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CommanderA9

Want to get rich quickly? Here’s the dirty secret – you can, if you sell your soul!

Seriously; one mistake that people make in EVE Online is when they hear someone bragging about how much money they’ve made in a single hour, they forget that raking in that kind of cash takes significant investment in both time and money. The kind of wealth that would buy capital ships (or PLEX at this rate) takes time, ISK, investment, knowhow, skill, and maybe a little luck, all combined into one. It especially takes consistency and diversity.

Likewise, the term ‘quickly’ is relative to the individual, depending on how desperate and driven they are for ISK.

If one wants to truly get rich in EVE, it’s a good idea to diversify one’s portfolio, and treat it seriously. This means having multiple streams of income, such as missions, salvaging, planetary infrastructure, mining skills, and the pursuit of some kind of activity that can not only keep you engaged, but also reward you for your time and effort on a relatively consistent basis.

Sure, you might find a billion-ISK item while traversing a wormhole, but if you find that item once a month (or longer), that kind of ISK might run out before you know what to do with it. And if that becomes your only activity and doesn’t yield consistent profit, you’re going to end up driven to pursue some other path.

Sure, you could descend into the dark rabbit hole of scamming people in trade hubs, but will you be able to sleep at night? Will you be proud of yourself and your ill-gotten gains?

One component of EVE is the balance of time-to-profit and risk-versus-reward; high-risk means high-reward; lengthy investment and improved skills typically yield greater profit, or at least raises your chances of higher profit.

If one is just starting out, mining, missions, and selling the salvage from both are good starter pursuits, which can generate a good income as you improve your skills and performance.

Longtime veterans might run more advanced missions, Incursions, Agency events, or PVP and sell the dropped high-yield gear.

Personally? I fly Incursions, but I’ve also been flying Incursions since 2013 almost non-stop; I’ve made investments to prepare for and pursue Incursions no matter where they strike in the cluster. And I am rewarded handsomely for my time.

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yan57436

I think the easiest way is to buy items that are garbage, spend years without logging in and wait for them to become valuable haha. Joking aside, I believe that exploring in low/null sec and wormholes is the best for alphas, as some runs yield hundreds of millions of ISK.

Choose a T1 exploration frigate, it's the best, and make sure you have a probe launcher, data and relic analyzer module (for omega players, I've seen a lot of recommendations to use an Astero for greater safety).

It's a risky activity, of course, but the greater the risk, the greater your return too, which is why starting out in HS is very important for getting to grips with the game, LS is already more punishing, NS and WH then... I like to be pessimistic and always believe that someone is targeting me, being cautious is never a bad thing. Start little by little and familiarize yourself, I think that's the best way.

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JHenckes

Anyone who tells you how to get rich easily, be afraid, it probably won't be that easy! That goes for EVE too. There are some good ways to increase your stock of ISK, but they all involve effort, investment, strategy and even luck, okay?

My favorite way to make money in the game is through trading. Especially items made available at events (ships, projects or other items), where demand is high and consequently so is the price. So taking advantage of update periods and the start of events in the game turns out to be one of the most profitable ways possible, but as I said before, it requires dedication to farming the items.

When there isn't an attractive event going on, the most lucrative way of making money in the game for me is by exploring for relics in Null-sec. Obviously, this requires a late-game account for survival reasons. Metallic gas and supersonic ice are also great options for highly valued materials. As well as hunting missions such as EDENCOM's field bases. These options involve a great deal of risk and therefore require you to be an experienced player, ok?

For those who like action (which is also my case when I have time to play), piracy and ransom missions can be a good addition to your assets. For this style, it's important to define the group well so that the method is as profitable as possible.

I've talked about methods that involve effort and strategy, haven't I? And investment? This is the easiest way to accumulate ISK. Buy PLEX (real game money). It sounds like a joke, but it really is the best way to make a profit, and what's more, it can help you with the other forms of profitability I've mentioned!

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Schadsquatch

Might be a bit dirty, but taking advantage of in-game events and popular fits is a great way of flipping assets for personal gain.

With a little bit of timing, luck and a little bit of help from friends, you can corner a market at the very beginning of a new event and reap riches.

With the recent Drifter event, many of the sites require you to either cap transfer and have armor logistics on grid to successfully run the event. The perfect ship to use is the Augoror, which at the time there was very few on the market (especially in Amarr). I bought up all of the ships and relisted them for 3x their price. Over the course of an evening, many of my overpriced ships were sold and I have made a decent profit with many ships left to sell.

Here is a spreadsheet showing how much I have made since I started this!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SHJfK3L4UVCnJqXVEZ8Ejod3LmGCdEYX7SITauacIuA/edit?gid=0#gid=0

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Lumin

SKYHOOKING!

Seriously, stealing magmatic gas and superionic ice from other players in EVE Online is one of the quickest and easiest ways of making absurd amounts of ISK. There is a modicum of luck involved, to be sure, but for the most part you can guarantee success by doing your research and preparations. It can even be done solo!

A quick rundown: Prepare by putting a good fit together for the job. Then, when the time is nigh, scout the map out to see which Skyhooks are vulnerable. Find a juicy looking hook with a decent amount of time left on it then see if you can find a wormhole leading anywhere near it using EVE Scout or EVE Metro, or just use a null sec filament and hope for the best. When you approach the hook and the system it is in take note of the systems two jumps before / after it on your journey, or any that are nearby enough to be alerted when you initiate the robbery. (Lurm the Slurm TipTopProTip: Rob hooks when the residents of the space are asleep, or perhaps busy with a big in-game event or occurence!) No players nearby? All clear? Deal with the rats and start the link!

Then, the hardest part, the waiting. If all goes according to plan and you have done your work you will leave the space richer than you when you arrived in it, far richer. If the haul is big enough to warrant immediate extraction, use a Pochven filament to escape and haul the loot back to safety.

That's it! I have made the bulk of my fortune (that I have subsequently wasted) doing Skyhooking. If you have any questions feel free to ask away! <3

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Nth Dimensional

The best advice I can give on how to get rich QUICK is to do null sec relic exploration until you have enough money to buy one ticket for a jump freighter on the hyper net. Keep doing this until you win and then sell it. Statistically you should have won before you overpaid for it. From there you have about 10bil in capital and you can start station trading which makes some of the most money in the game by far.
I recommend watching Oz Eve for trading advice.

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ErsecondPL

I opened lp to isk convertor (I oriented what price would be reasonable to buy from people) and started buying state protectorate LP from people. Almost without any efort I made 200 mil isk. Meanwhile I'm doing t2 dark with my hawk, which isn't the easiest (sometimes I die) but it makes me steady 60mln isk/h + meanwhile when i clear the room and I'm flying to next room/ I have nothing to micro I'm doing concord research which gives me another 20-30 mln isk/h so it's good income. It is good to check the blueprint prices in contracts (blueprints dropped in abbysal space), sometimes it is much more worth to craft those items and then sell on the market.

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greybill

Step 1: Join a PvP-oriented corp & get good at internet spaceships
Step 2: Join an Alliance Tournament team
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit! (Sell the prize ship(s) & skins you won)

Admittedly, you need an older character that has some skill points to be able to fly in the Alliance Tournament. And you need to take it somewhat seriously and join at least a semi-tryhard team, I guess that requires some experience to pick a good one.

But since CCP restructured the prize distribution to give out prizes to the top 16 teams, you only need to win two matches.
That is very doable with a willing team.

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Sumfin7

Less of a get-rich-quick and more of a get-rich-easy is Planetary Interaction. You invest about 6-6.5 million per colony, so about 40 million for 5 of them, and get hundreds fo millions per month just by making several dozen clicks a few days.

The actual get-rich-quick is escalation farming. I made over 5 billion in 2 years using a Vexor to farm Serpentis Refuge and Serpentis Hideaway sites in Highesec for the 3/10 escalation.

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ShoMenao

One of the few times I've made a fair amount quickly was before a patch where an item (I forget at this point which one) was going to be significantly more valuable due to its use in generating a new item from said update. I went around to all the regions and bought out all of said item then relisted for 10x the initial amount. I made a few dozen billion off this in a couple days.

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FirestormGamingTeam

Hello

My preferred way of making ISK is two activities.

DED Hunting - This is basically flying around in a Jackdaw, hitting high sec anoms and waiting for an escalation, then running the escalation for DED Deadspace faction loot, each site can net around 200-300 a site.

Abyssal Space - Running T1 electricals in a Retribution using the 3 Frigate activation so It gives a 3 x loot table loaded, with the Retribution setup you can run these in less than 8 minutes. Each run nets you around 10-40 Mil per run, so, with awesome luck on drops, you make a lot of ISK, very quickly.

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Limal

My "getting rich" strategy is quite simple:

  1. Follow Oz / join his Discord. OZ_Eve - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/OZeve

  2. Prepare a character with the necessary skills and standings.

  3. Dive into station trading.

Despite being a CSM member for two years, Oz continues to provide valuable insights and tips for station trading. Unlike many other content creators, he advocates for low-position-count trading, which helps mitigate the biggest threat to any trader: burnout. By focusing on 4–6 products and updating orders just once or twice a week, you can remain profitable without the stress of managing 80+ positions and constantly battling rivals.

If you’re sceptical of his expertise, you can draw your own conclusions from sources like official EVE economic reports, battle reports, and political maps.

You can even be part of the trading chain Kane Carnifex mentioned and either sell ores, or acquire his ships for resale, and carve out your own profit margin!

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Sturmer

The fastest way I know to earn ISK is by purchasing PLEX with real money!

Currently, you get around 120 million ISK per 1 EUR. To put that into perspective: 120 million ISK per hour is roughly what you'd earn with three Hulks mining moons in low-sec or a properly trained Omega pilot running L4 missions in a Marauder.

If you're earning ISK while having fun, great! But if you're farming ISK to fund another fun activity (like PvP), it’s worth evaluating the time and effort involved. It took me a while to realize this myself. I used to have a "cheapass F2P" mindset, grinding ISK with five accounts, only to end up earning the equivalent of 5 EUR per hour. That wasn’t the path for me.

Now, instead of wasting my skills and experience, I’d rather take an extra job or complete a reward on Justabout, use the cash to buy ISK, and focus on funding the activities I truly enjoy.

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greybill
Sturmer

As a student you tend to have little money, but lots of time.
As an adult, you tend to have enough money, but little time.

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Hunter

Salvaging EDENCOM Field Bases and Staging Areas :

Field Bases and Staging Areas can be a big loot salvaging after the action is gone you can drop of with your Salvaging ship and take the remains of the Triglavian Collective rats' scraps that are most of the time ignored by the fleets that competes the Site.

How to find the Sites :

Simple open the Galactic map and go to the filter at the top of the screen and find the EDENCOM Fortresses filter and check it, red dots will appear on the map you should go there :

when you get there make sur that the sites is completed by scanning the site using the directional scan or just ask in local chat or direct message a potential fleet you find in the system. then warp there and start cleaning the high space from the red rats and to you the Millions ( between 50 to 100 Million ez Money ).

Ps :I recommend Skilling up Salvaging and buying a good Salv Ship Like the Noctis.

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Sturmer
Hunter

Hey, quite interesting! 50-100 that's per site or hour? And if per site, how long does it take to complete one?

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Hunter
Sturmer

That depends on the skills and ship so can't say for all, but my character makes 2 sites per hour and that also depends on the availability of the site so better have a corp that does them and follow them through after they pacified the sites or just act solo :D

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Kane Carnifex

Sell the stuff which gives you the last min/max on your ship.


Supply market with high value stuff which sell slow but provides more profit.
Since you holding longer on it, and have less offers to compete.
Also here buy low in Jita and do the extra steps to move into your staging.
If you take the seasonal dips in the summer you can even make more profit during the rest of the year.

Doctrine Hull production


Alternative is to produce a specific doctrine hull.
The TFY cost me around 530m to produce, which is still 20-40m under Jita.
Considering building 100 TyFi you have upfront costs, taxes & transport of 53 billion.
Btw. importing from JIta would cost me currently 630m. Same of everybody else importing from Jita.

On paper you could make a profit of 100m per TyFi or 10B in total.
We are not grabbing from beginners so expect to make like 3-4b profit in total.
You could skip the sales tax and make them as doctrine fitting. You could sell the modules for like 15% price increase +++ as said contracting will reduce the sales tax which you pay on the market.

Like it goes into the SRP and SOV Funds to maintain everything so just depends how much you are in need.

Material Costs

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Shanna Alabel

Recently I have been ransoming jump freighters, I've gotten (split between 4 people) about 40billion so far in a week. We use metenox's passive income to cover our SRP and all of the loot and ejections are pure profit.

After a jump freighter is tackled we get out the book of "how to ransom a JF" by Missy Lorelai and begin the process, from "you don't want this on your kb! people will know you are a JF pilot and gank you!" to "for 50% of the collateral and ship we will contract this back to you in highsec"

Overall my lowsec hunting has made me over 200billion, with 1 Aeon ejection, 2 Nyx ejections, a few JFs, carriers, dreads, and marauders. Along with the loot from many dead JFs. In just 1 week we killed 200b and looted 40+.

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Luka Zaharin

I really enjoy looting, but while it can be very lucrative, the profit is not reliable. Nevertheless, if you find the really good wrecks, several hundred million can fill your cargohold within seconds!

I also made a lot of ISK from acting as a broker. Over the time, I was able to make a few good contacts and I have access to large amounts of various LP. This gives me the possibility to negotiate large volume trades and make around 5-10% profit. These trades give my wallet a welcome boost every now and then.

The funds needed to arrange the trades as well as the necessary contacts make this not the most new player friendly income source, but the large amount of ISK gained in one or two transactions always makes it worthwhile. Of course, the scam factor is a risk you need to take into account for every single situation.

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One way to make money, money, money is exploration. It may seem like the least profitable activity, but it can actually bring in a lot of cash. I use a Covert Ops ship with cloaking, which allows me to explore even the most remote places safely. After some observation, I uncover many valuable treasures. Once I find an interesting site and collect the treasures, I can sell them to the highest bidders... there are always collectors who would love those items. It's a sort of long-term profitable activity.

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ThePunisher99

Well I don’t know about the others but for me a plan to get rich fast in eve online and the “legal“ way 😁 is back stabbing a corporation and stealing it’s bank , you just need to gain their trust, make your way up the ladder of leadership get access to the bank usually found in a high sec or sometimes in a wormhole space, you need an alt character to play the double agent with it, pass all those juicy loot well deserved 😎, some will say it takes time well with a charm and then when you get the prize all that time spent bonding with others will come to fruition, many crazy stories out there and the ISK per hour is out of this world too !!

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