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Patch - Version 22.02 from 26 March 2025 makes SP farming no longer possible, as SP will now be character bound rather than account bound
Updated version of the AIR Career Programme after the changes to Redeem queue and additional 750k SP for Omegas. I also removed the whole referencing to Multiboxing and the estimated ISK made through SP, as it felt like it does not add much value in the guide but rather served as a "promotion" for older players to do the guide.
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The [[AIR Career Program]] is divided into four [[Career Agents|Careers]], [[Enforcer]], [[Explorer]], [[Industrialist (Entrepreneur)|Industrialist]] and [[Soldier of Fortune]]. This Step-By-Step guide will take you through a quick way to finish all of those, providing you with tips and guidance whether you are a newer players, a veteran player or [[EVE_Lexicon#Multiboxing|multiboxer]] (player with multiple {{clonestate|omega|Omega clones}}).
The [[AIR Career Program|AIR Career Programme]] is divided into four [[Career Agents|Careers]]: [[Enforcer]], [[Explorer]], [[Industrialist (Entrepreneur)|Industrialist]] and [[Soldier of Fortune]].  
 
This Step-By-Step guide will provide you with tips and guidance on how to best complete the AIR Career Programme, whether you are a newer players, a veteran player or [[EVE_Lexicon#Multiboxing|multiboxer]] (a player with multiple {{clonestate|omega|Omega clones}}).


== Introduction ==
== Introduction ==


Each of the Careers is divided into 10 [Sections] and each section has individual tasks. Each completed task provides Career Points. To get the 750.000 [[Skill Points]], you do not have to complete every available task.  
Each of the Careers is divided into 10 [Sections] and each section has individual tasks. Each completed task provides Career Points. It is not necessary to finish all 10 sections to get the rewards for completing a career. 
 
==== Rewards ====
The AIR Career programme provides you with a variety of rewards for completing tasks in each [Section]. These include items such as modules, boosters, skill book crates and others. What makes the programme most attractive for most players is the reward of up to 1.5 Million  [[Skill Points]].


As you go through the guide you will get Skill Points:
As you go through the guide you will get Skill Points:
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|
|Alpha [[Image:Alpha.png|32px]]
|Omega [[Image:Omega.png|32px]]
|-
|Graduating from each Career
| [[File:Icon 100k Skill Points.png|link=|32px]] 4x 100,000 Skill Points
|[[File:Icon 100k Skill Points.png|link=|32px]] 4x 100,000 Skill Points
|-
|-
| [[File:Icon 100k Skill Points.png|link=|32px]]4x 100,000 Skill Points for graduating from each Career
|Reaching 750 Overall Career Points
| [[File:Icon 50k Skill Points.png|link=|32px]]50,000 Skill Points
|[[File:Icon 50k Skill Points.png|link=|32px]]50,000 Skill Points  
|-
|-
| [[File:Icon 50k Skill Points.png|link=|32px]]50,000 Skill Points for reaching 750 Career Points overall
|Reaching 1500 Overall Career Points
| [[File:Icon 50k Skill Points.png|link=|32px]]75,000 Skill Points
|[[File:Icon 50k Skill Points.png|link=|32px]]75,000 Skill Points
|-
|-
| [[File:Icon 50k Skill Points.png|link=|32px]]75,000 Skill Points for reaching 1,500 Career Points overall
|Reaching 2,250 Overall Career Points
| [[File:Icon 100k Skill Points.png|link=|32px]]100,000 Skill Points  
|[[File:Icon 100k Skill Points.png|link=|32px]]100,000 Skill Points  
|-
|-
| [[File:Icon 100k Skill Points.png|link=|32px]]100,000 Skill Points for reaching 2,250 Career Points overall
|Reaching 3,000 Overall Career Points
| [[File:Icon 150k Skill Points.png|link=|32px]]125,000 Skill Point
|[[File:Icon 150k Skill Points.png|link=|32px]]125,000 Skill Point
|-
|-
| [[File:Icon 150k Skill Points.png|link=|32px]]125,000 Skill Point for reaching 3,000 Career Points overall
|Total per Alpha/Omega
| 750,000 Skill Points
|750,000 Skill Points
|-
|-
| '''Total:''' [[File:Icon 500k Skill Points.png|link=|32px]] 750,000 Skill Points
|Grand Total
|
|[[File:Icon 500k Skill Points.png|link=|32px]]1,500,000 Skill Points
|}
|}
It is possible to finish the AIR Career Programme quite comfortably in about 12 hours of game-play. A hyper-optimised approach, utilising Ships with high Skill Points requirements, could probably finish the Programme in as little as 8-9 hours.
: [[File:Isk-hr Chart.png]]
Considering the current price of Large Skill Injectors, even a brand-new player can get more than 100M ISK/h worth of Skill Points, whereas 80M+ Skill Points characters can calculate with 360M ISK/h worth of Skill Points per character (considering using Large Skill Injectors instead of accelerators).
'''Multiboxing:''' Large parts of the AIR Career Programme are easily multiboxable. But some tasks will increase the time it takes for completion slightly.
{{Quote|Note: there are details about multiboxing in this guide, not because you have to multibox to enjoy EVE, but because the AIR Career Programme is also valuable to veteran players. In ISK value (as Skill Points) it can easily compete with other common multibox activities like Moon Mining, Ishtar ratting, etc. as you can see in the napkin-math above.}}


Even if you don't care about the Skill Points, it is recommended to all veteran players to run the AIR Career Programme at least once for multiple reasons:  
Even if you don't care about the Skill Points, it is recommended to all veteran players to run the AIR Career Programme at least once for multiple reasons:  
* New Career Agents - worth seeing the gorgeous new environment and dialogues, as well as how new players are being guided into playing EVE.  
* Career Agents - It is worth for veteran players to experience the gorgeous environment and dialogues of the latest iteration of Career agents, as well as to remind veteran player how new players are being guided into playing EVE these days.
* Faction Standing Boost through the Career Agents and the Sisters of EVE Epic Arc - if you don't know which one to choose - Caldari standing helps reduce [[Tax#Broker_fee|Broker Fees]] in Jita - that's always nice to have.  
* Faction Standing Boost through the Career Agents and the Sisters of EVE Epic Arc - if you don't know which one to choose - Caldari standing helps reduce [[Tax#Broker_fee|Broker Fees]] in Jita - that's always nice to have.  
* The AIR Career Programme also serves as a reminder of the beautiful complexity of EVE Online and how many things new players can and should experience.
* The AIR Career Programme also serves as a reminder of the beautiful complexity of EVE Online and how many things new players can and should experience.
For newer players, it is a great catch-up mechanics and introduces you to many more factettes of the game than the Career Agents. It will surely help you figure out which activities you like to focus on.
For newer players, it is a great '''catch-up mechanics''' and introduces you to many more factettes of the game than the Career Agents. It will surely help you figure out which activities you like to focus on.


{{Quote|Tip: You can repeat the AIR Career Programme for all three characters per account. As the rewards are redeemed through redemption window, you can decide which character to apply them to.  This means if you have a 'main' and create two more characters and run them all three through the AIR Programme, you will have up to 2.25M [[Skill Points]] to apply to your 'main'.}}
{{Note box|Note/History: You can do the the AIR Career Programme on all three characters per account. However, the Skill Points will be automatically redeemed to the character completing the programme. In the past the SP would end up in the redeem queue, leading to the ability to re-roll characters and continuously redeem Air Career Programme SP to a single character. This is no longer possible.}}


== Step-by-step Guide ==
== Step-by-step Guide ==