Friday, November 19, 2010

First Steps - part 3 - The One-Man-Corp

Everyone in EVE Online will tell you... This is a PvP game (Player vs Player) with some PvE (Player vs Environment) thrown in.
Sure. But... Every piece of junk flying in space is built by players. So those PvP pilot who love to destroy each other on a daily basis need someone somewhere to build their replacement ships and modules.


This is how I came to think of the One-Man-Corp Concept.

First I need a Trader to sell goods and purchase raw material. Then I train a Manufacturer to produce those raw materials. Of course it only make sense to also Refine the Mineral from raw Ore myself. And finally I need a Miner to dig the Ore at no cost instead of buying it from others. And all of them work within the same Corporation.
Why reverse the process? Why not start Mining first? Most players do but to train an efficient Miner requires a lot of cash to purchase the Skill Books. Without tyhe cash you are left to train secondary skills first and waste the precious bonus.
There is a Training Plan available to get into a Hulk (Best Mining Ship) in just 42 Days. But unfortunately this also has a price tag of around 40 millions ISK and more to get a full set of Implants (that speed up training even more) This is fine for people who have played for a long time but not for a new starter.

The better alternative is to start Trading and Mission Running first. And this I will examine in my next Blog.
If you just arrived to this Blog, start reading from there.

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