You're supposed to have trouble affording good stuff. That's the whole idea behind there being mercenary contracts and corp vs. corp stuff. You can't make enough money just doing Instant Battle games, so you take contracts in the hope of getting a big payout. If you made enough money just doing Skirmish games all day, there'd be no big incentive to take a lucrative contract and win.

So, yeah, good. It's good that you're making too little. It's good that you want to make more money. That's exactly how doing Instant Battles exclusively should feel.

i think their tinkering with the prices and the exchange we recieve with our ingame activities with the new features soon to come into play, shouldnt be a worry too soon i suspect you may end up having enough money to max out your fittings for a long while.

thought id provide some information hope this helps

i recorded all the info from my matches on thursday played 10 in total alternating between ambush and skirmish leaving out SP and K/D as its irrellivent to the subject isk is rounded off


type -- ISK -- WP -- win/loss -- squad command ( Y/N)
1 skirmish -- 85.000, -- 686 -- W -- N
2 ambush -- 222.000 -- 961 -- W -- N
3 skirmish -- 58.000 -- 825 -- L -- N
4 ambush -- 82.000 -- 680 -- W -- N
5 skirmish -- 57.000 -- 850 -- W -- N
6 ambush -- 116.000 -- 1240 -- W -- Y
7 skirmish -- 15.000 -- 157 -- L half match -- N
8 ambush -- 42.000 -- 275 --W -- Y
10 ambush -- 58.000 -- 300 -- L -- N

not sure how the isk is worked out weather from amount of WP or from types of enemy killed(suit)
hope someone finds this infomation of use

never thought of isk spent ill record i could work out isk loss from my deaths as i have that info and just times the suit cost