The most obvious benefit of scamming is the significant difference in ISK earned per hour compared to a normal profession in EVE. Generally speaking, you will always earn more ISK for time invested than any standard profession. A standard profession would be running missions, trading, mining, invention, etc. There are very few cases where you'll earn more ISK for your time.
Just like most things, you only get what you put in. The amount of profit you earn from scamming will very likely be dictated by the amount of effort you put toward your scams. Note that effort does not necessarily mean time. Many scams, once started, require very little maintance to keep them going.
Scamming is a fun way to play EVE. With a bit of time and know-how, scamming allows for endless creative freedom in the game. You are not bound by some courier agent celebrating his daughter's birthday multiple times a day. You're not stuck running strip miners for 8 hour sessions. There's no game mechanic that punishes you if you don't succeed every time. The normal limitations of earning ISK in the game are completely removed.
If you use scamming as your primary source of income, it almost entirely removes the typical burnout you might experience through normal grinding in EVE. Scamming will allow you to gain a surplus of ISK. As a result, you enable a lot more of the high-end game play. You will easily be able to fund your PVP activites. You'll be able to afford multiple PLEXes per month to power more accounts than you can manage. The surplus of ISK will open up many options you've never considered before.
All of this comes without having to play EVE like it's a second job. Many players are forced to grind out missions to afford their PLEXes, and that is the only motivation for doing the missions. If you earn your ISK from scamming, you might actually enjoy running a mission every once and awhile.
Besides earning ISK so players can continue to run their accounts for free, most players grind out repetitive tasks in game so they can afford ships to use in PVP. If you're earning your ISK through scamming, it takes very little effort to accumulate enough ISK to put toward your favorite ship. The added benefit of earning such easy ISK is the fact that you will care a lot less for your losses in combat, overall improving your PVP experience. It will allow you to enter into situations that you otherwise would avoid because of the price tag of whatever you're flying.
Scamming as a whole is the quickest way to remove the grind feeling of EVE. You'll never do something in EVE again because you have to. You'll do it because it's fun. You'll enjoy earning your ISK, and you'll have a lot more ISK to spend on things that you've never been able to afford.
This page last updated: 2010.02.25
Just like most things, you only get what you put in. The amount of profit you earn from scamming will very likely be dictated by the amount of effort you put toward your scams. Note that effort does not necessarily mean time. Many scams, once started, require very little maintance to keep them going.
Scamming is a fun way to play EVE. With a bit of time and know-how, scamming allows for endless creative freedom in the game. You are not bound by some courier agent celebrating his daughter's birthday multiple times a day. You're not stuck running strip miners for 8 hour sessions. There's no game mechanic that punishes you if you don't succeed every time. The normal limitations of earning ISK in the game are completely removed.
If you use scamming as your primary source of income, it almost entirely removes the typical burnout you might experience through normal grinding in EVE. Scamming will allow you to gain a surplus of ISK. As a result, you enable a lot more of the high-end game play. You will easily be able to fund your PVP activites. You'll be able to afford multiple PLEXes per month to power more accounts than you can manage. The surplus of ISK will open up many options you've never considered before.
All of this comes without having to play EVE like it's a second job. Many players are forced to grind out missions to afford their PLEXes, and that is the only motivation for doing the missions. If you earn your ISK from scamming, you might actually enjoy running a mission every once and awhile.
Besides earning ISK so players can continue to run their accounts for free, most players grind out repetitive tasks in game so they can afford ships to use in PVP. If you're earning your ISK through scamming, it takes very little effort to accumulate enough ISK to put toward your favorite ship. The added benefit of earning such easy ISK is the fact that you will care a lot less for your losses in combat, overall improving your PVP experience. It will allow you to enter into situations that you otherwise would avoid because of the price tag of whatever you're flying.
Scamming as a whole is the quickest way to remove the grind feeling of EVE. You'll never do something in EVE again because you have to. You'll do it because it's fun. You'll enjoy earning your ISK, and you'll have a lot more ISK to spend on things that you've never been able to afford.
This page last updated: 2010.02.25