How doable to earn omega ingame?

[Khaziir Everflight]

How doable is it, to earn enough income to be able too buy omega every month?

I don't really want to just waste away doing the "profitable snoozefest" for all my playtime, and actually have some time to enjoy the game for the things i actually want to do... I do not know alot about this game, so please keep that in mind.

I generally am not able to afford these types of subscriptions due to chronic medical issues making having a job for me not really possible, because I essentially need to be on painkillers at all times, due to degenerative spinal issues that go along with crippling pain, which does legally make me a liability. [Just mentioning this to avoid the "Just get a job" comments that otherwise might come.]

[Kodokuro]

Simple

You need time to grind and pay the sub with plex if you dont have the money
You need money to pay for sub if you dont have the time.

You cant pay to win here, you just pay to play like everyone else

If you dont even know what to do here you have a big problem.
Have some fun choosing
https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/3/f/3f2be20bec6b128e4c061db73af7b0a9f1f4f09f.jpg

[Khaziir Everflight]

Originally posted by Kodokuro:

Simple

You need time to grind and pay the sub with plex if you dont have the money
You need money to pay for sub if you dont have the time.

You cant pay to win here, you just pay to play like everyone else

If you dont even know what to do here you have a big problem.
Have some fun choosing
https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/3/f/3f2be20bec6b128e4c061db73af7b0a9f1f4f09f.jpg

Thing is, there's monotone boring grind, and then there's acceptable grind that doesnt make you want to scratch your eyeballs out... it should be profitable enough to in the long run spiral into something that gets me plex every month, but it shouldn't be essentially more monotone than watching paint dry... and that guide only really helps to know what might be doable, but not what is viable for my goal. For example, in elite and other games of this sort, I love mining ore and so on, since it typically pays well, but i don't know if it pays well enough i this game to spiral into a reliable income that i can plex up from on a consistent basis...

Either way, it helps me get leads on what to look into further, so thank you for linking it.

[Kodokuro]

The reason why people quit so easily eve is because they are unable to meet the right people to help them do stuff and achieve their goals. There is to many options like in the image i just shared with you. There is no corporation that do only do one activity to get money and then have some "fun". If you wan to stay playing you need to dedicte to as many activities as your skills allows you. Take me for example a like to "grind" exploring. completing anomalies y cosmic signature is boring and repetitive but you kind forget that the fisrt time you come back with 500 millions in loot (check my screenshots).

Is really hard to find your place in this game but its worth triying. There is no game like EVE.

[ZynXao]

it is doable for sure. but as a new player I would actually recommend to not go for the grind and do fun stuff you enjoy instead. cause it is a grind. and the pve in eve can be very repetitive which can burn you out real quick. but basically everything you do will make you money. so try out all the different stuff and enjoy the game. and at the end of the month just see what was the most fun aswell as what actually gave you a decent income. then just balance things. keep in mind that you need around 2.5 bil in isk to buy the 500 plex for omega. thats quiet a bit of income and then you havent even bought a ship. of course you could also loose a ship which needs to be replaced...

joining a corp is the way to go for sure. cause everything is better with friends. this also applies to the grind. as for mining, well, here is how it works: you warp your venture (you cant fly anything else as an alpha) to the asteroids and shoot rocks. thats it. you will be staring at rocks until your hold is full. gas is way better in terms of money you get but again, you then stare at a gas cloud until your hold is full. give it a try and see if you like it. personally I can clean up a gas formation but then need to do something else cause I'm gonna be bored af.

a friend of mine runs https://everookies.com/ while they do newbro pvp fleets they also run quiet a lot of pve fleets. these fleets are all public. no need to leave your corp or join a specific corp at all. just show up and have some fun. they run level 4 missions in high sec, rat in wormholes, run incursions and even do mining fleets but in wormholes, low sec and Pochven which at least makes mining a bit more 'dangerous' and exciting (at least for me).

[ambi]

if you're already omega, you can pay for a 24-month sub just by selling skillpoints. the 24-month sub is best as it's the cheapest per month.

if you're doing month-by-month, then selling SP can cover about 70%-80% of costs. you'll need to cover the shortfall with some pve but it's doable.

if i need to skill up, i just grind daily SP rewards and use that.

[Sadpan]

Get a job, $15 an hour is literally like 2.7 billion ISK. No better way to make ISK than to buy it with real dollars.

Originally posted by miss shapiro:

if you're already omega, you can pay for a 24-month sub just by selling skillpoints. the 24-month sub is best as it's the cheapest per month.

if you're doing month-by-month, then selling SP can cover about 70%-80% of costs. you'll need to cover the shortfall with some pve but it's doable.

if i need to skill up, i just grind daily SP rewards and use that.

Skill farming is the way I used to do it, can't really beat it.

[Khaziir Everflight]

Originally posted by Sadpan:

Get a job, $15 an hour is literally like 2.7 billion ISK. No better way to make ISK than to buy it with real dollars.

Originally posted by miss shapiro:

if you're already omega, you can pay for a 24-month sub just by selling skillpoints. the 24-month sub is best as it's the cheapest per month.

if you're doing month-by-month, then selling SP can cover about 70%-80% of costs. you'll need to cover the shortfall with some pve but it's doable.

if i need to skill up, i just grind daily SP rewards and use that.

Skill farming is the way I used to do it, can't really beat it.

What about this did you not understand? I thought I was pretty clear with this.

... making having a job for me not really possible, because I essentially need to be on painkillers at all times, due to degenerative spinal issues that go along with crippling pain, which does legally make me a liability. [Just mentioning this to avoid the "Just get a job" comments that otherwise might come.]

[Deviantdemigodz]

its just a grind festival in eve NOW FOR LESS SKILLED PLAYERS YOU SHOULD JUST pay to play NOW OR PLAY ANOTHER GAME.

[Myriad]

Originally posted by Norok Vokun:

How doable is it, to earn enough income to be able too buy omega every month?

I don't really want to just waste away doing the "profitable snoozefest" for all my playtime, and actually have some time to enjoy the game for the things i actually want to do.

Well, I'll confirm a few posts above and say that it's (90% mostly) a grind. Is it doable? Absolutely. When I was off work during a series of unexpected events, I made enough isk in-game to sub every month. But I was home all the time, with Eve running for an embarrassing amount of hours. I'm working full time again and would rather just throw an hours wages at a month's sub.

Theoretically, you could mine from the moment you get up, until you go to sleep. So yeah, it's a snoozefest unless you're afk doing other things, and that comes with it's own risks. Other solo activities, like level 4 mission running, are more lucrative for someone who hasn't heavily invested in mining, but can become boring after a while.

There are Abyssals and Combat Sites that make you more isk in a shorter amount of time, but they require specific knowledge, and ship investment which increases the risk. By all means learn about them, but they're not for the uninformed casual play.
And there's also ratting, trading, and exploration...
Ratting is most effective in lower security areas such as Null, so joining a Corporation is mandatory.
The only Trading I usually do is selling what I've acquired. I don't have the time or patience to watch the market like a hawk, which too many others already do.
Exploration also requires specific knowledge to know what to do.... if not you could either find nothing but crap, or find something of value, or get destroyed by pvp or Sleepers and loose everything.
Depending on your fancy, there are ways if you have the interest to learn.

I didn't mention Fleet activities because that's the other 10%, which can make decent isk, and also maintain a level of entertainment. So it depends on your situation and interest. It's easier to spend an hour or two's pay to sub for a month if you're working full time. And if you have too much time on your hands, you can sub by grinding, with a varying amount of time depending on your specific knowledge.

[Darugdawg]

One sentence. Treat it like a job.

[ApathicAlpaca]

Not to discourage but from your description Eve is not really a game for you. The amount manageable with short time slots (like 30 min a piece) is very limited [except Deadspace and that's for seriously skillpointed pilots], a lot of content is walled behind groups if you want it to be as efficient as possible, oh, and the game is f*cking complex to begin with. You should expect several hours watching video guides, reading wiki etc.

Anyway, Alpha status is Free2Play, try it out :D

[Khaziir Everflight]

Originally posted by ApathicAlpaca:

Not to discourage but from your description Eve is not really a game for you. The amount manageable with short time slots (like 30 min a piece) is very limited [except Deadspace and that's for seriously skillpointed pilots], a lot of content is walled behind groups if you want it to be as efficient as possible, oh, and the game is f*cking complex to begin with. You should expect several hours watching video guides, reading wiki etc.

Anyway, Alpha status is Free2Play, try it out :D

MAybe it isnt. But i guess i'll just go for it at some point soon. Got a few other games that'll be higher on my list, but yeah. We shall see :)

[Zen]

Originally posted by Norok Vokun:

How doable is it, to earn enough income to be able too buy omega every month?

I don't really want to just waste away doing the "profitable snoozefest" for all my playtime, and actually have some time to enjoy the game for the things i actually want to do... I do not know alot about this game, so please keep that in mind.

I generally am not able to afford these types of subscriptions due to chronic medical issues making having a job for me not really possible, because I essentially need to be on painkillers at all times, due to degenerative spinal issues that go along with crippling pain, which does legally make me a liability. [Just mentioning this to avoid the "Just get a job" comments that otherwise might come.]

So normally I send people to get more money irl for obvious reasons, but it looks like spending time ingame for you would be really better than spending money.

Generally it is doable, and the more you are knowledgeable about the game the faster it will be. You can still play for free until you achieve 5 mil skillpoints, which is few months I think, so plenty of time to decide what to do. During that time, if you want to focus on gaining money, you can try
- exploration in lowsec, nulllsec, wormholes
- abyssals (if you can focus fully for 20 minutes - might be a showstopper for many)
- missions in highsec (level 1 and 2 really paying just peanuts, lvl 3 are somewhat decent money and lvl 4 are where things start to be interesting)
- anomalies in nullsec (assuming you join a nullsec corp, it's easy), which scale with your skills and your ship, you can do this as alpha too and with a decent focus you can get first billion in like a week and from there it goes only faster.