Category — Weekend Summary

What a super great weekend.  A heck of lot of activities went down!

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Skills

Over the last bit I have learned how to operate all shield related gang links. Right now I am training towards the mining gang links in anticipation for the Orca.

My plan right now is to finish some miscellaneous skills like overheating and then adjust my attributes for training missiles, spaceships, and guns related skills.  With this it seems the next year of skills are set for me!

PvE

Big news in this sector. My friends and I have started to run level 5 missions. So far we have completed 3, but only because the going does get quite tough!  They hand out good bounty for how long it takes; about 12,000 each for 45 minutes of work!

I am still working on more of those missions in a minute videos so there will be some more of that too.

In the spare times, I am trying to find some exploration sites but to no avail I just keep seeing wormholes. Keeping a log for escalations is my top priority right now when I do these sites.

PvP

I have attempted to do some PvP in my favorite frigate, the Incursus. So far I’ve killed a Merlin and lost two of it. I’m seeking more targets, so things should get more exciting!

Industry & Trade

Things have slowed down. My limited supply of invented BPC is killing my money flow. Less successes means less money earned, meaning more time needed, equaling in more money used.

My store has opened so if you want to purchase anything feel free. It is free delivery! I am at the same time researching a lot more blueprints to try to open some more doors.

Wealth

Wallet floating at 2 billion straight as I try to figure out what to do. I still have to set money aside for the line of Minmatar and Amarr ships I will buy, plus I am trying to fill my hanger with an Eagle, Rokh, Megathron, Blackbird, Crow, Ferox, and any other ships I don’t have but I can fly.

I don’t want to risk my new Brutix trying to do PvP with it because I know I will lose but it would be fun to scrimmage.

Other than that, there is only about another 100 million on the market and 50k LP points; hopefully that can convert to a smooth 75 million.

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Now it is your turn, what have you been doing?

Feburary 9, 2009 >> April 6, 2009

This is a long one that has been long overdue.  Lots of pictures so enjoy!

Skills

Well the NH has finally finished its training.  I still need to get heavy missiles up to 5 to be able to use T2 launchers but right now there are more important things to get over with.

Coming up on my plan is to get my alt to be able to produce more efficiently.  That should take about 2 more days from today.  After that it is back on with my main to get his leaderships skills over and done with so he can move on and start cross training for Amarr and Minmatar ships after my Gallente cruiser skill reaches level 5!  I want the Ishtar!

I will be doing some optimization to my skill plan to get max efficiency from a lot of these perception based skills as I will also need to train up lasers, artillery, and more weapon skills in general.

PvE

With the prowess of the NH I have definitely done some missions.  I sped through them with no problems.  In fact, if you have not noticed, the HD camera drones I purchased are doing good work.

Since my Caldari standings are at 9.95 already I decided to start doing missions for different corporations.  My first pick was Spacelane Patrol but after a look, most of their agents were too far away.  I took another gander at the available Caldari corps around and saw that Corporate Police Force had a level 4 agent in my home system.  Wonderful!

Before I began working under another corp I used my free time to cash in the loyalty points with the CN and was able to sell everything I got for a cool 200 million.

Aside from missions I did some extensive exploration for a little bit.  I went into wormholes, found some hacking cans, did some unknown encounters, and met a pirate.  I recorded the events of the unknown encounters and hopefully I will have time to analyze what went right and what went wrong, then releasing the logs for you to see and learn from my mistakes!

Let us talk about WHS (wormhole space).

While I do find the prospect of finding exotic ores in WHS to be exciting but the dangers involved are just too risky for me right now.

Some people are such idiots that they do not perform any research before taking on huge tasks it surprises me.  These guys brought in a POS in this WHS, which is fine.  What stunned me is the fact that they also brought a Cyno Jammer Array and even took the time to anchor it!  The ships they had with them were 3 industrials and 1 Harbinger.  At that moment I really wished the WH I came in was not close to collapsing!  Looked like they were going to stay for awhile too!

The amount of exploration, feelings of fear, feelings of intrepidity, and the jaw dropping backdrops WHS has to offer simply rejuvenated my desire to play EVE.

PvP

PvP action is lacking.  Lately I haven’t even had a good theory craft session about it.

Industry & Trade

While the pew pew side of combat PvP is lacking, I am doing a lot of competitive market trading.  Well not trading per say, but selling a lot of my stuff and then buying more to keep up with my production lines.

I am building a lot more T1 items to sell these days because the amount of volume being moved is just incredible.  I attribute this fact to the release of Apocrypha; so many people are exploring and fit T1 because they are afraid of losing their ship in unknown space.  Things like guns, missile launchers, ammo, and drones all sell pretty good right now.

My POS is still standing (and hopefully will remain standing).  It looks to be a good investment though it does get very annoying that I have to go refuel it and that is just a pain.

Wealth

As production increases with skills and the market being so whacked as it is, I am taking advantage of all that I can get.

After spending about 360m on the Nighthawk, selling a bunch of faction stuff, and ISK being so fluid all the time I broke the billion mark and now sitting on 1.5b.

Talking about so much money brings me back to the olde days, when it was nessessary to fly 10 jumps just to save a million and scourging the market for 10 minutes to save a few hundred thousand.

On the market is another 150m waiting to be sold.  I don’t worry too much about prices because over the week everything gets sold and when I relog on the weekend I’m good to go.  Ah, I like being a weekend warrior!

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Now it is your turn, what have you been doing?

Feburary 1, 2009 >> Feburary 8, 2009

Skills

Nothing finished training exactly. I want to stick to my training plan because I have been waiting for this for a long long time.

One thing about the upcoming skill queue is that it will not affect my plans much because they contain skills more than 24 hours.

There are 20 days left for Battlecruisers V and then 2 days for the last bit of Heavy Assault Ships IV. After that, 5-9 days until Command Ships is up to III.

I still do not know if I want the new T3 cruisers, so my plan will stop after the Nighthawk and if I want to take part in the madness, I will start on those skills.

Ah, EVE, there is always more to train.

PvE

I had no time to play consistently for any longer amounts of time so I did not shoot anything. So nothing notable to report here.

PvP

Nothing notable to report, but I did manage to watch most of the Sixth Alliance Tournament.

Man was it busy on Sunday because when I tried to log in, I had to queue up. First time I had to queue up in a long time!

Anyways, there were some sick action brought on by all of the teams and the final match between R.U.R. and Pandemic Legion was so close up until the end.

I was cheering for R.U.R., but grats to PL!

Industry & Trade

So instead of being undocked, I progressed my trading skills. Things were getting along as I setup orders worth about 50 million on the public market and moved over to Jita with a Badger load full of mission loot.

After all of those items were sold, my wallet was 50 million bigger and I proceeded to check out the market for my next batches of manufacturing; my jaws absolutely dropped.

As many know the BoB incident had just occurred and when something like that happens, the market goes super wonky.

The materials I need to buy for building my invented items require moon materials, specifically ferrogel. Shield emitters rose from the previous 35k to 70k or more, halting my production line once again!

I think I will just hang on to my stock because that is the second time I have had big market fluctuations since I started being an industrialist. Life is hard.

Wealth

I still have 50 million strapped to my account, 67 mil stored for the Command Ships skill I am expecting to buy soon, and 200 mil saved to buy the Nighthawk itself as long the prices do not shoot over the roof.

Finally I have 150 million put aside for one more POS structure and 200 mil in the corp reserves.

I find it extremely easier to manage money with the corporation wallet and it also looks like it was easier to collect money after I left The Reservoir Dogs as well. Interesting, interesting indeed.

615 mil in hard cash, 500 mil in ships and assets, and another 200 mil on the market.

Things are going well!

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Now it is your turn, what have you been doing?

January 24, 2009 >> January 31, 2009

Skills

Caldari Cruiser V finally finished training and now I can go to work on an even longer skill, Battlecruiser V, simply great!

This means there is about 38-40 days left on my skill plan depending on how far I want to take the Command Ships skill, probably to IV.

After that, an Ishtar will take about 25 days to train for because I the only pre-req will be Gallente Cruiser V, and I have Heavy Assault Ship to IV already.

I am not sure what to do after that, but I am thinking towards the Orca, for a better logistics solution.

PvE

I had semester break this week as well as last week, but I was not able to play for much because I was grounded. On Saturday night, I ran a few level 4’s with my client and Saft to boost their standings and did some traveling.

One thing I found out was that the battlestation in the Angel’s Extravaganza bonus room is not worth the ammo used on it because we only got about 100k worth of drop.

As for the weekend before, I traveled down to Assid to help out a few friends.

When I got back to home base, I checked my journal and discovered I had more than 200,000 loyalty points with the Caldari Navy, because I H-core carebear a lot, and decided to spend some.  I found a new item to exchange and now my rate is up from 800 ISK/LP to 1300 ISK/LP if the market stays favorable.  Yay!

PvP

Nothing notable to report again, I H-core carebear-ed too much.

Industry & Trade

My production lines halted for a while because I obtained incorrect single run blueprints instead of max run blueprints.  But hey, no biggie, and soon 60 with max runs in my hands, my inventions were successful and I cranked out more items.

Out of the 60 BPCs I have I expect a turn out of 30 successful T2 BPCs, and since each blueprint has 10 runs because it was a max run BPO, I can produce 300 items.  If I can make a profit of 500,000 ISK per item, I expect a nice 150 mil in my wallet soon.  This hopefully will offset some of the cost  for a Nighthawk, hopefully.

A temporary purchase was made on a secret item off the contracts and I hope to flip it selling it for 40 mil more on the market to get some money.  Let’s see how this goes because my very first attempt at trading seriously failed.

Wealth

The personal wallet saw no adjustments until I decided to take a run to Jita 4-4 and sell all of my missioning crap.  Mean while, I spammed in local that I was selling “Anaconda Mines”, 1 mil for 100!

These things are not usable anymore, but people like to collect stuff and I was able to sell about 700 of them.  Still got 17,000 back in base, this should be a nice side trading item.

I still haven’t sold all of my loot because I had to fly back to attend to my inventing and manufacturing.  I plan to get back to Jita Sunday morning and keep spamming!

Corp wallet has seen a decreases in the “general” division.  I set aside 200 mil for the Nighthawk, 150 mil for an advanced mobile lab, 67 mil for the Command Ships skill, 20 mil for the advanced laboratory operation skill, and used about 80 mil in productions.  So what’s left is a low 66 mil for any emergencies.

I thought about buying a Cerberus once CC V finished, but my Drake does better than it so I will hold back from fun for now.

Question

Now it is your turn, what have you been doing?