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Most fun/profitable career path.
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Hoplite Brigade
Ushra'Khan
#41 - 2016-12-01 01:35:54 UTC
Sonya Corvinus wrote:
Tremaine Holden wrote:
Being rich in real life of-course!

Why /work/ for isk when you can just BUY it with PLEX?


Man, if someone rich ever decided to play EVE I bet they could really upset the market just buy blowing 10 to 15 grand on PLEXES. How much money would that be??


As much as you're joking, you aren't wrong. A plex costs $20 and gets you 1.2 billion ISK. You can easily earn $20 in under an hour working IRL. Show me a playstyle that consistently gets you 1.2 billion ISK/hour. Just buy/sell a few plex and don't worry about ISK. If I'm going to grind for ISK, I'm going to do it in the most efficient way possible, which is doing it for cash IRL.


Good point. After spending way too much time ratting for small isk and/or getting blown up...I'd rather spend a few real life $'s, have the isk in the wallet and spend quality time in Eve. Ratting, grinding is not quality time.
Isaac Armer
The Soup Kitchen
#42 - 2016-12-01 01:57:54 UTC
Ima Wreckyou wrote:
I have seriously no compassion for a player or a corp who forget this. I am at this moment playing a new innocent alpha clone with only one goal: infiltrate a carebear corp and steal as many assets as you can. It will be the first of many such clones, and it is a game in itself to try to be successful in this kind of gameplay. The name of the char itself gives it away and it we be more hilarious than everything else if it works.


code, then this? Don't you want to try a playstyle that's actually difficult or challenging? I mean...infiltrating a corp like that is fairly trivial....

This is the FPS spawncamping equivalent of EVE...
Pix Severus
Empty You
#43 - 2016-12-01 04:02:56 UTC
I don't know why people always insist on a "career path" to follow in EVE, you can just do whatever you feel like doing. Try not to think in such limited terms when it comes to this game. When you login, think of what you want to do right at that moment, and then go do it. You will find what you're really looking for in this game if you do this.

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Remiel Pollard
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#44 - 2016-12-01 04:15:38 UTC
Isaac Armer wrote:
Ima Wreckyou wrote:
I have seriously no compassion for a player or a corp who forget this. I am at this moment playing a new innocent alpha clone with only one goal: infiltrate a carebear corp and steal as many assets as you can. It will be the first of many such clones, and it is a game in itself to try to be successful in this kind of gameplay. The name of the char itself gives it away and it we be more hilarious than everything else if it works.


code, then this? Don't you want to try a playstyle that's actually difficult or challenging? I mean...infiltrating a corp like that is fairly trivial....

This is the FPS spawncamping equivalent of EVE...


Yeah cuz high-sec mobile tractor units are so challenging, aren't they.

Roll

Come on then, Mr Challenging, if high-sec ganks aren't a challenge, you can show us how they're done with ease.

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Vortexo VonBrenner
Doomheim
#45 - 2016-12-01 04:23:09 UTC
OP, what a person finds fun is completely subjective. Only you can answer what is fun for you.

Don't try to get enough isk for a plex as an alpha clone (or a new omega clone for that matter). That has a high chance of frustrating you away from a good game. Just buy a subscription and thereby free yourself to try a few things in EvE you find interesting. The ways to make isk for you will come along the way.










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Alasdan Helminthauge
AirHogs
Hogs Collective
#46 - 2016-12-01 04:31:51 UTC  |  Edited by: Alasdan Helminthauge
Sonya Corvinus wrote:


As much as you're joking, you aren't wrong. A plex costs $20 and gets you 1.2 billion ISK. You can easily earn $20 in under an hour working IRL. Show me a playstyle that consistently gets you 1.2 billion ISK/hour. Just buy/sell a few plex and don't worry about ISK. If I'm going to grind for ISK, I'm going to do it in the most efficient way possible, which is doing it for cash IRL.


I don't know which country you're from and how educated you're, but in my place $20 is a day's work for average young workers.
Lulu Lunette
Savage Moon Society
#47 - 2016-12-01 05:08:44 UTC
Pix Severus wrote:
I don't know why people always insist on a "career path" to follow in EVE, you can just do whatever you feel like doing. Try not to think in such limited terms when it comes to this game. When you login, think of what you want to do right at that moment, and then go do it. You will find what you're really looking for in this game if you do this.


This is the best advice so far.

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Toobo
Project Fruit House
#48 - 2016-12-01 05:26:52 UTC
If you already know how to scan & thinking about mining, read up on gas mining. Ninja gas mining in WH can be relatively safe with the right fit & precautions, and the ISK is better than whatever you can mine in HS for the same period of time. You probably won't be able to stick around & fight off the sleepers at this level, so you'd be gas mining for 15~20min window before sleepers spawn, so you won't be mining for hours on end, while the reward can be similar to mining HS ores for hours.

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Mark Marconi
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#49 - 2016-12-01 05:36:09 UTC  |  Edited by: Mark Marconi
The most profitable career in EvE is the one you enjoy doing the most.

If looking at asteroids for hours while you relax is your thing then thats it.

Blapping someone else and stealing their stuff tickles you then thats it.

After all PI is profitable and I personally enjoy it but for most people it is like watching paint dry and if you spend too long doing something you don't like then your entertainment turns into work and that gets old really fast.

The CSM gets in the way of CCP communicating properly with the players of this game.

After all we are not just players, we are customers.

Time for the CSM to be disbanded.
Geronimo McVain
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#50 - 2016-12-01 06:55:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Geronimo McVain
Sonya Corvinus wrote:
Tremaine Holden wrote:
Being rich in real life of-course!

Why /work/ for isk when you can just BUY it with PLEX?


Man, if someone rich ever decided to play EVE I bet they could really upset the market just buy blowing 10 to 15 grand on PLEXES. How much money would that be??


As much as you're joking, you aren't wrong. A plex costs $20 and gets you 1.2 billion ISK. You can easily earn $20 in under an hour working IRL. Show me a playstyle that consistently gets you 1.2 billion ISK/hour. Just buy/sell a few plex and don't worry about ISK. If I'm going to grind for ISK, I'm going to do it in the most efficient way possible, which is doing it for cash IRL.

This. Buy a Plex and the starter Game is much more fun. At the moment you are worried what to do if your ship explodes and you loose all your money. If you have 1,2B Isk you can try what is fun to you and don't need to worry about money. With a 10 day char you can only earn peanuts and if you have 2-3 month to search for fun instead for Isk you have the skills do make real money.
FW is good as long as you remember that you destroy your standing with some factions and know the consequences.
WH can create a lot of money at high risk. Ninja mining can make excellent money but read some WH guides first, there are a lot of things you need to know to make the money and make it out in you ship and not in your pod.
Serafiel
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#51 - 2016-12-01 08:48:15 UTC
3 pages in this thread, and noone linked this:

What to do in EVE online flowchart

OP - go look thru it, pick something or other that sounds good and resonates, and try to achieve.
Isaac Armer
The Soup Kitchen
#52 - 2016-12-01 23:48:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Isaac Armer
Remiel Pollard wrote:
Yeah cuz high-sec mobile tractor units are so challenging, aren't they.

Roll

Come on then, Mr Challenging, if high-sec ganks aren't a challenge, you can show us how they're done with ease.


The difference is I never called myself out as a PvPer. I like PvE and exploration. Try harder though, there isn't any real PvP in HS. I'm hunted in WHs and NS 90% of the time I play and almost never die. Get out of HS and risk hunting me if you want. I take more risks PvE-ing solo in hostile null and WHs than any ganker does in HS. I can give you tips if you want.

Don't believe me if you want, I don't care. My ePeen doesn't have to be bigger than yours.
Sonya Corvinus
Grant Village
#53 - 2016-12-01 23:51:41 UTC
Alasdan Helminthauge wrote:
I don't know which country you're from and how educated you're, but in my place $20 is a day's work for average young workers.


I only have my own experience, but I was making $20/hr as a waiter in the US as a teenager.
CaseyLP
Full Broadside
Deepwater Hooligans
#54 - 2016-12-02 00:07:46 UTC
In my opinionated opinion, I would say exploration.


2 isk.
Gregorius Goldstein
Queens of the Drone Age
#55 - 2016-12-02 12:40:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Gregorius Goldstein
Fly something cheap, go everywhere and stay curious.
- I found a POS without shield but some arrays while scanning for lost drones and sold the location because I couldn't afford the wardec at that time.
- I found a AFK freighter inside a WH when doing relics that dropped 1 Billion in loot, I could only carry 150 Million away, but anyway.
- When they changed the "seekers" to "lancers" I saw a marauder attack those. He put two down before he exploded right in front of a station and I got the loot, the salvage and some nice modules from the poor sod.
- I found a full side of Golden Cytoserocin after I followed a auto piloting hauler into low-sec.
- I found a gecko right in front of the jita undock.

I tried ninja gas huffing, exploring, salvaging, hauling and drone rescue but what got me the most ISK was just poking around in space. Evry of those happy little accidents made more ISK than all my planned endeavors combined.
Alexis Red
Doomheim
#56 - 2016-12-05 06:26:01 UTC
Mefju Andedare wrote:

Need to earn some money to afford buying PLEX and progress with my skills training


Honestly, if you intend to grind for a plex, you'll get burned out quickly.
If you like mission running, just stick to playing around with level 2 and 3 missions
with an alpha clone and don't worry about plexing.

Log in when it's fun and not for a job.
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#57 - 2016-12-05 06:33:56 UTC
Mefju Andedare wrote:


Need to earn some money to afford buying PLEX and progress with my skills training, so I'd go with profitable over fun...
I was going to suggest buying PLEX and selling them for an income of over a billion ISK per minute.

Then I realized that buying PLEX to sell to buy PLEX would be kind of a dumb suggestion.

vOv

Mr Epeen Cool
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#58 - 2016-12-05 08:45:02 UTC
Mefju Andedare wrote:
Hi guys!

I'm new to EVE, actually just started. Done all the career missions so far and I liked them all. Therefore I can't really decide what to choose. Now I'm just wandering around, doing a little bit of this and that, making little to none IKS per day. What is the most fun, and/or profitable career path for a solo player, and what would you advise me to take?

Need to earn some money to afford buying PLEX and progress with my skills training, so I'd go with profitable over fun... but if there is a career that ties in this two - that would be awesome.



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And there is no answer.

A career in this game is what you make of it. Find the one you are best at and you will make the most you can with it.

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LulKlz Duster
Bureau Inferno
Shadow Ultimatum
#59 - 2016-12-05 15:50:48 UTC
i prefer to make my isk mining rocks. And my corp mate manufacturers. And sell the extra stuff
Xavier d'Aigre
The Milkmen
Pandemic Horde
#60 - 2016-12-06 02:33:56 UTC
I tried all the things people always say in these threads, and I've thought each of them was the end all be all for about a week before I got tired of them. The best solution I've found is finding a few you like that work well together. For me, I mine like once or twice a week, then use that to make ammo. I then go fw for a while and turn the ammo faction with LP. Then I sell it. I market trade a lot, but more out of habit than anything. But all those careers work well for me. Also station trading is a good way to make it out of the "I'm new and everything is so expensive" phase. Ammo is your friend, and so is the loot your local rats drop that people actually use. Good luck, add me in game if you'd like and I can help you out.