EVE New Citizens Q&A

You can buy BPO's for the Tech 1 ships, modules, ammunition and other basic items from NPC corporations with normal isk.

You can buy BPC's (blueprint copies with a limited number of uses) for "faction" ships and items from some NPC corps, but you will need to earn Loyalty Points with the appropriate NPC corp, plus you may need to collect other special items to buy the faction blueprint. You can also buy these BPC's from other players who got them from an NPC corp. Blueprints sold by players are sold in "contracts". Faction ships and items are a bit better than the basic tech 1 equivalent, but only some ships have a faction version.

Tech 2 blueprints are created by players using specialised skills in the Science skill group through a process called "invention", Players can only create tech 2 limited run blueprint copies, not unlimited run blueprint originals,

I don't do PI myself but from what I understand, you buy the command centres from NPC corps, you don't make them. There are different types of command centres intended for different types of planets.

Your GUI color scheme can be selected from the settings window (press ESC when you are inside the game on your character).
Select the General Settings tab and there will be a variety of window color schemes on the right hand side to choose from.

BPOs usually cost about ten times the price of the item you want to build. I would recommend you look at the Contracts are for BPCs (Blue Print Copies). Click on the icon above your character's picture on the NEOCOMM, go to Business, and then go to contracts. Make sure to READ THE CONTRACT DETAILS VERY VERY VERY CAREFULLY (this is where a lot of scams also go down). Also make sure to note the number of runs (how many of the item cyou can build with that copy, as well as the ME (Material efficiency) and the Time Efficiency. Time is less important on small items, but big items can take days to build (days or weeks).

If production is your initial aim, you'll want to train up Industry and Mass Production so you can do more than one job at a time. Odds are you'll need a hauler as well, so you'll probably want to train up your preferred Racial Industrial pilot skill so that you can get more cargo room.

If you haven't played with it yet, I would recommend you look up a program called EVEMON which can help you plan your skills out as well as get some help figuring out the value of a blueprint but setting the ME and such.

As mentioned already, command centers are only purchasable from NPC stations.

He seems like an industrial type, pretty sure he filed how you like to play the game under the IDGAF section.

^^^ As Omega, you can choose from many gui color scemes.
Really, don't worry about making enough isk ingame to pay for the game. You risk grinding just to be able to grind more. Buy a subscription and free yourself to play as you wish without stressing about needing to get isk to buy a plex so you can get isk to buy another plex next. The isk will come later that will enable you to plex your account without it concerning you much.

I started playing Eve Online back in 2005 with nearly the exact same viewpoint. Ten years later, I wish someone had told me those things up front.

Thanks for all the replies. My game is basically exploration sites, lost drone scavenging, some pve security missions, mining and yes some combat on anomalies. While I do all that I like to keep something crafting / upgrading. By the way I created Nullvoid Tech just to avoid npc corp tax. If this was not a game I would say is Brazil, we're robbed by all companies / facilities even if we fart.

Anyway, I would like to do all that I currently do a bit faster, I was able to make my first billion in about 1 month and a half just by findind the right spots to do all that in high sec and get a reasonable return.

I'll grant you that it is possible in some areas to be limited in self sufficiency, but in general, it isn't. For example, until the OP has gotten into strip mining, his only costs are going to purchasing a ship, mining lasers, and some drones. He MIGHT have to replace the drones once in a while, but if he is reasonably aware of his surroundings then he'll never have to replace those ships for a long time. Because of that, spending time/effort/isk into buying the necessary materials/BPCs/BPOs and learning how to build what he needs is really just a waste of time.

If he sticks with Omega however, then the story changes and it can become a better option.

That sounds like a great way to turn a game into a job.


I've always been the kind of person that has like to craft most of my own stuff in other MMOs. However in Eve we have no crafting. We have the market and big industry.

In a game set in some village from way back in time before electricity was being used it made sense that one could "craft" things. I doubt that you'd even think of making your own car from scratch IRL and I doubt even more that you'd want to do a one-off build of a spaceship from raw minerals on your own either.

It also plays out that way in game. Here what makes sense is to find something, or a few things, that you can make isk at and make long runs of those. For everything else you just buy it off the market. You build based on profit and you buy based on need.

You don't have to play the game that way. It's your game and you can make as much of your own stuff as you want but your first question was how can I make lots of isk fast and spending a lot of your time running around trying to round up all the stuff needed to do a bunch of one-off builds or small batches of stuff isn't going to get you there.

At some point you might need to decide if you want to play the game for fun or if you want a second job to grind isk for a PLEX every month. I strongly recommend playing for maximum fun.


Mining Barges are sold by O.R.E a.k.a. Outer Ring Excavators. They exist in a region of null sec called "The Outer Ring". The only place that you can buy O.R.E. BPOs is from O.R.E. staions. The trip out there is dangerous but more importantly the trip back is just as bad if not worse. The BPOs cost over a Billion isk. The route and undocking areas of the stations are often camped by players looking for a Billion + isk payday.

If you would like to know what the NPC prices of those BPOs are you can run out there in a rookie ship with no implants and check prices once you get in region. Either that or you can do a search for "Outer Ring" in the "Corporation" category of the "People & Places" UI and then do a "show info" on "Outer Ring Excavations" and then go to the "Market Activity" tab and see what they have sold recently and for how much.

Also worth noting is that you can find researched BPOs in conracts as only "packaged" stuff can be sold on the market.

https://eve-central.com/home/typesearch.html?search=blueprint

Eve-central can be a decent place to look up market pricing but when it comes to null sec only NPC items you might be hard pressed to find prices there. Most other stuff however you can find reasonably accurate pricing there.

I think that what you will find is that the premium that they are charging for bringing the BPO to high sec is probably worth it.

As far as bigger T1 ships go only the ships that belong to the race of the region that you are in will be available from local NPC sell orders. Some modules work that way also. So if you want a Minmatar ship BS or bigger or an auto cannon BPO then you will need to go to Minmatar space for an NPC sell order. If you want a Hybrid ammo BPO you will need to go to Caldari or Galentte space for those BPOs etc...

It might be that all ship BPOs are only available in a region controlled by that race and I could be thinking of the skillbooks. But I am pretty sure that one or the other is available BC and down in other regions. The more that I think about the more I think that it might be skillbooks. I've been living in null sec for so long that empire details like this are getting fuzzy for me.