o7 all!

I am not a very experienced player; somewhere between 1 and 2 years under my belt. I'm sure it's been done many times before, but just thought it'd be fun to start a new account and try to play Eve without spending any (real) money whatsoever and ask if anyone would like to join me!

In my opinion, making the money to pay for the Eve subscription and then using the ISK you make in-game to have fun is the best way to play Eve - as it is just that, a game. However, as a challenge, I am going to freeze my current account and try to play this game entirely for free!

I'm going to try this using the 21-day trial from a buddy invite, and will probably begin some time in the next fortnight.

Anyone is welcome to join, however, I posted this on the forums with the aim of mainly attracting players with around 1+ years experience who either have problems funding their accounts or would simply like to have a go at playing for free!

Let me know, and fly safe :)

Getting some losec planets and selling P2s (the sweet spot for most PI, P3s break even and P4s currently sell for less than they cost to make) will get you about 25% of your monthly subs straight away.

So you are going to open and close accounts to see how much isk you can make in 21 days.

To feed your main account I can tell you not that much at all because you need to train your skills up to get into better ships for the LvL 4 missions.

I for one has kept this account going for 7 + years now and I use plexes to pay for this account.

So you will not win at all doing what you are doing and it takes along time to train SP so what you are doing is useless.

BTW Good Luck in trying

With current PLEX prices around the 630 million mark, that's quite a bit for a new character to grind out without a subscription.

So what are you thinking in terms of potential incomes that will earn the ISK just to be able to play at all, let alone have fun.

Scamming, ninja looting, market trading (very slowly at first)?

You certainly won't be able to grind that sort of ISK out in missions, mining or other similar professions.

The Making ISK guide has some ideas which would be suitable for a low-SP character.

Playing eve for free makes it a second job

Playing eve for free makes it a second job

Id second the FW alt thing from the start up to get isk right away. Toughest part there will be LP conversion to a trade hub in relative safety with a new character.

Then train up your toon to do whatever else you really enjoy. Also PI passive is a good idea as well. But to make isk and not wait for skills itll be FW and low sec.

Sounds ideal, I think this is what I'll try. Never done Faction Warfare before. What exactly does it entail and what is the profitable part? Really know nothing in this area...

Grab a punisher, fit 4 warp core stabs in the lows, a prototype cloak in the highs, then go sit within 30 km of a button (better to defensively plex contested systems initially so you aren't agressed by the NPCs).

Fall asleep and wait until the plex is capped. Rinse and repeat.

If you are killed by a neutral, just get podded too.

Not only is it a quicker ride back to a new ship, but you can sell the kill rights on the character and generate more ISK too (even on players with pirate standings, some people act faster then they think and you can get paid).

Damn, that sounds really good. Does the actual afk capture make you much in the way of lp? (I'm assuming it's lp you earn - sorry for noob...)

The AFK bit was a bit of a joke. If you really are going to be afk then just use rookie ships and no need to fit stabs or a cloak since you can't make use of them away from your keyboard (well a cloak you can but then you can't cap a plex).

It's just that sitting on a button for 20 minutes is really, really tedious.

LP payout depends on the type of plex and defensive plexing is not as lucrative as offensive plexing.

o7 all!

I am not a very experienced player; somewhere between 1 and 2 years under my belt. I'm sure it's been done many times before, but just thought it'd be fun to start a new account and try to play Eve without spending any (real) money whatsoever and ask if anyone would like to join me!

In my opinion, making the money to pay for the Eve subscription and then using the ISK you make in-game to have fun is the best way to play Eve - as it is just that, a game. However, as a challenge, I am going to freeze my current account and try to play this game entirely for free!

I'm going to try this using the 21-day trial from a buddy invite, and will probably begin some time in the next fortnight.

Anyone is welcome to join, however, I posted this on the forums with the aim of mainly attracting players with around 1+ years experience who either have problems funding their accounts or would simply like to have a go at playing for free!

Let me know, and fly safe :)

Faction Warfare... with 1-4day old char you can make easy 500m-1b isk in 1-2weeks in cheap t1 frig

Sounds like I might need to try that...Can you fleet up with alts and get rewards on all of them?

Thanks for the post!

In essence, I just wanted to have a go at running an account for free from scratch. As much as l4s generate a lot of isk, it's not the only way to generate enough to plex an account is it?

You can make about 90m - 120m isk / h running incursions. They are alright. I do them for an afternoon once a month. Pays for my account.

And lvl4s woild work, yeah, but that's just a waste of time. You can make the same amounts of money doing other things much faster/earlier.

To me this feels like CCP advertising to all the potential long term subscribers who joined after the B-R5RB promotion.

It's crafted well.

You know you don't HAVE to stay in Essence. There ARE other regions in the game.


....sorry, couldn't resist.