EVE General Discussion

Farm wormholes baby!

Simple.

If you've tried it already and weren't making money then you were doing it wrong.

If you cannot undock it and fly it like you stole it, it's not worth buying. Spend ISK wisely, invest instead of spend.

Don't expect to get space rich in ten days, real wealth takes time, patience, and cooperation.

In PVP, firsts stick looted crap on a cheap hull and experiment. If something seems to work, buy the real thing (a t2 fitting).

For real??
You can make a few 100 mil a day just flying around low sec looting wrecks that are left behind.



Playing the market can be very profitable but the .01 isk game is not how you do it.
You also need to be very committed to it and it is insanely fkn boring.


Find a new corp maybe. Having knowledgeable people around is 1/2 the battle.

I am startign to think he flies with an armor buffer ship and repairs it at station repair... :/

Just buy a damn PLEX.

You assholes have given buying PLEX a stigma of being "pay to win" and that anyone who would buy them is a "bad player". Now you're reaping your rewards in the form of 620M per unit. Ironically the only people you've benefited is the people who want to buy PLEX for cash.

I buy PLEX and sell them for ISK. No point wasting time grinding for money.

The trouble with asking people how to make ISK in Eve, is that the really successful folks keep it a secret. Now I am definitely not successful in terms of ISK earning, but I do earn my ISK in a novel way that some people say is impossible. I earn all my ISK solely from PvP.

I would like to tell you how. Some of it is fairly obvious, like loot drops, but there are some tricks that help you get where you want to get. If I told you them though, I would have lost my advantage. If everyone did it, I couldn't do it effectively. Same applies with a lot of traders, who earn huge fortunes manipulating niche markets. If they told you what those markets were, their margins would drop.

This isn't a particularly helpful post really, but the point is keep your eyes open for opportunities. If you can find yourself a niche you will be rich and happy. Or you could just run Incursions if you can put up with the drivel in the Incursion community coms.



PLEXes are expensive at the moment because the PLEX for Good scheme pulled $180,000 worth of them off the market. Supply and demand and all that.

Pick one thing and specialize in it. Read guides about it, eve uni wiki, google it, read the forum for that profession, etc.

At the end of the week total up your income from doing this thing.

Take half to spend on lolpvp ships, rifters, monocles, random crap you want.

Take the other half and spend it on your profession - better ships, better modules, skillbooks, implants to learn faster, hardwirings, data center tags to sell for faction standing, etc. If you have some leftover, invest in some market trade, BPOs to research, speculation, some PI or other passive stuff etc. (Again you will research these things on eve uni wiki, google, etc. before spending any money). Keep a reserve to replace everything you have bought at least once over, incase you get ganked.

Repeat next week.

You need to find something you enjoy doing and get good at it, I mean really get good at it, its the only way.

Find out how much isk per day/week you should be making for your chosen path, then learn what you need to do in order to achieve it and go do it.

If making money was easy, everyone would do it, inflation would sky-rocket and it wouldn't be making money any more.

Every source of ISK in the game has certain investments and risk- real life money, time, skill points, attention, difficultly, etc. etc.

Not having having much ISK isn't necessarily a bad thing if you don't spend it, so your frustration is just somewhat wanting to spend more than you have (which is fine, just don't act entitled to having more ISK).

The rest of it may be a case of finding the right activity that matches your demands- PLEX is out if you don't want to spend money. PI can be a very could passive income source, more so if you get the right friends, but does require a little SP investment. Datacores is similar. Salvaging drones and loot in nullsec can be an interesting and dangerous, but successful alternative (especially with the introduction of the mobile depot). Or there's the ninja approach to complexes (can be highly competitive though). If you like flying with people but want mostly PVE content, Incursions are something to aim for (Logistics requires more attention, but tends to require less ISK invested in your ship). And I hear that Faction Warfare has some cheap ways to make ISK by farming LP...

Best thing you can do, though? Fly with other people. A good group, they won't just hand you money on a platter, but there will be work you can do that can make you a lot of money. Salvaging missions behind other players is one- often they may let you keep it all because they wouldn't bother. Joining other people in their missions, you get an equal cut despite your less-than-equal contribution (most people don't care so much- it's nice to have the company, and by that point you have enough ISK to live comfortably).