Hi, i'm pretty new to the game almost a month in and I was wondering how profitable is it? Right now i'm piloting a Shield Tank Gnosis and I have been able to go there and kill some NPCs but yeah. I need some tips on what to do and such and if the Gnosis is the right ship to use, oh and i'm sorry if this it's in the wrong place but its my first time on the forums

-Thanks :D

do they really eat babies in Tribute region?)

As Goons keep showing you null is not profitable at all. You are slave of some soverenity holding corp so you play as they time schedule you or you are a meat there. You can do some ISK for a while, but than gank comes and you lose pretty much all you have made so far.

As I understood, ratting belts NPC is like doing L4 missions in terms of ISK income. So go back to Sinq Laison, find yourself a nice friendly mission agent and start doing missions for him. Same income, less frustraition from local bullies.

As I see it null, wormhole or low sec is where you go for PVP fun, not for money. Unless you are in a really good corp and spend each and every evening defending you soverenity space you are pretty much done there.
(Hint: I never was in null sec ;) , do they really eat babies in Tribute region?)

As Goons keep showing you null is not profitable at all. You are slave of some soverenity holding corp so you play as they time schedule you or you are a meat there. You can do some ISK for a while, but than gank comes and you lose pretty much all you have made so far.

As I understood, ratting belts NPC is like doing L4 missions in terms of ISK income. So go back to Sinq Laison, find yourself a nice friendly mission agent and start doing missions for him. Same income, less frustraition from local bullies.

As I see it null, wormhole or low sec is where you go for PVP fun, not for money. Unless you are in a really good corp and spend each and every evening defending you soverenity space you are pretty much done there.
(Hint: I never was in null sec ;) , do they really eat babies in Tribute region?)

As Goons keep showing you null is not profitable at all. You are slave of some soverenity holding corp so you play as they time schedule you or you are a meat there. You can do some ISK for a while, but than gank comes and you lose pretty much all you have made so far.

As I understood, ratting belts NPC is like doing L4 missions in terms of ISK income. So go back to Sinq Laison, find yourself a nice friendly mission agent and start doing missions for him. Same income, less frustraition from local bullies.

As I see it null, wormhole or low sec is where you go for PVP fun, not for money. Unless you are in a really good corp and spend each and every evening defending you soverenity space you are pretty much done there.
(Hint: I never was in null sec ;) , do they really eat babies in Tribute region?)

Okay, how do I start L4 missions because when I talk to an agent he says I can't do the mission :/

Okay, how do I start L4 missions because when I talk to an agent he says I can't do the mission :/

Right now I'm trying to earn a ton of isk to fund my pvping since I am a solo player, so yeah once I get a good amount i'll stop for awhile and do some pvp then go back to making isk. Right now I have a Gnosis to do missions and such in. I can pilot a retriever but mining is really boring :/

Oh okay, so I just do the standard missions and then I will be able to do the higher level ones? And how do I check if I can do level 2 and so on missions?

In game:
Open your character sheet
Scroll down, open standings
Select the 'Liked by' tab
There are 2 sections, one is factions (the top section), then the corporations.
Select a corp you have been missioning with (Caldari Navy?) and right click it. You will get 2 options. Show info or show transactions.
Show info will let you access a list of agent available to you.
Show transactions will show how your standings increase after each mission.


There are skills in the social category that help boost the standings too.

Missioning is a decent way for newbs to make isk and train combat related skills at the same time. Gets you familiar with locking, counting volleys, piloting. It also lets you *feel* how another level of a skill affects your ship. Over the course of a month, you will know what improved what, and why. Tank, DPS, Drones, Speed, etc. etc.

As others have mentioned. Don't make missioning your "end game". Use it for isk, or chill time, or whatever, but remember that EVE is a PvP game, and that's where the fun is.

k thanks and what are jump clones and what are they for?, i'v just been mining so I still don't know much :/

Right now I'm trying to earn a ton of isk to fund my pvping since I am a solo player, so yeah once I get a good amount i'll stop for awhile and do some pvp then go back to making isk. Right now I have a Gnosis to do missions and such in. I can pilot a retriever but mining is really boring :/

Hi, i'm pretty new to the game almost a month in and I was wondering how profitable is it? Right now i'm piloting a Shield Tank Gnosis and I have been able to go there and kill some NPCs but yeah. I need some tips on what to do and such and if the Gnosis is the right ship to use, oh and i'm sorry if this it's in the wrong place but its my first time on the forums

-Thanks :D

Go do exploration mate, missons and mining are soul destroyingly boring.

Look for low class wormholes (Classes 1-3) from high sec and scan down the pirate data/relic sites (pirates site are ones that start with Blood Raider or Sansha or Guristas) in these wormholes and hack them.

It can make you decent isk and it lets you see lots of different parts of New Eden.

Start of with a cheap T1 frig with a T1 cloak and once your skill and isk increase get a T2 covops frig or astero and covops cloak.

You will die at some point to the locals but hopefully your wallet with be fat before you do.

If you need more advice on this shoot me a mail or pm.

Carrier anom ratting is apx 120mil an hour. This is just conjecture on my part from the info I've dug up scouting null farming corps; i.e. standard buyer beware boilerplate baloney.

I make a decent bit of isk ratting in nullsec, mate. I can now run a sanctum solo in about 15 minutes including clean up time... using mtu and a noctis with 6 salvagers. Im just dual boxing. if I tripple box i can run them in about ten minutes, but cant clean up till after the mtu catches up. :)

And Im making decent isk, so lets define what that is for me atm... about 100 mil an hour is okay. anything above that is pretty rad and has my attention. Soon it will be no longer this low as Im taking it up a notch into wh space once again. Actually, it was in wh space I learned the tactics and strategies Im using in null sec. lol. :)

all you need is a carrier, and a battleship or two if you can... :) with a set of nine fighters and two battleships you can take the sites pretty quickly. that is my only concern. you can even drop a pair of dreads to quickly kill the battleships if you have that kinds of iskies and skills or alts and or players/friends to help you. just bring a tripple webbing loki or rapier for the dreads.

I've read some really good advice here and some really pointless advice also. The original question was posted by a new player so offering answers that even use the word carrier are simply pointless.


Now, the Gnosis has bonuses to scan probes and a good basic Omni tank. It gets bonuses to every type weapon system. Fit it for exploration, carry a Mobil depot with a few extra modules and find the first wormhole you can and away you go. You can make a good basic income running all the sites and will most likely get a little PvP experience also.

Other than that, you can grind missions, but even with lvl 4's the income is not great unless you take the time to salvage and sell off the dropped loot. You could probably do better fitting your retriever for ice mining and dodging the CODE pukes or ninja gas mining in wormholes.