# My experience of progressing in PvE **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [May 19, 2026, 2:15am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/my-experience-of-progressing-in-pve/511782 "2026-05-19T02:15:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Namdor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/namdor/32/396179_2.png) [@Namdor](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Namdor)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 1:15am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/my-experience-of-progressing-in-pve/511782/81 "2026-05-20T01:15:19Z")
It doesn’t take multiple days. It takes YOU multiple days. ---
**Author:** ![Arthur\_Aihaken](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/arthur_aihaken/32/504104_2.png) [@Arthur\_Aihaken](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Arthur_Aihaken)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 1:17am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/my-experience-of-progressing-in-pve/511782/82 "2026-05-20T01:17:21Z")
> [@Namdor](#): > > It takes YOU multiple days. We might even be talking weeks… ---
**Author:** ![Christine\_Creed](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/christine_creed/32/510186_2.png) [@Christine\_Creed](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Christine_Creed)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 1:33am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/my-experience-of-progressing-in-pve/511782/83 "2026-05-20T01:33:29Z")
> [@somegirlsarehot](#): > > Thats why i am posting here on the forum. To give devs feedback so they can change their game so pve is actually a valid option to make money and progress This is a joke, right? I mean are you really serious with this? You have to be a WoW reject to even remotely think that your thread here has any merit at all. This cant be a serious thread. Who put you up to this. Is this some kind of new weird corp initiation? ---
**Author:** ![Malak\_Starfire](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/malak_starfire/32/501915_2.png) [@Malak\_Starfire](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Malak_Starfire)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 1:37am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/my-experience-of-progressing-in-pve/511782/84 "2026-05-20T01:37:18Z")
I would think even Wow players know that you need to level up to be able to kill more powerful things and that levelling up requires more than a few minutes. IDK, never played the game, I’m more of a FFXIV Catman. ---
**Author:** ![Malak\_Starfire](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/malak_starfire/32/501915_2.png) [@Malak\_Starfire](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Malak_Starfire)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 1:41am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/my-experience-of-progressing-in-pve/511782/85 "2026-05-20T01:41:49Z")
> [@somegirlsarehot](#): > > Thats why i am posting here on the forum. To give devs feedback so they can change their game so pve is actually a valid option to make money and progress, instead of having to rely on donations, default to faction warfare, gas mining, or null sec exploration, or give up and grind hideaways and refuges for multiple days. There is also Abyssals, Homefronts, and Trading. ---
**Author:** ![Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/uriel_the_flame/32/490165_2.png) [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Uriel_the_Flame)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 8:40am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/my-experience-of-progressing-in-pve/511782/86 "2026-05-20T08:40:44Z")
> [@QuakeGod](#): > > no one tell her about how long skill training takes Just imagine if someone told her about how skill training used to be with `Learning skills`. 👀 🤔 😏 :ccpguard: ---
**Author:** ![Namdor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/namdor/32/396179_2.png) [@Namdor](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Namdor)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 10:50am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/my-experience-of-progressing-in-pve/511782/87 "2026-05-20T10:50:36Z")
Spent my newbro money down to 20,192,367 isk on skill books and a Kestrel using one of the community fits, then went and did one hour of mission running in it. At the end of one hour, he’s back up to 26,029,269 (mix of mission rewards and incidentally completed dailies/career tasks while missioning) and has 2,569 Sisters of Eve LP. At jita buy order prices, just converting to something simple like probes, SOE LP currently nets about 1850 isk per LP, or about 4,752,650 isk. So, basically one hour of running a mix of level 1 and 2 missions on a freshly born alpha character flying a community-fit frigate to afford a cruiser hull. ---
**Author:** ![Arthur\_Aihaken](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/arthur_aihaken/32/504104_2.png) [@Arthur\_Aihaken](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Arthur_Aihaken)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 11:06am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/my-experience-of-progressing-in-pve/511782/88 "2026-05-20T11:06:08Z")
> [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](#): > > Just imagine if someone told her about how skill training used to be with `Learning skills` Don’t forget when you actually **lost** skill points in a T3 strategic cruiser on dying… ---
**Author:** ![Christine\_Creed](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/christine_creed/32/510186_2.png) [@Christine\_Creed](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Christine_Creed)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 11:19am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/my-experience-of-progressing-in-pve/511782/89 "2026-05-20T11:19:53Z")
@Arthur_Aihaken The op will never have to worry about that. ---
**Author:** ![Namdor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/namdor/32/396179_2.png) [@Namdor](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Namdor)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 11:47am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/my-experience-of-progressing-in-pve/511782/90 "2026-05-20T11:47:17Z")
> [@Arthur\_Aihaken](#): > > Don’t forget when you actually **lost** skill points in a T3 strategic cruiser on dying… Pfft, T3s. Don’t forget to _update your clone_. ---
**Author:** ![somegirlsarehot](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/somegirlsarehot/32/497212_2.png) [@somegirlsarehot](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/somegirlsarehot)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 4:26pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/my-experience-of-progressing-in-pve/511782/91 "2026-05-20T16:26:36Z")
No idea what you are doing, tried doing a Level 2 mission in a frigate, like you, and its not working. They are damaging me for more than i can repair, even when speed tanking with afterburner and orbitting at 2500 meters. In other words, need a Cruiser for level 2s. Destroyers wont work because they have the same repairs as a frigate, less slots for resistances, and are slower and bigger, so they take more damage than frigates. Level 1s only pay around 100k a mission. A cruiser is 15 mil. And as i said before, the combat anomalies such as hideaways, burrows, and refuges, also do not pay enough to get 15 mil for a cruiser in a good amount of time. In other words, you can not progress in the game doing PvE. Unless you have no sense of time and grind for days or hours non-stop. Thats why im here on this forum. To give feedback to the developers of Eve Online so they can fix it, so you can actuually progress in Eve Online doing PvE content. Especially in high sec, which is the only place you can actually PvE in, since in low and null you are hunted all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Namdor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/namdor/32/396179_2.png) [@Namdor](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Namdor)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 4:27pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/my-experience-of-progressing-in-pve/511782/92 "2026-05-20T16:27:56Z")
> [@somegirlsarehot](#): > > No idea what you are doing, tried doing a Level 2 mission in a frigate, like you, and its not working. If it works when I do it, but it doesn’t work when _you_ do it, what do you think that might mean? > [@somegirlsarehot](#): > > In other words, you can not progress in the game doing PvE. Unless you have no sense of time and grind for days or hours non-stop. But you can, which I have definitely demonstrated. So you’re just… lying, at this point. Here is exactly what I did: -Create new account, self-referral link for +1m SP -Roll a new character -Fly to the nearest career agent system -Run 12 missions (enforcer/soldier of fortune) This got me about 5 million isk between the missions, daily completions, and career track progression gifts. Since there’s an event running, though, there’s a major shortcut here, and after 12 missions I flew to Jita, claimed my 155 Warpath Operational Intel and sold it to a buy order. That brought me up to 33 million. I then bought skillbooks, spent ~800K of my referral SP, and grabbed the following Kestrel fit from the community fits: [Kestrel, Melamori’s Day 0 Abyssal - T1 Darks] Ballistic Control System II Ballistic Control System II 1MN Monopropellant Enduring Afterburner Small Clarity Ward Enduring Shield Booster Small Compact Pb-Acid Cap Battery Small F-S9 Regolith Compact Shield Extender Arbalest Compact Light Missile Launcher Arbalest Compact Light Missile Launcher Arbalest Compact Light Missile Launcher Arbalest Compact Light Missile Launcher Small Core Defense Field Extender I Small Core Defense Capacitor Safeguard I Small Bay Loading Accelerator I Caldari Navy Nova Light Missile x1500 Calm Dark Filament x3 (you don’t need this for our purposes here, they’re just in the fit). I then looked at the agent finder and decided Airaken looked like an alright place to run missions. It has two level 1 security agents in the same station, and a level 2 in another station. I ran level 1 missions for the two agents out of the first station, declining any that I thought would be slow/inefficient. In practice, this just meant “Any mission that would take me out of system”. After a few sets of level 1s just to get my SOE corp standing up, I moved over to the level 2 agent. Whether this is an improvement or not is debatable, as being able to grab two missions from one station is really efficient. Over the course of an hour’s worth of mission running I received: 1.8 million in mission rewards 1.8 million in time bonus rewards 750K in bounty prizes A 500K first day isk bonus A 500K daily goal reward (for earning 50 lp with any corp) 375K in Air Career Program rewards 2569 SOE LP ---
**Author:** ![Malak\_Starfire](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/malak_starfire/32/501915_2.png) [@Malak\_Starfire](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Malak_Starfire)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 4:34pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/my-experience-of-progressing-in-pve/511782/93 "2026-05-20T16:34:44Z")
> [@somegirlsarehot](#): > > No idea what you are doing, tried doing a Level 2 mission in a frigate, like you, and its not working. You not training skills likely is part of it…and no it doesn’t require 3-5 years of training, with the amount of time you’ve been on this forum, you could of had a lot more performance out of your ship. ---
**Author:** ![somegirlsarehot](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/somegirlsarehot/32/497212_2.png) [@somegirlsarehot](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/somegirlsarehot)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 8:05pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/my-experience-of-progressing-in-pve/511782/94 "2026-05-20T20:05:48Z")
You are running light missiles, which are the best for pve. I am running energy turrets (amarr) You will always outdps me in both raw damage and turret tracking. Also, light missiles have a very long range compared to energy turrets. My small long range energy turrets on Standard Small crystal has a range of 10-13 km. I will end up getting hit, compared to you sitting 20 km away. I was doing short range before, and even when doing long range all the enemy frigates and destroyers were hitting me pretty hard. The cruisers could not hit me, its the frigates and destroyers that have perfect tracking. And basing your money making strategies off one-time methods that can not be done again is not reallly a good strategy. ---
**Author:** ![Arthur\_Aihaken](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/arthur_aihaken/32/504104_2.png) [@Arthur\_Aihaken](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Arthur_Aihaken)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 8:08pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/my-experience-of-progressing-in-pve/511782/95 "2026-05-20T20:08:41Z")
> [@somegirlsarehot](#): > > And basing your money making strategies off one-time methods that can not be done again is not reallly a good strategy. If you can’t progress past a cruiser - you’re seriously doing something wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Namdor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/namdor/32/396179_2.png) [@Namdor](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Namdor)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 8:15pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/my-experience-of-progressing-in-pve/511782/96 "2026-05-20T20:15:55Z")
> [@somegirlsarehot](#): > > You are running light missiles, which are the best for pve. I am running energy turrets (amarr) You will always outdps me in both raw damage and turret tracking. > > Also, light missiles have a very long range compared to energy turrets. My small long range energy turrets on Standard Small crystal has a range of 10-13 km. I will end up getting hit, compared to you sitting 20 km away. > > I was doing short range before, and even when doing long range all the enemy frigates and destroyers were hitting me pretty hard. The cruisers could not hit me, its the frigates and destroyers that have perfect tracking. This is a lot of words just to say, “Hm, yeah, it looks like you’re using effective tactics and I’m not.” That aside, I could easily do this on an Amarr charcter, and might even be happy to demonstrate, except it’s pretty clear that you’re basically just trolling via Brandolini’s Law. > [@somegirlsarehot](#): > > And basing your money making strategies off one-time methods that can not be done again is not reallly a good strategy. I am not sure there is anyone in a worse position to give Eve Online related financial advice. ---
**Author:** ![somegirlsarehot](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/somegirlsarehot/32/497212_2.png) [@somegirlsarehot](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/somegirlsarehot)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 8:33pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/my-experience-of-progressing-in-pve/511782/97 "2026-05-20T20:33:53Z")
Theres these 25,000 bounty frigates…Coreli Guardian something…they have high resists and do alot of damage, even when im orbitting around them with a afterburner at 800 meters per second…they take very little damage and deal alot of damage frequently, very good turret tracking. Other than that, sometimes theres too many frigates / destroyers, who naturally have very good tracking, and i get hit hard and have to warp out. I guess theres a big difference when you do Level 2 security missions in a tech 2 fit frigate using the best weapon system in the game for pve, and being normal and not caring about min-maxing, using whatever weapon system you want, with a fighting frigate and normal tech 1 and tech 1 npc-dropped modules. You guys keep saying i am trolling i am trolling, yet i am trying to play the game normally and am failing, meanwhile you guys are doing the same things in super expensive fittings (Tech 2), using the best weapon system in the game for pve instead of any of the other 3, which would represent the actual game more, and using methods to make money that are one-time and not part of the actual game. ---
**Author:** ![Arthur\_Aihaken](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/arthur_aihaken/32/504104_2.png) [@Arthur\_Aihaken](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Arthur_Aihaken)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 8:35pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/my-experience-of-progressing-in-pve/511782/98 "2026-05-20T20:35:49Z")
At this point I’m willing to just give you the ISK to upgrade (provided you have the skills for said equipment)… ---
**Author:** ![Malak\_Starfire](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/malak_starfire/32/501915_2.png) [@Malak\_Starfire](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Malak_Starfire)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 8:37pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/my-experience-of-progressing-in-pve/511782/99 "2026-05-20T20:37:59Z")
> [@somegirlsarehot](#): > > You guys keep saying i am trolling i am trolling, yet i am trying to play the game normally and am failing, meanwhile you guys are doing the same things in super expensive fittings (Tech 2), using the best weapon system in the game for pve instead of any of the other 3, which would represent the actual game more, and using methods to make money that are one-time and not part of the actual game. The fits that was linked is literally useable by a day one character. Missiles are also not the best, just the easiest to understand how to apply. ---
**Author:** ![Arthur\_Aihaken](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/arthur_aihaken/32/504104_2.png) [@Arthur\_Aihaken](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Arthur_Aihaken)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 8:41pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/my-experience-of-progressing-in-pve/511782/100 "2026-05-20T20:41:06Z")
You should really be using a cruiser (or higher) for most missions. Not that you can’t do it in anything less - but completion times will be drastically reduced. [Previous page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/my-experience-of-progressing-in-pve/511782.md?page=4) [Next page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/my-experience-of-progressing-in-pve/511782.md?page=6)