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Note: This got nerfed Q1 2025, so take some of these things with a grain of salt. All skill points are redeemed immediately and applied to the character doing them. Also, it went from 8 missions to 4 per day, really hosing null sec players.
Grinding Air Career Program
Grinding Air Career Program
tldr: Can grind the Air Career program to make 750k skill points, per character, which appears in your redemption queue so you can apply it to your main.
You can redo this on other alts, or delete an alt and redo it for cheap skill points but it is a grind. I have shortcuts on the spreadsheet as well.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pTdJYXOYe2Nl1jjUXfg-Lwxih8V5w7lPZGDM2cWCs90/
As some of you might have noticed, CCP has updated the career agents along with adding extra rewards for doing certain things in game. Some of these, you'll just naturally do over time, but others require you to go out of your way to do.
I have made a spreadsheet showing you how to 'cheese' them, ie do them with less effort. Some of these make sense, like having your friend sit on undock and just running him cap dry with a neut/nos. (Which I was doing fine till Nina got cute. https://zkillboard.com/kill/101831747/ ) Others, you might need to drop horde to do, like the faction warfare ones.
I would recommend not losing a ton of sleep over these. Warping into the same gas site 15 times is easy enough, but finding the first gas site can be time consuming. And it is really only the SP rewards that are great. But it does help you cover the bases of 'do I know how this works'.
You can do this on alts as well, and apply that SP how you see fit to your characters. There could be a theory of doing it repeatedly on an alt you recycle, but it'd be only 150 SP you'd get out of doing just one of the branches, and the full thing is 20 hours.
I believe running some missions and doing the epic arc is worth it, though. You learn a lot about the game. We have had some NBIs dedicate time to learning the in/outs of these efforts, and can attest that it is better training than it is rewards.
tldr: The AIR Career rewards are not great other than the skill points, but if you want to get them easily, get 75% (3000 out of 4000 total points) on each of the paths and you get paid SP. Oh and drugs that don't expire.
Air Career Target
Air Career Target
I added an ingame channel called Air Career Target. It has some fits that help you finish the Air Career Program. I also have a character called AIR Career Target that you can shoot/shoot you, you just have to supply the gear.
Just talk to me in the https://www.eveonline.com/discord in #new-player-questions.
Opportunity system
Opportunity system
The real problem in null sec is that it sometimes hard for a player to get the full benefit, minus the taxes. This is why you need people like Fin Astaru helping these people like getting LP. I suppose we could schedule regular visits to venal/angel spaces, I thought there was a mission hub there, but people's standings might be off. Doing the level 4 distribution mission hub is easy at least and split between 10 people.
If you did it every day for 30 days, you could make:
54 mil isk in just opportunities (60 mil -10% taxes)
150k Skill points in just opportunities
As omega, if you do two every day for 12 days:
225k Skill points
9 days:
7.2 mil isk (8 mil -10% taxes)
5 plex (27 mil worth)
6 days:
two SKINR things (worthless)
3 days: 4.5k evermarks.
So total of 375k SP, 88.2 mil if you sell the plex. If you do the bare minimum, it's 12 days work, 45 mil isk and 285k sp.
Note, this is a random rotating set of things, need to do 2 per day to get credit. Sometimes it's the easy ones, like 2 manufacture.
Kill 25 rats (20 minutes, hard in starting system, easy in a level 1 mission, belt ratting easiest in null sec)
Mine 2,000 units of ore (2 minutes in empire, hard to do in our space, find veldspar, scordite, plag)
Scan 5 anomalies (2 minutes in starter system)
Scan 2 Relic sites (2 minutes in starter system, not doable in our space, find one, scan it, bookmark, log out, rescan it from bookmark.)
Scan 2 Data sites (2 minutes in starter system, hard in our space, find one, scan it, bookmark, log out, rescan it from bookmark.)
Scan 2 wormholes (10 minutes in empire, easy in our space from standing shared, find one, scan it, bookmark, log out, rescan it from bookmark.)
Defend Contested FW Complex (FW only, need to go to empire)
Make 50 LP from a mission (10 minutes in empire, splittable, doable in empire or npc null sec, 8 jumps to guristas, 13 to angels)
Do 2,500 damage to a player (5 minutes with a partner, or join standing fleet)
Repair 2,500 armor (10 minutes with a slow partner, 2 with a good one, or join standing fleet with an exequor/inquisitor)
Repair 2,500 shield (10 minutes with a slow partner, 2 with a good one, or join standing fleet with a scythe/bantam)
Manufacture an item (30 seconds while docked in beanstar, iron charge s blueprint is 60k isk, 35 isk per item when setup correctly)
I used to do these every single day, since they changed the reward structure, I have not done even the evermark step, ever. (Thanks to Shah Kahoudi for the idea to catalogue this!)
If you want a venture that does everything needed for the opportunities in a starter system:
[Venture, *NBI Highsec Venture v1.0]
Mining Laser Upgrade I
Survey Scanner I
1MN Afterburner I
Medium Shield Extender I
Miner I
Miner I
Core Probe Launcher I
Small Polycarbon Engine Housing I
Small Core Defense Field Extender I
Small Polycarbon Engine Housing I
Hobgoblin I x2
Core Scanner Probe I x16
Inside Pandemic Horde
Inside Pandemic Horde
This is easy on days with builds or find sites.
Get in a heron.
Open the standing shared folder
Find a system with sigs. Neocom / activities / The Agency / Exploration / Exploration / Cosmic Signature (click 'bookmark' in the bottom left)
Fly there.
Compare standing shared to in game. No wormholes? fine, move on, same method.
Can scan down wormhole as normal or if there is a bookmark ...
Warp to worm hole. Launch probes. center probes on you. Change arrangment to be pinpoint. Change size to 0.25. Scan. Done with one.
Enter a wormhole that is a c1-c6. Repeat. Bookmark if it's near MJ-5.
Can scan far side for another easy hit.
Can scan other things in the wormhole for more things, OR just close the client, do it again. :D 5 minute timer on transiting a wormhole multiple times though.
Check Exploration if you have never probed before.
That's it. took me 10 minutes, with detailed instructions, going slow, in my class I ran today.
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