EVE Online

There's a lot of ways. Industrial player have obviously the easiest way of making money: mining.

The problem with missions are that the low level missions (1-3) are a complete massive waste of time. They give small rewards and their only purpose is to raise in standings to unlock level 4 missions eventually. A faster way to do that is to have someone access lv4 already and just take you with him. You'll get much more money than lv3 solo and your standings will raise significantly faster. If I remember correctly you make about 50m/H raw (without LP) with lv4 missions, which is a lot for new players. That being said, lv4 missions are still a waste of time, but if you need the standings I can run some with you (I need every bit of security status I can get, anyway.). Warning: This is boring as shit.

Another, more entertaining way, is to blow people up. I have 1B of stuff in my current 'lootdump' from factional warfare alone. Speaking of which, factional warfare LP can pump out some pretty decent money as well, so you can even fly around in lowsec, capture points and make about 20M per solo capture (15-20 minutes) in the right systems.

The most effective way of earning money in this game is trading. The idea is simple, buy 100 modules per 50 million each and re-sell them for 55 million each, generating money out of nothing. The problem is that the more money you put into it the more you get out of it, so in order to be actually worth the effort you need a starting budget. Once you get that going though, print money as long as you're good. I do it from time to time, but not actively enough to make a fortune out of it. More like a passive income.

When I started EVE, I went to steal salvage from lv4 mission runners. The salvage is worth about as much as the mission itself, so that was actually decent money for a new player. Everyone starts somewhere, and I was a thief.

The rifter is one of the better t1 frigates, but never mix tanks. Armor and speed tanking is quite the opposite, and you don't want to have several types of tank. They hinder each other and make the ship tank much less than a specialized fit would do. The same goes for active and buffer tanking, don't mix those. Fitting an armor plate and an armor repairer at the same time is a contradiction.