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?

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?

End of 2008 >> January 23, 2009

Skills

Currently, I am working towards a Nighthawk which should be completed around the beginning of March.  It is taking its time, that is for sure.

Lined up after that is the Ishtar and then T2 sentries.

PvE

Now that I have had more time to actually sit down and play EVE, I tried to sort out some stuff and finally settled down for some good old mission running.

I also had time to find some goodies with anomaly exploration.  Read “Scoring Big – From The Warrior’s Datapad” to find out what had happened.

Going along with the explorations, I bought a pimp Drake on impulse and traveled to the Caldari COSMOS to do some killing of evil, aka tanking multiple ships while at the same time trying to hack cans and kill scrambling frigates.

PvP

Nothing notable to report.

Industry & Trade

In bigger news, for anyone that has read the very very long article called “Life Is All About Timing”, they know that I had left my old corp to pursuit some other activities pertaining to the industrial side of EVE.

My new corp is registered as Cosmic Euphoria Inc. and feel free to set blue to me if you are nice, or red if you are not so nice.

My productions have finally taken off after seeking advice from the infamous Kirith Kodachi!

For the most part anyways as I still have to throw down a POS and buy some more blueprints, but so far most of my activities are going the way I want them to.

There are some differences between how we come about doing invention; instead of copying my own blueprints, a nice friend offered me his time to copy for me, thus saving me the complications of owning a POS at the moment.

I chose to sell my products in a very busy Caldari Navy mission running hub, which ironically is where I run my L4’s and it is amazing to see how lazy and rich some people are because they are willing to pay an extra 500k to not bother to travel 3 jumps, or even 5 to get to Jita.

At the start, there were no competition and the market had 1 or 2 orders before I setup mine. But in the past few days, I see more than 5 or 6 orders already and they are beginning to frustrate me by playing the -0.01 ISK game.

Mhmm, maybe other people have also boarded the money, er, I mean invention train.

Wealth

Organizing money is somewhat hard for me, and in the past I was usually stuck around 75 million with no money set aside at all.  My habit was to sell all my mission loot (wallet is now at 150 million) but then purchase on impulse in Jita 4-4 (wallet is down to 50 million) and then go run missions (bounties bring me back to 75 million).  Horrible cycle, I know.

So in order to solve this problem, I named my corp wallet divisions and set some goals.  Now I have a healthy 50m with me, 500m in the main corp wallet as a backup net, 70m saved for the command ships skill, and 90m saved for my website.  I have also taken some money and repaid my debts along with some extra change to friends and supporters (Wink at Mynxee).

For my industrial operations, it was the first time I bought bulk minerals from known players through contracts.  I did my business with the members of the Ralpha Dogs (Erbo and Selenalore) and bought a sizable chunk of Mexallon and Pyerite that will last me for a while.

Hint hint, supporters get there money’s worth!

Question

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