Scamming is, by far, the best way to make isk. Mining is probably the worst way to make money and is so boring you'll quit the game in frustration before you make enough to recoup your investment in exhumers, mods and skillbooks.

To be honest, Harlot's telling the truth. If you go to Amarr, there's a character named "Spaceship Barbie" (or something like that) who's racked up over a dozen-billion (I think those are the numbers) ISK just from doing the Tritanium (I think that's what it's called) scam - basically selling a single ore for ludicrous amounts of ISK, saying that they were buying Trit and were willing to pay that amount of money.

Also, Harlot's in GoonWaffe, which makes its living off of scamming. So you're getting this from an expert in the field.

Hes mining.
Hes poor by all and any standards that exist.

I've been playing 16 days and I've made over 220m missioning.

It isn't about money. It's about making Lady Harlot hate you...ummm...Freudian slip there...

If you look at this as a shopping center with the only hold up being no credit card, like most of these scam scam scammers do, then you'll never have enough since enough will never be enough. You make a billion, and all you can see is that "1" and the itch hits you about turning it into a "2". Once that "2" is there...where's my "3"? On and on it goes till it rolls over to the next denominator.

Even if you had billions to buy a buncha crap, most of it you couldn't use anyway wivvout that training...training...training...which leads to the OTHER motivation - capability. Being able to do some things very well and just not bothering to do them because they're beneath you is far more rewarding than making endless ISK in a race to nowhere special.

You see, true freedom lies in your ability to just do NOTHING, and gloat about it. The catch is, if you can't do anything then doing nothing isn't very special. If you can do EVERYTHING, and do it well, then not doing anything becomes the quintessence of pleasure. That's when you're in the leisure class.

Don't be a squirrel and constantly rabbit for money (pardon the mixed metaphor). Be a lion and just hang out surveying your surroundings with untouchable arrogance. You'll be glad you did!

I've been playing for about a month now, and so far I'm pretty poor in EVE standards. I only have 33 million, and 20 of that was made from selling my christmas gifts. I've been focusing on mining, but that is getting slightly dull, as I'm only making 300k every 7 minutes in my Retriever. Botting is a no go, as I prefer not to be banned. I was thinking of buying a PLEX, but I want that to be a last resort as I want to spend as little money on EVE as possible, other than the monthly sub. Right now I'm trying to train Mining Barge 5 to fly around a Covetor, but that is still 20 days away. What would you guys suggest I do in my position to make some ISK?

Why can't people be more thorough when they just say "Scamming is the best way to make isk"? Not all scamming is created equal. Spamming a one trit for 2 billion isk will actually turn out to be isk inefficient compared to level 4 missions.

market maniplation requires understanding how the market operates.

Unlike the others once you max out skills for an Orca and foreman mindlink using an alt to run the hulk you can make decent isk however it takes some SP to get to that point. That said in my opinion the real isk for those with low SP lies in being able to solo level 4 missions then come back and salvage/loot everything. You then sell or reprocess and sell everything. You don't need a massive amount of SP to do level 4 missions and getting to that point means shortly you can be able to do incursions which is where the real isk is made. Now all of this assumes you actually want to be active, keep your toon's name with a good rep (scamming ruins this) and play the game. A lot of the other things mentioned are also good low SP isk including ninja salvaging (almost no outflow (ammo costs) and a lot of the rewards in selling salvage and loot however they have a downside in that noone likes a ninja.

Scamming is, by far, the best way to make isk. Mining is probably the worst way to make money and is so boring you'll quit the game in frustration before you make enough to recoup your investment in exhumers, mods and skillbooks.

You aren't making the maximum potential by scamming though, because of your corp choice. People see "Goon" and think "scammer". If you were in a different corp your scams would be twice as successful.
Or perhaps you have an alt to scam for you, in which case the cost of maintaining it, with or without plex, is eating into your potential profit.
Have a nice day.

You aren't making the maximum potential by scamming though, because of your corp choice. People see "Goon" and think "scammer". If you were in a different corp your scams would be twice as successful.
Or perhaps you have an alt to scam for you, in which case the cost of maintaining it, with or without plex, is eating into your potential profit.
Have a nice day.

Oh herro wall-o-text..

NEEDS MOAR [ENTER] KEY!

Personally I've never scammed, even when I was dirt broke I never stooped that low, I actually have morals even in games.

Although trading and missioning is good ISK

What does scamming have to do with morals? That just sounds silly...

I wouldn't scam someone in RL, I'm guessing you wouldn't either... I think.