This EVE Online ISK Guide will give you an overview of the economy, and give some suggestions on how to exploit it. This economy is very real and if you invest and lose in it your player will be broke, with no ship, no insurance, and no friends. Unfortunately for current players there isn't much of an in game EVE Online ISK Guide. You get a basic overview of what it is which consists of it being money, and that's it. While this is technically all you need to know there is so much more. The standard of currency in EVE is called ISK, it's not an acronym, and it's simply its name. ISK is used to buy everything in the EVE Online world. When you mine ore, reprocess ore or salvage, and have parts to sell you can sell them to the NPC market, or you can put them for sale to other players. This works similar to an online auction minus the fees. Essentially you go to a station, put the item up for sale, and leave the item at that station. It won't sell immediately unless it's a hot product, just like real life. When it's purchased the money goes into your player's bank account and the buyer comes to the station and picks the item up. It's a wonderful auction system isn't it? Using the market place to your advantage is one thing the EVE  ISK Guide highly recommends. There are many filters in the marketplace for products. These range from distance, how many jumps a person has to perform to get to a station, and how safe of a sector the station is in. Most people will not buy a product from a station in low, or no security space unless they are not allowed in regular space. This would mean they are an outlaw, and you'd be providing services to outlaw players. This is of course perfectly fine, and part of the fun playing. Aside from the marketplace there are plenty of other ways to make money. Whenever there are battles whether small or large there is always wreckage left behind. If you have the required skills, and can stay hidden long enough for the winner to go away you can salvage this wreckage, reprocess it, and sell the parts. It's a very dangerous but lucrative business and the EVE Online ISK Guide advises you to be careful. Of course if this isn't for you then you can use a corporation to your benefit. The recommendation of this EVE Online ISK Guide for the truly dedicated player is to start up a corporation. You can provide escort services for players that need cover in no security systems, you can be an ore mining corporation, or you can specialize in hunting down outlaws. Corporations can be the biggest money makers, and breakers in the game. Some corporations even go to war with each other, so keep this in mind before you join or start one.