EVE New Citizens Q&A

I'm not really necessarily trying to just make crazy amounts of isk. I'll take what I can get, but I just want to be able to have the funds to do other things in the game I want to do, so I can more easily replace ships without it really hurting me too much. PvP, incursions, exploration., flying really cool big ships...but all those things cost isk that I don't have, cause ships are regularly lost. Now i've heard really good things about PI in low and null sec, but I don't necessarily need the isk that veteran players are talking about it bringing...a good income for ME would be like 50 million every couple of days, And since anything I do in any system with a sec level lower than 0.5 results in my almost immediate death and Loss of ship, I'm pretty much stuck living in high sec. That being said, mining in 0.5 seems has been working out fairly will for me, but I still want to make isk a little faster. So in short, I'm not really asking opinions on weather PI in 0.5 is good income, I'm just asking if anyone has an educated guess on about how much isk that would bring in.
Thanks :)

Your income will be limited by numeber of colonies, your level of skills let you build. With low skills it is like 4 colonies , which means about 2-4 milions a day.

I think what you are looking for is running L4 missions, where you can use "really cool big ships" and easy make 30-40 milions a day. On good days with good skills (fitting, space ship command, armor, shield, drones and gunnery) you can make up to 100 milions a day. All in high sec with low risk.

For me PI is more like having home somewhere. I've choosen solar system, build few planetary colonies, I also plan to build a POS in there...

25 million a day in high sec? Not entirely likely. I made 25 million every two days in low-sec so I would start there.

edit: yeah, maybe with factory planets but (at least to me) that sort of takes the low-interaction factor out of PI

BTW I have CSU to 4. If you get it to 5 you could do a 6/3 setup in .3 or you could go to lower sec with CSU to 4 and a 6/3. It is easier to do the latter but also higher risk as this requires more jumps through low in general. The train to 5 is 19 days for me so I think its better to train a PI alt or alts to CSU4 instead.

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It's a skill, yes?

Thank you. That makes sense. I went through the entire list of skills and couldn't find what CSU could be!

Oh man sorry about that. Me off all people should know better. I was in a hurry.

CCU=Command Center Upgrades

I was thinking the college for future crime scene investigators.

Crime Scene University knows how to party.

This guy is correct.
High sec production is worthless.
High sec factory planets work out quite well.
You will need a T1 hauler called the epithal which has a large bay for PI.
You will need to research which PI is profitable to make (some makes a loss so be careful)
You will need to visit the planets every day which is annoying.
Basically you buy the P1 stuff and make it into p2 or p3 and then sell it.
With my PI skills on my trader alt at lvl 4 i make 25 mill/day and it takes about 10 minutes.
Try and find a system near your local trade hub (jita/amarr/dodixie/etc) with low tax rates and then train the skill to lower taxes to 4. With factory planets you don't even need to train the survey skills which is a bonus.
If you are doing pvp then join a group that specialises in pvp and flt t1 frigs until you have mastered the basics. Use the t1 ships with a bonus to point capacitor and which are fast and don't even try to get high dps. Tackle things for your friends and don't keep asking if you can bring your drake /random cruiser/ random destroyer. They will let you know what to train for that suits their form of pvp.
For a new player wanting pvp then faction warfare is pretty decent as frigs are very useful in FW and you can make isk at the same time. Big ships are pretty pointless in pvp outside of large fleets.