Missions & Complexes

I'm working on an evaluation of wealth generation across most activities in Eve- excluding industry.

The purpose of this is to identify how much ISK is actually made across various forms of active or AFK work in each area of space. I can only speak for the null incomes per hour and a little bit of the highsec income values, so input from people experienced in various forms of income would be appreciated.

The below is evaluating average wealth generation, not just raw ISK obtained from these activities. This is assuming you have the average skills required to do each activity proficiently. Max skills or being under skilled will make different amounts.

Nullsec
Drone Subcaps*: 40-60 mil per hour, possible escalations. Many escalations are not worth doing because of the buff to drops and escalation chance. Reliant on good sites (forsaken hubs/havens/sanctums) to be reliable.
Drone Carriers*: 90 mil per hour. Much higher risk, but more income possible from carriers over subcaps.
Active Ratting*: 90-120 mil per hour depending on skills. Assumes properly skilled battleship or pimped t3 cruiser.
*note: income per hour varies downwards depending on number of sites available, hostiles, etc.
Ice Mining: 40-50 mil per hour. 50-70 mil per hour in a hulk (but using a hulk is a pretty awful idea)
Ore Mining: 30-50 mil per hour. 40-70 mil per hour in a hulk (see above)
Exploration: Estimated 40-50 mil per hour. Varies wildly, especially if others are also exploring. Can hit it big or not hit anything for an extended time.
Combat Exploration: Estimated 90-120 mil per hour. Depends on drops and escalations. This is different from standard exploration because you're looking solely for combat sites with favorable drops.
Salvaging: 20-40 mil per hour. Assumes following someone else ratting. Can be done as a few day old newbee.
Missions: 100-150 mil per hour. Possibly more with blitzing. Requires npc null space with missions.
Incursions: Usually around 90-120 mil per hour. Requires incursions, most null incursions don't run full efficient fleets like highsec.

Lowsec
Missions: 100-250 mil per hour. Assuming level 5 missions or faction missions.
Mining: Doesn't happen in bulk because of the risk
Ratting: Doesn't happen in bulk because of the risk
Exploration: Estimated 20-40 mil per hour. See above with null.
Combat Exploration: Estimated 90-120 mil per hour. Depends on drops and escalations. This is different from standard exploration because you're looking solely for combat sites with favorable drops. Roughly the same as nullsec.
Incursions:100-200? mil per hour. Requires a consistent group and waiting time. Please correct me on this.
Faction Warfare: 50-200 mil per hour. Varies wildly with faction levels, luck, etc. Consider hostiles as well.

Highsec
Ratting: negligible
Ice Mining: 20-30 mil per hour. Assuming hauler and perfect boosts.
Ore Mining: 10-20 mil per hour. Same as above.
Missions: 40-70 mil per hour. Assuming average 1000 isk/lp payout.
Blitzing Missions: 90-120 mil per hour. Same as above.
Incursions: 70-150 mil per hour. Requires an incursion. Requires wait time and a good fleet.
Faction Warfare: negligible
Exploration: negligible

Wormholes
C6 sites*: 400+ mil per hour. Varies wildly requiring escalations, etc.
C5 sites*: 200-400+mil per hour. Requires finding appropriate sites and a hole out of your staging.
C3/C4 sites*: 100-300+mil per hour. See above
C2/C1 sites*: Roughly nullsec income, better to do c3+
Data/Relic sites*: 70-200 mil per hour. Varies wildly depending on luck.
Gas Mining*: 50-100 mil per hour. Requires appropriate gas sites, gas varies wildly. Can be done in a low skill Venture.
*Note: requires considerable logistics, scouts, etc. Income varies a considerable amount depending on activity and some luck.

I did not include activities such as market manipulation, ganking, and industry as those vary wildly depending on what you're doing.

Please comment in here if you have more accurate numbers or want to discuss a specific activity.

Well ****, lets move back to Low Sec!

I'm happy to change that if more people confirm that the wealth rate is in fact that low per hour. I did some testing in a not huge level 4 mission area and was able to pull 90-120 an hour over 10 hours. That was in a Tengu. I hear that rattlesnakes are even better at blitzing but didn't test that out.

Edit: before ammo costs, obviously.

Your information about high sec incursion wealth is not correct based on my personal experience. Your estimation of 70-150 mil per hour would be correct for VG fleet and evaluating pure isk income only. If you'll count LP you'll get at least 25 mil more counting 1200 isk per LP which is rate of wholesale buyers of Concord LP now days (you can get even more if you trade LP yourself and know how to do that). So it generates up to 175 mil/h that way.

Good HQ fleet generates about 180 mil./h of pure isk plus 50 mil for the LP, at rate of 1200 isk/lp, so it's about 230 isk/h. Sometimes, when the sites spawn very successfully it's possible to squeeze even more.

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The concept of "Exploration" probably needs clarification or sub-dividing.

If you exclusively look at Exploration as running Data and Relic sites, then the income for Hig-Sec is indeed negligible. However, if you include probing down combat sites and running them, the income can be quite respectable, given the right combination of factors. (The right ship/ammo for the rats you're fighting, the ability to race others if needed, the ability to pick the right areas, and knowledge of the sites and the triggers, to get to the ships dropping faction loot quickly).

If you're good, you can probably average out at 30-50 million/hr, but with substantial ups and downs.

Assuming you have enough characters to get a supply of just burners (I do not) a burner for SOE returns 30 mill just in LP per mission.

It would be greatly appreciated for more lowsec/wh folks to chime in and confirm if those numbers look accurate.

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L5 mission income is hard to quantify - some are easy and crazy lucrative, a few are going to be very difficult without multiple pilots (which will reduce your isk/character of course) or a very quiet system and a carrier. The LP values are typically horrible compared to the easy ~2k/lp you can get in highsec as well.

250m/hour is possible for sure, but only with lucky mission rolls - quite a lot of the time you won't have something you can easily run solo and if you're using multiple characters, you should take that into account.