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Originally Posted by Vorph  That's pretty much the source of my dilemma right there. I like small, fast ships; even doing missions with my Thrasher while I don't have Science IV for tractors is mind-numbingly boring to me compared to my Rifter, but it's much more efficient because of being able to a) kill everything in my sleep and b) mount salvagers because a) was so easy I only need 4-5 arties at most.
Basically I feel like I'm stuck training into ships I couldn't give a shit about simply because it's necessary to make ISK. I know I can go to the end of L2 missions in my Rifter, but beyond that it seems like I need to be in at least a battlecruiser. I would rather be going straight to interceptors or whatever, but I don't see anyway to make money down that path. |
Honestly I think your appraisal is pretty accurate, unless you want to make isk unconventionally through scamming or production or trading or something. It's not a disaster, though, because like I said, a Myrmidon is really easy to train for (or a Drake, but I take it you're not a Caldari fan) and you will clean up level 3 missions with it. That should be plenty of income to fund a frigate-sized PvP machine until you get hungry for faction fittings - level 4s aren't that much more profitable and require a lot more dedicated training.
I recommend training up to, like, Battlecruiser III for a Myrmidon, training a few drone skills for it, and then train general cap/nav/fittings skills like you are doing now while you make yourself a little pool of isk to work with. T2 frigates aren't really very expensive, especially if you go with, say, a Stiletto, which is cheap and probably the best tackler in the game.
(A tip - if you're doing missions in empire space, and you have a few agents available in the vicinity, try to hold out at around 15k LP for the connections skillbook offers, while you grind a different agent. That is definitely the most efficient way to turn your LP into quick isk.)