The ISK Treadmill

Ah ISK..

Well I am always poor and have spent most of my EvE life doing level 4 missions. Upon joining EvE I joined a corp and ran missions and then I ran more missions. Then I helped others run missions. I dabbled in faction warfare, Wormholes and even some 0.0. But always came back to running missions.

It seemed I always needed more ISK. I need more ISK to buy this battle ship or that fit for a battle ship. The end goal was always to get to 0.0 to PvP, yet I never seemed to get there. With limited play time I would run 2 or more missions in a night some times solo, some times in a fleet yet I was always poor.

In hind sight I spent to long doing lvl 4’s as they are a treadmill and require far more play time than I have. I also had the expectation that in 0.0 you needed lots of ships and lots of ISK.

I was wrong. PvP is exactly as expensive as you make it. PvP in a reaper and it’s really cheap. PvP in a marauder and you have more isk than brains. Currently battle cruisers cost to effectiveness ratio is so high making them very popular. it is also the sweet spot for risk vs reward for many people. Further adding to their popularity.

That said I really want to fly some more expensive ships and have them be expendable with out really feeling the loss. Grinding more plexes/blets or level 4’s is nto really an option with limited play time. So I’m looking for other sources of isk.

Currently I am training 4 alts to become data core alts. While they do NOT make a lot of isk it is free isk.  So far I have only finished 1 and it took about a month of training a running missions. Once done it will provide an nice passive source of isk.

Pi is also something worth doing, I have an alt account doing PI but will probably get some on my main. I expect to be over hauling my PI production chain as right now the base materials are worth more than I’m producing.

The alt account mentioned above is NOT a combat pilot but a miner, she can now fly a hulk so once I save enough that should be a nice source of isk. Minning as my main is on a roam(dual screen) warping out if a hostile is in system.

So while I do not have much isk now I hope I soon will.