EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hello there. tl;dr at the end, but I'd appreciate it if you heard me out. =D (I'm used to writing multi-thousand character posts about most things, so this is quite short by my standards. If you got any questions or anything, I'd love to answer them.)

I noticed the forums are mostly locked off for trial accounts. Understandable, but not quite to my personal liking nonetheless. But that's all irrelevant. Also, damn, my avatar is that of my in-game character. You weren't supposed to see that. xD

Anyways, as the title says, I'm (almost) a brand new player trying to gather enough ISK to pay for my game time from the get-go.
Almost, because I have gone through about 100 hours of playing and another 20 or so hours of pure learning. I got the basics down, but I am willing to bet there is oh so much important stuff I do not know about.
Also mind that this is not my real character. I don't have an active one yet, but I managed to snag a cheap Starter Pack a few months back, so when I'm ready, I'll activate that, be free of my Trial restrictions, and have a full month of time to gather as much ISK as I possibly can. =)

This is kinda the part where I'm looking for help. I learned a lot in my past many hours, but I went at it alone, with only the Rookie Help to guide me on questions I even knew to ask. For the time being, I'm looking for a person and/or corp who could help and/or teach me to gather as much ISK as quickly as possible. Not sure how common voice chatting is but I got a mic and would love to exchange words. I'd call myself a fast and determined learner.

I know it's common and most people tend to tell me these things, but I don't need lecturing on what is fun, how I will and won't enjoy the game, and whether or not I am going to "burn myself out" trying to PLEX my account each month from the very beginning. I know it's possible, and while I might not be skilled enough to manage, that is not important.

tl;dr: Need a person and/or corp to teach me how to make ISK as fast as possible.

I have 5 paid accounts. EVE is a game I pay to play, and not a second job.

Good luck with your quest, but don't let the continual grind for ISK burn you out. Try to find time to have fun in EVE.

try scamming,
theirs no upper limit in idiots handing you their isk so you could plex an account for a year if you find the right mark

Okay. Not a lecture, but it would be an easier goal to plex your account by the third month instead of the first. The reason is your skills will be very low in all areas. It takes a while to build up the skills for a high yielding mining barge or a mission running battleship - both traditional ways to grind out money. Likewise with exploration which also has the problems of dry spells where you aren't finding any good loot.

I think the easiest way to earn a lot of isk when you are low in skill is with market trading. Either station trading or arbitrage. The problem here that you will be starting with low capital which will limit your gains - but it is doable. Do a search for Eve Online Market Trading to find some of the well established blogs and read the posts from their beginning. It will give you ideas on earning isk quickly. There are also some in game market trading channels where people might be willing to give you some advice.

Scamming, lying, and stealing is definitely the fastest way to earn isk and if you are determined to PLEX your account with the minimum amount of effort this would be the route to go. However, it does require some knowledge of the game mechanics in order to present a believable con and the biggest scores may be out of reach of a brand new player. Still, by starting small and working up I imagine it would be possible.


If you aren't interested in that kind of thing the next best thing is trading. This does require a bit of capital and some knowledge about how the market works, but if you really want to grind you can make your first billion in under a month. I've actually done so on a brand new character, just for the challenge. The trick here is getting the initial capital, and it helps to do all the career agent tutorial missions to get it as these give fairly decent rewards considering you can complete them with virtually no skills invested. It is, however, hard to get good advice on how to be a trader since it means that your mentor would essentially be training the competition. If this is a path you're interested in I'd recommend checking out the relevant Eve University wiki articles and asking for help in the Market Discussions subforum. Good luck.

Very simple nowdays: go to Uedama and wait for gankers. Let them get concorded and loot their wrecks. Sell the stuff back to gankers. Repeat.

you realize that someone else bought that plex for *more* than what a sub is right?

I plex 2 accounts, and really unless you get lucky with a loot drop or something you're looking at station trading as the only viable way to get there in one month. If station trading is what you enjoy doing, cool; if not it'll turn the game into a job, and jobs suck which is why we play games.

That being said, you *can* grind it out in L4's, but it'll take you ~ 2 months to get to that point. You can also use PI but you'll need to do it on 2 characters which is going to be ~ 2 months worth of training.

Everything on the market bar blueprints are player generated in some fashion, be that looted from an npc, bought from ccp or produced by player's, if it's up there a player put it there.

That's an impressive recreation of a world (well universe) sized economy then!

Although some prices are also driven by the buy/sell value set by NPC corps, but that's another debate. For example the Nestor battleship is regarded by many as too pricey, but I think its price is mostly driven by its worth in the LP store, so the price is decided by CCP here, not by players, right?

I think the scope of eve might be dawning on the op,