EVE New Citizens Q&A

The above reply is fairly accurate.

for new players thinking about making enough ISK for a PLEX in 21days, mission running and mining is out of question, same goes for hauling and possibly manufacturing (which requires hauling large amounts of minerals).

I am going to road test manufacturing, and how much you can make in 21days with all the limitations of a trial. Hopefully i will be able to post my progress through a blog format as some of the other guides in this post.

That leaves exploring and trading.

Its true that high sec sites are scanned down very quickly, but that doesnt mean they don't exist.


For new players, there are three paths i recommend.

First, train specifically for Radar sites.

High-sec radar sites generally make around 10MIL per site, if you manage to scan down two sites a day, that should be enough for 400MIL over 21days.

High-sec radar sites don't require much training, simply level 3 in Hacking, level 3 in Astrometrics, and a couple of levels in Astrometric Rangefinding should be fine with the bonus of a scanning frigate.

The alternative would be train up to an exploration cruiser such as Arbitrator or a Vexor and aim for a 4/10 or 3/10 combat site.

The Guristas outpost can net 400MIL in one site. If you manage to run 1 of them in your 21days trial period you would have your PLEX.

But as the above poster has said, high-sec exploration has a lot of competition, so it all depends on luck.


A third path is to go into low sec and scan down only radar and mag sites. Low sec has lower population and higher spawns. So you wouldnt have much problem with site spawns, just have to be careful of veteran gate campers and roaming gangs.