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Me on Massively!

Anyway, some things to report. I ended up with a total of about 8.5 million ISK, not too bad indeed! I made these precious iskies many different ways, from mining to trading to missions to piracy to looting random wrecks to corp wars!

In the middle of the week I joined up with a guy from the EVE Online livejournal community who declared war on an alliance because (as I saw it) he felt like it!

So, we went to war. I got killed once, and killed nobody, but arriving late to a massive battle I managed to grab about 4-5 million isk worth of T2 loot off of one of their wrecks, send a few missiles at an Armageddon, and then ran. I think we can consider that an economic victory, no?

I also engaged in some piracy, the results of which can be seen if you put “Ambar Boktor” into Battleclinic’s killboard. Sure, I didn’t get much loot, but I did manage to have some fun. Look, people, if someone’s ransoming you – pay up! If not, he’s going to kill you, and your shiny frigate/mining ship too! And nobody…well, nobody except for the guy who told me he actually MADE money off of me killing his ship.

But I suspect that he was a bit crazy.

ANYWAY! I spent my last day on the account flying around, gathering up everything I had in various stations, selling stuff and also doing a spot of mining. I also spent about 10 minutes being chased around empire by a group of war targets. It was fun.

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Suggestions for making the most money you can in the least amount of time with the least amount of skills:

BUY AS LITTLE AS YOU CAN! Although I went Caldari for this contest, going Amarr means you never have to buy ammo, once you have your crystals. And as many of these drop from rats and the like, you minimize the amount of isk you spend on that sort of thing. Make sure to utilize everything your various tutorial missions give you, and do NOT spend any money on learning skills. Why? Because what you want to do is to train skills necessary to making money depending on your situation. Trading? Train up all the skills that will be helpful for that profession. Fighting? Train those skills. Noticing a pattern here?

If you’re able to do things to make money, it doesn’t necessarily mean you have to train those skills UBER FASTZORZ, just get ‘em trained.

Also, while some may think it’s crazy, I suggest joining a corporation that’s involved in at least one war. Fly a cheap ship, and setup some kind of deal with the corp – I bring you X ammo, you let me loot wrecks. If you can get them to pay for the ammo, bonus!

I’m going to publish a more complete guide to newbie moneymakin’ on the EVE forums at some point.

And now, a joke.

A bear walks into a bar and says: “I’d like a beer………………………….and a packet of peanuts.”

The bartender looks at him and says: “Hey, why the long pause?”

Don’t get it? Send Di0 Boli (my main) a million ISK. Just because.

’nuff said.

Balance: 2,614,000 or so ISK.

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1. Do tutorial missions. If you’ve never played EVE before, do the tutorial.

2. Take the equipment and ships you get in the tutorial missions as far as you can before buying a new one.

3. Don’t buy anything unless you have to.

4. If you’ve got some spare time, go to a low sec (0.4 or s0) and look around for player wrecks, sometimes you get lucky and find various T2 mods.

5. Combat missions. They are the most effective if you look at it as an ISK/Hour sort of thing, as ransoms and loot can add up nicely.

6. Alternatively, buy a destroyer and some cargo expanders, and the mine for 30 or so hours.

7.  Actually use the market – instead of just selling whenever whatever, actually post sell orders.

8. HIGH RISK LOW PAY: Become a pirate. If you get lucky you’ll stumble upon the one guy who forgot to fit stabs, and get a nice ransom out of him. Hard though, and probably won’t pay very much.

SKILLS TO TRAIN:

Forget learning skills, they don’t matter for making money. You want to be able to do the most with what you’ve got, so train upgrades related to what you can do. If you still haven’t made a character, go the most combat heavy route (I know the goonswarm/fleet/whatever wiki has some good guides) because that’ll make it easy to profit right off the bat.

Train skills such as Afterburner and Navigation to at least three. Train “Trade” to at least three as well, the extra orders really help. Train up the various upgrades (hull, energy, weapons) so that you can get the most out of a 30,000 ISK frigate. Wait until you have about 3mill ISK before buying and training destroyers, they aren’t THAT important. Try to train skills you already have, but if you must make sure to buy the cheapest ones. I don’t care if you have to go 10 jumps or whatever, but since you’re trying to make the most profit in the least time, saving 100,000 ISK by taking a 10 minute long trip which, had you not taken it, would have made you 45,000 ISK from mining or whatever is not good.

GOALS:

Make lots of money in very little time.  To do this, you’ve got to find areas that not only have supplies and ships,  but good hunting grounds/missioning grounds as well as a fairly close by trading hub. I’d suggest hanging out in the New Caldari/Jita region, but FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND HOLY, stay the hell out of Jita. You’ll loose far more time and far more ISK/Hour than you’d make, even if the deal is totally sweet. If you really need something you can only buy in Jita, find out who is selling it and convo/EVEmail them and see if they’ll bring it out to you.

More “complete” guide will be posted, possibly on the EVE forums, under my (gasp!) main character after the contest.

But today went rather well – I was zooming around low-ish sec (0.5, 0.4 systems) hunting for somebody to shoot when I jumped in on someone getting blown up by sentry guns. I got to the wreck first, and lo – and – behold, he had a bunch of tech 2 mods!

Best part? Each was worth about 1.5mill.

So, that went well.

I managed to get in game a few times, change some skills…[EDIT]but wow, apparently about 100,000 ISK or so of my sell orders…sold. I’ve got about 819,000 ISK now. Woo?

And now I have to do everything I was going to do outside of game today.

So wednesday is going to be the day of massive profits, I hope.

Over and out.