts on top hat and monocle*

buy plexes with $ and sell those for isk, problem solved.

Mini miltiia were in t4 when i wasn't playing, we're in t1 now sadly. I can't seem to locate what rats you're referring to however, example- warp to low sec belt in auga, see angel shatterer. Kill it, miniscule bounty, loot- metal scraps and a t1 module.

Short term solution for someone with money, maybe.

@OP. you're probably not going to like my answers but here are my suggestions:

1) solving a sec status problem while living in low-sec is a non-starter. It's like trying to empty the ocean one bucket at a time. it's not going to happen and it's the biggest imaginable time-sink in EVE (until you can afford the tags)

The way to approach the sec status problem it in my experience is to organize your logistics so you don't need to worry about your sec status (ie, that character never goes to high-sec). Many corps will have members who have jump freighters and can jump your stuff straight into your staging system for you. If your corp isn't one of those then you really only have one option, is which is to train an alt who can fly stuff from high-sec into low-sec for you with (for example) a cloaky hauler. The skilling up for this isn't too horrible althought I can appreciate that it's hard to be patient when you're new.

Since you're using small ships using a cloaky hauler to get your stuff in is a very feasible appraoch. Either way, if you plan on staying in low-sec then the take home message on sec status is this: Don't worry about it and sort out your logistics. Only fix your sec status when you're ready to leave permanently.

2) as for making isk. Low-sec is FULL of easy isk that is not specifically tied to FW. There are many ways to make really easy ISK in low-sec, including (a) PI probably 15 odd mil a day for virtually zero effort (b) mining (ca. 25mil/hour in better sites) (c) running plexes a steady 80mil per hour with drops up to about 750mil in one go if you get lucky (d) trying the new data sites (e) ninja-ratting inside wormholes (pays ca 150mil per hour in C3's if you have the right ships and these days even mining ice could be well worth giving a whirl if your corp lives in a handy location.

Yes you will need to train skills to do some of that. Having an alt or working together with corp mates may also really help at this stage. Do try the new data sites. Despite being horribly colour blind and unable to see if the scatter cans are red or green I still managed (after I got the swing of it) to pick up 60mil in an hour by scanning around a few systems and running data sites (may have gotten lucky, not sure until I do more of it). This is also something that you can do with a frigate and basic probing skills. I'll admit I was using a maxed out prober in a buzzard so the probing was quick but still the isk seemed pretty ok to me especially given the low skill requirements needed to run them.

The part about this answer you're not going to like is this. There is no free lunch. Knowing your options helps but you need to put in time grinding isk if you want to have isk. It's really that simple.

Who has time? But then, if we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time? OMG I just quoted the Matrix. How nerdy is that?

Look..... it appears to irritate you to read that I did, indeed, assume you weren't taking time (at least not often enough) and I"m afraid I still do... I didn't intend to irritate you, I intended to give you some ideas that you could potentially use to make a plan.

As for taking time..... you are literally the only one who can undock and go do it. Nobody on the forums can do that for you.

Indeed. LP isn't anything special in t1 though.

You're not trying to buy monocles and faction fitted T3s, so "nothing special" should be sufficient income to keep you in frigates.

Make low sec level 3 missions. THey are fast to complete (therefore no need of riskign a battleship). or... simply run sites.

I would much rather discuss this in our own forums, but oh... can't have anything. Ask in alliance chat. MURIE will gladly help you with basic frig / dessy hulls and stuff.

For the time being, you should only fly what you afford to lose. I know firetails are cool and all, but t1 frigate hulls are also pretty awesome.

Also. Register on the forums for help from your community.