Ratting in 0.0

Let´s start with the holy grail. If you are new in EVE everyone tells you if you like to make alot of isk skill for a good ship and than with around 4 million skillpoints or more get into nullsec there lays the isk.

First thats not true and I can proof it.

Thanks to the api key of EVE online everyhting what you are doing ingame can and will be monitored the api key is just a mirror of it. And thanks to some players who have the knowledge of how to integrated and analyse this data they created tools like eve-central or eve-marketdata.
Eve-marketdata has a little tool which shows us where are the most products are traded and than puts this stations in a ranking.

The ranking clearly shows that the first six stations are well known high sec stations and than on the 7th place followed by the first 0.0 station which is the main trading hub of the goonswarm federation. Looking at the data the 0.0 station VFK-IV 754 billion trading volume nearly the same trading voulume like Oursulaert a trading station in gallente space. The first 6 trading stations in this ranking have a trading volume of around 43 trillion isk and than comes the rest of the ranking with 5705 ranked stations.

So back to 0.0 and how you get there.

First you need at least a battlecruiser with decent skills so you can atleast run the belts and make if you are lucky a 8 million tick, tick means every 20mins you receive a certain amount of isk.
Training for this ship means at least six weeks of training, 2 months if you want to have even the weapons in t2 which you will need.

The investment for a nice t1 battlecrusiser like the drake lies around 60 million with fitting. This are just benchmarks I don`t talk about fittings in here.
Than you have a ship with which you can run belts the easiest thing in 0.0. But you went to 0.0 to make is you want to run anomalies and get at least a 12 million tick or run plexes to find bpcs for faction battleships like the Nightmare which will bring you a few hundred million.

But here it comes first of all how do you get your ship into 0.0? Can you fly with your tiny drake and your current low skills a anomalie? Are there any other risks?

The answer is, there are plenty of ways to get a ship into 0.0, second no you can`t unless you want to buy a new battlecruiser everyday and third, yes.

Getting a battlecrusier into 0.0 as a new player you need to be a member of the sov holder, than you need someone who flys your ship down to 0.0 or you do it yourself. If you like to do it yourself you can take the risk and fly it thru low sec maybe the citizens^^ there are asleep and let you thru or you die pretty quickly. You jump it down with your carrier, an investment of more than a billion of isk and at least 3 month of training or you jump it down with your jumpfreigher a investment of at least 5 billion and a training of more than 3 months with pretty expensive skillbooks.

Hopefully you have someone in your new alliance who jumps the stuff down to your new homesystem. Now you have a 60 million ship in the hostile space of 0.0 where you can only run the belts.
You start ratting than 10 minutes later someone in intel says a hostile ship entered your space. First rule any pve ship needs to dock immedialty or go save, that means no isk for you and a tick of 0 isk.
Second rule everyone who hides can defend the system too, so you need to reship into something else at least a hero tackle, a small frigate which tackles the incoming hostile ship, again an investment of at least 2 million and a low chance of survival.
Killing incoming hostiles means most of the time setting up a gatecamp and wait, during this time you earn no isk you just lose time.

So you wait until the hostile is dead, logged off or you died and need to setup a new clone for a small amount of isk like 500k or so.

Your goal for a plex is still 20 million a day. You spent 60 million on the ship, 4-7 million for the jump which was done by one of your new alliance members and 2 million for a tackle ship. That means you need to receive in the best case 666 million in the first month of 0.0 live to buy one plex.

You can make in theorie 24 million an hour, without loot, that means you need to rat 28 hours a month to receive a plex, roughly an hour a day.
Depending on where your 0.0 space its located it could be easy task or if you have frequent "visitors" it could be an intersting^^ task. By the way you still haven´t done anything for yourself to enjoy the game you just work for a plex, like a hamster in the wheel.