Kirith Kodachi wondered how he could tackle on some complexes with two characters.

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With more people, there is less risk, and also less rewards. If too many people show up to do a mission, it will not be worth the time spent and each person could actually make more ISK doing level 4 missions.

With less people, each fleet member will reap more rewards, but the difficulty of the mission will increase. It is up to the commander to decide if one or two mission fleets should be created to gain the most loyalty points for each participant.

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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!

Question

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

One of the most amazing video that I have seen.

It has a great soundtrack, nice HQ video resolution, and also, it shows how a decently sized group can take on the Sleeper battleships!

I recommend this video to all those who are just even a little bit interested in wormholes and sleepers, as this might trigger your happiness/fear sensor.

Thanks for RyanEebs for bringing us this goodie!

If you have not partook in my little survey, feel free and do it here! I will read all of your responses and reply!

Please enjoy once more, and check back here for more information on EVE Online Apocrypha!

After watching the video, what are your thoughts or reactions?

Apocrypha intro.  I find it a little lacking, but enjoy!