Posted - 2010.03.22 01:34:00 - [2]

 

Edited by: SupaKudoRio on 22/03/2010 02:13:26
How much isk do you have left?

Buy yourself a cheap frigate (Gallente - Atron, Caldari - Condor, Minmatar - Slasher, Amarr - Executioner) and do some level 1 missions.


If you don't even have the isk for that, use your rookie ship (dock somewhere you don't have any ships to get one for free). The rookie ships aren't very sturdy, but are good enough to kill belt rats in high security space (repairs on rookie ships are also free).

Posted - 2010.03.22 02:13:00 - [4]

 

If you are getting blown up (or nearly blown up) a lot in regular NPC missions, consider asking for help in Local or in HelpMyMission channel.

If you are getting blown up a lot in PVP, consider getting blown up less often or less severely before you have a stable income.

Posted - 2010.03.22 05:45:00 - [6]

 

Edited by: Toshiro GreyHawk on 22/03/2010 06:10:38


Up From the Ashes - an Exercise in Recovery



Just as an exercise I did this a while back. It's mining oriented - but that will make you more money in the short term than running level I missions.

Oh ... and I just realized the OP may not know that if you go to any base in your pod where you don't already have a ship in your ship hangar - the game will give you a free rookie ship. You get it fitted with a rookie miner, rookie weapon and 1 unit of tritanium ... as a little gift from the insurance company so you won't feel bad about losing your other ship ...

Anyway - you can repackage this rookie ship - which will put all it's fittings into your items hangar.
When you assemble the rookie ship again - it will assemble with a new rookie miner and weapon. Thus - you can actually manufacture rookie miners and weapons by repackaging and then assembling your rookie ship ... however many times you feel like it. You can also sell the civilian miners ... though there isn't really any money in that. The weapons ... you'd have to contract ... but who's going to buy them? You used to be able to sell those to but they changed that.

Anyway - this is how I got the two civilian miners I fitted out that Navitas with.


On that Navitas - because Mining Frigates, often more than one, can be acquired by people doing their Career Training Missions - these are for sale cheaply in all the school systems, as are the Level I industrials they are giving away too. If you have some time - you can try placing a buy order and get these ships really cheap. I just used the Bestower as this particular character (though Gallente) was already trained to fly one ... and it carries more than a Sigil.

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Posted - 2010.03.22 10:36:00 - [8]

 

Have you tried the career agents? They offer missions tailored for new players and they'll give advice, items and pretty good rewards. If you do the military career and the advanced military career (10 missions each) you'll have a few ships, some fittings, and over a million isk as well as experience running missions and avoiding ship loss.

I believe you can find them via the Help button in the sidebar ingame.

Posted - 2010.03.22 11:19:00 - [10]

 

Annnndd ... if you don't mind mining - there is a (relative) fortune in asteroids in the military Career Missions ...


Of course ... if you hate mining ... that doesn't help.

*shrug*

Posted - 2010.03.22 19:51:00 - [12]

 

Don't forget to Platinum insure your ship too.

Posted - 2010.03.23 13:48:00 - [14]

 

the basic insurance only pays back 40% of the base cost if i remember rightly.

Platinum pays back 100% of the mineral cost of the ship, (which may at times be more than you actually paid for the ship > see insurance fraud)

Posted - 2010.03.23 14:37:00 - [16]

 

OK ...

My understanding is this:

1) You will automatically get a certain percentage of your ships value in insurance if it is destroyed without paying anything. I forget what that percentage is. It's kind of like the 900k clone you will automatically receive if you haven't paid for a better one.

2) Once you start paying - you will get twice the amount of insurance pay out as you paid.

3) Platinum is the highest grade of insurance and is designed to fully replace your hull - this however costs you 1/3rd the approximate cost of your ship. So - if you get Platinum Insurance and don't ever get the ship destroyed - in 9 months you will have paid the full cost of it's value in insurance for your ship. Thus - instead of insuring everything - it is best to make a judgment call - on taking a calculated risk - as to whether or not you think your ship is likely to be destroyed. If it is a PVP ship - then yes - insure it. If it is a PVE ship ... well then that depends on how badly you are going to be hurt by losing it on a mission. Eventually, you should get to the point where you are "self insured" in that you keep enough money around to buy a new ship if you lose one - or can at least fall back to an older ship.

4) T2 ships cannot be fully insured. If you do insure a T2 ship you essentially get paid for it's T1 hull which is probably a small fraction of the cost of the T2 ship - and hence not really worth doing.

5) At one time - the little messages you were supposed to get from the Insurance Company would only be triggered by activity on your part with the Insurance button in the base. If you didn't fool around with that - those messages would never be sent - so it paid to periodically check. That may have been fixed.

6) If the ship is in a Ships Hangar when it is insured - it will be insured for the person owning that Hangar. If a ship is in a corporate hangar when it is insured - it will be insured for use by anyone in that corporation. Letting someone who is outside the corporation use the ship voids the insurance.

7) Repackaging the ship voids the insurance too. Which is another reason not to insure your ships as it makes hauling them about a problem. Say you have a cruiser your are running missions in and a destroyer you are salvaging with. Repackage them and you can carry them about to your mission agents locations in an Industrial along with extra ammo etc. You can't do that if you have insured these ships. Of course you can't repackage them if they have rigs on them either without destroying the rigs. With the advent of small and medium rigs that becomes a real consideration whereas previously rigs were to expensive to be used on smaller ships.