Money, money, money: tell us about your favourite ISK-making activity!

Alex Sinclair · 2024-11-14T09:44:38.901Z

Who's ready for some ISK-y business? For this bounty, we want you to tell us about your favourite ISK-making activity, obscure or otherwise. It doesn't necessarily need to be the most effective or efficient ISK-making activity, just the one that brings you the most joy. Tell us how you do it, why you like it, and any other information that might be of value to other players looking for an enjoyable new revenue stream. You can enter with text or video. If you opt for video, be sure to share it via a connected video account. We suspect some of the more established video creators among you will want to share a pre-published video guide about your go-to money-making activity; that's fine, but be sure to explain why you like it with accompanying text. Our thanks go to Bubba_EvE for suggesting (https://justabout.com/eve-online/34480/suggest-your-own-bounty-idea-for-dollar5-we-might-even-run-it-1#post-16231) this bounty topic!...

Kane Carnifex 11/16/2024, 9:47:59 PM

Currently the newest plan?Selling Mercenary Dens to Brave

On patch day I traveled over to Zarzakh and bought around 12 BPOs which is around 1,2 b total. The price to cook one is around ~20m but you could also research the BPOs to get a little bit more profit. Also keep in mind with BPOs also comes BPCs, which ofc is more profit.

I now have 150 Dens which I produced for ~3 b.

If i would sell them for 30m i would end up with a little bit less than 300m profit.
For like +5m i could make it 1,05 b and would still be like Jita sell.
This would include the buycosts for the BPOs.

Additionally on top the BPC goes currently for ~5 m in Jita.
My BPO ,I copy from, is already 5% / 10% and it doesn't cost much to make BPCs.
The matter here is time, so ~~7 bpc for~~ 11 Hours and my poor skills xD

Also it looks like these things aren't the tankiest ones so why not have a second just to be safe.

So gathering it up took me roughly 2 Hours to get the BPOs back to my home.
From there you start to get the materials to get your production up running.

And if you have some slots left why not researching xD
This doesn't cost that much time.

And since we are in Brave we can't be that greedy and ask for

50m ~3,3b Profit
60m ~4,8b Profit
In PR- is selling it for 100m piece ~ 10,8b Profit.

But as said we are Brave so we want to enable our beginners to try new stuff.
Also Duty. is recruiting, which is Brave :P

Bla bla bla taxes bla bla bla... always have a buffer :)

LukaZaharin 11/16/2024, 10:20:36 PM

LOOOTING!

I'm a big lootgoblin. As a newbie I lived off wrecks for a long time and until today, the most satisfying way to gain ISK for me is looting. I perfected my technique over the time and know how to adapt to different situations in different parts of space by now. It is certainly not the most effective way to gain income, but it is a lot of fun and I often find good stuff in more or less abandoned wrecks.

A while ago I even wrote a little story for my bio. Whoever remembers the old Sotiyo in Tama will recognize the station I am talking about 😊

As black as night the infinity of space. I'm sitting in a Reaper, my eyes focussed on the jump gate. Now’s the moment; the Arazu decloaks as a heavy transporter appears. I align my ship and wait for the end. The engines roar as my ship jumps to warp. Even in the pod I can feel the acceleration. Seconds later I reach the remains of the shredded hauler. A few quick commands and my cargo hold begins to fill up. Alarms ring in my ears, I'm locked! I see the mighty cruiser’s weapon turrets rotate as they try to lock on to me and accelerate my ship again. The first hits graze my shields, but the Reaper is already going into warp. A gentle tremor goes through the ship as the protective force fields of the Space Detroit activate around it. I have escaped with my loot... this time. Satisfied, I empty my cargo hold and turn my eyes back to the stargate.

Kane Carnifex 11/17/2024, 10:39:30 AM

LukaZaharin

Lootgoblins <3

Jaques Ufaltred 11/18/2024, 4:44:11 AM

LukaZaharin

I definitely have not saved every single metal scrap I have ever collected in my entire EVE career. And I certainly do not have several Billion isk worth of rat loot in my item hangar. And I most assuredly do not have an entire station container devoted to faction or deadspace drops.

... I'll see myself out.

LukaZaharin 11/18/2024, 5:56:55 AM

Jaques Ufaltred

I totally do not understand what you mean! xD

That's one of the things I really dislike in many other games, the limited inventory space. I usually sell the good stuff for ISK, but I just pile the T2 mods in my home station and neighbouring systems and have a refit wherever I dock. Don't waste anything that could be useful again, it does not hurt you in it's container!

Jaques Ufaltred 11/18/2024, 4:51:56 AM

Planetary Industries

Even as a terminal alpha clone, free omega comes up often enough for this to be a good recommendation for every player. Even in hisec, with single planet P2 production colonies, you can make at least a few million almost completely passively per planet per cycle. I do mine on 3 days. When the free (or vastly discounted) omega offers come up, I use the opportunity to export my PI, giving me a nice lump sum bonus to play with. Here is a typical colony setup I use.