EVE New Citizens Q&A

try paypal

debit cards will work too.

op you are aware this is a subscription mmo right?

My Bumble-senses are tingling a 'no' on this one Ralph



BTW OP, do you know that Paypal allows residents of several countries the ability to debit your bank account directly?

You high bro? Paypal doesnt need credit cards, hell it technically doesnt even need a bank account connected to it.

Try google, you will turn into a digital god.

I just pay through my debit card directly.

Oh, and if you want to pay for the game ingame, then you would have to work about 60 EvE hours to pay for a plex, if you just had a real job, you would have enough for 24 plex in the same amount of time ._.

I haven't use cash in years...literally years...

No need to be suspicious; there is a group of people who just want to grind ISK to pay for EVE via PLEX, for whatever reasons. Can't convince them not do to it.

There are no secret methods; you got the ISK/hr methods (mining, agent missions, exploration, PI, FW, belt ratting), you got the % invested methods (trading, manufacturing, courier contracts), and you have the "do you feel lucky" methods (suicide-ganking a rich target, piracy, corp theft, scams, begging, extortion war declarations). Everyone is in high-sec so it's really crowded and crappy rewards; if you go to low-sec, null, or wormholes the rewards increase to the point where you could make the 1B / month somewhat easily, but you get increased risk of being PVP'ed.

I have the chase freedom as my main card. It gives me 5% cash back in rotating categories, so until the end of March I get 5% cash back in gas stations and mass transit. So basically I find a gas station that sells gift cards to a local grocery store, home depot, etc. I can buy a few hundred dollars of gift cards to other stores, get 5% on it, then use gift cards for my day to day shopping for a few months. Starting in April, I will get 5% back in grocery stores, so I'll buy gift cards in a grocery store to restaurants I go to, just to get more reward points.

There used to be a deal (they shut it down a year ago, unfortunately) where you could send $1,000/mo to someone else through Amazon, and charge it to your credit card. I sent $1k/mo to my girlfriend, she used the money to immediately pay off the credit card, so I got a free $1k/mo worth of points from that.

Take the Sapphire card, for example. You get 50,000 points for signing up for it (worth $625 in airfare). It has an annual fee, but that's waived for the first year. Open the card, get the points, transfer them to a card without a fee, then close the sapphire card. Free $625 ticket for air travel or a hotel. As soon as you close the sapphire, open a new one as soon as you close the sapphire card and keep getting free points.

It only hurts your credit score by about 10 points to churn cards like that, so assuming you aren't going to buy a house/car/etc in the next year, there really is no downside (and you can pull you score up by those 10 points in a few months easily).

Playing these games got me 110,000 points last year (worth around $1,300 in airfare/hotel costs).

tl/dr, if you keep track of stuff, and always pay off cards before interest payments hit, you can get credit cards to pay for a vacation every year.

OP if you NEED to earn the isk for a PLEX this game will turn into a job and you won't like it. I can save you the hassle now and tell you just pay for the sub or play another game.

I'm not saying that you can not earn enough isk to buy a PLEX without the game sucking but what I am saying is that if you are looking for how to make isk and not how to have fun and you are doing the isk making thing for 60-80 hours per month then it will be a job. An extremely low paying job.

Games are for fun. Jobs are for making money.

My 6 years of paying EVE through PayPal say something different.

As I don't even own a CC.