EVE New Citizens Q&A

I would spend the Christmas break with family and friends, and being social.

If you really want to throw your life away chasing the ISK to play a game for free, instead of getting a part time job stacking shelves at the supermarket, I would recommend aiming straight for a HML Drake with best-named T1 fitting. You'll end up making about 10M ISK/hr, and thus in the 60 days you'll need to average about 8M ISK/day.

Along the path to the drake, get into a Cerberus. Don't aim for T2 skills anywhere, get into a Drake with decent shield tank, but don't use SPRs. Use overdrive injector & afterburner to boost your speed and you'll be able to tank most missions without a break. Use the lows for Ballistic Controls.

Why do I recommend a T1 fitted drake? Quite simply, this is the fastest way I know to get into L4 missions. Turret based ships will require extensive skill training.

Another option is to find some friends who run L4s, and train into an Oracle or Tornado as quickly as possible. Let your friend do the tanking, you just come along to provide DPS. Stick to T1 weapons and tank until you have most support skills to 4: training one skill to 5 will cost you too much time.

But seriously consider getting a shelf-stacking job and using that income to fund your game time. A mindless job won't distract too much from your studies, unless you try burning the midnight oil and end up too tired to learn anything.

It is possible to make enough isk for a plex in 60 days if you know how, just set a goal to make a least 10 mil isk per day and go do some low level exploration in high sec for radar sites, they can pay pretty good if you're lucky. It should not be too hard to reach your first 50 million, mix it up a bit with missions but missions for me is really boring and a massive grind.

Oh and last time I checked you can't train for battlecruiser on trial accounts so lvl 4 missions are out of the question and lvl 3 missions would be pretty hard with limited skills and in just a cruiser. Maybe you could take a risk and find a good lowsec system and have at the occasional battleship spawns.

I've seen prepaid credit cards suggested few times, so you could check if you can buy those somewhere.


T1 fitted Drake is just to get enough standing for level 4 missions. To actually do those missions you would need something better.

I do know a player who managed to get 1 billion ISK during first 14 days, but he had extensive prior knowledge about EVE. For player who has no knowledge about EVE it will take a lot longer.

Steam has the game on sale right now for $6.80, which comes with 30 days. I just extended my trial account with a key from steam, you can probably do the same, so for under $7 you would get 90 days of game play, and all trial restrictions lifted. (And they accept paypal, so no CC needed)

EDIT: I should mention that my trial was a steam trial and only 14 days, so I didn't get quite that good of a deal as you might be able to.

EDIT2: Corrected 120 days to 90 days, not sure why I thought the trial was 90 days, but I apparently did.

Ok but how would I add the 30 days I get from steam to by 60 day trial account, do I get some kind of code for the 30 days?

Yes, they will give you a CD-KEY, which you have to go apply to your account.

CD-KEYs appear to only be good on TRIAL and for NEW accounts, so be aware this won't work on an existing non-trial account.

Have you thought about trying your hand at a bit of station trading? I found that with a lot of opportunities to log in during the day (I work from home) it's an extremely good way to make ISK without having to bother with all that messy shooting business for 5 hours a day.

A lot of people just update their orders twice a day and let the money roll in, once you know what sort of items to look for you'd be sorted. Trading is light on the necessary skills, too, they do increase your profits but there's nothing stopping you from just jumping right in and seeing if you enjoy it.

Sidenote: I upgraded my trial account through a similar Steam offer in June, they just give you the activation code and the 30 days are added onto your remaining trial time when you use it, huzzah!

Whoops

My bad on the battlecruiser skill. I had never heard about the level 4 agents not talking to trial accounts though!



There's also the option of flying a DPS or logistics cruiser and supporting someone in L4 missions. Even an Omen or Caracal can provide enough DPS to significantly speed things up for a new mission runner. Or perhaps there are corporations out there who encourage friends & members to mission in groups, purely for the social aspects?

Hello Mattikus Hemah,

It might prove to be pretty diffcult earning enough ISK for a PLEX within a month by running Level 2 missions, maybe too difficult and quite boring as well. But there are some considerations for other in-game activites.

You could train for Tech-3 Ships, but they cost more than a PLEX itself, so that wouldn't help you either.

Planetary Interaction is easy tor learn (not on a trial account though) and gives you a nicely quasi-passive income, so you can do it on all your three characters per account. But, as said, you cannot use PI on trial accounts, you need a full account on that.

Salvaging is certainly some reasonable income source. You maybe can even work with some L4 mission runners and split your income with them if they point you always to the new missions, full with wrecks.

Station trading in Jita can be profitable, you can earn a PLEX within a month - if you have the proper starting capital, some knowledge of the EVE market and if you are not scared by numbers. You can learn the necessary skills on a trial account, but if you can get starting capital is another question.

I hope that all will work out for you, so that you can get your EVE career rolling!

Not to mention the discount for longer period subscriptions.

But for sake of completeness I'll recommend that people interested in making 500M ISK in 60 days read the Making ISK guide on the EVElopedia.