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Missions come in career flavors: distribution, mining, and security. Security pays the best; distribution (making courier runs) is the safest but you have focus on flying the ship; mining has a limited set of missions, but it lets you do other things while your ship mines the ore. Pick one of these career types, and then pick a corporation that offers up to level IV in that kind of mission – and run all of your missions with that same corporation. | Missions come in career flavors: distribution, mining, and security. Security pays the best; distribution (making courier runs) is the safest but you have focus on flying the ship; mining has a limited set of missions, but it lets you do other things while your ship mines the ore. Pick one of these career types, and then pick a corporation that offers up to level IV in that kind of mission – and run all of your missions with that same corporation. | ||
[[Research|Research missions]] are for an entirely different game purpose, and you can ignore them for now. | '''[[Research|Research missions]]''' are for an entirely different game purpose, and you can ignore them for now. | ||
'''[[Exploration]]''' is the most random, and dangerous, way of making money, but it also has the biggest potential payoff. Explorers go into lowsec and nulsec space, and into wormholes, searching for ancient archaeology sites. Once opened, the sites have the potential to produce extremely valuable loot – though these areas of the game are also patrolled by criminal players who hope to kill explorers and steal their loot. Begin by training Survey and Hacking, and then all of the skills in the Scanning section. You will also need Salvaging. You can practice your exploring skills in hisec space, finding sites and hacking them in relative safety, but don't even think about going into lowsec space or wormholes until you have trained Cloaking and acquired a ship that can fit a Covert-Ops Cloaking Device. Invisibility is a must for exploring in nulspace. | '''[[Exploration]]''' is the most random, and dangerous, way of making money, but it also has the biggest potential payoff. Explorers go into lowsec and nulsec space, and into wormholes, searching for ancient archaeology sites. Once opened, the sites have the potential to produce extremely valuable loot – though these areas of the game are also patrolled by criminal players who hope to kill explorers and steal their loot. Begin by training Survey and Hacking, and then all of the skills in the Scanning section. You will also need Salvaging. You can practice your exploring skills in hisec space, finding sites and hacking them in relative safety, but don't even think about going into lowsec space or wormholes until you have trained Cloaking and acquired a ship that can fit a Covert-Ops Cloaking Device. Invisibility is a must for exploring in nulspace. | ||