EVE New Citizens Q&A

and advice needed on the best vessel for mining
i have looked and there is much advice. but it is all OLD
uptodate advice on that as well. please..
your humble newby (is there a better word?)
greg

ESC menu,
one of the tabs in there has reset buttons for almost everything ,
no such thing as wasted sp so unless you hate your toon for something like its name or reputation its completely salvageable.

hers some reading on the overview settings
http://evedarklord.blogspot.ca/2014/05/
http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Overview_Guide

seriously, no need to start over.

and mining sucks so i have no idea.

i want to start as a miner, for experience and skills
but my training didn't help,, now the instructor seems to have gone...
greg

That probably means that you have declined or failed a mission.

A GM might reset that for you if you file a support ticket.

Otherwise start a fresh series of career tutorials with a different agent. If you are still in Embod the nearest is in Malukker.

PI can be very profitable, if you get out of high-sec with high tax PoCo's.

Exploration sites are hit or miss. Some days you make jack ****, other days you can make billions.

Trading yields HUGE profits, if you do it right. The issue is that you must learn what to trade and have initial starting capital...the more capital you can pump into a trader, the more you can get out of it (To give you an example, I made about 3 - 4 billion every 2 weeks with just 1 trader, for as much as 10 minutes of work every day / every 2 days. though this was about 1.5 year ago).

Hell, missions pay out better then top end mining in high-sec in terms of ISK/hour.

Mm.
Incursions and FW.
Incursions are in Highsec, but have skill requirements.
FW is in lowsec, puts you in permanent war but you can do with almost no skills. There's also a 1 month train catalyst thing that makes it much better, very good for an alt. It gets you ~30k LP/hour in Caldaril with 2k lp conversion rate. So 60m/hour on a character that takes as much time as a PI alt.

I would prefer for you not write in haiku's as it makes posts annoying to read.

To the point, unless you have used all of your remaps on some truly weird combination of attributes you can't really mess up with your character and even then it's just a question of how long it takes to steer in right direction.

You can make around 75mil per day with PI, if you do it in high sec you have to buy and haul the stuff from the market which obviously eats up your profits but setting everything up isn't cheap either mine cost some 50-60mils just to get the stuff on the ground on all the planets that I needed.
Station hauling is a form of trading and best suited when you're starting up since it gives you a somewhat guaranteed isk but the real money comes from trading with players for example T3 parts are hiking up because of up coming new T3 hulls and a wise trader knows how to rake a profit from it but if you start now you're already late from that train better wait for the next train (expansion/ship/module/rule balance et c.)
Other way to make isk is whole sale just like in RL having small profits per unit from a cheap junk (a Halloween mask for example) while selling it in wast quantities makes up for a tidy profit.
However unlike in RL people sell stuff cheaper then the minerals in the market that it's made from, meaning there is no true bankrupt in EVE.
Those people are also knowns as "my minerals are free crowd" don't be a smuck like them unless you literally have those minerals for free without spending time or isk on it otherwise you just eat our own profits.

So yes you can make money a LOT by trading but just like RL money makes more money ie. huge gains require huge investments.