EVE General Discussion

I am curious, since I need to make isk (returning player). I currently live in null sec alliance btw.

What is worth doing? Ice mining? Gas mining? PvP (not likely)? Missions (not likely, and will take weeks to get to high lvl missions)? Wormholing (does not look like it)? DED/cosmic sites (hasnt the market collapsed?)? Incursions? Scamming the trade market?

Sadly, listening to some players, the last one, scamming (and buying selling clearly wrongly priced items) may be the only way to make some fast isk in this game, but this is not my thing, neither in RL nor in a game.

The only other thing I know so far that may be a good income is incursions, but where I live (null sec), this is dangerous and need to team up more or less (or use a absurd expensive ship, which I do NOT have, nor can buy, nor will risk).

I am currently considering starting up a new account on my second computer (can play 2 at once), and was considering duoing WH/nullsec sites/incursions, but I am not sure its worth it after reading a lot of posts. Maybe I should just move back to high sec and hunt for incursions with 2 accounts?

I am honestly and sincerely in need of advice people, how can I make a good income of ISK in this game in its current state a la 2016?And what I mean by that is in the 100s of millions pr week, anything lower then easily 100-200 mills a week is waste of time, you can get that by one scam/lucky buy on the market.

I am a player that need to see advancement in the MMOs I play, or I just get frustrated and leave. So please help me out here; what should I put my time into doing to earn ISK!? And if its like gass mining or DED hunting, Incursions etc, please give me some good advice on ships to use (remember I can play 2 accounts/computers). I have read A LOT of posts about which ships to use, and I am going in circles! The main/current account is Caldari, have not made a second account yet.

Obi-wan Kenobi, I am in need of help...please help...

While Eve has advanced significantly over the last decade and a bit its overall character hasn't changed; it is not a game of instant gratification.

That said a decent L4 running setup can net you around 100m+ per evening so 200m per week shouldn't be an issue.

Otherwise...

1) Buy PLEX
2) Sell PLEX in Jita
3) ???
4) Profit

Everything! Everything is worth doing. You just have to know how to do that. There is a lot of advices on Youtube and here in newcomers part of forum. Just sit thru it all. Find what do you like to do, and just play the game. And dont be afraid to try new things.

As you are a returning player you should know what you enjoy and as a member of a null alliance you should have plenty space to do it in.

So, if you are the ratting type, go ratting in your sov. If you are the industrial type, go producing in your stations. If you are the mining type, go mining in your sov. If you are the trading type, by all means go and trade. If you want instant isk gratification, go buy one or more PLEX'.

What he is doing is salvaging PvP ships that just happen to be close to the station, not many of those situations around. This is like a 1 in a 1 000 000 situation, borderline a corp recruit video. What he is doing is not realistic at all, to make this work you need to be in a corp / alliance that regulary have a station camped (and not losing it), you need to be camped in that station, and there cannot be people doing the same. All in all this is not even remotely realistic scenario! For him to even make this videos are pointless, as I wrote earlier looks to be made as a join corp scam, absurdly unrealistic way of income.

Please wake up! What he is doing is not remotely realistic way of making ISK! Hardly ever happen. This is like waiting on winning in Lotto!

The golden age for awokers draws nigh. Soon Eve would become a awokers paradise once CCP releases SP skill extractors/injections into this fabulous game. Soon you'd be able to train a awokering toon in just 1 week, biomass, rinse and repeat till your hearts desire. Just one awoxer can net you 30-60 bill in 6 months easy. The trick is to not rush it and to plant 6-8 thorns into the big alliances like Goons who have far too many members for their own good. Once you sneak in the Goons, try to discover where all the afk ratters go and give them a warm greeting with your other ganking alt. Killing afk Ishtars and Rattlesnakes can net you 3-4 bill a week easy per toon.

Wake up sheeple, he didn't work for that isk, he didn't build that, he stumbled across it by dumb luck and is now trying to keep us poor folks down. He didn't put any hard work or research into his novel money generating scheme, he just stumbled across such a place by dumb luck (after trying to find such a place deliberately, total coincidence though). Somebody needs to take that isk he unfairly earnt and redistribute it, for the benefit of everybody.

Vote for me and I promise once this crisis has abated, I will lay down the powers you have given me!

Tisi 2016

Market scams.

Quoting my own post from another thread:


Now - those are only examples. There are near unlimited ways to make ISK in this game, but those should give you an idea how much money you can make doing what. Which one of those are "worth doing" strongly depends on what you consider to be "worth doing". All of those are worth doing to someone, or nobody would be doing them.

It may look like mining-mncome in Highsec is pretty crappy, for example. But it does require almost no attention and can be done semi-afk with 10 accounts at a time, 10 hours a day. It may look like C5/C6 wormhole income is pretty good, but it requires you to live in a wormhole, which certainly isn't to everybodys taste, and you can only do the sites in your own wormhole once they spawn. The rest of the time, you'll have to stick to neighbouring systems, which can be risky.

There is no one right way to make money in Eve. All of them have their merits. It's down to you to try them out and decide what's for you and what's not.