EVE New Citizens Q&A

You just have to realize that everytime someone talks about how easy it is to make hundreds of millions of ISK in an hour, they are generally lying or leaving out crucial information.

Generally, in order to make a lot of ISK, you need a lot of ISK in the first place. It takes billions to make millions. Even the people complaining about how someone can earn billions of ISK from incursions is conveniently forgetting to mention the fact that this person had to get 10 accounts, train them up to fly a tengu, buy and fit tengus for each of the accounts and then somehow control all 10 accounts at once.

That person earning 100 million ISK per hour running missions? He has several pimped out multi-billion ISK mission running ships (one for each faction), has memorized all of the missions, memorized which order to kill mission spawns in, knows which missions to blitz, knows which missions to loot/salvage and has fit his ship with The Correct Hardeners(tm). Even after all of that, he has to go do market research to find the best LP item to maximize his ISK:LP ratio.

Normal players do not have all of that. They don't clear out World's Collide in 15 minutes, it takes them at least an hour since they only have a standard T2 fit battleship and have to slow boat to the acceleration gate. They don't know which spawn the attack first, so they either have to overtank their ship or warp out several times.

You don't make gobs and gobs of money in EVE until you've been playing long enough to learn all of this stuff. Some players pick it up quite easily, some players have friends teach them, and other players stumble around learning on their own.

In the end you don't create ISK from nothing. Buying a PLEX means that you get someones else money. It redistributes all that money ppl have and don't need to others that need it more.

On the subject of people buying high powered characters or pricey ships that they have no experience in using, I show new players this little cautionary (and highly funny) tale.

Scius and the Dreadnaught

Well that post on the Tribune is from a few years ago, I remember reading the chat logs the first time I found that story and it was hilarious.

We did have an individual join the first corp I was in shortly after I started playing. He was mouthing off in corp chat about how he had 30 million sp and knew better than us noobs, which even only a month or so into the game we knew was rubbish as we called him out on a few 'facts' that he gave us. We had a pretty good idea that he'd purchased the character on the bazaar and even greener than we were.