# New Player need Isk tips **URL:** \ **Category:** New Citizens Q&A\ **Created:** [August 5, 2017, 10:47pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-player-need-isk-tips/14364 "2017-08-05T22:47:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![yellow\_parasol](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/yellow_parasol/32/10455_2.png) [@yellow\_parasol](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/yellow_parasol)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 12:21pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-player-need-isk-tips/14364/7 "2017-08-06T12:21:17Z")
Stuff like this is more fun and can yield you income, despite (deliberately) not mentioning it: > **[Creative exercises for the uninitiated](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/creative-exercises-for-the-uninitiated/14188)** > > This thread is about alternative routes new players can take, with no need for them to follow the path CCP laid out for them. All of you older players who had no tutorials, not much of tutorials or skipped them (👋), you’re asked and invited to share... For a new player, the route CCP gives them is pretty poor, isk- and gameplay-wise, compared to what you can make in your early days by deliberately ignoring it and going for adventures. Being socially interactive will yield you relatively more. Way more, actuallly. Pix Severus wrote down my early day adventures, which you can read here: > **[Yellow Parasol is a pretty cool guy](https://mtuhunter.wordpress.com/2017/05/29/yellow-parasol-is-a-pretty-cool-guy/)** > > In a previous post, I detailed a side-activity of mine, which is to leave containers at gates in each system I have hunted in along with the simple message: “Pix Severus was here o/”. I… You won’t beat that income with conventional crap everyone does. As a new player, making others aware of your existence is the best money maker, relatively speaking. This isn’t meant to brag. The purpose of this story is exactly for threads like this. **_Providing amusing content for others will make you money and it’s more fun than grinding!_** --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/new-player-need-isk-tips/14364)._