# The EVE Online Ironman Challenge **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Tags:** pve, community\ **Created:** [May 13, 2020, 12:32pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/the-eve-online-ironman-challenge/240831 "2020-05-13T12:32:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Kell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lucas_kell/32/393556_2.png) [@Lucas\_Kell](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Lucas_Kell)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 12:32pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/the-eve-online-ironman-challenge/240831/1 "2020-05-13T12:32:52Z")
After a wildly off-topic discussion in another thread, I thought it would be fun to set up some ground rules a PvE Ironman challenge in EVE. This is a work in progress and I welcome suggestions on other rules and goals. The challenge will be played on trust. There’s nothing that can strictly enforce these rules but it’s a personal challenge so hopefully most people will play along in good faith. It’s not a race or a leaderboard or anything like that, it’s just a bit of fun. The aim is to try to play the game with the least amount of player contact. At the moment the “end-game” aim is to build a fully fit battleship but I’m open to suggestions. I’ve added some ideas for goals below. **Rules:** The core of the rules is that you must not interact with players in gameplay as much as possible. - You must create a new character with no SP to inject. It can be alpha or omega, entirely up to you. - You cannot redeem special event rewards, but you may use the “evergreen” rewards, (the daily login rewards that come outside of events). - No buying or selling anything to players on the market, but you can buy or sell using NPC orders (the ones with remaining times of like 300+ days). - You may not loot anything in space that belongs to another player, and must not try to get around the trade restrictions by putting things in cans or scooping drones. - You must not shoot another player. If attacked you may try to escape but you must not fire back and must recall or abandon drones if they aggress. - You must not use any contracts. - You must not use HyperNet. - You must not purchase injectors from the New Eden store. - You must not join a player corporation but may create one of your own provided you recruit no other characters and do not engage in any player interaction with it. - You may build a POS or citadel but it must only be usable by you and you must not defend it if it is attacked. - No use of player-owned structures in any way, not even just to dock unless they are owned by you. - You must not join any fleets. - You must not use alts or other players for scouting or support. - You must not use intel channels. - No trade in any form with another player, and that includes being sent ISK. If a player sends you ISK you must send it to an alt. - Outside of the situation with the ISK above, you may not transfer ISK or assets out from this character to another because: - If you are podded by a player or self-destruct while under a player aggression timer, you must biomass your character and all assets (including corp assets if you created a corp). If you decide you want to give the challenge a go, feel free to post below and keep people updated with progress. If you have any suggestions or comments, post those too. > **Click here for some ideas for goals to work towards. You can do some of these, or all of them or none of them and make your own goals.** > > **If you build it:** > > - Build a battleship > - Build a freighter > - Build a mining barge > - Build a POS > - Build a citadel > > **It’s all about the tracker:** > > - Complete the Exploration tree of the activity tracker > - Complete the Ore, Ice and Gas and Salvaging sections of the activity tracker > - Complete the Manufacturing, Research, Copying and Invention sections of the activity tracker > - Complete the Non-capsuleer combat tree of the activity tracker > > **Grind it up:** > > - Accrue 50b ISK worth of modules > - Accrue 50b ISK worth of ore > - Accrue 50b ISK worth of ice > - Accrue 50b ISK worth of salvage > - Accrue 50b ISK in your wallet > - Have 1 trillion units of tritanium in a single hangar at least 5 jumps away from a major trade hub (because why not?) > > **Arc de Triomphe:** > > - Complete the SoE epic arc > - Complete the four empire epic arcs > - Complete the two pirate epic arcs > > **Where do we stand:** > > - Achieve a faction standing for 10 with a single faction > - Achieve a faction standing of 8 with the 4 empire factions > - Achieve a corporation standing of 10 with 5 different corporations --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/the-eve-online-ironman-challenge/240831)._