EVE General Discussion

Mining is pretty poorly designed, and a terrible way to earn ISK. Once you get out of mining you'll see that nearly every other set of skills has a better earning potential. Mining is great for only one reason. It's, for some people, kind of relaxing. You earn minimal ISK, but can chat with friends while you do it.

If you love the market game then check out Planetary Interaction, Invention, Trade, or Manufacturing. Station trading is the easiest of these get into. Basically, you find a market hub and scour the market for stuff to buy cheap and sell expensive.

If you love blowing stuff up then check out missions. They're very straightforward, but get a bit tedious after a while.

If you love probing stuff down (and explosions) then check out exploration. You can get started in high-sec, but low/null and wormholes are the end-game for these. It's very competitive in high, and very dangerous in low/null, and super dangerous in WHs. Even so, the payout is fantastic and there's PVP sometimes.

If you love fleeting with people and chatting with random strangers skill up for Incursions. The money is great and you meet lots of people. It'll get you used to jargon that is used in PVP fleets, but you'll need a pretty solid set of combat skills to start. Not super, but a couple of months at minimum. It's probably the best money in the game, and after you grind them a few months you won't really care about ISK any more.

If you love duels and PVP take your 30 million and buy a bunch of T1 frigates. Cruise the belts in low-sec and PVP with other people. You'll get the hang of what you can take and what you can't, people that beat you will often give you good advice, and some people fit stupidly expensive mods to their PVP ships. The money isn't that great, but it's kinda fun. If you get a good rep you can join a PVP corp and get steady fleets.

A null sec corp can be good, I hear. As I've never tried that I won't comment much. I know that fun in null is completely based on how fun your corp is, so if you get in a crappy one don't be afraid to ditch them. The money is very very good, and there's lots of PVP (I hear).

There's other stuff I haven't mentioned, but that's one cool thing about EVE. It's big. There's lots of little places to make cash. Once you learn your way around ISK is really not an issue unless you want to be super mega rich.

Edit: There's also a guide at www.isktheguide.com It's free.

"Best way of making ISK" is a bit subjective. Of the "legitimate" ways of making isk, station trading will bring in one of the largest seas of ISK. Best of all, you technically don't need much SP at all to participate. Although some skills and standings do help. However, the 0.01 ISK wars can suck at times, and burnout will probably prevent you from throwing yourself into the ring everyday. Surely, you will go insane if it is the only thing you do. However, when you're in the right mood, the mountains of isk you can make in few short days can be quite exciting.

This all comes with the disclaimer that you should understand how trading works in the first place. If you come barging in woefully ignorant or have no talent for the craft, you may very well lose mountains of isk instead.

I would not recommend starting gambles like invention or trading with your low amount of isk. You should have at least 500 M before you start one of those careers and be prepared to lose a lot of money until you have really learned what you are doing and how to do it.
Just my 0,02 Isk.

This is one of the worst ways to make money scamming...only a (tiny) step up from contract scams.

Took me a year but just made my first bill lost a load moving to nullsec but had immense fun learning finally got back on my feet to the point where there's ships I'd like fullfill roles within my allaince but nothing extra ordinary I really want had my eye on a legion for a while but theyre just pixels on a screen you dont play to make isk you play to blow up or be blwon up there is nothing else in eve as much fun or that can be financially rewarding as taking down a carrier in a wormhole and looting the stuff that drops....

My wallet is a means to an end and nothing more....others base their success on the accumulation of wealth at the end of the day is what you make it I've run level 4s til i wanted to punch my dog...I've done incursions..I've done probing I now have the ships to do as I please bored of havens I'll go probe.....form a quick gate camp.....go to hi sec for a bit of care bearing in incursions keep your options open by having the ships and this world is as limitless as the ships you posess...don't own the one best level 4 ship own one that allows you to own a probing ship or an incursion runner.....set your goals low for now aim to fly a harby say and do level 3s skill up to the max for the fittings available....

I've found by keeping my options open I've seen some of the best and worst bits this game has to offer

Try to use your brain.

Or, find a job, work an hour, buy PLEX.

Trading. Always were, always be . If you know what you are doing, you can make billion (or more) a day and you dont need to be online for hours to make profit. Of course you need a couple of billions to start serious trading. Incursions or Lvl4 missions are a good start.

You could do a lot worse than reading through the Making ISK guide on the EVElopedia.

Invest in exotic dancers and open a brothel.