The role of GMs in any MMO is pivotal, and yet they so often come under fire from players who don’t get the response they’re hoping for or who have to wait too long for an answer. Many EVE players are also unaware of the procedures for escalating petitions, reporting exploits, contacting internal affairs or other important activities.

In this EVE Spotlight, we got together with former Lead GM Guard to pick his brains on these topics, find out a little about CCP’s support division. As part of Permaband, Guard began his foray into music with the debut of HTFU at the 2009 Fanfest and continued with this year’s showing of Keep Clickin’ at the 2011 Fanfest. When it came time for me to pick out a single video that really sums up GM Guard, the choice was easy to make. HTFU is an iconic song that has been essentially adopted as a company anthem.

To announce a contest with a key to the entire machine (among others), the PAC guys still insured with a video that makes you want to dive back into this title, if different from the MMO for n00bs that abound today.

This clip shows you how revenge is a dish best served cold, with a little guide to infiltrate opposing clan, and emptying their coffers a few weeks later. One scenario now almost classical in EVE Online, which has something to dream about those who are reluctant to try. And terrorizes the real players EvE!

Eve Online is dedicated to the Incursion extension that integrates the various new features in the MMO space. The official community sites should be improved as part of the update. In particular, the technically outdated Forum want to bring the developer into shape. The new platform will offer you several new features, including an improved search function, a “Like me”option for threads, and the possibility of issues with our RSS feed to subscribe.

Before the new forums go live permanently, call the CCP developers all players to test the new features. A feedback portal, all you can report errors that you notice, but also express new ideas. The developers want to collect and integrate into a future version of the forum software. Disappearance of the old forums are not the way: Once the new version goes live, is the old remains visible as a backup option. Click here for the Eve Online forums, and here we have more info about Eve Online: Incursion.

This implant will allow you to get a perfect refining yield of 100% in 0.0 with perfect skills, even with the most basic outpost (35%).

2.3 From Refining Yield to Reality
Ok so you know your yield, and now you want to calculate how much actual minerals you would get per batch after refining. If you know you will have a 100% refining yield and won’t pay any taxes, then simply use the table in section 1.2.1 and you’re ready to go! Chances are you won’t, so I’ll explain how it works. As always, using a concrete example helps, so let’s do it again. Let’s stay coherent and keep using our Omber example from earlier !

For every 500 units of Omber, you will get 307 units of Tritanium, 123 units of Pyerite and 307 units of Isogen for a perfect refine. But you determined your yield isn’t perfect, and instead it’s 88% (hypothetically). To know how much mineral you would get, you simply take 88% of each number. So in our case:
0.88 * 307 = 270.16 = 270 units of Tritanium
0.88 * 123 = 108.24 = 108 units of Pyerite
0.88 * 307 = 270.16 = 270 units of Isogen

EVE for some reason truncates all values dealing with mineral and ore. This means if you would end up with 270.98 units according to your calculations, you would still only get 270 units and not 271 as your mathematical instinct might believe.

If you need to pay any taxes on top of that (shown in the green rectangle from our screenshot above), you need to take it off now. Using our screenshot from above with a tax of 10%, we are left with:

(100%-10%) * 270 = 243 = 243 units of Tritanium
(100%-10%) * 108 = 97.2 = 97 units of Pyerite
(100%-10%) * 270 = 243 = 243 units of Isogen

So, we would end up with 243 units of Trit, 97 units of Pyer and 243 units of Isogen from our original batch of 500 in our hangar with a refining yield of 88% and a 10% tax.

If you mine named variations (+5%/+10%) of an ore, you have to factor that at the beginning of your calculations. So in our first calculation, if we are refining Silvery Omber (+5%) instead of regular Omber, we would calculate 88% of 307*1.05=322.35=322 units of Tritanium and not 88% of 307.

Of course there is an excellent ore calculator available online for those not so good with Excel or who are simply lazy!

That’s all there is to it really. See… I told you it wasn’t that bad !

So what does this Billionaire ISK guide offer? In short it covers everything about making money in the game from the most common ISK-making methods to advanced ways to earn loads of cash. As you progress through the game, you would realize that ISK is your best friend and you can get nothing for free. This is where this ISK guide comes in, to help you earn serious cash.

The benefit of this ISK guide is in that it not only offers great strategies that work wonders but also strategies that can help anyone earn a lot of ISK in the shortest amount of time.

The EVE Online Billionaire ISK Guide comes as a download-able PDF and gets frequent updates. All information, strategies, tips and tricks offered in the guide are legal.

Anyone who have tried EVE Online just once, would understand how steep the learning curve is. Meaning, EVE Online is a very sophisticated and complicated game. Having personally gone through all the guides in this EVE Online guide pack, I would recommend it to anyone looking for a reliable one-stop source of EVE strategies. All the guides are written in layman terms, making any difficult gaming concept easy to understand for just about anyone.

If you’re just starting out, you will find the strategy guide a good place to start. As you advance further on, the other 4 guides takes your gaming experience to a whole new level. The PvP guide shows you how to easily overcome opponents with recommended PvP ship set-ups, skill training plans and much more. The ISK and mining guide is inarguable beneficial when it comes to making money in EVE Online. Offered in the guides are in-dept ISK making walkthroughs and strategies to triple your mining output.

With the vast variety of recommendations, techniques and strategies made available in these EVE guides by MMOGameGuide, both the new and experienced players will find the pack very helpful throughout their time in EVE Online.

What mining entails is simple, flying out to an asteroid belt, and using mining lasers/drones to harvest the ore in the asteroids. The types of ore found are as follows, ranging from most common to least common:

Veldspar

Scordite

Pyroxeres

Plagioclase

Omber

Mercoxit

Kernite

Jaspet

Hemorphite

Hedbergite

Gneiss

Dark

Ochre

Crokite

Spodumain

Bistot

Arkanor

The greater the rarity of the ore, the lower the sec status it will be in. For example Arkanor and Bistot can only be found in 0.0 sec space, while Veldspar can be found pretty much anywhere! The most common progression for a new player who plans to follow the mining “career” ship-wise is shown below:

Mining Frigate (i.e Bantam)

Mining Cruiser (i.e Osprey)

Mining Barge – Procurer

Mining Barge – Retriever

Mining Barge – Covetor

Exhumer – Hulk

Of course this progression is not set in stone, as many pilots like to use battleships to mine in for the reduced training time and greater tanking abilities, the Caldari Battleship Rokh being a prime example of this. Many people also skip the Procurer to go straight for the Retriever, and/or skip the Covetor to go straight for the Hulk.

Mining within Eve Online is quite simply done, fit a mining laser, target an asteroid, then wait for your cargohold to full up. Due to this simplicity it is a cause of controversy within Eve Online as there is a growing usage of “Macro Miners” using programs to mine for them, which is against the EULA and is a bannable offense.

In my opinion, Mining within Eve Online is best done while multi-tasking and if your only half paying attention to the game, such as watching a film or doing work. Otherwise, there are far more profitable (and fun!) things to do with your time. But in the end of the day everybody is different and I am sure some people love spending all night mining ore in safe high sec, and the best of luck to them!

What mining entails is simple, flying out to an asteroid belt, and using mining lasers/drones to harvest the ore in the asteroids. The types of ore found are as follows, ranging from most common to least common:

Veldspar

Scordite

Pyroxeres

Plagioclase

Omber

Mercoxit

Kernite

Jaspet

Hemorphite

Hedbergite

Gneiss

Dark

Ochre

Crokite

Spodumain

Bistot

Arkanor

The greater the rarity of the ore, the lower the sec status it will be in. For example Arkanor and Bistot can only be found in 0.0 sec space, while Veldspar can be found pretty much anywhere! The most common progression for a new player who plans to follow the mining “career” ship-wise is shown below:

Mining Frigate (i.e Bantam)

Mining Cruiser (i.e Osprey)

Mining Barge – Procurer

Mining Barge – Retriever

Mining Barge – Covetor

Exhumer – Hulk

Of course this progression is not set in stone, as many pilots like to use battleships to mine in for the reduced training time and greater tanking abilities, the Caldari Battleship Rokh being a prime example of this. Many people also skip the Procurer to go straight for the Retriever, and/or skip the Covetor to go straight for the Hulk.

Mining within Eve Online is quite simply done, fit a mining laser, target an asteroid, then wait for your cargohold to full up. Due to this simplicity it is a cause of controversy within Eve Online as there is a growing usage of “Macro Miners” using programs to mine for them, which is against the EULA and is a bannable offense.

In my opinion, Mining within Eve Online is best done while multi-tasking and if your only half paying attention to the game, such as watching a film or doing work. Otherwise, there are far more profitable (and fun!) things to do with your time. But in the end of the day everybody is different and I am sure some people love spending all night mining ore in safe high sec, and the best of luck to them!

The markets within Eve Online are run using Buy Orders, and Sell Orders. Say you want to buy a shuttle but

you only have 15k isk. You would place a buy order for that shuttle stating the price you are willing to pay. Then people can come along and fulfil that buy order by selling straight to it.

But say the person selling the shuttle thinks, “hold on, this item is worth more than this”, he can then create a sell order for say 17k isk. Now the buyer has a decision to make, does he fulfil the new sell order for 17k and get his new shuttle instantly or does he create a buy order and get the shuttle for cheaper, but having to wait for the order to be filled.

It is tactics such as these that can be used to make the real money with trading. Trading has numerous skills that can be learnt to help, and unlike the majority of skills within Eve Online, they have Charisma as the main attribute. This means that for a person whose skills usually revolve around combat, it will take them quite a while to learn the trading skills.

There are a few different types of trading;

Station Trading: This means you never leave the station, you use both buy and sell orders to make a profit.

Region Trading: This means buying an item in one region, and moving it to another one to sell.

There is no “best way” to trade, both have advantages and disadvantages and the best way to find out which type you prefer is to have a go!

There is one thing that a serious trader needs, patience. Before even opening the game it is up to you to do your research on the best items to make a profit with, this could take a lot of time. Also, unless you are in a trade hub such as Jita, your Buy Orders will take time to be filled. So to sum up; Trading can make you many billions of isk, but it is the hardest skill to master and relies more on your knowledge and abilities out of game than it does in-game!