EVE Online FAQ

If you’re looking to play EVE Online, a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMORPG), you might have a lot of questions (read our introduction in EVE Online: Getting Started). This game takes place around 20,000 years after our times and in a galaxy at the far end of the universe. Technology has come a long way and in the game, you join EVE and take on the role of a freshly graduated Capsuleer.

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Just as with all MMORPGs, one common question is how to make more money.

There are different ways to make money in EVE Online. The currency, Interstellar Kredits, is often abbreviated ISK. You can earn ISK from certain tasks given to you within the game by:

• Mining asteroids and selling them
• Running different types of missions given by NPCs
• Hunting NPC pirates in certain parts of space
• Explore unknown parts of space looking for hidden treasure.

Also like with other MMORPGs, you can make ISK by using your social skills and creativity to get ahead in the game against other people playing online. Many of the items or ships in EVE Online are made by players or sold through the central market system. You can play this system to your advantage to make ISK off of items that all players are going to need.

Another question about EVE involves how to level up.

This is actually an important one because you don’t level in EVE the same way you do in other games. Instead you purchase skills and then train them in real time until you have finished. These skills will even train for you while you are offline. There are many different types of skills that do many things such as flying specific ships, using certain weapons or increasing your skill with certain weapons. There are five levels of each skill but each subsequent level will take longer to train than the one before.

While EVE is somewhat more complex than other games of this type, there are many help resources available to you. There is also a high learning curve with this game and you shouldn’t try to learn everything at once.

Part of the fun of the game is exploring the unique and vast world out there.