Quest for PLEX.
I made the huge mistake of installing eve online, I will surely regret it. The nice bit about eve is that you can go anywhere in the universe without paying. You’ll get shot up but it’s possible.
They also have PLEX, pilots license extension, which gives you 30 more days of running about. You can buy them with ISK the ingame money, but they’re expensive. Usualy running 230+ million ISK.
Of course, nothing is easy. The quickest way to ISK is mining, but you have to find a field that’s safe enough for your combat/drone skills, better lasers equal better yield, better yield means you need a hauler, etc etc. And it all costs money.
The upshot is that it’s possible to pull in 1mil+ ISK for each mining adventure. If you join a corp you could easily make twice that with half the risk.
Early on you’ll be stuck jetcanning, that is jettisoning your cargo into a ‘can’, then filling up the can with what you mine. The great thing about this is that the jet can has way more cargo space than any of the beginner ships. Unfortunately there’s a lot of jackasses that like to ‘flip’ your can, either to steal the ore or to get you to fight them.
As soon as you can use/afford giant secured containers, do so. People can’t flip GSCs. I’ve got six of them in the field I work, which roughly equals one jetcan. No flipping, no cargo stealing!
If you’re looking for a timesink in space, eve is a good choice. Heck, with a 14 day trial you can make lots of ISK and maybe even get a plex.
