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High Warlord Carebear Republic University Minmatar Republic 0	Posted - 2013.07.23 18:00:00 - [1] - Quote I don't know a good way to make isk. I've thought of missions, but they seem repetitive and it seems to take too long to get to L4s. Mining takes too long to make any noticable profit. Exploration is even worse profit! Does anyone know what to do? I'm all out of ideas.
Rath Blazit InVizitek 1	Posted - 2013.07.23 18:24:00 - [2] - Quote Try Planetary Interaction in Low Sec.
Jayor Robb Science and Trade Institute Caldari State 0	Posted - 2013.07.23 18:49:00 - [3] - Quote Not sure how new you are but the missions have been ok for me so far. I'm brand-spanking new still on trial and just finished the Epic arc. L2 security missions seem to be about 700K (completion plus bonus), plus bounties, plus salvaging and seem like theyre taking me about 10 minutes each. I know thats not a ton, but I've lose a few ships trying to solo everything and its still gotten me up to around 25MM isk. I'm thinking chances are good you're looking for much more than that though.
Beef Hammer Interstellar Brotherhood of Gravediggers Get Off My Lawn 0	Posted - 2013.07.23 18:55:00 - [4] - Quote High Warlord Carebear wrote: I don't know a good way to make isk. I've thought of missions, but they seem repetitive and it seems to take too long to get to L4s. Mining takes too long to make any noticable profit. Exploration is even worse profit! Does anyone know what to do? I'm all out of ideas. Tell that to those of us that make billions a month off it.
Tsukino Stareine The Red Circle Inc. 552	Posted - 2013.07.23 19:10:00 - [5] - Quote exploration is great profit if you ever take the, actually very minimal, risk of doing it in low/null. My friend just started playing eve again and he managed to almost make enough for a plex in 5 days exploration (I helped him out the last 100mil). He is under 1 month old.
Leafar Nightfall Grease Monkeys 11	Posted - 2013.07.23 19:17:00 - [6] - Quote It seems you're trying too desperatly to pay the game by plex and not enjoying it Missions are ok, I've started lvl 3 just recently and the income is good enough for now. Didn't take too long as well. But if you want to raise your wallet quickly, go for exploration. It pays a good money and you don't need uber expensive fits or high skills to do it. Just study how to travel into low/null sec or you will be getting caught by pirates frequently.
Atkins Friendly NightWatch Ind 16	Posted - 2013.07.23 19:24:00 - [7] - Quote Mission make money and its really isnt that hard to get to lvl 4.. maybe a few weeks.. as far as making money, i started mission running, now i moved onto Incursions. Still PVE and make close to 70-90mil / hour. You need skills and the right equiptment to get into incursions (maybe 3 months worth of skills?) but once you're able to do them it pretty much pays for everything else you want to do in eve. Just my opinion, but you must find your own path to take to make millions. LOL try scamming people ;)
Ned Taggart EVE University Ivy League 9	Posted - 2013.07.23 20:28:00 - [8] - Quote If money wasn't a problem for you in game, what do you want to do? Its really that simple. If you are having a hard time now paying for what you want to do, then you are probably overextending yourself. I don't want that to sound patronizing, but its seriously true, especially if you are losing expensive ships. Fly cheaper and fly smarter. For example, take Fleet PvP...You can participate and be effective in a frigate costing 2-4 mil each (Even cheaper if you figure out a fit you like and set up buy orders). Mining in high sec can bring in 10 mil in a couple of hours. Or you could go out in a 15mil isk cruiser and get popped in the first engagement. 15mil isn't a lot to someone that has a couple of hundred mil isk, but to someone that has 40 or 50 mil isk, its a whole lot.
Ben Cashman Interspatial Logistics Rogue Elements. 6	Posted - 2013.07.23 21:59:00 - [9] - Quote If your argument for not wanting to do something is because "It takes too long" then this game probably isn't for you.
Ellendras Silver The Scope Gallente Federation 65	Posted - 2013.07.23 23:26:00 - [10] - Quote High Warlord Carebear wrote: I don't know a good way to make isk. I've thought of missions, but they seem repetitive and it seems to take too long to get to L4s. Mining takes too long to make any noticable profit. Exploration is even worse profit! Does anyone know what to do? I'm all out of ideas. uninstall Eve online, i hear WoW is very cool... can i have your stuff?


ISD Flidais Asagiri ISD Community Communications Liaisons 92	Posted - 2013.07.23 23:50:00 - [11] - Quote Greetings Please no trolling in a new player post. it is against the rules and it is truly not very helpful to an honest attempt at learning to make isk. To the OP, you might try one of the more specific forums as to isk generation, they tend to be more topic focused than the general forums. On On ISD Flidais Asagiri Lieutenant Community Communication Liaisons (CCLs) Interstellar Services Department

Jonah Gravenstein Balius and Xanthus Traditional Gunsmiths 11252	Posted - 2013.07.24 00:08:00 - [12] - Quote High Warlord Carebear wrote: I don't know a good way to make isk. I've thought of missions, but they seem repetitive and it seems to take too long to get to L4s. Mining takes too long to make any noticable profit. Exploration is even worse profit! Does anyone know what to do? I'm all out of ideas. Missions are repetitive, but they can provide a goodly amount of ISK to do other things with. If you find you get bored with missions run incursions. Alternatively down size your mission ship, you can run 4's in a battlecruiser fairly easily, for a challenge try a non T3 cruiser. (I accept no responsibility for incidents involving explosive decompression or acts of violence) Mining can be profitable in a few hours with under 30 mill invested in a ship and equipment, a fitted Procuror will set you back about that, and in highsec will pay for itself in about 3 hours if you hit Scordite or the ore anomaly sites. A Retriever will take a little longer, and a Mackinaw a lot longer. Exploration is profitable if you're prepared to take some risks, it's good in lowsec and nullsec, and if you're out there, you may as well use the planets for PI because they're a lot better than the highsec ones. Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are ~ Harry G. Frankfurt
Anti-social Tendencies School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State 57	Posted - 2013.07.24 00:33:00 - [13] - Quote High Warlord Carebear wrote: I don't know a good way to make isk. I've thought of missions, but they seem repetitive and it seems to take too long to get to L4s. Mining takes too long to make any noticable profit. Exploration is even worse profit! Does anyone know what to do? I'm all out of ideas. Despite the ISD admonish ions, I agree that if you are impatient, Eve is likely not the game for you. I made my ISK initially by mining and trading. Both of those provide good ISK with a bit of effort and perseverance. Honestly, very shortly the problem won't be ISK but skills. I can buy anything in the game that I want, but don't have the skills top use them yet. You too will get there. "Patience: n, a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue." - AMBROSE PIERCE
Solai Jolly Codgers Get Off My Lawn 67	Posted - 2013.07.24 01:36:00 - [14] - Quote The single best thing you can do to improve your ISK potential is to join a corp. The experience, advice and options they can offer you will be a major leg-up. For example, as my esteemed ally suggested near the top of this thread, exploration has high profit potential, if you have access to good space in low/null-sec. And the best way to get a piece of that is to join a corp that stakes out a claim out there. Our alliance-mates makes a killing off exploration due to the quality space we hold together. Also bare in mind that your ability to make ISK scales with how well you know and understand the game, and it's players' tendencies. I make my ISK via trading, and I'm successful at it because I've come to understand the ins-and-outs of my trading products, as well as the tendencies of my customers. I could not possibly make my current level of income 3 months ago, even though SP is not a bar. This pattern will likely hold true for you as well, regardless of your chosen income method. It also highlights the side benefits gained from the shared experience of your allies.
Radius Prime Tax Evading Ass. 119	Posted - 2013.07.24 09:29:00 - [15] - Quote High Warlord Carebear wrote: I don't know a good way to make isk. I've thought of missions, but they seem repetitive and it seems to take too long to get to L4s. Mining takes too long to make any noticable profit. Exploration is even worse profit! Does anyone know what to do? I'm all out of ideas. If you are too lazy to make money you can just buy plex. Zero effort involved and much more fun. Edit: nothing wrong with being lazy.. This is a game, you should be having fun instead of grinding yourself into frustration or struggling for ways to make ISK. Money making is what you do in RL.. Reopen the EVE gate so we can invade Serenity. Goons can go first.
erg cz Sliperer 11	Posted - 2013.07.24 10:15:00 - [16] - Quote OP's account is 4 days old. Apart from Factional war there is no way newbee can buy plex after 21 days of grinding. Or you can make a job out of the game - then you can do whatever activity. Even high sec mining, if done 24/7, will give you a plex in less then 2 weeks. About 200 hours with less then 3 mio per hour - thats enough for a PLEX and mining ship and equipment costs. Just not a game any more.
Trudeaux Margaret Open University of Celestial Hardship Art of War Alliance 58	Posted - 2013.07.24 12:28:00 - [17] - Quote If you've only been in the game for four days, it's a little unrealistic to expect to be a billionaire already, unless (as others have already said) you buy PLEX. It can take a while to find a way to build an income stream. Some players do it more quickly than others. I have heard of players brand-new to the game figuring out the economy and earning over a billion in their first month simply by station trading. Missions do, in fact, bring in good money, especially at higher levels. But you have to stick with it and put work into it. You have to put time and work into all the forms of isk-making. Isk doesn't just magically appear in your wallet. Even PLEX when you buy it. It appears in your hangar and then you have to figure out what to do with it. Have fun.
Kalishka Askulf Pator Tech School Minmatar Republic 2	Posted - 2013.07.24 16:38:00 - [18] - Quote New kid on the block myself. I'll go with what I was told, and what seems to be working at this point in time. Try everything. Keep trying PVP, mining, trading, exploring etc until you find the one you ENJOY doing. Don't get hung up on the big Isk, just play how you want to play. If you get good at what you like, you might actually see a few Isk fall you way
Praxis Ginimic Dark Knight Legion The Hydra Confederacy 410	Posted - 2013.07.24 17:04:00 - [19] - Quote The scope of this game is massive. If you gave us more details such as how much isk you're trying to make, what are yiu planning to spend it on, what parts of the game you enjoy, etc... we could give you more detailed advice, perhaps even be helpful
Hiroshige Utagawa Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation 0	Posted - 2013.07.24 19:26:00 - [20] - Quote Jonah Gravenstein wrote: Missions are repetitive, but they can provide a goodly amount of ISK to do other things with. If you find you get bored with missions run incursions. I've been playing about 2 weeks, currently in the middle of the Sisters of Eve arc. How do you get started with running incursions?

Echo Echoplex School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State 53	Posted - 2013.07.24 21:37:00 - [21] - Quote High Warlord Carebear wrote: I don't know a good way to make isk. I've thought of missions, but they seem repetitive and it seems to take too long to get to L4s. Mining takes too long to make any noticable profit. Exploration is even worse profit! Does anyone know what to do? I'm all out of ideas. Buy the Social skill book (it's cheap). You'll train it to Lvl 4 in about 22 hours, and it gives you a bonus of 5% per level to agents. Then you're qualified to also train Connections for further bonuses. You'll get a fair amount of freebies with missions that you can sell, as well as some blueprints that you can manufacture into ships and mods-make and sell those too. Also, as you skill-up, sell anything you've outgrown (books, mods, ships, etc). I've been doing that all along and funding new goodies with the proceeds of all the above. By the way, it doesn't take long at all to get to 4 in most things, and missions'll teach you a lot about the various aspects of the game and defining what you'll want your eventual path to be. They teach you a lot too, about what not to waste isk on, because as you run them you'll learn what you like and don't like and will then avoid blowing isk on ships, mods, etc. that you thought you wanted early on because they were badass but quickly learned you couldn't fly. Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets. Gen. George S. Patton
Vortexo VonBrenner Coldest Sea Sailing 820	Posted - 2013.07.24 22:26:00 - [22] - Quote High Warlord Carebear wrote: I don't know a good way to make isk. I've thought of missions, but they seem repetitive and it seems to take too long to get to L4s. Mining takes too long to make any noticable profit. Exploration is even worse profit! Does anyone know what to do? I'm all out of ideas. - the resources sticky at the top of this new citizens forum might be helpful to you - isk the guide - fun > isk...unlike some...other MMOs, things in EVE won't come easy or fast...that's part of the fun -Whatever you do, do *not* go into exploration!...I want to find more goodies for myself I'm listening to-áBj+¦rk, playing EVE, eating fishsticks, and I'm cold....this is immersion gaming.
Pepper Swift State War Academy Caldari State 1	Posted - 2013.07.25 00:24:00 - [23] - Quote Vortexo VonBrenner wrote: High Warlord Carebear wrote: I don't know a good way to make isk. I've thought of missions, but they seem repetitive and it seems to take too long to get to L4s. Mining takes too long to make any noticable profit. Exploration is even worse profit! Does anyone know what to do? I'm all out of ideas. - the resources sticky at the top of this new citizens forum might be helpful to you - isk the guide - fun > isk...unlike some...other MMOs, things in EVE won't come easy or fast...that's part of the fun -Whatever you do, do *not* go into exploration!...I want to find more goodies for myself aww why not exploration... i wanted to do that right away.
Kyseth Touring New Eden 30	Posted - 2013.07.25 00:33:00 - [24] - Quote Pepper Swift wrote: Vortexo VonBrenner wrote: High Warlord Carebear wrote: I don't know a good way to make isk. I've thought of missions, but they seem repetitive and it seems to take too long to get to L4s. Mining takes too long to make any noticable profit. Exploration is even worse profit! Does anyone know what to do? I'm all out of ideas. - the resources sticky at the top of this new citizens forum might be helpful to you - isk the guide - fun > isk...unlike some...other MMOs, things in EVE won't come easy or fast...that's part of the fun -Whatever you do, do *not* go into exploration!...I want to find more goodies for myself aww why not exploration... i wanted to do that right away. I'm sure he wouldn't mind if you stuck to highsec exploration
Pepper Swift State War Academy Caldari State 1	Posted - 2013.07.25 01:49:00 - [25] - Quote Kyseth wrote: Pepper Swift wrote: Vortexo VonBrenner wrote: High Warlord Carebear wrote: I don't know a good way to make isk. I've thought of missions, but they seem repetitive and it seems to take too long to get to L4s. Mining takes too long to make any noticable profit. Exploration is even worse profit! Does anyone know what to do? I'm all out of ideas. - the resources sticky at the top of this new citizens forum might be helpful to you - isk the guide - fun > isk...unlike some...other MMOs, things in EVE won't come easy or fast...that's part of the fun -Whatever you do, do *not* go into exploration!...I want to find more goodies for myself aww why not exploration... i wanted to do that right away. I'm sure he wouldn't mind if you stuck to highsec exploration oh now i get it.. lol.. damn brain going slow today.


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