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Eternum Praetorian
PWNED Factor
The Seventh Day
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Posted - 2011.09.04 14:01:00 -
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When you're just starting the game making ISK seems both hard to do and time consuming.
Truth be told, it is VERY easy to come byà
There are many perspectives on how YOU should go out there and make your ISK, but not many of them take into account what it is like to be truly new to the game. I have some experience in this, being new to the game myself once  but also I have spent the better part of my time in EVE helping rookies like you get their feet wet.
Ok So How?
The simplest, easiest and most strait forward way (at present) for you to generate wealth is to run missions. Lv 1 and Lv 2 agents are not so greatà but when you get to Lv 3 agents you will start to realize that there is some nice ISK to be made there.
Once you get to Lv 4 missions you will have your hands in the cookie jar :P
Lv 4 mission runners bank tons of ISK with very little effort.
An Added Bonus To Running Lv 4 Missions
THE SAME skills that will allow you to run Lv 4 mission really fast (and thus make lots of ISK in the process) are the exact same skill that you will need to engage in Player vs. Player activities. Miners for instance spend months (or even years) doing nothing but training skills that leave them as defenseless as a paraplegic 
Mission runners however have optionsà
Should they choose to implement them in combat that is.
What about Mining, Trading, Manufacturing & PI?
Wealthy players with tons of assets and ISK will tell you things like ôI make a killing on the marketö or ôI made my first Billion manufacturingö. Sure they didà they spent a long time working towards it and some people just have a natural predisposition for such things. But do you? And even if you do, think about thisà
Do you currently have spare ISK to invest in trade?
Do you have the right skills to manufacture nice ships?
Do you know what the nice ships even are? Or what the ôpreferred modulesö to trade are?
No you donÆt, you in a frigate and your really REALLY new to the game.
Watch out for older players stroking their egos in front of the new guys...
They know allot of secrets and tricks that got them to where they are today and the SURE AS HELL are not going to share the REALLY good with a noob like you. Right?
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Eternum Praetorian
PWNED Factor
The Seventh Day
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Posted - 2011.09.04 14:03:00 -
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Edited by: Eternum Praetorian on 04/09/2011 14:07:41
Eternum PraetorianÆs ISK Making Story
I got lucky when I first started EVE, I hooked up with a mission running corporation who let me run Lv 4 missions with them. I was in a Caracal (which was a tech I cruiser) and I vividly recall how amused everyone was when they realized that my little cruiser could tank Lv 4 mission battleships in it 
The result was that I had access to Lv 4 mission agents long before I was able to fly a ship that could solo them. Pretty cool reallyà
It was quite an experience for a new player TBH. I worked so hard just to generate that first Million ISK in Level 1 Missions (I didnÆt even know what salvage was at the time). Suddenly, because of the corp I had joined, I was making millions upon millions of ISK back to back and in quick succession running these missions. Individual Lv 4 mission NPCÆs had bounties on them that were larger then what I was earning in the ENTIRE Level 1 missions, and the salvage was sooooo much better.
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I set my skill pathà Cruiser to Battlecruiser and in very little time I was blasting through Lv 3Æs. As I ran them I slowly waited for my battleship skills to finish, and when they did I bought my first Raven battleship. Lv 4Æs were mine!
But I wanted moreà
You see in EVE once you start making ISK really fastà you just want to make it faster.
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I saved up my ISK and invested in a Faction Raven and Faction Modules that increased my DPS enough to allow me to kill long level for missions in almost half the time. I made my first billion farming Angel Extravaganza Lv 4.
Thenà
I had so much ISK and had gotten so bored making that ISK I decide to start PVPing.
Which was really easy because I by then I had enough ISK and could fly whatever I wanted.
(Not to mention I could also fly everything from frigate up to battleship now do the skill path I took in order to maximize my ISK per hour running Lv 4's) 
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Eternum Praetorian
PWNED Factor
The Seventh Day
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Posted - 2011.09.04 14:06:00 -
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Edited by: Eternum Praetorian on 04/09/2011 14:14:53
As a mission runner I was making way more then those who mined in the Corporationà
Their focus had been to get into a max skilled Hulk and start buidling things, mine was to max my Tanking and DPS skills so I can blast through Lv 4 missions as fast as possible. A couple of months down the road, I came out on top as the Mission Runner.
I had more ISK
I had more ships that I could fly
àand I had more options in game then my max skilled, Hulk flying, miner counterparts.
I was glad that I chose the path that I did, and still am today even though I donÆt run missions anymore.
So yea...
Running missions will be the best, fastest and easiest way to generate wealth when you are first starting the game.
AFTER you master them, you will have enough ISK to do whatever else you decide that you want to do.
And if your future master plans for universal domination fail.. hell... you will still have the lV 4 missions to fall back on amright?
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Eternum Praetorian
PWNED Factor
The Seventh Day
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Posted - 2011.09.04 14:09:00 -
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Reserved.
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