EVE New Citizens Q&A

Get into scamming, you will make more ISK that way than miners ever make.

Thanks for the responses guys c:

I think I'm just going to train up exploration on my main instead of making an alt for it(it seems like the funnest option, and the satisfaction of a good find would be fun)
I think it'd be easier just to do everything on the one character:3

http://eveboard.com/pilot/sarpy_aranori

Having to wait longer for the skills isn't harder - just more annoying and bad game design. (or good business, depending from which point you look at it)

There are plenty of ISK-making ideas in the Making ISK guide in the Evelopedia.

Mining provides you with a predictable income stream. Exploration is more like a lottery.

You can make more ISK by getting other people to expend their effort in the resource gathering, then garnishing their wages to fill your own wallet. Typically you could achieve this by inviting friends to form a corporation focussed on mission-running: you might speak about a 3% tax rate since you need ISK to keep the company registered.

The ultimate way of getting rich is to find people who have concentrated a lot of their wealth into a small volume of space, then take that volume of space away from them. Whether this is suicide ganking a 35B ISK Paladin, offering "bargains" on PLEX at 500M ISK (plus two PLEX) or infiltrating a corporation to then steal their corp wallet is up to you: either way you are going to come out of the experience wildly richer but with another bridge burned behind you (but you can rest easy in the assumption that for every bridge you burn, there are two or three others being built).

Remember to look for activities that you find interesting. Don't become a slave to your wallet.

I've been playing Eve Online with 1 account, 1 character for about 2 years. Could I make more money with a second character? Sure, but it would also diminish my other activities on this character to some degree.

As CEO of a corporation I'm more of a public face then anything else, and it is this publicly upheld image that also makes me ISK, or makes my corpmates ISK, in less then obvious manners. It's more important this character gets as much screen time (active play time) as possible, then it is to max out PVE income or utilize more R&D slots. I might make a second character for those jobs at some point, but right now other things are more important. I can't be bothered... yet.

Remember a second account is an ongoing expense (but you can login at the same time as your main), a second character on the same account is a temporary investment. You don't need to be online much to do Research, Invention, PI... so those are all good fields to pick a second character for instead of a second account, which you will need to offset by the price of a PLEX to break even every month.

In my opinion, the most useful alt to have is a well trained Orca pilot. For mining, its obvious, so I wont bother digging into that part. But, in missions, the orca awesome sauce just keeps on flowing. Lets start with running gang links. No need to solo a 4 in a bs when a linked up fleet cane will do the same mission in half the time. After the smoke clears, switch out for that 8 salvager/mwd destroyer that you'll have in the ship bay and loot and salvage everything. Ninja shows up? The 85km T2 tractor will pull in the far out wrecks before they vanish. Wanna change from sniper to bare knuckles? No problem with the refitting option right there on grid with you. Then there's the huge drone bay and all the extra help you can get from using the extra drones. A good shield tank, with a dc2 and rb2 in the lows with a couple core rigs on, means there's nothing in a level 4 that will kill an orca before you can do something about it. (Assuming the orca starts taking agro on accident.)

The usefulness of having an orca alt goes beyond what I covered here, but the above is just some of the highlights I can think of.