Ninja looting in Jita

I saw some comments on a blog somewhere about making money, and someone said that if you hang out at the undock point of the most popular station in Jita, you'll be able to ninja loot the wrecks of all the exploding ships, earning 1-2 billion a day.

Naturally I was intrigued, so I thought I'd test this.

Issues with seeking ISK

Over on the Eve Online forums I wrote this post: Building Wealth - Fast!

I think someone read my blog post (Building an investment organisation) and promptly got upset, leaving this comment:

stupid me, for a moment I thought that you were legitimately looking for advice... seems the only reason to post anything on MD these days is to get other people to send you ISK.

Building an investment organisation

It's possible to make a lot of ISK in this game though legitimate methods, and I've been looking into a number of those methods. But none of them are as effective as (legitimately) leveraging other people's money to use for building investments and generating wealth.

Today I've had someone invest hundreds of millions of ISK in me, with the intention of 'kickstarting' my money-making explorations with the hope that it will earn them something in return.

I'm extremely grateful for their support, and I don't want to disappoint them.

A new comment system

I've just added Disqus as the replacement comment system for this blog, which I hope will increase/improve the level and quality of the commenting system for people.

The current comments are being imported by Disqus and should be visible soon, just in case you were wondering where your comments vanished to!

Profit and Loss

I have a Profit / Loss page that's accessible from the tabs above. Every day that I play I'll be updating this page with that day's profit or loss.

Today was a really good day. I gained an implant from the redeemable items that sold for 25.1 million ISK, as well as a Sukuuvestaa Heron that sold for 5.1 million ISK.

Redeemable items

I discovered a Redeem Items button on my login screen, which allowed me to redeem a whole bunch of stuff from CCP that's probably only got novelty value. But I noticed that I can sell them. So I did.

Hot diggety dog! There was an implant amongst them that was worth 25.1 million ISK on the market. I considered keeping it and using it, but decided against it. It's worth more to me now as cash than as an implant I can use in the future.

Goals

You've got to have goals, or you'll never get anywhere.

So my first goal is to earn 570 million ISK over the next month to pay for my next month's subscription, and then replicate that and improve upon it so I can continue paying for my subscription each month while building wealth on top of it.

You'll be able to keep track of my progress in the Profit / Loss page (in the above tabs).

Completed Basic Training

Yay! I've completed my basic training, and now I'm apparently ready for something more involving.

This is pretty exciting. So far I've learned how to undock, fly to different locations in and outside the system, shoot things and loot the wrecks, complete missions and fit my ship with new equipment.

It'll be interesting to see where I end up going next!

Socialising

I've just spent some time setting up a community page on Google+. I'm sure I won't be able to do this alone, so socialising this seems like a really good idea. You can find the community page here:

The Wealthy Noob Community

I'll be sharing my blog posts to the page, and engaging in discussions on there with anyone who has anything interesting to say. Ok, maybe also with those who don't have anything interesting to say...

Avoiding PVP

I've read a lot about PVP, or Player Vs Player combat, and it's something I want to avoid for the time being.

I don't see how I can generate vast amounts of wealth that gets spent on ships that I then lose in combat. Seems like significant amounts of wasted money to me.

How can I generate wealth fast?

Well, I know that there are a lot of ways out there of building wealth, but I'm also aware that many of them are available only to highly-skilled and experienced pilots.

So I'm opening the floor to you, my readers and fellow players of Eve Online, who are probably vastly experienced in how to generate wealth.

What's the fastest and most effective way for a brand new character to build wealth?

Creating Thom Anderson

Creating the character

Race

I chose the Gallente for my race because they've produced great businessmen throughout the years. I also love AI, or Artificial Intelligence, and the Gallente were pioneers in the development of AI.

Bloodline

The pure Gallente seem closest to my idea of creating a business character. The others just didn't match my idea of a wealth-seeking character.