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Best ISK / Hour?
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Kaeleia Audene
Void Regulation
#1 - 2013-06-27 13:34:50 UTC
I'm looking to figure out what are the best ISK / hour activities in EVE, for solo and for small ( < 5 ) groups. I need actual data, not just a list of things to try.

Activities I need data for are:
high sec ratting
low sec ratting
0.0 ratting

N-space complexes
W-space complexes

high/low sec mining
(0.0 mining for small groups or solo is not really in the realm of feasible for what I have in mind)

L1/2/3/4 Missions

Anything else a character(s) of < 3-6 months old could do.


I know Piracy, PvP & Empire Ganking is pretty good when you can find the right place to camp or scan the right ship to suicide, but I'm after consistent income rates, aka. grinds.


Also, if you care to help me further, help me identify the ISK sinks? Anything that removes ISK from the game, and not just hand it to another player, is what I mean.
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#2 - 2013-06-27 13:38:09 UTC
Best isk an hour is to buy Plex


Using this method, you can earn upwards of at least 30 billion Isk per hour, for zero isk investment



(note: your home and family may be at risk if you do not keep up payments)

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War Kitten
Panda McLegion
#3 - 2013-06-27 13:39:53 UTC
Scamming is a close second. You can earn over 9000 isk per second if you're good.

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Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#4 - 2013-06-27 13:44:29 UTC
Just putting it out there, you aren't going to get a lot of precise numbers from people. Most of the old studies about Isk/hr are just that, old studies, with outdated information.

Especially because such things can very by what region of space you are in, what your skills are, what kind of people you're grouping up with, etc. Most people on this forum aren't going to number crunch on your behalf to calculate all those variables.

Generic suggestions? You can be swimming in those, and most of them will be fair ideas.

Personally? I suggest that if you are looking for a PvE activity that is NOT mining, then always bring along a salvager to mission. Salvage is awesome, for the cost of a player in a salvage fit destroyer (or a Noctis if you can afford it), you are basically doubling your income from missions.

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Six Six Six
Doomheim
#5 - 2013-06-27 13:44:32 UTC
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Best isk an hour is to buy Plex


Using this method, you can earn upwards of at least 30 billion Isk per hour, for zero isk investment



(note: your home and family may be at risk if you do not keep up payments)




30 billion seems a high figure for 1 hour, I would have put it more around 10 billion for 1 hour. Looking at Jita that is and going for the best price you can get whilst having to play the .01 game.
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#6 - 2013-06-27 13:49:55 UTC
Six Six Six wrote:
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Best isk an hour is to buy Plex


Using this method, you can earn upwards of at least 30 billion Isk per hour, for zero isk investment



(note: your home and family may be at risk if you do not keep up payments)




30 billion seems a high figure for 1 hour, I would have put it more around 10 billion for 1 hour. Looking at Jita that is and going for the best price you can get whilst having to play the .01 game.


Thats only buying one plex every 3 minutes

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Haedonism Bot
People for the Ethical Treatment of Rogue Drones
#7 - 2013-06-27 13:50:10 UTC
If you are playing this game for pure isk, scamming and station trading beat everything else by a wide margin.

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Victoria Sin
Doomheim
#8 - 2013-06-27 13:54:42 UTC
Best ISK/h is killing, salvaging and looting Titans in null.
RAW23
#9 - 2013-06-27 14:01:19 UTC
Trade and industry. It is difficult to provide a single isk/hour ratio because the number of hours a day you can get the max isk is limited. However, it is not unfeasible to earn 500mil for one hour or an average of 300mil an hour if you were to play for 10 hours a day. I know of some people who can earn a bit more than this but not very many. These figures don't assume hundreds of billions of capital, since with vast capital you can earn a billion with 20-30mins work a day on average.

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Leigh Akiga
Kuhri Innovations
#10 - 2013-06-27 15:06:13 UTC
Capital escalations in wh is the best isk/hr

cannot be done solo- needs small group, a couple dreads and triage

if you can fly a T3 then you can contribute or even a noctis since everything needs to be looted and salvaged
Ace Uoweme
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#11 - 2013-06-27 15:15:24 UTC
If you're going to be a hunter you're going to limit yourself to the usual hunting activities. That income is sporadic.

Industry takes a while to plan and setup, but the income potential in whatever you'll pursue is consistent and steady (Goons aren't fighting over moon goo just to build their ships, after all...it's their comfort zone to exploit). It's where the big money is for individuals. But it takes ISK to make ISK, and in building it's billions of ISK to invest in simply BPOs (and have them well researched). But if you can do it, setup your shop, you'll have a steady income that will pay the bills in spades.

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Danbar Roth
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#12 - 2013-06-27 15:26:00 UTC
FW, but that requires you to use your scanner now and again :-)
Domanique Altares
Rifterlings
#13 - 2013-06-27 16:12:58 UTC
Showing your boobies on skype is the bst isk/hr. You can make billions for just a few minutes of work.
Hyper Snyper
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#14 - 2013-06-27 16:15:38 UTC
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Six Six Six wrote:
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Best isk an hour is to buy Plex


Using this method, you can earn upwards of at least 30 billion Isk per hour, for zero isk investment



(note: your home and family may be at risk if you do not keep up payments)




30 billion seems a high figure for 1 hour, I would have put it more around 10 billion for 1 hour. Looking at Jita that is and going for the best price you can get whilst having to play the .01 game.


Thats only buying one plex every 3 minutes



But once you buy the plex you have to wait an hour or more for it to go through lol. ^_^
Galaxy Chicken
Galaxy Farm Carebear Repurposing
#15 - 2013-06-27 16:37:24 UTC
Thanks to the Savior of Highsec and New Order Shareholders, I don't have to factor in the cost of my catalysts, so my solo gank fleet (two Gankers and a scout) net about as much as blitzing incursions used to, 80-100 mil ISK/hr. Then you have the occasional shiney loot drop which provides a nice bonus, but really, when you love what you do, you never grind a day in your life.

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Noriko Mai
#16 - 2013-06-27 16:37:54 UTC
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Kult Altol
The Safe Space
#17 - 2013-06-27 16:40:43 UTC
If the size of your wallet is why your playing the game buy plex, or trade.

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Solaris Ecladia
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#18 - 2013-06-27 16:54:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Solaris Ecladia
Step 1: take 5 smartbombing rokhs
Step 2: warp to forsaken hub
Step 3: ???
Step 4: profit (300m/hr)

Edit for ISK sink:
Step 1: take profits and buy stuffs
Step 2: self destruct stuffs at deep safe
Step 3: ???
Step 4: no profit
Bloody Wench
#19 - 2013-06-27 16:55:05 UTC
Domanique Altares wrote:
Showing your boobies on skype is the bst isk/hr. You can make billions for just a few minutes of work.



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zlizilz
Brothership Of EVE
#20 - 2013-06-27 16:57:47 UTC
you want us to do your number crunching?

seriously these threads are the worst.
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