Going on 2 weeks of my eve journey so far and I am having a blast.
From the start, I have been spending most of my SP on exploration skills and using that to make decent isk in nullsec with covops ships - maybe 100m every 1-2 hours rng dependant. Once I gained enough isk I decided to make a PI alt to dip my toes in that (which I have been finding difficult) but have a very basic highsec setup for now as I keep learning. What is the best path forward to generate more and more isk as i progress? Should i make an additional PI alt? Should I focus on my current PI alt and dump more sp into that? Should I learn the market and try and make some investments? Any tips are welcome.
The most ISK by far can be earned with trading. However that needs deep knowledge about the markets, initial cash for investments and patience (since for some items you have to wait quite a while between buying them low and seeling them high). However, if you know what you are doing, you can print billions of ISK by trading items - if doing it on the same station with a large enough investment, even without ever undocking and risking a ship.
By âCombatâ you can aim for the highest tiers of Abyssal Deadspace, they return quite a fortune if you survive. You need close to perfect skills, absolute knowledge about how to apporach every possible wave of enemies and a quite expensive fit (several billion ISK at least). And if you fail, you lose it all.
Mission Running and later blitzing + Burners also returns good cash for a reasonbable investment. Like Abyssals, you will need quite good skills (being able to fly a Marauder at least) and knowledge about every mission and how to complete it as fast as possible. Also you need to know how to exchange the earned LP as efficient as possible.
All kind of âharvestingâ strategies scale with the amount of chars you can use for that. Mining, PI etc. pp⌠and you will need them all to be Omega if it should be efficient.
Any good content creators/guides you would recommend for learning trading? I like the idea of making some isk by investing as its pretty low maintenance between that and PI, giving me a lot of time to work with my main.
2 weeks in? Pick a main income stream you enjoy and just do that while training skills to maximize it. You need experience playing the game as much as you need skill points going into skills right now.
If you like PvP, go do FW and contest sites for Loyalty Points, which you spend for faction loot to sell on the market. This is where all the good faction navy hulls on the market come from.
If you like PvE, you can make really good isk with low skill investment running Abysses. Skills and ability let you run higher tier content for more isk.
If you like mining, ninja mining is where itâs at. Grab a Venture and some filaments, filament to low or null, find a empty system and mine their high end ore. When youâre full or in danger, filament back to highsec and profit. Along this line, you can grab a probe launcher and dive into wormholes for some tasty and pricy gas.
With the skills youâve probably got after 2 weeks, Iâd avoid mission running or mining in highsec. Missions donât make much unless youâre blitzing L4s, and a Venture ninja mining anywhere else makes more than a solo highsec Exhumer pilot.
As to the PI alt, only train that if you feel like paying for a MCT or a second account. Your one training queue on that account is far better spent training the one character right now. Now, if you want to pay for the second training queue, then absolutely train a second PI alt. Once trained, it will increase your passive income even after you stop feeding it MCTs.
To answer the titular question â you wonât get rich as a new player (unless you inject real life currency into the game, of course, in which case itâll be easy, but will feel as much of an accomplishment as wrapping your dadâs Maserati around a tree on your first ride).
Forget about getting rich. Thatâs a wrong approach to EVE, and to life. Find stuff you like to do in the game and enjoy doing that. If youâre lucky, what you like to do will also make you some isk along the way.
Getting ISK rich is easy. My problem is what to spend it on? I donât want omega, so I donât buy PLEX. I have spent some on clothes like this yellow Kill Bill cat suit. There is no housing so no furniture or wallpaper or decor. I have bought two stations one blew up, the other I gave away. I have all sorts of ships. most I donât even take out of the hangar. I mostly gas and kernite mine, being an alpha I canât even do PI.
@Vorri_Kishunuba my question would be what do you plan to spend all that ISK on anyway?
I started ganking when I was a new player. I made 150 billion the first year, and wound up with my own alliance shortly thereafter. Highly recommended!
Yeah I donât know why I have been putting off PvP. I think im just worried I will look like a big noob and annoy the corp lol (which I havenât been active in)
I actually enjoy doing what I do, I was just thinking how i could use it more efficiently. I definitely want to get into PvP but have been holding back. Maybe now is the time