EVE General Discussion

Exploration in a covert ops ship in low or null. Really the only occupation that can be done solo like missions with somewhat similar income. Or try ninja ratting in 0.0, I hear 80% of the systems are empty.

Scam.

Ninja gas mining.

You fit up a Prospect for gas mining and scanning, scan down wormholes in highsec. Once you find one, refit to a cloak (I recommend bringing a depot, probes, and a launcher in case you get stuck), then go in, ninja their gas, leave to sell it, and repeat.

Plus side is that you also don't have to deal with the hacking minigame.

I guess you don't like having friends, do you?

High-sec is in general very low-profit margin. Once you have done level 4 missions, thats it, time to move on, or do incursions.

In terms of incursions, there are two or three groups that run perma fleets and have their own channels for fleet invites - but to get in you need a flashy battleship more or less. good isk there, 100mil per hour give or take. but thats the upper limit on high sec pretty much. all the other money is made in trading and industry.

wormholes are nice, but the stuff that you can solo in a SOE ship is lower-class, c1-c2, possibly c3, and its not really more money then L4 missions. Higher end wormholes you start getting into serious PvE, and you will require specialized ships and tools, and a base of operations like a POS or a carrier - for that you need to join a wormhole corp - plenty are recruiting on the forums in the relevant sections.

null-sec and low-sec is your next logical step. exploration there is SIGNIFICANTLY more profitable, and unlike wormholes, has no rats in the sites, so you dont need a pimped ship - an astero will do just fine. In fact, a lot of folks use asteros and just fly all over EVE exploring. How this works is, they scan out a wormhole that takes them into deep null, bypassing all the gatecamps. Once in null, 95% of it is empty, explore to your hearts content, then find an exit wormhole back to empire space. Very doable in an astero or even a stratios (you need cargo space for longer deployments). I reccomend you try this and get comfortable with null, then progress further.

Incursions

High sec suicide ganking is a low risk, high return activity. Trash your sec status then start l4s again to build it back up.

its not high-return at all. to high sec gankers 100mil is a lot of money. to everyone else its chump change.

anyhow, high sec ganking is only profitable for isboxed accounts that can gank freighters and brick-tanked t3's. once-a-month spectacular solo ganks dont count as steady income stream.

what can you gank with 1 tornado, realistically? t1 untanked haulers. nut much money in those. and what is he going to scoop the loot with, he said - 1 ship only.

Also, I just want to put out there that the activity doesnt need to be more profitable as L4s. I just want something else to do for ISK, and as long as it is somewhere in the same ballpark it will be fine. I am not exactly busting my butt in L4s, so I dont think that I break about 40-50 mil an hour. I usually play in short bursts as well, so a lot of the big ISK missions are not an option for me, as I like to come back with my Noctis and clean up afterwards to wind down. Most people say that it hurts ISK per hour, but I like looting and seeing what was there.