EVE General Discussion

TL;DR

For the few of you that do NOT have multiple accounts, and usually get on for only say, 1 hour sessions at random (multiple) times during the day, what activities do you focus on to generate the ISK other then PLEX injections?

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Don't get me wrong, I have a good grasp of what to do, I'm asking this here to see if anyone is willing to let go some more "secret" tips then those I can already find.

Premise: Single account, future possible limited play time, weird hours. Possible inability to grind isk in multi-hour sessions.
Current idea: Join RVB, and keep a toon in mostly cheap frigs. Short roams, get blown up lots.

Problem: The ISK making angle (if not PLEX'ing) and trying to do something "outside the box".
It's pointless (for me), finding an activity that can pay 500+ million an hour as long as you invest 10 hours in it to average that amount (wormholes for instance, when you factor in ship losses), when I'd rather get 10-50 million an hour as long as the payout is consistent and can do it in very short sessions, even if higher risk.

Would for example, just spending a long slog maxing a toon (or just buying one) to just do incursions once or twice a month, be the most focused way? I can't really park a toon in a null corp just to get on randomly and do a few anomalies, well, I can, but I'm not really being a corp member that way, and I'd feel bad.

I considered joining a low sec pirate corp OR just bribe the locals that mostly roam the area, to allow me to run/blitz L5 missions batches once-twice a week, and cash out LP, but since I don't know anyone that runs L5's it's hard to get a handle on it; I can solo them on SiSi, but of course, on SiSi, no one is trying to kill me.

I like the idea of possibly finding something to do in low sec in the sense that I would get two things done; I would have a focused, short burst ISK machine for frig exploding, and random pvp when people find me, it's just that from what I can find so far, low sec tends to be a net isk loss overall, but maybe I've been looking in the wrong places.

PS: I'm willing to learn Russian (I have a mate that owns Rosetta Stone, I just have to buy the Russian language pack) and relocate, cause extra languages on my resume are worth the time investment

Anyway, thanks for any advice/links/articles/etc.

I'm a bottom feeder. I salvage T2 wrecks in null, steal loot from battlefields, etc... it makes billions.

Oh, and siphons too.. those things are a casual solo player's best friend!

Have a incursion set up..

If you are mainly focusing on Frig PvP you can easily affford it with only a couple of ours here and there with incursions

Buy the Roestta Stone, learn Russian, and charge peopel to translate durign agreements between RU players and English-speaking players.

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Guess that's not really "casual"

Do market trading.

You don't have to leave Jita, and the skills required to get your tax rates and transaction fees down are relatively quick to train to a suitable level. You can just park a secondary character in a market hub to do it (it can even be on the same account as your 'main.')

I know a guy who plexes his account using 2 billion in working capital. Really not that much.

I would recommend not running incursions! I have tried to run high sec incursions and the waiting is tedious. Carebears takes literally hours to fit a ship to do a simple reptitive task.

If you want it boring, do L5 missions. You have to be smart about it, but a carrier with a mobile depot to refit stabs at any time is close to immune to getting caught, if you play it smart and watch local+d-scan all the time. Downside is that if someone finds you and camp you, you might have to abandon the mission for that day as people are pretty patient when waiting for a carrier kill.

If you want it more fun, find a mission hub and scan down mission runners. Steal their loot, salvage the wrecks and try to get them to agress you. It can be a lot of fun and personally this has given me some pretty amazing solo kills. On top I remember a an ishtar attacking me, and he was kind to drop a 400 mil invul field.

I can advice exploration.

Get a covop frigate (either the SoE one, or any of the T2 covop ones) and go scan down sites, Data & Relic, and hack/analyze away. It's short & can be enjoyable to see what you get.

Income can vary alot, depending on what you get, but even in short stints, it should be profitable enough to support frigate PvP (and cruiser variant)

I have done some testing in CVA space, and I guess I was just very unlucky. I min-maxed a few skills with a single PLEX to even allow me to scan down 10/10's (albeit with manual drone fidgeting for the last 2%), but it was very hit-miss - I mean, I did not expect an isk fountain - but as a time sink, a single high end anom would have gotten about 10x the isk/h that I managed in a weel long test, again, it's all tied to RNG, but I'm trying to shoot for less time/isk deviation.

Technically, running C1 anoms would get better averages, at least from numbers I have seen, the main danger being of course players, not NPC ships.

We have system in null just for isk making. Clone jump there, do some ratting to make isk and then jump back. Rinse and repeat as necessary.

I endorse the posts about exploration. It's one of the best activity for self-funding solo imo, unless you want to plex your account. I'm not filthy rich, but I do some exploration runs once in a while and there's enough money to fund frigate/cruiser PvP without having to do it regularly

Also, travelling around with hundreds of millions worth of isk is thrilling as hell