All capsuleers start as Alphas. This pilot license includes the basic functions of the game and allows players to develop a feeling for Eve. The Alpha is explicitly NOT suitable for continuous play, as it significantly limits the game compared to the paid Omega. Alpha characters can be skilled up to 5 million skill points. After that, it’s possible to increase the Alpha’s skill points to up to 20 million using Daily Alpha Injectors, purchased with real money or from the in-game market, and with free skill points from in-game events.
Omegas are also limited to these 20 million skill points when their Omega expires and they fall back to Alpha..
Omega
offers access to the entire game, all skills for all ships, no skill limits, and twice the skill progression speed. Looking at the cost of „premium game time“ in various MMORPGs, the Omega subscription in EVE Online, at €20 per month, seems very expensive, at least at first glance.
The table below shows how much one month of Omega time costs when purchasing X months of game time at once. Fenris Creations rewards players who are willing to commit long-term:
| Omega | playing time | 1 month | 3 month | 6 month | 12 month | 24 month |
| package price | 20€ | 48€ | 84€ | 144€ | 264€ | |
| per month | 20€ | 16€ | 14€ | 12€ | 11€ |
Omega status can also be purchased in-game with PLEX (premium currency) in the New Eden Store (NES / in-game shop) instead of with Euros.
PLEX
Besides Omega status, you can buy it for real money in the shop and then sell it in-game for ISK (the game currency) to buy ships or items.
Alternatively, you can buy it for ISK if you can’t or don’t want to spend real money, and have the necessary ISK, to purchase Omega time on the NES.
It is therefore also possible to play EVE for free as Omega
and finance it through in-game activity.
Purchasing PLEX instead of game time can also be worthwhile if you’re willing and able to invest a significant amount of money upfront. This one-time payment reduces the monthly costs over the subscription period.
| PLEX | Package price | 1 month (500 PLEX) | 3 month (1200 PLEX) | 6 month (2100 PLEX) | 12 month (3600 PLEX) | 24 month (6600 PLEX) |
| per month | 500 PLEX/M | 400 PLEX/M | 350 PLEX/M | 300 PLEX/M | 275 PLEX/M | |
| 500 | 25€ | 25,00€ | – | – | – | – |
| 1.000 | 45€ | 22,50€ | – | – | – | – |
| 1.500 | 65€ | 21,67€ | 17,33€ | – | – | – |
| 3.000 | 125€ | 20,83€ | 16,67€ | 14,71€ | – | – |
| 6.000 | 240€ | 20,00€ | 16,00€ | 14,12€ | 12,00€ | – |
| 12.000 | 420€ | 17,50€ | 14,00€ | 12,35€ | 10,50€ | 9,77€ |
| 20.000 | 650€ | 16,25€ | 13,00€ | 11,40€ | 9,85€ | 9,03€ |
Double offer
Anyone who says, „I’m not going to spend €420 or €650 for a €2 saving a month,“ is right. But we’re not done yet. There are regular PLEX offers , followed 1-2 weeks later by discounted playtime in exchange for PLEX on the NES. Looking at the table above with the offer prices (each discounted by 25%), the monthly costs drop considerably:
| PLEX | Price | 1 month of playtime | 3 months playing time | 6 months playing time | 12 months playing time | 24 months playing time |
| 375 PLEX | 900 PLEX | 1575 PLEX | 2700 PLEX | 4950 PLEX | ||
| per month | 375 PLEX | 300 PLEX | 262 PLEX | 225 PLEX | 206 PLEX | |
| 1000 | 33,75 € | 12,66€ | 10,13€ | – | – | – |
| 1500 | 48,75 € | 12,19€ | 9,75€ | 8,52€ | – | – |
| 3000 | 93,75 € | 11,72€ | 9,38€ | 8,19€ | 7,03€ | – |
| 6000 | 180,00 € | 11,25€ | 9,00€ | 7,86€ | 6,75€ | 6,18€ |
| 12000 | 315,00 € | 9,84€ | 7,88€ | 6,88€ | 5,91€ | 5,41€ |
| 20000 | 487,50 € | 9,14€ | 7,31€ | 6,39€ | 5,48€ | 5,02€ |
487.50 euros isn’t exactly a bargain, but 20,000 PLEX allows you to PLEX four accounts for two years. If you can afford it and wait, you should definitely take advantage of these double-up offers and significantly reduce your EVE costs!
Mastery Packs 2026
They’re essentially assorted chocolates, offering a little bit of each premium item FC sells. Unfortunately, you can only buy each pack once per account! Or rather, once per shop. If you’re really determined, you can buy the packs once from Markee , once from the FC Store , and once (with slightly different content, but without PLEX) in-game on the NES for PLEX.
| Mastery Pack | Price (€/$) | Value (€/$) | Omega (Take) | PLEX | Attribute Booster (+Attribute/days) | booster skill points | free skill points | total skill points | MCT certificates | Extractor |
| Level 1 | 10 | 19 | 15 | Genius (+12/12) | 622.080 | – | 622.080 | |||
| Level 2 | 25 | 44 | 30 | 100 | Genius (+12/12) Advanced (+6/6) | 622.080 155.520 | 648.000 | 1.425.600 | ||
| Level 3 | 50 | 84 | 60 | 500 | 2 x Genius (+12/12) | 2 x 622.080 | 648.000 | 1.892.160 | ||
| Level 4 | 100 | 157 | 90 | 1000 | 2 x Genius (+12/12) | 2 x 622.080 | 3 x 648.000 | 3.188.160 | 2 | 2 |
| Level 5 | 250 | 387 | 180 | 3000 | 2 x Genius (+12/12) | 2 x 622.080 | 6 x 648.000 | 5.132.160 | 6 | 20 |
The booster skill points are calculated with Biology 5, but without the implant, thus resulting in 10% more.
Raising the Biology skill to 5 doubles the duration of boosters,
and the Eifyr and Co. ‚Alchemist‘ Biology BY-810 hardwiring extends the duration by another 10%.
Here too, you should keep an eye on the shop for possible offers; that’s when things get really interesting. And if you can only buy them once per account, then you should definitely get them as cheaply as possible.
Weekend producer
CCP has unintentionally given all industry players the opportunity to massively reduce their production slot costs with the „Weekend Fleet“ package ( Markee Shop ).
Most construction jobs, research, and reactions last 30 days; the time in between is wasted if you don’t also mine or do PI with the characters.
Purchasing the Weekend Fleet Pack solves this problem, allowing you to start 30-33 research, production, and reaction slots for your 3 characters on the account for €3.75. These jobs will continue even if the account reverts to Alpha status, after three days, when the pack expires. Once the jobs are completed a month later, you can purchase the pack again, start new jobs, and thus bypass the 28-day grace period for the system cost index.
If you previously could only afford/wanted to use one „Slot Account“ for your production for 20 euros per month, this package allows you to upgrade from 33 slots to 165 slots, as you can now run 5 accounts in „Part Time Omega“ for 20 euros and also receive 250 PLEX on top (50 per pack).
penny pinchers
Anyone who currently only has one or two accounts, but is certain that they want to build their own mining or PVE fleet in the medium to long term, can prepare for this at no cost:
- The planned number of miner/ratting characters can be created quickly and free of charge as an Alpha account, and via the advertising link (preferably mine) you get an additional one million skill points.
- These should first be saved in the Redeem Queue; once they are „free skill points“ in the skill queue, they count towards the 5 million skill points to which the Alpha is limited.
- On these accounts, you can skill all 3 characters for free in the Alpha with Magic-14, Navigation and Drone Skills, as well as Gallente Hauler (at level 1) and a few Indu Skills .
- Once you have the necessary ISK to permanently plex another account, you switch it to Omega and invest the 1 million skill points in Mining Barge/Exhumer or Gila/Ishtar.
- This allows you to gradually expand your fleet without wasting months of paid skill time on basic skills for each character.
Without login rewards and other skill point bonuses, it takes 500 days to get all 3 characters in Alpha to 5 million skill points each.
Free Skill Points
Anyone who hasn’t used it yet, can claim 1,000,000 free skill points with my Buddy Link
This works for new accounts as well as returning players via the white button at the bottom of the link.
Buy Skill Soints
„We will never sell skill points“ – CCP circa 2010
They do, in various packages (see above), but also „purely“ as a combination of free skill points and attribute boosters:
| Bundle | Skill points | Price (€/$) | SP per Euro |
| EVE Online Undock Boost Bundle | 1.270.080 SP | 16 | 79.380 SP |
| EVE Online Afterburn Boost Bundle | 3.188.160 SP | 48 | 66.420 SP |
| EVE Online Warp Boost Bundle | 5.132.160 SP | 96 | 53.460 SP |
| EVE Online Jump Boost Bundle | 9.020.160 SP | 192 | 46.980 SP |
| In total | 18.610.560 SP | 352 |
Expensive, but for impatient users a way to acquire skill points once (see above) per account.
In the Markee are some „remaining stock“ SP packs from 2024, which contains less SP but, are also significantly cheaper:
| Bundle | Skill points | Price (€/$) | SP per Euro |
| Eve Online Apprentice Bundle 2024 | 872.080 SP | 7,59 | 114.899 SP |
| Eve Online Prodigy Bundle 2024 | 1.561.040 SP | 31,24 | 49.969 SP |
| Eve Online Master Bundle 2024 | 1.888.240 SP | 40,84 | 46.235 SP |
| In total | 5.624.320 SP | 99,52 |
But here the rule is „when it’s gone, it’s gone“.
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