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Eeonsita
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Posted - 2007.09.08 03:29:00 -
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i am trying to make some cash to outfit a BC for lvl 3 missions, but doing lvl2 missions for cash is taking me waaay too long.
could i just start mining with maybe a few days worth of mining skills and make good money, or will i have to spend weeks learning up the skills to make "decent" cash?
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ZerKar
Caldari
Deadspace Armada
Lost Children of Eve
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Posted - 2007.09.08 03:51:00 -
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From what I have experienced if you cannot fly a Mining Barge and haul with some monster Industrail ship or mine in Low Sec then prepare for the most grueling BOREDOM in the game. If you think money making is slow in LvL II missions you have not seen anything yet.
Trust me, stick with the missions, salvage your wrecks. You will get more money than casual mining will afford you.
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Vele Nori
Amarr
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Posted - 2007.09.08 04:44:00 -
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Go rat in low sec or do some exploration there. It's more profitable and more exciting than life in high sec. With ratting you would be killing rats that always drop bounties (80-200K) and always drop loot. With exploration in low sec you can find sites with 0.0 ore and some really nice loot.
If you're up to it I would also recommend joining a 0.0 alliance. Any new player with about 3 mil in skill points can be ratting out in 0.0 and making 10-30 million ISK an hour just like with level 4 missions, only no battleship or skills to fly one required, can do it in a cruiser. It is dangerous but if you're are smart about it you'll be making hundreds of millions each week. Exploration and raiding complexes in 0.0 are some other money-making activities that yield billions of ISK in loot.
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Alski
Gallente
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Atlas Alliance
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Posted - 2007.09.08 05:39:00 -
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Level 2's can be reasonabley profitable, just make sure you loot and salvage your wrecks, incase your not sure what i mean:
Loot: grab all the mods/guns/etc out of the wrecks, and check the prices of anything that is 'named', if your not sure what is/is not 'named' loot then check it all, sell any valuble named loot (there is useuley at least one or two "best named" (ie: the best tech one verient, these are normaley rather pricey) and reprocess the crappy stuff into minerals, then sell the minerals
Salvage: train for and fit a Salvager module, lock the wrecks, activate this module on them and you get salvage components which are automaticley transfered to your hold, sell these on the market.
Price range of salvage componets is fairley huge, some go for as little as a few hundred isk, some go for over a million isk a peice, one in particler (very rare) go's for 4.5m each.
Its worth training the salvage skill up a few levels as this will make the salvageing process more successfull and therefore go faster, and i recommend haveing a dedicated ship for it, personaley i salvage in a distroyer with 4 salvagers and 4 tractorbeams.
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Captain Schmungles
Caldari
Freelancing Corp
Confederation of Independent Corporations
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Posted - 2007.09.08 05:48:00 -
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Eeonista,
Probably not. If you can't fly a mining barge, you want skills to be able to fly an industrial and a cruiser that gets a mining bonus. In addition, you want Mining to level IV so you can at least use t2 mining lasers, okay drone skills (for self-defense from rats), and anchoring (to thwart ore thieves). If you have those skills, go find a quiet 0.5 system and mine some kernite (Amarr space) or omber (Gallente space). If you do not have the appropriate skills, don't go mining unless you want to mine as a "career" for a little and are willing to invest time in skills and ISK in nice barges and mining drones.
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Jericho StormCloud
Minmatar
GNATHIC
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Posted - 2007.09.08 12:13:00 -
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Alski has shown you the way to earn the iskies you need as it says in his sig
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ZerKar
Caldari
Deadspace Armada
Lost Children of Eve
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Posted - 2007.09.08 17:46:00 -
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 Originally by: Vele Nori
Go rat in low sec or do some exploration there. It's more profitable and more exciting than life in high sec. With ratting you would be killing rats that always drop bounties (80-200K) and always drop loot. With exploration in low sec you can find sites with 0.0 ore and some really nice loot.
If you're up to it I would also recommend joining a 0.0 alliance. Any new player with about 3 mil in skill points can be ratting out in 0.0 and making 10-30 million ISK an hour just like with level 4 missions, only no battleship or skills to fly one required, can do it in a cruiser. It is dangerous but if you're are smart about it you'll be making hundreds of millions each week. Exploration and raiding complexes in 0.0 are some other money-making activities that yield billions of ISK in loot.
Well I would advise against this. If you go into Low Sec you WILL get Pwned and loose everything. If not by the Rats, and more likely not, then by the Players. You'll get gang ganked by some group or other or find yourself in a nice welcoming gate camp. Wait until you know how to defend yourself first.
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ruleone
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Posted - 2007.09.08 18:08:00 -
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Edited by: ruleone on 08/09/2007 18:08:45
Do what Alski said.
Don't go to 0.0-once you've got T2 shields and got the BC kitted, then maybe-but only if you're part of an alliance and in reasonably safe space.
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Admiral Himerias
The White Star Consortium
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Posted - 2007.09.09 01:40:00 -
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I have an better idea. It appears you are trying to play the game solo. You ought to ifnd yourself an decent corp in game that can help you learn the game basics better and is an close knit group. My corp is open if your interested.
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Eeonsita
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Posted - 2007.09.09 02:59:00 -
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i can't play at long time intervals at a time, because i'm going to university, thats why i don't join a corp right now. thanks for the replies though, i'll just keep doing lvl2's and start training up for salvaging and tractoring, but i have one question:
it seems to me that if i do some mission, drop a book mark by the wrecks, go and pick up my salvaging ship and go back and start salvaging, i'll loose a lot of money on all the time spent. wouldn't it be better to just squeeze in another mission in that time?
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Ed Anger
Federal Navy Academy
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Posted - 2007.09.09 06:33:00 -
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Originally by: Eeonsita
i can't play at long time intervals at a time, because i'm going to university, thats why i don't join a corp right now. thanks for the replies though, i'll just keep doing lvl2's and start training up for salvaging and tractoring, but i have one question:
it seems to me that if i do some mission, drop a book mark by the wrecks, go and pick up my salvaging ship and go back and start salvaging, i'll loose a lot of money on all the time spent. wouldn't it be better to just squeeze in another mission in that time?
no. salvaging lvl 2 missions is definitely worth it. train up for salvagers and tractor beams asap. you will earn much more then you would from the mission bonus itself.
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Terianna Eri
Amarr
STK Scientific
M. PIRE
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Posted - 2007.09.09 10:47:00 -
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Originally by: Ed Anger
Originally by: Eeonsita
i can't play at long time intervals at a time, because i'm going to university, thats why i don't join a corp right now. thanks for the replies though, i'll just keep doing lvl2's and start training up for salvaging and tractoring, but i have one question:
it seems to me that if i do some mission, drop a book mark by the wrecks, go and pick up my salvaging ship and go back and start salvaging, i'll loose a lot of money on all the time spent. wouldn't it be better to just squeeze in another mission in that time?
no. salvaging lvl 2 missions is definitely worth it. train up for salvagers and tractor beams asap. you will earn much more then you would from the mission bonus itself.
This is especially true for missions that pit you against Angel rats or Sansha/Blood rats, as they drop Alloyed Tritainium Bars and Melted Capacitor Consoles respectively, each of which are pieces of salvage that go for about 500k per. I run level 4s and a good part of my income comes from salvaging.
Drones also drop these two pieces of salvage i believe but not nearly as much of it.
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