EVE General Discussion

I make a lot of money with high sec combat exploration, if I have a few hours I tend to make some 200-500 mil. it's enjoyable, competitive and requires a few braincells, patience and initiative. Been doing this for years. I also do mission busting and the odd ganking for income and used to do wardecs for income but the changes made it nigh impossible for a solo player to do wardecs (wardecs are now done differently which is actually worse for the targets in many ways, a clear case of "be sure what you wish for").

I created this character to get into trading and manufacturing, something I never bothered with in all my years, to try something different and perhaps rekindle my love for EVE. It's making good isk but to me it's boring so I'll probably stop doing it.

There was a time when ppl made a lot of isk without even logging in.... *ducks*

Unscrupulous sex in the pleasure hub.

At the moment, because I am studying and don't have a lot of time to devote to actual gameplay, I have been making ISK through PI, manufacturing and mining. PI is basically free ISK as once you set it up you can leave it running, come back in a week or so to collect the goods then rinse and repeat. Manufacturing is a bit more involved because you need to play the market to get the most out of it. I don't think I have figured it out yet but mostly I have been researching BP efficiencies up. Mining is generally regarded as dull and boring but seeing as I am studying I can alt-tab in and out of EVE to adjust my mining then go back to writing my assignments.

A good strategy that people often overlook is to train up your two other character slots. Get their PI skills up to scratch and set it all up to make free ISK across all three of your characters. Literally only have to log into them once a fortnight to click a few buttons.

See, this is exactly how the Damsel keeps getting into the mess she's always in. I keep trying to tell people that, but nobody ever listens. Her mother would be rolling in her grave.

On OP's question: Missions for me, same as has always been. I do much more exploration nowadays than I have in the past, mainly due to the event sites if you count that as exploration. (shrugs) Eh, still works for me.

I run a vertically integrated business with several characters in both highsec and nullsec. I harvest some of my material, build stuff, haul it to market and sell it. My characters are more like employees than avatars. The fun, for me is in the strategic planning more than the tactical execution. It is very profitable and I have complete flexibility for when and how long I play. If I don't have time to mine, I can buy my minerals - product is still profitable. If I don't have time to micromanage my market orders - stuff still sells, just not as quickly.

I expect that I could make more by specializing but it wouldn't be nearly as much fun.

A player that left gave me their stuff.

120Billion ISK and 200 Billion in ships and modules.

It pays to request it in forum threads.

Been playing on and off since 07

First day was missions, days 2-4 were mining fuckml.

By day 5 i was over PVE so i started stealing ore from jet cans, not only was pissing off players fun, but by my first month in game i had earned more than 500 million isk from ore theft.

Gave up ore theft after a month and started playing the market a bit with that 500 million, first big success at trading to me was buying faction ammo in jita and selling it all over low sec systems for 2-5 times as much as jita value. Delved into trading more.

Started low sec piracy and made some isk with loot and ransoms, but nothing compared to what i was making in the market.

By the end of my first year in EVE I put low sec piracy on the back burner and started suicide ganking afk haulers in jita until ccp stealth nerfed drops and word got out. Competition and loot theft depleted that gold mine, before ccp ultimately implemented autopilot docking feature. I made my easy tens of billions while it was still good though, and rolled it into the market.

Now I'm anti pirate, anti gank, full time trader for all my isk. During a good hour of "grinding" the market I can earn as much as 2 billion isk, my hourly average is far less though, but probably still better than any other means of making isk in game, but i could be mistaken.

Those are literally the only ways i have made money during my entire EVE career, have not tried anything else.

This year it funded our very poor performance in the Alliance Tournament.

We are starting training for next year shortly, so I think in terms of the ISK, an Etana could be on the cards.

Traffik my exotic dancers.