EVE New Citizens Q&A

The fastest way to earn ISK is...

...buy a PLEX at Account Management Website of CCP and sell it on the market.
I remember times, not long ago, where a PLEX cost about 380.000.000 ISK on market.
The US$ or EUR price to buy a PLEX did not increase much since these days.
But at the moment you earn more than 1.100.000.000 ISK for selling one PLEX...

So may be run Courier Missions.

Fit for this a hauler ship with
- 1x Hyperspatial Verlocity Optimizer RIG
- 1x Low Friction Nozzle Joints RIGs
- 1x Cargohold Optimization RIG
Put Inertia Stabilizers into the low slots of the Ship (one ore two, not more) and
fill the other low slots with Expanded Cargohold. Fill med slot with an Afterburner.

This enables you to run courier missions very fast. And depending on the Level of the
Agent (Level 3 or 4), the payout is not bad. For Level 4 Courier Missions you should have
a cargo hold of about 10.000 m³, that fits for all.

Edit:
Courier Missions for lower Level agents most you can do in a frigate with bigger cargo hold
(Magnate, Heron, Imicus) and with these you are quite faster as with a hauler ship.
The faster the Mission is done, the faster you can do the next mission.

steal scam and shoot people till they give you isk or you pick it from their wrecks.

Another thing, I sometimes doing just for fun:

Fit a frigate for PvE, here an example fitting for the tristan:
https://o.smium.org/loadout/20308

Fly through space and look out for Cosmic Anomalies. In Gallente Space they named
◾Serpentis Burrow (Serpentis-Bau)
◾Serpentis Den (Serpentis-Höhle)
◾Serpentis Forlorn Hideaway (Verlassener Serpentis-Unterschlupf)
◾Serpentis Forsaken Hideaway (Einsamer Serpentis-Unterschlupf)
◾Serpentis Hidden Hideaway (Geheimer Serpentis-Unterschlupf)
◾Serpentis Hideaway (Serpentis-Unterschlupf)
◾Serpentis Refuge (Zuflucht der Serpentis)
◾Serpentis Drug Outlet (Serpentis-Drogenvertriebsstelle) - (DED 1/10)
◾Serpentis Hideout (Serpentis-Versteck)
These ^^^ are from site: http://de.sistersprobe.wikia.com/wiki/Serpentis_im_HiSec#Serpentis_Anomalien

Kill the rats there. Loot the wrecks.
Sometimes you earn terrific loot items. I remember one time in
Gallente Space I found an Implant in one wreck, worth 400 Million.

The loot items you find in the wrecks, sell them on market.
Keep the items you may find useful for yourself to fit your ships better.

The only get-rich-quick scheme that's guaranteed to work is the PLEX. Everything else falls into 2 categories:

1. Slow and steady:
- mining
- missions
- exploration
- trade
- manufacturing

2. Maybe you get lucky, but not guaranteed:
- corp theft
- scams
- suicide ganking a rich target

The slow-and-steady methods are, of course, affected by the security level, with highsec being super-crowded and not very rewarding. As you've noticed, trade profits depend on the amount of money that you have for investing, so actually trade can be less profitable than the other slow-and-steady methods at first. Mining and missions, for example, give a steady x million / hour, regardless of how much money you already have.

The get lucky schemes are very unlikely to work, too, as the game is more than 10 years old and we don't trust anyone by now.

If you don't want to pay $20 for a PLEX, that's reasonable, but keep in mind that the money grind (and eventual boredom of having to do it) is what drives a lot of people to quit the game after a month or two.

Argh... must .... resist ........ hhnnnggghh....

IF YOU SEND IT TO ME I'LL QUADRUPLE IT!!!!

...

*sighs*


.... sheesh, what a relief! XD

Not saying there aren't some well engineered scams, corporate thefts and such but it was more of a generalized observation of the sort of thing the average player is likely to come across but yeah, I'm a greenhorn still.

She wasn't offering to double, she was offering to quadruple. Totally different.

Yes, I've read about these and I've seen people spamming Jita saying give me 50m ISK and you can pick a prize out of box that's guaranteed to be worth more thant 50m., etc.

What I can't understand is how anyone can fall for this sort of thing unless he/she is perhaps very young.

The schemes where a person gains his friends' confidence over a period of time and then screws them are understandable.

I guess EVE doesn't have a court system where you can sue the scammers?

Or do you just hire someone to break his digital legs?

Hire someone, form a coalition. Tears only draw crowds and not sympathy in eve.

Scams, like isk doubling appeal to people that think they can beat the system. It's no different than normal gambling. Sooner or later the house wins, so can you get in, get paid, and get out before the house wins?

Personally I trade for isk, but I started by courier contracts. Like the others said, don't make collecting x amount of isk by y date a goal.

Go find something that you enjoy, chances are it can be used to make isk. Having fun is the priority in a game, not making virtual money.