Depending on what my current goals are for a set of characters their days can be quite different from each other. For fun, I thought I'd look at a normal day for some of my characters living in High Sec who focus on PvE content.

The Alts

First thing when I get on I rotate between my alts. There are a couple of major things I try and accomplish as quickly as possible. These usually include managing industry and dailies.

My planetary industry is set to mine for about 1.5 days. I need to collect resources once every week to a week and a half depending on my time. I find this gives me more than enough benefits if I find myself not being able to get on daily or find myself too busy on my normal PI resource collection days.

On this day I showed up before the PI stopped producing materials. So, I just needed to open the UI to each planet and click on each of the extractor controls. Then reset each one and save. This process takes under a full minute per character to reset all their PI.

If I'm later than 1.5 days. An option from the PI viewer itself pops up that allows you to just click a single button to reset. There is a short delay keeping you from just going down your planet list and spamming restart. It is however still a bit quicker than the first method.

I am doing this in HS on these characters I'm talking about. As such the profit is quite a lot lower than if I had these characters in a WH or NS. That however comes with its complications and commitments.

Next up I take a look and see what the daily AIR goals are. Because there is usually a scan of 5 signatures I keep most of the alts in a starter training system. As they have lots of signatures that are easy to scan down. It only takes a couple more moments.

At the same station, I also have Ventures for mining and a quick and cheap blueprint if I need to manufacture an item. On days I need to mien ore I am getting the resources that will be needed to finish the manufacturing goals.

In the event, I can’t do quickly two actives to meet the dailies for 10k SP (skill points) and work towards the monthly milestones. I’ll use EverMarks that I've been earning from the dallies and other activities. The main goal every month is reaching the final monthly reward of 75 SP and a further 150k SP for the account being Omega.

Each month I get up to 525k SP per character just quickly running through these daily activities. I then spend the SP on the training industry. If I wanted to buy skill injectors from other players, it would run 813 million for a 500k SP one. I'd only get 400k SP since my characters are over 5 million SP.

Next up I check out the characters industry. I’m still in what I'd consider the early days of being in industry of Eve Online. For the most part on my alts, they are just running research.

Most of the blueprints I have them researching either take 2 days, 1 week, 2 weeks, or about a full month per blueprint research cycle. So, most days I need to do nothing for this part of what I have my characters doing.

You can only research the blueprint for a max of one month at a time. Some bigger blueprints can take longer than that to get 10% material effect and 20% time efficacity. For right now some of my alts lack the skills to remotely deal with blueprints that is one of the areas I'm investing SP into once I unlock further industry capacities on them.

The biggest consumers of time are when I need to head back to collect and move PI materials around. Along with dealing with anything from blueprints or item manufacturing. For the most part, my alts can sit for days in the same system with me just logging in for a short amount of time to manage PI and do daily goals.

On average the short amount of time I spent on alts is worth 50 million ISK per day for the time being with that number slowly going up. Now that is mostly an accounting number. A big chunk of it is the value of the SP and if I were to extract and sell that SP just half of what a large skill injector goes for is the cost to be an extractor to take the SP out. There are also then taxes on the sale of that skill injector.

All the PI stuff I'm making is either for my corporation's needs or my own manufacturing needs. As such I'm either not making any ISK off them, or I have large stockpiles of things for future needs in the long term. In the short term, I am in fact needing to spend ISK to pay taxes to remove PI materials off planets.

Then you get down to the blueprints. While I'm saving a lot of ISK researching my own and building out my collection. Over just buying the blueprints from other players. I am feeding a lot of ISK into buying the blueprints. Along with time to go around getting the non-research blueprints from different areas. Finally, the cost of researching them.

So, while in theory, my alts are generating 1.5 billion ISK of value for me per month per character. In the short term, I'm quite in the red just keeping it all going ISK wise. Long-term each alt should be worth a heck of a lot more than that per month and it won't just be an account number worth of value added to me either by then. That however is going to take some time.

Finally, depending on how much time I want to spend on each alt for that day. I might go down a list of AIR Carrer program objectives I have written down and try and get a couple of items off that list.

These things give a little SP when you reach different milestones. Along with small amounts of ISK and possibly other rewards that are not worth the time. I’m mostly just after the extra 700k SP in rewards if I finish off all the milestones.

This is more of a work on a little here or there if I need a break from my usual grind of other things. Some days if I'm getting close to another SP milestone and I want to train a skill I'll do a bit of grinding. Other days I just skip over this part of my routine.

The Main

Once I'm done with the alts for the day the rest of my time is spent on my main. He ends up doing everything they did and a whole lot more. Things are a little different as I'll end up multitasking and doing a few things at once.

When it comes to PI on him, I can reset the extractors on each planet while I'm either flying to another system or running a mission. They are just something I have to remember to do at some point during the day. The only time I'm going out of my way for them is if I need to move PI materials around once a week or later.

As far as the dallies he usually gets them done without me having to go out of my way. If not, I will just spend Marks to finish them off. As he has more than I know what to do with at this point.

I usually take a moment to go over market transactions for the day. I have goods in a few different locations. I like to get a feel if things are least moving around. At some point, if my operation gets big enough, I'll just have alt accounts camped at the major trade hubs and other systems I sell in. That however comes with a whole extra cost of another Omega account and market skills needing to be trained for that. I’m just not there yet.

This also helps me keep an eye on inventory levels and gives me some insights into what I might need to be manufacturing more of. Manufacturing in Eve Online can get a bit tricky as you are not always making what you plan to sell that day or even week.

Once people see a profit in making one item over another. The market gets flooded with that item. Then prices tend to go down. That tends to be the case for most items over the long run.

I do however have things I can make that day and get back up on the market in slower moving markets that end up selling more than in the major trade hubs. The issue is the lack of trade volume and my limitation on market slots which is my current short-term bottleneck from taking things to the next stage.

During that time, I'll end up flying down to where I do the bulk of my blueprint research and manufacturing of items. I got a spot that is quite cheap to do things at. Making it easier to find profit in manufacturing and still being in HS to do so for most of what I do. The cost is time to get items to market.

As we can see on this day, I'm getting quite low on raw basic resources for tier 1 ships and models. There are about 180 million in materials here. Some of these I can mine for in the local system them is for stuff like titanium, pyrite, and mexallon. Other stuff I can buy that I prefer not to do or run missions and then recycle those items down.

The good news is I had about 200 million more in mineral where I run missions. I knew I did not need to bring them down for this day so I kept them there. So, while I'm getting quite low, I'm also still quite a small operation. I knew there be enough there for the day.

On days I'm busy in other games or just want a relaxing day in Eve Online. I’ll just go out and mine. Mining in HS on a single account is quite a low ISK per hour activity. You also don’t have to do much so it’s great when I'm just being lazy.

On those other days like this day. I went out running level 4 missions. It’s what is purely covering all my costs expanding into manufacturing. I also don’t fly with anything that expensive for modules in the ship I'm using.

After running a few missions. It’s usually time to go restock some items I'm selling somewhere. Along with moving some goods around. While I do want to stockpile some stuff for my future manufacturing. I also need to find a balance. Certain raw materials are going up a lot due to things going on in the game. So, I'd rather sell those off while I can get better prices than anything I could be manufacturing them into in the short run.

On this trip, I ended up scoring quite well. I had some offensively low buy orders in low-volume markets that had been collecting for a while. Nothing like saving 400m ISK on materials I can’t get myself. It was perfect to go pick them up as I needed to restock that market anyway.

Final Thoughts

I’d call this an average day for my HS characters when no major event is running. Sure, there are days when I'm out doing far crazier things like mission arcs, farming mostly forgotten sites, or even jumping into WHs. Along with trying new things. Today was not one of those days.

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