EVE Online — Progression Guides
EVE is a sandbox, so these are careers rather than maps — one character can pursue several of them, and each is a shared trunk of training that forks into branches you can run simultaneously. Progress is tracked separately per career, and a career is complete once you finish its trunk and reach any one branch endgame, not all of them. EVE has no official career path, so the order these routes suggest is a recommendation rather than a requirement — CCP prescribes none of it, and a route that suits you better is not a wrong one.
Combat Career285 stepsMission Running, Ratting, Abyssal Deadspace, Incursions, Factional Warfare and PvP, sharing one trunk of early training. Covers CCP's Enforcer and Soldier of Fortune paths together.Open the route →Exploration Career300 stepsTreasure hunting, wormhole scouting, combat exploration, fleet scouting and long-duration expeditions, sharing one trunk of scanning and hacking training.Open the route →Industry Career260 stepsMining, industrial command, manufacturing, reactions, planetary industry and advanced construction, sharing one trunk of extraction, refining and blueprint work.Open the route →Business Career220 stepsStation trading, regional arbitrage, hauling, strategic logistics, corporate commerce and the SKINR market, sharing one trunk of market mechanics and trade skills.Open the route →