As the title suggests, I’ve been away from actively playing the game for a LONG time (started character in 2009), but I wanted to get back into it. Unfortunately, It has been so long that I have largely forgotten how to play the game.
My character has about about 19mil skill points, primarily dumped into a bit of everything (I could never decide what I wanted to do). One of the largest sinks being Stealth Bombing (Manticore, torpedoes, etc.)
I have about 858mil isk to my name (If I remember correctly, that’s basically amateur in Eve).
As I don’t usually get to adhere to a ‘I’ll be online at this time’ type of schedule, and pop on when I can, I don’t know if I can devote time to a corp (if there is a casual one that has a lot of players on that play a lot from 8p-12 EST, let me know). Otherwise I’m assuming I’ll be playing solo.
What is a good profession for me in 2024 while giving me a good ROI to make money in the game (I run spreadsheets for a living, so I might as well play spreadsheet the game). I am not opposed to going outside of my current skill set or profession, if there’s something you think that I might think would be fun. (I do love pew-pew, but I’m not opposed to more trade based opportunities)
Thanks for any insights. I’ll see if I can add some pics of skills to help.
Uninstall while you can. There’s still time. It’s not too late.
I would concentrate on PvE security missions, level 4 if you have enough reputation for that otherwise start at level 1 and work towards level 4. Missle ships like the Caldari Raven and Drake are good for that. That gives you a little combat and a bit of active gameplay. You can also use the mission tokens to get some implants for your character.
Then you can also look at looting and salvaging the wrecks from the missions. You can make some extra cash selling loot and salvage.
Then you can also look at reprocessing the loot where you break it down into raw minerals that mostly sell for more than the looted modules themselves.
Then lastly you can look at a little industry, using the minerals you get from the reprocessing and making your own missles. It amkes the missions “free” if you make you own ammo. You get more than enough minerals from the reprocessing to make ammo and sell on the market. Just always check the module prices and the reprocessed mineral prices to see whnat gives you the most ISK.
I play very relaxed, using a Caldari Golem and only running 1 to 3 level 4 missions per night and easily make 1.2 to 1.5 billion ISK per month. As for time actively playing and not chatting with my other corp members is around 2 to 4 hours depending on what I feel like. I also waste a lot of time looking at the scenery at the mission sites. There are definately way more efficient ways to run the combat sites.
I will post you some useful links with information about the missions themselves. Only run missions that invovle the pirate factions and not 1 of the 4 major factions or “story line” as it will loose you reputation with the factions.
The Blood Stained Stars (SOE) Epic Arc helps you get reputation with the major faction of your choosing and can be re run every 90 days.
Here are those mission links :
https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Mission_reports
http://games.chruker.dk/eve_online/mission.php
Remember stay away from the missions that says “Encounter - Storyline” on the second link as they will loose you reputation. Also remember you can only “decline” a missions once every 4 hours without loosing reutation with the agent and faction he is from.
The “Anomic” missions are very hard and have ship restrictions so they require special ships. However you can “decline” them without loosing reutation with the agent and faction he is from.
yes lvl 4 missions… you mean the ones that haven’t had their payouts and rat bounties updated to keep pace with the inflation and rising cost of plex… ever! as in not once!
Sometimes its about playing a game for fun and not trying to make money. Level 4 missions are some nice solo PvE combat gameplay that pays for itself and does not involve having to endlessly grind some “macguffin” to sell to make money. People are not always serious about pixel games they just want a few hours of space adventure and maybe make a friend or 2 in game.
Correct me if I’m wrong but that seems to be what the game turned into?
No gameplay, just make ISK while on your phone/Netflix/whatever…
Just curious, what do you mean by that?
I’m still thinking in old school EVE terms where the man/woman with the most ISK ruled the galaxy.
Isk can’t buy glory.
What does buy glory? lol
Zero sec wars still the big thing in this game?
It’s all about Highsec now.
Interesting. This is completely different from when I played last. Can you elaborate or attach a link/video explaining it?
Spin your ship, double your ISK!
Well if you can access them I suggest running the Career Agents to familiarize yourself with the game again… They’re basically instructional Level 1 Agents that give you a preview of various career paths available in New Eden… Each of the 4 main Factions has 3 sets of 5 Career Agents available for a total of 15 Agents per Faction… And if your standing is above -5.00 with the other main Factions, you can also run their Career Agents…
https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Career_Agents
If you wanna continue working on Faction Standings after doing the Career Agents, you can always run the Circle, Data Center and Cosmos Agents… For more info on doing that, check out ‘The Plan’…
Anyway, welcome back and may you have lot’s of good luck…
DMC
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If you haven’t used a referral link yet you can retroactively do so to get 1 mil unallocated SPs.
You can choose one from the below thread that is officially placed so people can put their links there (but nowhere else) on the forums or choose one from elsewhere (unfortunately even in-game people spam their links all the time).
Best if you can find one belonging to someone who offers other good benefits alongside what the link already provides to get more out of it than just the 1 mil SP, they will get rewards if you go omega so make them pay for the benefit instead of just supporting someone who spams their link without giving any additional benefits. 
Based on the OP, here’s my suggestions:
- Small scale industry. You need to farm some raw mats from planetology and reprocessing modules from level IV missions to make some profit from it.
- Planetology.
- Marketing. Try Microsoft Excel add-in for spreadsheets.
- SKINR. Design ship SKINs.
For good old PVE content you don’t have enough skills and new PVE content is way harder even and requires multiboxing. Solo PVP is much harder after recent changes and for generic PVP you need to get into a big null-sec alliance.
You could do what two of my new Omega alts are doing…hunting suspects. No corp required…though I created my own small one. A fair knowledge of ships is required, as you need to know that you can overpower whatever you attack. You can either do it in a roaming manner…say 30 jumps and see what you come across…or you can wait outside trade hubs. I’ve not found it all that ISK lucrative…at least not yet…but then I’m after solo kills rather than ISK.
Lots of new things.
1.FW
2.ESS
3. FW related sites involving pirates.
4. Abyssal
5. New ships and skins plus Personally Owned Stations are now able to have the color scheme adjust to your liking.
6. Project Discovery.
I’d start a new character and run the tutorial plus a few career missions. Just to jog some memory cells loose and get you setting up muscle memory etc. again. Plus it’s new, so it might be interesting.
Then I’d likely run some level 1-3 security missions on the new guy. While doing that, look at your higher SP chars and decide if you want to end up running some level 4 securities, or maybe some HomeFront Operations (also new), or some WH type lurking (anomalies, ambush hunting, whatever).
You might also decide if you want to set up some guys with PI (planetary interaction) for some boring but passive income while you figure other things out.
Eventually you could try higher Abyssal filament running, or Pochven anomalies, or higher WH activities.
As usual, early on, don’t take out anything expensive that you don’t want to lose. Because there’s always that one thing you forgot about that’ll end up killing you.
May want to skim https://support.eveonline.com/hc/en-us/articles/6387243601180-Returning-to-EVE-Online