EVE New Citizens Q&A

I have around 13.5 million isk right now, still around 55 million more for a drake + decent fitting. Should I just grind L2 missions at around 1.8 million isk per hour (around 37 hours of straight mission grinding to reach my goal) or should I do something else?

Also, when I do L2 missions, should I just blitz or try to kill the rats?

Thanks

Not trolling, but do keep in mind that flying that Drake without sufficient support skills will see it get blown up rather easily, and if you have a save for a long time to get it, you won't be able to replace it easily.

Can I second what lollerwaffle said. I would suggest spending the money that you already have on a good solid cruiser. Sorry I am Amarr only, so don't know what the Caldari version of the Maller is.

But a good simple to fly Cruiser will let you solo almost all level 3 missions, and that way you will see your isk flow grow a lot bigger.
Once BC's used to be just cruisers that have been force fed steroids, but the class has evolved some and needs a bit more finesse today, to fly well and get the most out of them

there are lots of options for making ISK including selling PLEX. if you invest some time and elbow grease, you should be able to come up with a better method than grinding lvl2 missions. (for example, google michi's excavation augmentor)

Saving up for the ship implies that youre going to be pretty skint after the purchase. Be very careful about flying that ship until you have the cash to replace it a couple of times. Dont sell off assets to get new ones. If you lose the new stuff, your shafted if you dont have a fallback.

Personally, I would consider some high-sec scanning in a smaller ship to see if you can strike lucky on a couple faction modules or something.
Run a few Anomalies or easier combat sites, if the loot gods smile on you you can rake in over 100mil from an easy combat site while flying a frigate/destroyer sized vessel.

I did it in an Algos on my main (he had the drone skills to eventually complete a Serpentis Phi-Outpost DED4/10), but would say its still doable in a well fitted Corax or Cormorant if you fly it right

Every last new pilot who doesn't "plex it" tends to save for their first "bigger" ships. This is extremely common and they do tend to fly things they can't really afford to lose - as in "easily replace".

First BC, first BS... Those tend to be very expensive and something they have to save for but they also tend to earn that value back fairly fast if they do lose it.

As for the OP:

Save up running the missions. Clear them - the bounties tend to be around half your income and LP earnings are extremely trivial for the lower end missions so "blitzing" won't help much.

Don't sell your cruiser to buy the BC. Keep it. If something happens, you won't be climbing back into a frigate to try and earn back up.

Level 3's are a fairly big step up from level 2's - both in income and difficulty so be cautious about what you do when you first start to do them. Be prepared to warp out early in fights until you have banked up enough to "afford to lose it".

Better to warp out and come back than to lose your ship when it means climbing back into a smaller ship that can't really handle the better income missions.

Here's an idea if you do grind missions...

Step 1) Create market buy orders in your mission hub for the locally-produced salvage and meta-4's, as well as high-end minerals.
Step 2) advertise to salvagers that you're running missions and will sell your site locations when finished for a low price. Determining the right price could take some research or spreadsheeting, or just lowball it to attract takers.
Step 3) Grind missions, save the bookmarks, sell the bookmarks.
Step 4) Keep your buy orders updated, with the best price, so that you're buying as much of the product as you can. Use Eve-Central.com to look up the going rate in Jita/wherever.
Step 5) After you have enough m3 to fill a hauler's hold from passive market buys, haul the results of your buy orders to the local trade hub.

Grinding is one way to make money... But investing your money to make it work for you 23/7 is more productive, and is not SP-limited.

If it's that easy you must be swimming in trillions. Why not give him the 60 million instead of trolling him into destruction? Have yet to meet the new player that can go on your trip and come back with his ship.

Do this. Its risky but 1 transporter tag will pay for the drake

You the only one with an alt? Seen your posts all over the place here. None are helpful, most are impolite and a ton need correcting by the ISD staff for being insulting to new players. Why don't you take your trolling and gtfo?

My guess is you are such a worthless player you need to get your kicks out of insulting the newbies on these forums.