How do you Pay for your PLEX?

[Osamaru]

I've come back after an extended leave (I think too a break a month or 2 after Abyssal Deadspace was released.) and was looking into getting back into the groove of things.

But wanted to ask How are people making their PLEX now these days?

Personally, I use to do a lot of Low/Null sec Astero exploration. Its not as dangerous as people make it out to be (if you're not stupid). Can make a pretty steady 600m-1b isk on an average day. 300m-400m if my luck is really bad.

Its not AMAZING, But Its pretty decent for a Solo player with no Alts using a cheap Fit.

Have they added anything Intresting since I last played?

[Sadpan]

I used to fuel it all with exploration, an easy .5-1bil a day, but I've since then spent lots of time just playing the market, buying low and selling high for more than a few bil a week in profit. Plex is through the roof right now though, 2.2bil a month, so it'll be tougher trying to keep up but it's nothing that I can't manage.

Nothing too big added since that abyssal update but they're working on new PvE stuff apparently, you can sift through the patch notes here: https://www.eveonline.com/articles/patch-notes

[Bongina]

Originally posted by Dredditor:

I used to fuel it all with exploration, an easy .5-1bil a day, but I've since then spent lots of time just playing the market, buying low and selling high for more than a few bil a week in profit. Plex is through the roof right now though, 2.2bil a month, so it'll be tougher trying to keep up but it's nothing that I can't manage.

Nothing too big added since that abyssal update but they're working on new PvE stuff apparently, you can sift through the patch notes here: https://www.eveonline.com/articles/patch-notes

how are you making a billion in a day from exploration? im starting to get into it and im having super inconsistent amounts of money

[Sadpan]

Originally posted by Bendystraw:

Originally posted by Dredditor:

I used to fuel it all with exploration, an easy .5-1bil a day, but I've since then spent lots of time just playing the market, buying low and selling high for more than a few bil a week in profit. Plex is through the roof right now though, 2.2bil a month, so it'll be tougher trying to keep up but it's nothing that I can't manage.

Nothing too big added since that abyssal update but they're working on new PvE stuff apparently, you can sift through the patch notes here: https://www.eveonline.com/articles/patch-notes

how are you making a billion in a day from exploration? im starting to get into it and im having super inconsistent amounts of money

luck, and lots of practice, free time, and lvl 5 skills for racial frigate, covops, and scanning/hacking skills. Some days I've gone with less than 100mil, but a good average is half a bil, topping out at a billion a day when I have good luck and lots of spare time.

[Osamaru]

Originally posted by Bendystraw:

Originally posted by Dredditor:

I used to fuel it all with exploration, an easy .5-1bil a day, but I've since then spent lots of time just playing the market, buying low and selling high for more than a few bil a week in profit. Plex is through the roof right now though, 2.2bil a month, so it'll be tougher trying to keep up but it's nothing that I can't manage.

Nothing too big added since that abyssal update but they're working on new PvE stuff apparently, you can sift through the patch notes here: https://www.eveonline.com/articles/patch-notes

how are you making a billion in a day from exploration? im starting to get into it and im having super inconsistent amounts of money

While there is a Element of Luck to it, NULL and Low sec have huge payouts if you take the risk. Though its safer than most make it out to be (if you know what you're doing)

[neoVictrix]

Why an astero when you can have a larger profit margin with an exploration frigate or covert ops ship? Is it simply for the role bonus? If so you can honestly do without it.

[Sadpan]

Originally posted by neoVictrix:

Why an astero when you can have a larger profit margin with an exploration frigate or covert ops ship? Is it simply for the role bonus? If so you can honestly do without it.

If I see an astero on d-scan, especially on grid, I want to get the ♥♥♥♥ out of the system. Asteros can be really mean puppies sometimes, even if they don't scan as well as a covops frigate can, and they can handle low-level sleeper sites and many combat sites, overall it's very capable in combat and scary to face when you're in a paper ship like the Helios.

[neoVictrix]

Yeah, suppose that is true. I mean I also started exploring in a prospect so I can at least profit from the gas sites I usually end up finding. Been leaving exploration with combat to my Nestor at the moment though.

[Osamaru]

Originally posted by neoVictrix:

Why an astero when you can have a larger profit margin with an exploration frigate or covert ops ship? Is it simply for the role bonus? If so you can honestly do without it.

Originally posted by Dredditor:

Originally posted by neoVictrix:

Why an astero when you can have a larger profit margin with an exploration frigate or covert ops ship? Is it simply for the role bonus? If so you can honestly do without it.

If I see an astero on d-scan, especially on grid, I want to get the ♥♥♥♥ out of the system. Asteros can be really mean puppies sometimes, even if they don't scan as well as a covops frigate can, and they can handle low-level sleeper sites and many combat sites, overall it's very capable in combat and scary to face when you're in a paper ship like the Helios.

Covert and Astero both have their advantages; Covert is cheaper, and Cloaks ALOT Faster. Astero can defend itself, and If things get hairy Its got less than a 2 second warp time. It also has a slightly bigger cargohold.

With the right skills, honestly the Coverts advantage in Scanning/Hacking strength is negligible as long as you know what you're doing. But some people DO like it.

[Sadpan]

Originally posted by Torigoma:

Originally posted by neoVictrix:

Why an astero when you can have a larger profit margin with an exploration frigate or covert ops ship? Is it simply for the role bonus? If so you can honestly do without it.

Originally posted by Dredditor:

If I see an astero on d-scan, especially on grid, I want to get the ♥♥♥♥ out of the system. Asteros can be really mean puppies sometimes, even if they don't scan as well as a covops frigate can, and they can handle low-level sleeper sites and many combat sites, overall it's very capable in combat and scary to face when you're in a paper ship like the Helios.

Covert and Astero both have their advantages; Covert is cheaper, and Cloaks ALOT Faster. Astero can defend itself, and If things get hairy Its got less than a 2 second warp time. It also has a slightly bigger cargohold.

With the right skills, honestly the Coverts advantage in Scanning/Hacking strength is negligible as long as you know what you're doing. But some people DO like it.

Astero has bigger cargohold but rarely do you get past 100m^3 in relic site loot anyway so the cargo difference is pretty negligible. Astero does indeed warp out faster, but only slightly, and covops go at 8.00AU/s in warp so very very fast if you're being chased across several systems. Covert isn't much cheaper than an astero, especially when fit properly, and the difference in scanning and hacking strength is huge and noticeable when you have the same skills at lvl 5 and try out both ships. Astero has only 37.5% role bonus for scanning, can't change that with skills, which is good until level 3 for covops where it has 40% skill bonus, up to 50% at level 5. The hacking skills follow the same way I think.

Astero can defend itself fantastically though so yeah, depends on what you want, do you wanna scan and gtfo or do you wanna scan lightly worse but hold your own and scare off potential competition? :p

[ZynXao]

tbh I bought a galaxy pack (3 months omega) a while ago when they where 50% off and still live of it. I did use the plex from the pack for omega time (another 2 months), sold the extractors and MPCs and bought more plex that I put right back into even more omega time (plex were at ~1.5bil for 500). other than that I'm also an explorer daytripping into wspace for relic sites. and I know a lot of people seem to laugh about this, but I also do a good amount of high sec combat sites and their escalations in my trusty Gila. since Abyssal all deadspace modules seem to have gone up in price. just a week ago I had an hours left until fleet with my corp and I cleaned two system just 4 jumps out of amarr with a total of 8 combat sites (ded's, vigil and some drones sites) and sold everything for around 800mil. this took me 40 minutes and I was back in fleet staging system right on time :)

[ambi]

Most of my big money has come from wormhole / null sec exploration. My best find was a blueprint worth 2.5b.

Combat exploration is also very nice. You can do it in a T3 destroyer in low sec. A few days ago, I completed a site and left with 1.6b in loot. Very nice payday.

[😎Astran😾]

I used to run incursions (50-120M/hour) but getting into decent fleets was a major hassle.

p.s. Extreme PLEX inflation (once upon a time I could buy it for 160-600M) is a good illustration of the fact how governments shouldn't be allowed to issue and manipulate currencies - because over time they turn your savings into dust.