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EVE Online: ISK Strategy Guide

By : Y Michael Xu
Book Image

EVE Online: ISK Strategy Guide

By: Y Michael Xu

Overview of this book

New Eden, a universe of beauty, destruction and unlimited potential. Take on the role of a capsuleer and forge a story and empire that spans vast regions of space that is uniquely your own. But in order to forge your story and empire, it takes ISK and lots of it. The ISK Making Guide to EVE Online teaches you the inner workings of each ISK making career choice. Learn the tricks of the pros and avoid the hidden pitfalls that await you at every turn. Learn from the experience of a seasoned EVE veteran. Starting with the more easily accessible career choices and moving on to the careers only available to the experienced capsuleers, this book takes you step-by-step as your story unfolds. Help determine the path of EVE by taking on careers like Mining and Manufacturing, the backbone of New Eden or help your empire rise above the rest by Running Missions for the corporations of your empire. The ISK Making Guide to EVE Online gives you a jump start and walks you through every ISK making career choice.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Planetary Interaction


Before Planetary Interaction, or PI, was introduced, there was one very large hole in the player-driven economy of EVE: trade goods. Prior to PI, trade goods were only a main stay in the lives trader, where they bought and sold trade goods in different stations for profit. As POSs were becoming more and more popular, and the fact that trade goods made up a good part of the fuel needed to run a POS, this hole needed to be filled quickly. PI was introduced to allow you to produce these trade goods from raw materials extracted from a planet's surface. PI was also an attempt to open access for manufacturing to a wider base of players in EVE. Little did we know at the time, but PI was also the first step in linking EVE space to EVE planets for the upcoming MMOFPS Dust514, which is set on the planet surfaces of EVE.

Skills for PI

PI is very much like manufacturing, in that you take raw materials and combine them to produce more advanced products, but the entire manufacturing...