What to do in EVE Online?

This will be a overview guide on the many different paths and careers you can do in EVE Online. Its a work in progress and I will be continually updating as new options are available.

Main Branches

• PVP – player vs player
  • Solo
    • Hunt for pirates, suspects, kill rights, bounties
    • Scout areas for enemy moments and activities.
    • Spying
      Infiltrate enemy corps and alliances, become a member and earn trust. Sign into their forums and gather all intel possible.
      Get a cloak on your ship and go spy on enemy operations hidden from sight.
    • Join NBSI (not blue, shoot it) public fleets
    • Join Factional Warfare
      Sign up to one of the faction militia’s corps and hunt down opposing factions players.
  • Corporation
    • Join a PVP corporation
      Depending on which one you join many pvp options open up such as mercenary work, structure / citadel bashing, hot drops
  • Alliance
    • Diplomat
      Relationships are key to holding a alliance together, be the agent that makes the back room deals.
    • Fleet Commander (FC)
      Lead a fleet of other pilots for various objectives.
    • Defense Fleet
      Be part of fleets guarding sov space or areas your corp members accompany.
    • Sov Warfare
      Fight with your alliance to protect your coalition or to conquer other areas of space.
      Entosis Operations – specialized in the task of entosising during sov related event timers.
  • Piracy
    • Gate Camping
      Hang around gates waiting for possible targets to attack.
    • Suicide Ganking
      Use high dps ship to target other ships before concord police kills you.
    • Ransoming
      Hold another ship or pod hostage and requesting ISK to be transferred over in order to be let go.
    • Ninja Looting
      Stealing items, wreaks, loot from other players.
• PVE – player vs environment
  • Missions
    • Anomic / Burner
      Optional level 4 security agent missions, high difficultly rating assignments, may be declined with no standings loss.
    • Career
      Tutorial type of missions
    • Distribution
    • Epic Arc
      Series of missions that follow a story split up in chapters.
    • Factional Warfare
      Join a militia and fight against opposing militias
    • Mining
      Mine special asteroids and bring them back to the agent
    • Courier
    • R&D
      Research missions that prove a small amount of research points, which is used to buy datacores.
    • Security
      Missions revolving mostly around combat related tasks
    • Storyline
      Single Run Missions that provide large Empire standing boosts
  • Exploration
    • Data Sites
      Use Data analyzer to hack containers for components, blueprint copies, skill books and more.
    • Relic Sites
      Use relic analyzer to salvage the derelict ships and other floating objects for tech 1 / 2 salvage components.
    • Sleeper Caches
      Rare cosmic signature sites with a maze of trouble, but rewards storyline blueprint copies and other rare components.
    • Combat Sites
      Hidden combat pockets of pirates which will have a greater chance for more valuable items and blueprint copies from commander spawns.
    • Ghost Sites
      Timed mini hacking sites, get in fast, hack what you can and get out before reinforcements show up. Due note, on failure to successfully hack the container will cause aoe damage which scales depending on sec.
    • Gas Sites
      Hidden gas cloud sites, bring a venture with gas mining skill to harvest these clouds in order to make boosters.
    • Wormholes
      See wormhole section.
  • Ratting
    • Asteroid Belt Pirates
      Travel to asteroid belts and hunt down npc pirates.
    • Cosmic Anomalies
      Hunt down npc pirates via anomalies that populate in your probe scanner
    • Dynamic NPC Miners and reinforcements
      Hunt down npc miner ships with friends at asteroid belts, destroy the hauler and get a chance at a strong box with loot inside but be careful of the reinforcements.
    • Incursions
      Requires fleet, teamwork to repel pirate incursions.
    • Season Events
      Lore Events that spawn engagements in all known space.
  • Incursions
    • High Security Space
      Requires fleet and teamwork, high isk per hour if you are able to find a seasoned group that runs these all the time.
    • Low/Null Security Space
      Requires fleet and teamwork, more risky due to being in low / null sec space but also greater chance at unique blueprint drop.
  • Wormholes
    • Exploration
    • Mapping
      Mapping systems and creating chains of data in order to navigate thru wormholes.
    • Ratting
      Sleeper NPCs are found in wormhole space
    • Colonization
      Setup a citadel and create a base of operations.
    • Shattered Systems
      Special wormholes with planets that are all destroyed.
    • Drifter Hives
      Special wormholes with drifter spawns and unique hive complexes.
• Industry
  • Production
    • Tech Ships / Items
      Build T1, T2,T3 Ships, Items
    • Structures
      Create citadels with components / pi products.
    • Boosters
      Boosters are performance enhancement drugs, use resources from gas harvesting to make these items.
    • Blueprints
      Buy Blueprints, Research them, create copies for personal, corp or for selling to others.
  • Market
    • Station Trading
      Buy low, sell high
    • Regional Trading
      Buy items from Trade hubs and move them to hotspots in different regions for a mark up.
    • Scalping
    • Speculation
      Buy items based on assumptions of future changes to resell at a later date for a markup.
    • Scamming
  • Hauling
    • Freighter
      Use freighters to move ships and goods around
    • Jump Freighter
      Use the jump drive to travel long distances into deep space.
    • Logistics
      Accept courier contracts and move goods to required places.
  • Extraction
    See mining
    
• Mining
  • Asteroids
    Mine ores in asteroid fields
  • Moons
    Moon Harvest via POS with harvesters
  • Gas
    Extract gas from hidden gas clouds
  • Ice
    Mine ice from ice anomaly sites
  • Planets
    Planetary Interaction, the extraction of resources from planet surfaces.
    Factories can also be placed on planets to convert base planet resources into products of various tiers.
• Player Driven
  • Setup a corporation
    Create a corporation and start recruiting others
  • Form alliances
    Join other corporations to form alliances, their is strength in numbers.
  • Role-playing
    EVE’s Lore is very extensive, roleplay a character in the ever changing landscape of the lore.
  • Scamming
  • In-game Events
  • Journalism
  • Third Party Services
  • Streaming
    Broadcast your adventure on one of the many live stream platforms.