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AIR Career Program & Daily Opportunities

The AIR Career Program is CCP’s overarching player achievement and progression system in EVE Online. Located directly on your Neocom panel, it provides objective-based milestones across four capsuleer professions, awarding skins, booster crates, and up to 1,500,000 free Skill Points.

The Four AIR Career Tracks

The program is split into four distinct career disciplines:

                  ┌──────────────────────────────┐
                  │      AIR CAREER PROGRAM      │
                  └──────────────┬───────────────┘
         ┌───────────────┬───────┴───────┬───────────────┐
         ▼               ▼               ▼               ▼
   [ Enforcer ]    [ Explorer ]   [ Industrialist ] [ Soldier of Fortune ]
    (PvE Combat)    (Scanning &    (Mining, Hauling  (PvP Combat, Fleet
                     Hacking)       & Industry)       Tackle & EWAR)

1. Enforcer (PvE Combat Track)

Focuses on pirate hunting, mission running, and combat sites:

  • Destroy pirate NPCs in asteroid belts and combat anomalies.
  • Clear Deadspace pirate hideouts and DED rated complexes.
  • Run Level 1 and Level 2 security agent missions.
  • Earn weapon mastery milestones across small and medium turrets/missiles.

2. Explorer (Scanning & Archaeological Track)

Focuses on sensor probing, relics, and spatial anomalies:

  • Launch scanner probes to discover cosmic signatures.
  • Pinpoint and hack Data Sites and Relic Sites in Highsec, Lowsec, and Wormholes.
  • Traverse wormholes and identify exotic wormhole classes.
  • Scan and harvest spatial gas clouds.

3. Industrialist (Resource Harvesting & Manufacturing Track)

Focuses on the New Eden economy:

  • Mine Veldspar, Scordite, and Jaspet ore in highsec belts.
  • Reprocess raw ore and scrap materials at refinery stations.
  • Manufacture ammunition, modules, and starships from blueprints.
  • Transport cargo across star systems using industrial haulers.

4. Soldier of Fortune (PvP & Fleet Tactics Track)

Focuses on combat engagement against other players:

  • Tackle hostile targets using warp disruptors and warp scramblers.
  • Slow hostile ships using stasis webifiers or neutralize capacitors.
  • Participate in Faction Warfare complex captures and defensive plexing.
  • Assist fleetmates with remote armor and shield repair logistics.

Skill Point Milestones: Alpha vs. Omega

Each career track contains hundreds of individual tasks that reward AIR Career Points. As your points accumulate, you unlock tiered reward crates containing unallocated Skill Points:

Career Track Point ThresholdAlpha Clone RewardOmega Clone Reward
Tier 1 (750 Points)25,000 SP25,000 SP (50,000 SP Total)
Tier 2 (1,500 Points)37,500 SP37,500 SP (75,000 SP Total)
Tier 3 (3,000 Points)50,000 SP50,000 SP (100,000 SP Total)
Tier 4 (4,000 Points)75,000 SP75,000 SP (150,000 SP Total)
Single Track Total187,500 SP375,000 SP
All 4 Tracks Combined750,000 SP1,500,000 SP

The Daily Opportunities System

In addition to static career milestones, the AIR window features Daily Opportunities—a rotating set of daily challenges designed to reward active gameplay:

  • Daily Tasks: Four simple tasks refresh every day at 11:00 UTC (Downtime). Typical daily tasks include:
    • Kill 25 pirate NPCs in combat.
    • Mine 2,000 units of raw ore.
    • Scan down 1 cosmic signature or anomaly.
    • Manufacture any blueprint item or repair modules.
  • Daily Rewards:
    • Completing any 2 daily tasks grants 5,000 unallocated Skill Points and EverMarks.
    • Completing all tasks grants bonus ISK and progression towards the monthly AIR crate.
    • Over a single month, consistent daily opportunities yield an additional 150,000+ free Skill Points!