Market Trading

Accessing the market to buy or sell items is very simple. The regional market can be opened straight from your Neocom where sell orders are displayed above buy orders alongside graphs of price history, quantity, and trading volume per day. Sell orders are other Capsuleers offering to sell their items for ISK and buy orders serve as the opposite - pilots putting down ISK in advance if you have the right item to sell to them. Most trading activity takes place in and around the market hub known as Jita 4-4, though other, smaller trade hubs do exist in popular PvE or PvP locations. If you're savvy enough to spot a deal then it's very possible to turn a profit by hauling goods or simply buying low and selling high.

Basic Production

Blueprints come in two variants, originals and their copies. Many of the Tech 1 (basic technology) blueprint originals can be purchased on the market from NPC sell orders depending on the region you are in. The blueprint window will then show you the materials required and the time that it will take to create that specific item. You can start this process by placing the blueprint into the Industry window and selecting one of several jobs: manufacturing will create the item if you have the materials, copying will produce a limited copy for invention or production elsewhere, and research will either reduce the manufacturing time (Time Efficiency) or lower the amount of materials required (Material Efficiency). These science and manufacturing jobs will, however, take up build slots, limiting the number of jobs that a Capsuleer can have running at once.

Invention and T2 Production

Invention is a science-based industry process that uses Tech 1 blueprint copies (BPCs) and Datacores to attempt to produce a limited T2 blueprint copy based on the original. For example, the Minmatar Breacher-class frigate BPC has a chance to invent into a Hound stealth bomber BPC. Your chance to succeed may be relatively low but can be improved by training the relevant skills seen in the Industry window or by using an optional Decryptor. Should you succeed, it is possible to take the T2 BPC and produce modules or ships that are worth much more than their T1 equivalents.

Planetary Industry

Requires Omega subscription

Planetary Industry is an activity where you map out the surface of planets and deploy industrial facilities on resource hot spots to gather and process unique goods. At a basic level, this is done by first scanning the planet from the Planetary Industry view, then placing a suitable Command Center down if the planet's resources look suitable. Extractor Control Units may then be placed within range of the resource-rich areas to harvest from the planet on their own. From here it is up to you where you direct those newly-mined materials. They can be processed and stored on the planet's surface using various facilities and storage silos in a production line of sorts. After some amount of time, dependent on your setup, these resources may be collected in space from a Customs Office.

Advanced Market Trading & Investing

Trading on the open market can be a career in its own right, buying and selling large quantities of items at a time. Training skills to reduce taxes and completing missions for the NPC corporation which owns the station will work to improve your profit margins. It's entirely possible for pilots to make a living from trading activities alone. A resourceful Capsuleer may then also make easy money by researching common purchases in far-away regions and using hauling vessels to relocate items there at an increased price. The economy of New Eden very much reflects the real world wherein knowledge of the market and smart investments are the best way to make a profit.

Academy Venture

[Venture, Academy Venture]

Mining Laser Upgrade I

Medium Shield Extender I
1MN Y-S8 Compact Afterburner
ML-3 Scoped Survey Scanner

EP-S Gaussian Scoped Mining Laser
Salvager I
EP-S Gaussian Scoped Mining Laser

Small EM Shield Reinforcer I
Small Thermal Shield Reinforcer I
Small EM Shield Reinforcer I

Hobgoblin I x2

Mining Drone I x2

Academy Procurer

Omega Clone State required

[Procurer, Academy Procurer]

Mining Laser Upgrade II
Mining Laser Upgrade II

10MN Y-S8 Compact Afterburner
Enduring Multispectrum Shield Hardener
Enduring Multispectrum Shield Hardener
ML-3 Scoped Survey Scanner

Strip Miner I
Strip Miner I

Medium Ancillary Current Router I
Medium Ancillary Current Router I
Medium EM Shield Reinforcer I

Hobgoblin I x5
Mining Drone I x5

Inherent Implants 'Highwall' Mining MX-1001

Academy Iteron Mark V

[Iteron Mark V, Academy Iteron]

Damage Control I
Warp Core Stabilizer I
Type-D Restrained Expanded Cargo
Type-D Restrained Expanded Cargo
Type-D Restrained Inertial Stabilizers

Medium Shield Extender I
Medium Shield Extender I
Medium Shield Extender I
Enduring Multispectrum Shield Hardener

[Empty High slot]
[Empty High slot]

Medium Core Defense Field Extender I
Medium Cargohold Optimization I
Medium Cargohold Optimization I

Academy Cormorant

[Cormorant, Academy Cormorant]

F-89 Compact Signal Amplifier
F-89 Compact Signal Amplifier

Small Compact Pb-Acid Cap Battery
Eutectic Compact Cap Recharger
5MN Y-T8 Compact Microwarpdrive

Salvager I
Salvager I
Salvager I
Salvager I
Salvager I
Salvager I
Salvager I
Salvager I

Small Salvage Tackle I
Small Salvage Tackle I
Small Salvage Tackle I

Opening the skills window of a new character can be challenging, more so when looking over the vast selection of Industry skills available. This is due to EVE's industry being broken down into several key categories:

• Resource Processing - The mining and processing of ore, ice, and gas in addition to salvaging.
• Planet Management - Extracting and processing materials on the surfaces of planets.
• Science - Researching and inventing blueprints to improve their efficiency or create T2 modules.
• Production - The process of building a ship or module using gathered minerals.
• Trade - Buying and selling larger amounts of goods with reduced taxes.

Most of the skills found in each of these categories are very specialized. They relate to the processing of specific ores or the invention of specific technologies. The best thing a new pilot can do, however, is to start with a certified Skill Plan in-game. Visit the skills panel from the top left of your Neocom to pick from several curated Plans. You can automatically insert those skills into your training queue and get a head start as an Industrialist! From there, it is easy to focus on particular ores or technologies that you know you plan to work with.

Spaceship Command, Drone, Shield, and Navigation skills can also be extremely effective in helping you fly your industrial ships safely. This is in addition to the Magic 14 which will help round out any ship you choose to fly.

Key Industrial Skills

• Mining Frigate - Allows the use of mining frigates such as the Venture.
• Mining Barge - The cruiser-sized upgrade to a mining frigate.
• Mining - A basic skill that increases mining yield.
• Racial Industrial - Training an industrial ship will allow you to haul large amounts of goods.
• Industry - Allows the operation of manufacturing facilities and speeds up production.
• Reprocessing - Increases the quantity of minerals gained when reprocessing ores.
• Science - Basic skill, improves the speed of blueprint copying.

Useful Industrial Support Skills

• Astrogeology - Improves Mining Turret yield.
• Laboratory Operation - Increases the number of research jobs that can be run at once.
• Mass Production - Increases the number of factory jobs that can be run at once.
• Trade - Increases the amount of buy and sell orders you can place.
• Research - Improves the speed of researching blueprint Time Efficiency.
• Metallurgy - Improves the speed of researching blueprint Material Efficiency.
• Broker Relations & Accounting - Two skills that reduce taxes when selling goods.

Reactions

Gas reactions use a special type of blueprint known as a reaction formula. They take up special reaction slots and will transform an amount of gas plus additional minerals to create much more valuable gas components used in further production down the line. These reaction products may also be sold on the markets as with anything else that you might make.

Tech 3 Production

Tech 3 (T3) production is a process even more advanced than Tech 2 production. By reverse-engineering ancient Sleeper technology, a Capsuleer is able to turn the remnants of Sleeper drones combined with wormhole gases into the hulls and subsystems of T3 ships. These processes are very skill intensive and involve gathering large amounts of wormhole materials working in tandem with several industrial facilities. The end result, however, will be one of the most unique and versatile ship classes in EVE Online.

Capital Ship Construction

Capital ship stockpiles are one of the driving forces behind the wars that rage across New Eden. Many Nullsec alliances will go as far as to expend their formidable dreadnought-class warships like ammunition in order to secure kills of hostile titans - supermassive vessels three times larger than anything else on the battlefield. This creates an unending demand for new capital ships in EVE. Getting into capital construction can be extremely expensive with high upfront costs for the blueprints of not only hulls but for individual components too. With the support of an alliance, however, it is possible to play an important role in this production chain to produce the largest war machines around.

Booster Manufacturing

Similar to the side effects of the performance-enhancing boosters themselves, harvesting the gas from known space gas clouds will sometimes be extremely corrosive to your ship to the point of risking destruction. Successfully harvesting these hazardous materials, however, will open up the potential to produce performance-enhancing drugs and boosters for the right kind of pilot. The formulas to react and produce combat boosters can be found in hidden pirate chemical facilities which are located using exploration skills.

Structure Production

One of the most common sights in New Eden will be an Upwell structure such as an Astrahus or Raitaru. Producing one of these stations is indeed yet another manufacturing process. Structure production in particular combines large amounts of minerals mined from asteroid belts with high-end Planetary Industry materials. Furthermore, player-owned structures need a constant supply of fuel blocks created from ice belts harvested using special ice harvesting equipment.

Wikis and Written Guides

• EVE Uni - Planetary Interaction Guide
• Dunk Dinkle's Industry Primer
• Brave Wiki - Station Trading 101

Video Guides

• Oz's Station Trading Guide
• Talking in Stations: Industry Techniques
• Dad Dex: Guide to Planetary Interaction
• EVE Let's Play - Industry From Scratch
• EVEnton - Nina Gas Harvesting Guide
• Markee Dragon - Industry, Trade, and Transport

Streamers

• The Oz
• Talking in Stations

In-game Training Corporations

• EVE University (Large)
• Convocation of Empyreans (Medium, High Sec/Low Sec)
• Minmatar Munitions (Small, High Sec)
• Brave Collective (Large, Null Sec)
• Karmafleet (Large, Null Sec)
• Pandemic Horde (Large, Null Sec)