EVE New Citizens Q&A

You will (probably) not make any profit with production, in fact you'll make a loss. Anyone telling you he makes mad profits with T1 production, made by a relative newbie and sold in high sec, is lying to you and probably himself.

Other than being a Negative Nancy, in this case, there's not much I can tell you.

To add something positive; the best way for a newbie to make silly income is probably exploration. It is however chance based so you could make 100 mil a night or you could make nothing at all for 3 days straight. It will teach you a lot of useful stuff though and forces you to use your brain cells a bit (unlike mining).

If ISK is no issue, then you could train up to fly an Astero. The training time is much less than it would take you to fly a Covert Ops frigate, but the covops cloak and stats will make low-sec and even some null-sec exploration possible. The tradeoff: the Astero is very expensive, around 80mil if I recall.

well if you spend it on ships and shiny modules, you will lose them.
start trading with it, you will probably lose it.
skill books all the way, use something like evemon to plan your progression after dicking around for a while in game to see what you find fun(i recommend exploding your fellow man).

Hello, welcome to Eve.

For a new player :

Production / Market = Munitions. Those are always in high demand. For location I suggest checking the Starmap stats. Disregard the main Trade Hub Systems and sell the munitions in and around systems with high amount of NPC / ship kills.

Selling copies of researched Blueprints is not a new player friendly career. It takes a lot of time, skills, effort and ISK to accomplish. In my opinion due to the recently released Industry changes older highly skilled players are gonna be hard pressed to make a profit now.

Salvaging - Definitely a must have skill. Training that is rather quick and getting high skill level should be a priority, especially for new players. Don't forget Salvage Drones which come in handy when a Salvager module can't be fitted.



Anyway, for a new player :

Completing various Hacking sites is a cheap and easy way to make some ISK while starting out in Exploration. Add in some low level combat sites with more skill training and equipment upgrades you'll soon be on your way to becoming a full fledged explorer.

For more info you can google info guides from various wiki's (Evelopedia, Uniwiki, etc).

Good luck to you. Hope you have a long and rewarding career.


DMC

I wouldn't recommend production for a new player since you only start making returns when you have maxed skill and a good set of researched blueprints. Even then, the margins are usually low for most T1 items and T2 items take a lot more skillpoints to get into.

Exploration is a very good way to a) make money b) learn basic safety measures in hostile space, both useful things you need to know to be sucessful in the game. Salvaging is easier and can be done by joining other groups with easy access to mission wrecks (such as pro synergy). The skill plan for a proper salvaging ship is rather short as well.