EVE New Citizens Q&A

Exploration would works just fine but i'm not sure what kind of fun you are talking about since we all have different levels of what called fun especially when you do play this unique game.

PLEX prices go up based on market activities, and honestly you need to pick 2:

- lots of ISK
- fast
- in high sec
- solo

because all 4 or even 3 is not possible.

The only way the economy is in any way balanced is if it's not all that easy to make ISK fast. This game doesn't have an XP grind like other MMOs, but it does have a money grind (like other MMOs).

Most of the money making is either slow and steady (mining, missions, industry) or "you can get really lucky like with the lottery" (scams, corp theft, suicide ganking some rich clueless fool).

EDIT: If you are busy in RL and "want to enjoy the game" then I would recommend spending $20 on a PLEX and selling it for 1 billion ISK in-game. Trying to grind the billion ISK manually will require MUCH more work and time than making $20 even at a crappy job.

Go live out of a mobile depot in someone else's sov. Run their anoms, kill their ratters, sit afk in their space. Good times.
You may not make enough to plex every month, but you'll be having more fun than the average player.

Ship choice: Go t3 if you want to do more ratting than killing and you want bubble immunity. Go force recon if you want to give people heart attacks and do some exploring. Go stealth bomber if you want to lob some torpedoes into ratter's resist holes.

Godspeed, and may you not succomb to isk/hr.

Solo, limited time, PLEX account?

Hardly comes together with fun, imo. Exploration is a good option, but you need to invest 8-10 hours focussed on that to get the ISK for PLEX, not including the time to earn the ISK for your ships, modules etc.

My recommendation, pay the sub, and do what ever you want and feels fun. It's much easier to make the ISK just for ships and stuff, you even can break-even with solo PvP from loot.

Ok, heres the run down from someone who has lived in Black Rise solo:

1: Forget paying for PLEX in game, you could have made $100 flipping burgers in the time it would take you to grind the ISK

2: Know your region!

3: Bookmarks!

4: D-scan!

5: PI can make some money if you have time to haul it

6: If you choose PvP, know that you will be a criminal if you dont grind missions, i personally am a criminal and its not nevessarely bad, just gotta be more careful!

7: Minor industry is nice, haul in a bunch of materials and build ammo/mods/hulls whenever you wanna pew!

8: If you are a criminal, highsec logistics are harder (While i have gotten indys through highsec, its interesting....) be prepared to use an alt for hauling!

9: Dont **** off the locals who live in your system!!!

10: If you want frequent PvP action, go the the dead ends in FW, i personally lived in Notoras and it was nice! Want somewhere quieter? Theres plenty of empty non-FW lowsec!

11: Exploration is a definate money maker

12: Try to fly smaller ships as your big ones will get blapped and blobbed (Running missions within a system with bigger ships is fine as long as you are doing #4!)

Any other questions, mail me!

I mostly focus on mission blitzing for my isk. Blitzing involves knowing what missions to accept, which to decline, and enough standings you can take a small hit if you get an unlucky streak. Also requires the right ships and tactics in the missions. with okay skills 50mil/hour is possible in lv3s, recommend ship: machariel, can use almost all slots for damage, range, and scan res, plus warp speed rigs. With lower skills and resources a BC can do 3s well, not sure what the income will be though.

with high skills and the right conditions you can beat 200mil/hour in lv4s with burner missions. Again the mach is useful for general missions with the warp speed bonus, and specific ships for the various burner missions.

exploration can be fun, not sure where the rewards are at, or what skills are required though. Sounds like going low/null/wh can boost your income nicely there too. Don't need many PVP skills, and the main ones you would want are usually to avoid pvp.

Grinding for a plex isn't fun imo. and at lower levels it just takes a long time.

I don't think that I've ever heard of a corp that actually charges people to be in it. I've heard of people trying to scam new players by telling them that they need to pay to be in a corp and I am sure there are some weird situations where there are corps that need to charge for whatever reason but that would be a very rare situation.

Short answer is that you should not be paying any isk to join or be in a corp. So you can eliminate that idea.


I don't ever use voice coms in this game. I know there are plenty of people that do however there are plenty that don't as well. Also voice coms does not have to take up any more time. You can play for a few hours each week on voice coms or you can play for the exact same amount of time not on voice coms. I'm not sure why you are saying that somehow voice coms needs to change the amount of time that you play.

As far as solo there are people that play the game that way I'm not saying that you can't I'm just saying it's not for most people and since you already tried eve once and left it I'm guessing that the concepts that you put forth here have something to do with why you did not stay and I'm suggesting that if you don't change them and try something different then I'm not sure how you could expect anything other than a repeat of the first time.

You don't have to join a corp if you don't want to, it's just a quick and easy way to find a group of people to play with and if you don't have a lot of time to be roaming around and making friends on your own then a corp is a good way to go about that.

It's your game you do as you want but my advice is that you make friends and play some engaging gameplay that involves doing stuff with other people. Also for new players I can't stress enough how important it is to have experienced players to ask questions of and get answers in real time.

Trading is probably the biggest isk maker in game but it typically requires a lot of game knowledge to be good at. If you are talking about steady reliable isk and dead set on being solo then high sec mission grinding is probably your best bet. Anything you that do solo in low sec, especially as an inexperienced player will likely cost you more isk than you make. A few notable exceptions would be exploration and Faction Warfare. In FW you'd have to fly super cheap ships and pick your systems carefully as well as avoid combat to do it solo but it's doable.

I've said this before and I'll say it here again that you should really be figuring out what you enjoy doing then figuring out how to make isk doing that. I've seen it happen repeatedly and if you insist on chasing after the isk and not chasing after the fun you will not last long in this game.

Figure out what you like doing and find people to do that with. If you do continue to insist on playing solo and chasing after the isk then I'd like to wish you the best of luck in what ever game that you go to when you leave here. Eve is not a linear grindy MMO with lots of engaging solo gameplay. It's a PvP based sandbox with a focus on group activities and player created content. If you try and play eve as if it were one of those other MMOs then you won't have fun here and you won't "get " Eve. So good luck.

God, please don't think about making ISK to plex your own char. Plexing with ISK should be treated like real life want-but-dont-really-need. Unless you want to add unnecessary stress on your real life as it is.

I found out the hard way after burning out and quitting like 4 or 5 times in my career. It's better to think of making ISK to support your in-game needs but no more from there.

As others have mentioned, there are plenty of ISK makers out there but not all of them can be consistent on the rewards.Like you, I tend not to play a lot so I do a bit of everything, but missioning is one-if not the most consistent ISK source of them all. Just know your fits and what missions to take and which ones to ignore and you should be good to go with what little time you have.

But do remember, do a bit of everything, make your castle, smash it a bit, rebuild in another way, doing the same thing over and over is gonna break anyone sooner or later.

Just my 2c, have fun, and ffs, do not grind isk for plex, your hair and heart will thank you later.

buying plex with real money fits all 4 of the above:) it's expensive though..

i hear level 5's are very profitable.

on that note are lv 5's reliably doable in a shield marauder?