Trading

This is a work in progress, please feel free to fill any gaps and provide your own insight

The role of a trader in EVE is to make money by moving goods, and making profit along the way. Trade is not as striaghtforward as running missions or mining for minerals, and can thus be a daunting prospect for a trader fresh out of character creation. This guide aims to help those who are intrested in the world of EVE trading take their first steps.

Character Creation: A Prequel

Before we start discussing the character creation it is important to note that no matter how you create your character, he can still pick up all needed skills later on. If you started as a miner you can simply buy the needed trade skills and get going, but a character created with trading in mind will have a head start on some key skills. Remember to strike a good balance between your attributes, in this case charisma will be one of the more important ones. Charisma helps with all trade and social skills.

Skill Overview

While all skills can beefit you at some point or other, there are a select few skills which are extra important to the trader. Sometimes it is not allways apparent what their direct benefit is. This section will attempt to cover the skills of the trade.