2/7/2008 - Hourly Cash
Hourly EVE ISK
This is the most common type of EVE ISK making, so I'll try to make it relatively simple and short, as everyone knows about most of this.
Mission running. This is quite simple. The more you kill, the faster you do it, and the lower sec you are in, the more you earn. Generally, the most important thing is to do the missions as fast as possible while still killing the structures/bosses that drop loot and checking their cans. This is learned with experience. Picking up loot from enemies, as far as I have found, is generally a waste of time unless one has time (as in a Blockade mission against BSs) or one is in a small, fast ship. Remember that higher quality, higher level, and also lower security level of the system is extremely important in good payout. A 1.0 agent will give very little in terms of LPs.
Mining. Outside of 0.0 space, its just a matter of getting as many people as possible to suck on a roid for as long as possible with the best skills possible. Not very hard. In 0.0, its a bit more interesting. In a small mining op, tanking the rats is usually the best idea. In a larger one, covetors and the like can mine while a single ship tanks the rats. Mercoxit, by the way, is a great ore, and if you have the skills and time to mine it, it makes loads of money.
The following section is VERY out of date. There are better guides for NPC trading, and since its now viable, I'd avoid the original text here.
NPC trade good trading. I would avoid this like the plague with the current influx of freighters. From what I have seen, it is very hard to make reasonable profits anymore without a freighter, due to freighters crashing the NPC prices. However, one can effectively use sell orders (and buy orders) to make it unecessary to log on just after downtime to sell (or buy) one's goods. This isn't hard to figure out, but I will leave it as an exercise to the reader. If you combine using buy/sell orders and finding a good, unspoiled route, you can make pretty good cash even without a freighter. Also, many routes are also very under-run, yielding good profit among the many bad routes. I won't go into extreme detail about finding these, as there is a guide around here somewhere devoted entirely to this.
Hunting NPCs in belts. The trick here is to do it in as low security space as possible, as fast as possible, and while picking as much of the high end loot as possible. Never let a battleship loot can go unchecked: these drop a lot more than the mission battleships do.
Escrow. If you pay attention to escrow and sell orders forums enough, you'll get a good idea as to what things are worth. If you sort escrow by time placed and stick to the stop, refreshing it, you can catch items placed that are undervalued, or are even placed for zero EVE Online ISK. You can make absolute loads, if you are lucky. Its good to do when you're bored. It requires little thought, but needs a quick analysis of the value of groups of items, before someone else grabs it.
There are other methods of Hourly cash-earning, but they are less common, such as courier agents. I will not comment on piracy as a method for earning cash, as obviously that doesn't belong in this topic, and belongs more in a thread in Crime and Punishment. In addition, there are many services one can offer to earn EVE Online ISK hourly: for example, long-distance freighter couriers. These are out of the scope of this guide, but you can do anything--be creative!
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2/7/2008 - Eve Guide: Ice Mining
Ice Harvesting
1: What is Ice?
Ice is something like ore.
One big difference is the volume of ice:
Every piece of Ice is 1000 m³
You can find it in Ice belts which are in some systems.
There are much less Ice belts than normal asteroid belts.
Ice Types:
Blue Ice (Gallente)
Clear Icicle (Amarr)
Dark Glitter
Gelidus
Glacial Mass (Minmatar)
Glare Crust
Krystallos
White Glaze (Caldari)
2: For what is it needed?
The refined Ice is needed to run POS (Player Owned Stations)
A POS uses much Ice per day, so there is always Ice needed on the EVE ISK market.
3: What do I need for mining it?
You need at least a Mining Barge (Procurer, Retriever or Covetor)
or an Exhumer (Skiff, Mackinaw or Hulk) (Industry V, Mining IV, Astrogeology IV and the skills for the ship class)
And you need the Skills Ice Harvesting (Mining IV)
and the Ice Harvesters which go for about 2,7m EVE Online ISK per piece on market.
4: How can I mine it and how can i optimize my efficiency?
Fit your Ice Harvesters on your Mining Barge/Exhumer.
If you can do it, fit Ice Harvester Upgrades.
The Mackinaw has a +100% bonus on the yield of Ice Harvesters, but a -25% duration Penalty.
The penalty is reduced by 5% fo every Exhumers skill level.
So, if you have Exhumer V the Mackinaw has the normal cycle time.
The fact that it gets double yield per cycle makes it the most efficient Ice Harvesting ship available.
But I want to tell you, that Ice Harvesting is it only worth if you have Ice Harvesters II and a Mackinaw with Exhumers V and Ice Harvesting V
With that setup you can earn more money with mining Ice than with mining ore.
That way you get a real good efficiency and you can earn real much EVE ISK with mining Ice.
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2/7/2008 - Ratting - Chaining
OK, you are about to witness the truth that you can do this instead of buy eve online isk to survive. First off, when you warp into an asteroid field, make sure there are warp points over 300km or more away. Preferably other asteroids. low security has the best warp-to points for this, especially in 0.0 (no security) Once there, and there are no rats present, get to the farthest point in the asteroid field, and activate your mining beam on one asteroid. in about 5 to 15 minutes or sooner, a group of rats will appear. allow them to lock you, but make sure you are aligned to the next warp point within the asteroid field. after they lock onto you, warp to the next warp point, get within mining range and reactivate a mining beam. jettison the ore you just mined into space, and realign to the original starting point. by this time, the rats will start to come to you once again, and warp to you then lock once more. this action will make them reaquire you in target locks and as you will notice, the bounties will increase. do this for about 6 times, then you will notice that the frigate sized rat becomes a cruiser, and the cruser sized rats become battleships, hence the increase in bounties, then have at them by killing the bs rats for the 1.5 million bounties, and leave just one rat, so that the rats respawn. by the way, when you do this, the chaining event also happens a lot faster. you can make an easy10-20 mil eve online isk an hour. 10 mil as in you have a friend with you. remember to only kill all ships except one small ship. easy-peasy EVE ISK.
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