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It is possible to finish the AIR Career Programme quite comfortably in about 12 hours of game-play. A hyper-optimised approach, utilising Fits with high SP requirements, could probably finish the Programme in as little as 8-9 hours.

Considering the current price of Large Skill Injectors (LSI), even a brand new player can get more than 100M ISK/h worth of SP, whereas 80M+ SP characters can calculate with 360M ISK/h worth of SP per character (considering using LSIs instead of accelerators).

{{Quote|Note: I have added details about multiboxing to this guide, not because I believe that one has to multibox to enjoy EVE, but because I think that the AIR Career Programme is valuable also for more veteran players. In ISK value (as SP) it can easily compete with other common multibox activities like Moon Mining, Ishtar ratting, etc. as you can see in the napkin-math above.}}

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.

'''Fits:''' I will be providing example fits and explanations via [https://www.eveworkbench.com/ EVE Workbench]. All fits are minimum SP requirement fits and Alpha-friendly and you can gladly upgrade them. For cheaper options, I will be providing some alternative fits for the SoF career. By searching in the ingame fitting window for “AIR” you will find a range of viable frigate fits provided by CCP for most of the combat/exploration part of the Programme.

Get started by moving to one of the [[Career agents#Tutorial_Systems_in_EVE|12 Career Agent Systems]]. If you have previously finished the career agents in a particular system, simply move to one of the others and the agents should be available to you. The Career Agents can be done in about 3h and I recommend using the [https://www.eveworkbench.com/fitting/sunesis/baf43029-5c38-4b7e-395f-08da5b879768 AIR Sunesis]<!-- Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20220722170733/https://www.eveworkbench.com/fitting/sunesis/baf43029-5c38-4b7e-395f-08da5b879768 -->  as it has all needed modules already in cargo. The [[Career_Agents#Considerations_for_Mission_Order|Uniwiki]] has some tips on how to complete it efficiently.

Build those instead of just buying them from the market to start finishing tasks in the [Manufacturing] section of the Industry Career.

While doing the Career Agents or later on the Sisters of EVE Epic arc, you will have plenty of idle time, even when multiboxing. Use the downtime to do following tasks:

Once you are done with the Career Agents, do not leave the Career Agent system just yet. Complete the following tasks:

You can run the SoE Epic Arc every 3 months and there are plenty of guides out there. Using the AIR Sunesis will allow you to comfortably finish it within 4 hours. For new characters or Alts, use the FREE AIR Enforcer Expert System you received in your Redeem Queue for finishing the Career Agent earlier.

If you don’t know which Standing to choose in mission 49 of the SoE Arc, Caldari is a solid choice as it will decrease the Broker Fee in Jita.

Now we will focus on the four careers of the AIR Career Programme, one at a time. There is a lot of flexibility on how to approach completing the Programme and plenty of space to optimise the time it takes to complete tasks. For each of the careers, I will present some of the quickest ways to mix different tasks and take advantage of game mechanics for a quick completion. This assumes you are starting from zero and you won’t do any of the activities in our regular EVE life with the particular character(s) you are using. If you use an industrial character, you can skip obvious tasks. If you use a PvP character, you can skip blowing yourself up 20 times etc. Using the expert systems received through the Career agents for each of the sections is recommended to speed things up and give you access to most fits and mechanics required to complete the Programme.

The Industry career doesn’t have obvious "cheese" mechanics but you can still optimise the time it takes to complete tasks and choose the ones that are the quickest. Find the tasks in order of priority here and my suggestions on which ones to skip. Use the FREE Industry Expert System you received as a redeemable reward from finishing the Career Agents.

[Research - Copy/ME/TE] Buy and use a BPO that is quick to research and cheap - if in Jita/Perimeter, get (Mjolnir/Scourge/…) Rocket Blueprint or similar from an NPC order. If you are doing it in a different trade hub, get the respective small ammo of the Empire (e.g. Amarr - Multifrequency S, etc.). The four research tasks should take less than 10 minutes to complete.

[Build a Cruiser/Detroyer/Frigate/Shuttle] You should have completed the Shuttle and Frigate during the Career Agents. For the Cruiser and Destroyer, you can ustilise the BPCs that you will receive in your Redeem Queue for reprocessing 16k Pyroxes and and 14k Plagioclase (tasks of the [Refining] section.

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Skip: [Mining Mission] These take an unnecessary amount of time and should definitely be skipped.

After completing the Career Agents and the SoE as described in the first part of the guide, you will have made great progress towards completing the Enforcer Career. You should have following sections complete [Career Agent Missions], [Security Agents], [Combat Sites], [Epic Arc], [Standings]

Skip: [Abyssal Deadspace]. While it’s viable, low-level Abyssals do not contribute to [Loyalty] points, don’t give [Bounties] and have generally very few ships, making [Combat] take much longer.

This Career can be done with Alts or with a friend pretty quickly but might be challenging for newer players - go get a corp and some friends quickly. It’s what EVE is all about really!

Skip: [Combat] Following the steps above, you will not require finalising the [Combat] section (killing 75 ships with a Frigate, Destroyer and Cruiser respectively)

Once again, use your FREE Exploration Expert System before starting this career.

<big>Congratulations!</big>  

You have finished the AIR Career Programme, gained 750k SP and hopefully learned something on the way.