Skill farming works by taking advantage of the price difference between skill injectors and extractors. You max out your attributes, train the required 500k SP to extract, then sell the injectors. Rinse and repeat.

EVE-Mogul has a handy tool that tells you how much ISK you can make by skill farming. The following shows a worst-case scenario where you have only one skill farm, buy PLEX and extractors from sell orders, and sell injectors to buy orders.

Don't be fooled by that juicy ~200m in profits though. PLEX and skill prices can fluctuate wildly making your farms quickly unprofitable. The only way you can make a meaningful and near-guaranteed flow of ISK is by dedicating all 3 characters on an account as a farm.

That said, the main purpose of skill farming in this guide is not to get free ISK per month. The purpose of farms to keep your existing accounts PLEXed so you don't relapse into an alpha without the need to grind out ISK or cash to pay for your subs. For example:

Say you don't have the ISK to pay for another MPTC. That's fine. Your skill farm is still paying for itself while your main toon doesn't have to get out of its Muninn, Jackdaw, or whatever. All without opening your wallet or endlessly grinding.

The second skill farm is optional, though it will result in a lower likelihood of your farms being unprofitable because MPTC's are cheaper.

>5 million SP utility character with an available bonus remap that never undocks and/or is very unlikely to die. How you reach the 5 million differs like so:

• You (optimally) already have a >5 million SP character doing something like indy
• You already have a ~5 million SP character after years of training on your alphas, optionally accelerated with daily injectors
  • btw, daily alpha injectors give an obscene bang for buck. Always use these over regular injectors if you can
• You are starting from a brand new character, in which case you must either:
  • Spend billions on injectors to bring it up to the minimum required to extract
  • Play the long-con by pausing training on your main to bring up your farm or use MPTC's
  • Play the longer-con by relapsing into an alpha and slowly train up to 5 million for “free”

Cybernetics V to use the training implants. This will slow down training for your first 500k and therefore make your first month a bit rougher.

2 billion ISK per character, spent on:

• 2 +5 implants for both attributes
• Extractor
• PLEX / MPTC if you have a second farm on that account
  • Optionally, you can buy a pack or spend $15 for the first month and never spend money on that account again, reducing your initial capital requirement down to 1 billion per character

Optional, but you may want character tracking software, such as:

• EVEMon: The best option, maintained by Peter Han. EVEMon has a feature where it tracks how much SP you have by the minute, rather than the next time you update your queue. Really handy for knowing when exactly you should extract. You can also easily create and copy+paste skill plans.
• skillq.net: Maintained by Squizz. You can have it warn you when a queue has less than 24 hours remaining. Practically required for alphas with the 24-hour limit.
• Spreadsheets: This is objectively the worst option because you have to do a lot of manual bullshit that others have already done for you (see above). That said, it's an option.

1. First and foremost, train Cybernetics V. You need this to plug in the required +5 improved implants.
2. Consider skill groups. One important thing to note is that the primary and secondaries shown from the character sheet is a lie. For example: Yeah, :CCP:. ALWAYS verify skill attributes from the info window and not the character sheet.
   1. Once you find a group of skills you want to train, buy their respective implants, and remap your character. Max the primary attribute first then spend the rest on your secondary attribute. In the end, you will have 32 points for your primary and 26 for the secondary training 2700 SP/Hour.
   2. If you don't care for utility role nonsense, max out Intelligence and Memory for Cybernetics, then train other skills with those two attributes. Skills in Science are good in this regard because there's a lot of them.
3. Once the character hits 5.5 million, use your extractor then sell the injector. Buy another extractor for the next time.
4. Once you rack enough ISK, buy PLEX and MPTC's as needed.

How you bring your characters up to 5 million SP isn't terribly important. All that matters is that it's reached in the first place. That said, training the Magic 14 + Cloaking + Clones + Interceptors isn't a bad start.

If you're an alpha and can't train some of the skills to level V, feel free to copy this skill plan: https://pastebin.com/s67imxML. Change the missile/ship skills in the end as you see fit. EVEMon emp file: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1n-bDce4RDEStkaL3ktF0J5SuPr2-X0QD

While normal assets in the delivery hangar cannot be accessed remotely, extractors can be. In fact- once used the resulting injector will be put in the regular item hangar. This means your market alt (which is a skill farm) can buy extractors from Perimeter, deliver them to your PI alt in Eso (which is also a skill farm), have them extract remotely, and contract them back.

This opens up a lot more options, namely:

Though utility alts are good to have without making them skill farms, these can nonetheless be repurposed.

The best example are market alts which are typically already in Jita or Perimeter, stay docked 24/7, and have a plethora of skills you can juggle between, like Visibility and Procurement.

Through remote extraction, you can also turn your indy alts into farms. Science skills can be used for invention, reaction and reprocessing skills overlap quite well, etc.

If they aren't already trained, many utility roles will have skill requirements that are not aligned with your attributes as shown in the screenshot above. Unfortunately, this means that initial training will be slow which eats into your first few month's ISK. Once again, this still beats paying 500 PLEX so once you have it set up you will be more than rewarded.

When an account is in an alpha state, extractors will only work on omega level skills. This means if you go AFK and relapse, you won't be able to extract skills and make buying that PLEX a bit easier.

While the main purpose of this guide isn't to gain passive ISK, you can still earn a meaningful amount per month if you min-max your orders and use all 3 toons on an account, as shown here:

The process for this is largely the same, though you would need to dedicate an entire account and the initial ISK requirements are obviously far higher than for one character.