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How long did it take people to get 1bn ISK?
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TharOkha
0asis Group
#21 - 2013-07-19 12:30:51 UTC
Paul Otichoda wrote:
handige harrie wrote:
around 8 hours running anomalies with 2 dominixes, costing less than 400M total.
around 8 hours running anomalies with 1 machariel, costing somewere around 2B
around 8 hours running anomalies with 1 carrier, costing 1.6B


How long would that be for a Drake?

Most people here appears to be talking about ways that involve sleepers and really extensive ships. Did anyone achieve 1bn in anything smaller than a BC?


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Burl en Daire
M.O.M.S. Corp
#22 - 2013-07-19 12:31:46 UTC
Low level sites in the drone regions in a BC is slow but after loot, salvage and bounties it is at least 10 m a site. Takes 15-30 minutes, if you have mining skills the roads are good. A haul from Jita to where I'm at is like 45 jumps and it is 400/m3 to move cargo one way. All professions pay good at the high level and not so much at the beginning.

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seth Hendar
I love you miners
#23 - 2013-07-19 12:32:25 UTC
Paul Otichoda wrote:
I do have to ask, how long did it take people to get 1bn ISK.

While I doubt that I'll ever achieve take (can't even make 100m ISK) I do have to ask how long it took people.

Or are all the Freighter pilots in the game buying and sell PLEX?

there is no real answer to that, it really depends on what and how you do.

sometimes i happened to make 2 billions in a couple hours, sometimes i just make 200 millions.

some activities reward more than others... there is no fixed way to say you will make X isk / hour by doing THIS most of the time, only a few activities allow this, and even those are subject to the market value of various items.

for example, a good lvl4 runner can expect around 200 and 300 millions / afternoon, but there again it depends how fast you run them, if you salvage or not, etc.... a bad runner / not enought skilled would need and afternoon to run a single mission for 20 millions, while a vet witha machariel and a noctis, will mabe do this in 15-20 minutes......

and you have many many other things earning isk in eve, so.....

sometimes, you just gt lucky, and blow up a shiny fit wich loot for several B in 5 minutes when you pvp....then you will take 2 weeks to make 100m worth of loot, maybe even more..
Miilla
Hulkageddon Orphanage
#24 - 2013-07-19 12:38:43 UTC
Paul Otichoda wrote:
Miilla wrote:
Since Eve is a game of crime and so forth (says so on the box), crime pays and it pays well and fast.


I would like some morals.


You're in the wrong game then.
seth Hendar
I love you miners
#25 - 2013-07-19 12:43:02 UTC
Paul Otichoda wrote:
Miilla wrote:
Since Eve is a game of crime and so forth (says so on the box), crime pays and it pays well and fast.


I would like some morals.

there is no moral in eve, get use to it.


rule 1 in eve: don't undock what you can't afford to loose / replace

rule 2 in eve: everyone is here to kill YOU (yes, personnaly, and even more if you fly a shiny / capital ship)

welcome to eve Twisted
DSpite Culhach
#26 - 2013-07-19 12:44:47 UTC
Paul Otichoda wrote:
handige harrie wrote:
around 8 hours running anomalies with 2 dominixes, costing less than 400M total.
around 8 hours running anomalies with 1 machariel, costing somewere around 2B
around 8 hours running anomalies with 1 carrier, costing 1.6B


How long would that be for a Drake?

Most people here appears to be talking about ways that involve sleepers and really extensive ships. Did anyone achieve 1bn in anything smaller than a BC?


I did a TON of blitz L3's and cherry picked L4's in a Drake for a few weeks to save up for a CNR (was around 460 mill back then) as I had some play time, and it didn't feel grindy back then. It's very safe, but tedious. It really comes down with how much monotony your brain can put up with.

If you can switch off higher brain functions when needed, missions are steady isk. After a year I find it much harder to do missions for isk. I much prefer playing the drop lottery and hunt missions or plexes that might have good drops. ISK making is very random, but I don't care about the isk, I'm just doing it to idle away time when I don't have a better activity available.

I apparently have no idea what I'm doing.
Hemmo Paskiainen
#27 - 2013-07-19 12:49:42 UTC  |  Edited by: Hemmo Paskiainen
Based on 30d: 10 hours or so, 24/7

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Spankijs Omaristos
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#28 - 2013-07-19 14:42:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Spankijs Omaristos
Depends on your character, skills, and so on.


Arrow few hours - 10 hours of Low sec combat DED sites (4/10, 5/10, 6/10) - In a T3 or Ishtar.
Arrow few hours - 1 day: Null sec explo, combat sites. (Luck is involved here)
Arrow 1 day (~10 hours) - null sec ratting in a BS with some faction stuff + Oracle sniping alt. (You can get more in this time frame, luck again - Faction spawns)
Conar
My Wormhole Hurts
#29 - 2013-07-19 15:49:56 UTC
I remember the frustration when I first started out.... Lots of ratting in .5 or mining or missions. Took forever to get my first BS. Yes, I did rat/mine in a BS Sad

I suggest joining a corp that has access to 0.0. Ratting or mining there can make more, as do the anonom's.

There are other "ways" to make crazy money... Keep looking and you will find it.

Conar 07
Woeful Animation
Ascendent.
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#30 - 2013-07-19 15:55:46 UTC
In Gallente Faction Warfare there is a way to make 320,000 ISk per Loyalty Point. Since it's possible to obtain approximately 25,000 - 30,000 LP per hour, approximately 70 -90 Million ISK per hour can be made. Therefore it can take a Gallente Militia Pilot as little as 11-12 hours to make 1 Billion ISK. Not counting the market LP turn in and Alt run to market, which takes another hour more or less.

The current state of Gal/Cal faction warfare has put pressure on the supply and prices have increased as a result. Loving the current state of the war.
Paul Otichoda
Perkone
Caldari State
#31 - 2013-07-19 16:02:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Paul Otichoda
Woeful Animation wrote:
In Gallente Faction Warfare there is a way to make 320,000 ISk per Loyalty Point. Since it's possible to obtain approximately 25,000 - 30,000 LP per hour, approximately 70 -90 Million ISK per hour can be made. Therefore it can take a Gallente Militia Pilot as little as 11-12 hours to make 1 Billion ISK. Not counting the market LP turn in and Alt run to market, which takes another hour more or less.

The current state of Gal/Cal faction warfare has put pressure on the supply and prices have increased as a result. Loving the current state of the war.


that isn't really an option, I'm caldari but my corp is Gallente and I need to keep good/ok standings with both factions to be able to do things. I need to been on Caldari to keep access to faction supplies and Gallente to access missions around corp base and get the POS built.

It is probadly an option for making good money but with my present corp requirments on faction standing its not really an option.
Kult Altol
The Safe Space
#32 - 2013-07-19 16:10:11 UTC
About 18 months.

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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#33 - 2013-07-19 16:16:07 UTC
Paul Otichoda wrote:
I do have to ask, how long did it take people to get 1bn ISK.

While I doubt that I'll ever achieve take (can't even make 100m ISK) I do have to ask how long it took people.
Do you mean from the starting 5k ISK, or just how many hours does it take doing what I do now?

I think I had a bil worth of assets after maybe 9–10 months or so (this was in 2008), but I was pretty deliberately being ineffective.
Sergeant Acht Scultz
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#34 - 2013-07-19 16:22:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Sergeant Acht Scultz
PVP doesn't aloud me to be a rich player but be flooded with 200k isk bounties, some times manage to loot some wrecks when there are o space jews around most times I just blow them up to get the instant gratification for their tears of doing nothing else in the fleet/gang than loot wrecks on others efforts.

So, how do I make isk?-some times I kill some crap red crosses, some times build some crap but the moment I have enough to go for a ride with some friends and kill ships that's why I'm playing this game so I leave isk/h nerds continue their prefered in game activity hoping I can get on top of a lazy one and get the jackpot

Ho and the first billion I ever had on my wallet took me literally months because everything goes in ships and modules, I can care less about how many billions I have in my wallet the moment my hangar has lots of ships/modules.

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Zeus Maximo
Mentally Assured Destruction
#35 - 2013-07-19 16:22:49 UTC
Move99 wrote:
About 2 days doing sites in faction war

only need a frig



This is very plausible for new players. Just get a venture and read into the faction warfare sites. All you have to do is orbit semi-afk Cool

mail me if you have any questions on this

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Nexus Day
Lustrevik Trade and Travel Bureau
#36 - 2013-07-19 16:23:03 UTC
Step 1: Start EvE sub.
Step 2: Buy 2 Plex
Step 3: Wait for Plex to appear in the redeeming system

I had my first billion within the first 30 minutes of gameplay. But then again I am pretty leet.
Mr Floydy
Questionable Ethics.
Ministry of Inappropriate Footwork
#37 - 2013-07-19 16:26:59 UTC
When I first started playing Eve, it probably took me between 6-12 months to first have a billion isk. Now I can make that in a matter of days in a wormhole between a few characters.
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#38 - 2013-07-19 16:34:58 UTC
What kind of game is it whereby people are watching their wallets?


In 7 years I never had more than 500 million ISK.


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Ciyrine
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#39 - 2013-07-19 16:42:18 UTC
About 4 mos ad a new player without any advice from friends(no one i know plays) and no isk donations from in game friends since anyone willing to just give u isk is probably a rl friend or looong time eve friend.

I floundered for a bit. Lost ships in combat missions. Worked on my core skills and eventually switched to ice mining which kets me earn isk while working or being with family while one eye on screen. Made friends with orca players who give me boost. Make 14-20ish mil an hour depending if they also haul the ore for me. How efficient im being

Another good option i heard was training into a drake in 2 mos and working up to lvl4 missions asap thats like 30mil/hr?

Explorarion is supposed to be very lucrative

For vets with lots of money they make crazy isk doing all kinds of things

- My personal goal is to get into carrier ratting which ive heard be 300m/hr with some guy claiming 500m/hr under best conditions(just what i heard no personal experience)

- manufacturing ships

- lots of wormhole stuff

- buy/sell plexes or some other thing they wont tell u because it cuts into their profits

- moon goo is big isk somehow

From what ive read the only thing to stay away from is

- R&D agents i guess that passive income was nerfed

- PI because thats 10min a day x 7 days to tinker with the planets + 30min x 2 days a week hauling to and from planets which is 3hrs a week x 4 weeks = 12hrs a month to make 150mil a month per toon which is barely more than 10mil/hr

Some players run like 6 accounts with multiple toons per account doing PI and make 1.5 bil or something but the math still holds up. Those players also have lots of skill points in their PI and hauling abilities. Any player with those kinds of resources can do much better and any new player is better of

Lord Ryan
True Xero
#40 - 2013-07-19 16:43:31 UTC
Making 20mil an hour running lvl 4's seems to be common enough. So 50 hours should do. If you have the magic stick that so many seem to have 100mil an hour lvl 4's I guess you can do it in 10.

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