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Xi 'xar
Rift Watch
#21 - 2012-01-20 10:25:09 UTC
This whole "forum eats my reply" thing is becoming really really irritating.

Don't spend too much time in highsec. Look into DED 1/10 and 2/10 complexes (specifically, the mechanics). There are plenty in lowsec which will garner you some good isk and some good fights.

Otherwise, take a look at my blog posts (in signature) - might help you find your way into lowsec more quickly.

Stoopid forums. Sigh.

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Steve Ronuken
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#22 - 2012-01-20 11:14:22 UTC
If you're going to plex, create an alt on the same account and keep it in Jita.

That way, you don't need to travel. Just transfer isk, relog, and buy.

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malaire
#23 - 2012-01-20 12:00:59 UTC
Liam Mirren wrote:
You don't HAVE to have a 2nd account but it does help a whole lot, intel is power. You can keep it simple by creating a Buddy account which, if you have the initial money for a plex, is essentially a free full account for 51 days, train up a char with some really basic skills and he can fly a probing frigate with a ship scanner. As that account is about to run out you make a new one and simply transfer over the ship to the new char.

I'm not sure if using buddy invites regularly to make throwaway accounts is allowed, or would that be considered to be exploiting.

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Liam Mirren
#24 - 2012-01-20 13:55:34 UTC
I'm fairly sure CCP has more important things to do than take care of that, specifically because it helps keeping the PCU up which makes them look good. Im ean, no sane person would come up with the buddy invite setup without realising/wanting ppl to help keep up the PCU during their darkest hours.

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Jarnis McPieksu
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#25 - 2012-01-20 15:26:56 UTC
malaire wrote:
Liam Mirren wrote:
You don't HAVE to have a 2nd account but it does help a whole lot, intel is power. You can keep it simple by creating a Buddy account which, if you have the initial money for a plex, is essentially a free full account for 51 days, train up a char with some really basic skills and he can fly a probing frigate with a ship scanner. As that account is about to run out you make a new one and simply transfer over the ship to the new char.

I'm not sure if using buddy invites regularly to make throwaway accounts is allowed, or would that be considered to be exploiting.


No, because trial accounts have an important limitation; You cannot log to a trial account and a normal account at the same time (from the same PC), so recycling trials to get a 2nd account won't work (unless you have two PCs).
malaire
#26 - 2012-01-20 15:42:25 UTC
Jarnis McPieksu wrote:
malaire wrote:
Liam Mirren wrote:
You don't HAVE to have a 2nd account but it does help a whole lot, intel is power. You can keep it simple by creating a Buddy account which, if you have the initial money for a plex, is essentially a free full account for 51 days, train up a char with some really basic skills and he can fly a probing frigate with a ship scanner. As that account is about to run out you make a new one and simply transfer over the ship to the new char.

I'm not sure if using buddy invites regularly to make throwaway accounts is allowed, or would that be considered to be exploiting.


No, because trial accounts have an important limitation; You cannot log to a trial account and a normal account at the same time (from the same PC), so recycling trials to get a 2nd account won't work (unless you have two PCs).

It works for Buddy Invite trials, since after you use PLEX to upgrade it, you get that PLEX back as buddy reward.

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gfldex
#27 - 2012-01-20 15:58:20 UTC
Koa Kadaj wrote:

• Does this sound viable?


No. Tackling with frigs was viable about 4 years ago. In lowsec tackle is done with BC and Heavy Interdictors. In 0.0 tackle is done with Interdictors and Heavy Interdictors. CCP kindly allowed light drones to catch up with frigs, added ships that can web you from 50km or paint you up so much that capital guns can track you. If you would tell me that you want to tackle with a frig I would file you under "Believer".

Koa Kadaj wrote:

• Do pirate corporations/0.0 corporations care if I’ve ninja salvaged for ISK in the past?


Salvage sold for about 4x as it does these days. If you would tell me that you ninja salvaged I will file you under "Not-Good-With-Simple-Math".

Koa Kadaj wrote:

• Any advice on what type of corporations I’d best serve as a tackler in an inexpensive frigate?


Highsec gankers. Anybody else needs tackle with HPs. And quite frankly even highsec gankers do better with well skilled Tornado pilots or with a competent Arazu pilot then with a ceptor with godlike skills.

Koa Kadaj wrote:

• Other ways to fund myself once I am in low-sec/0.0 if salvaging would not cut it?


Well, you can either print money or try to convince others to give you the money they printed. Right now you will do better with blitzing lvl3 missions in a Drake or exploding belt NPCs in 0.0 then with salvage. Printing money involves shooting NPCs in EVE. There are very good ways to convince other players to hand over freshly printed money, those are either time consuming or require quite a lot SP and/or ISK.

EVE is a very competitive game. If I tell you how I make my ISK I hurt myself. Salvage is incredible boring. If you want to have cheap rigs you need plenty of players to salvage. If you don't want to do that yourself, what do you do?

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