EVE New Citizens Q&A

use a pre-paid credit card?

To pay for an account using ISK your going to need several months of training to get the skills required to make the isk. Then you will have to invest in the materials you need to make such isk such as a ship would probably be a good idea. Then your going to have to either grind until your eyes fall out or your going to have to go to high risk areas and hope you dont get blown up.

It is not profitable to attempt to play for free. You wont enjoy the game and if you fall short one month you are done. Instead plex should be used for the other services and as a backup in case you run into trouble later and need to pay for a month with isk for whatever reason. However you could get even the lowest paying job in any modern country and pay for anywhere from 2-6 months on a days wages depending on where you live. Also bang for buck wise... plexes are more expensive than a sub.

When i was...poor, i would use change to pay for eve. I would save all my change for the month and that was my eve allowance, Usually about $20-$30 a month.

Real life pro tip: The 1970s called and want their checkbook back. You live in an age of plastic and electronic debt payments. And they make life much easier. For example i spend 0 amount of hours per month paying bills. If i had to do it the old school way it would be a 4 hour job in the very least. Another 10 years and there wont be many places that take checks or cash. They are both a liability. Checks you run the risk of it bouncing and cash you run the risk of theft and counterfit.

The easiest way is to scam it. You can do it with a day old toon, that never leaves jita.

Another reason you don't have a CC:

- You are not a stupid American that pays every single things on credit.

I pay for stuff, with money I have, not money I might have in the future if I'm lucky.

Good advice here. Live within your means.

Because only Americans use credit and are stupid. Grow up a little.

Another way to earn a plex is to make friends. Ones that actually do group activities will help, Like wormholes. Scouts get paid very nicely to watch a shimmering hole go all blinky (or not).
Find a mission hub, Ask if anyone plans on salvaging the loot, Get a noctis and go ham on the salvage.
All you need to do is make the right friends and plex will fly at you.

While I have found both stupid and smart people in every country that I've gone to and I also understand that an intelligent, well educated, free thinking populous is a threat to any control structure. However as a person born and raised in the USA I must comment that I don't think any country on the planet has done as good of a job of dumbing down it's populous as the USA.

That being said I fail to see how ridiculing a populous that can, most likely, be generally categorized as mentally challenged is helpful.

The funny thing is....

It NEVER stated that ALL Americans are stupid.

Reading is hard for some, so made it more clear.


Why I picked Americans, because the entire world knows that in the US it is very very common to have multiple CCs and just buy things on credit as you go...
Hell, it's how the whole financial crisis started in the first place.

I don't like closing threads in the New Citizens Q&A, but this one has run way off course. There is good advise throughout, but a lot of off-topic nonsense as well.


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