EVE – Page 17 – A Pixel Nomad

ISK Making for the Month of June

It was a pretty good month as far as making ISK is concerned, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at my chart, because I spent everything on subscribing two accounts for 6 months each – that gives me plenty of time to earn it back, at least. Before all of my spending, I earned about 4 billion ISK – which is 2 billion less than last month, but I had sold off some of my high sec items that created the influx and I knew it would be a one time thing. The ‘goal’ is to earn enough to subscribe a single account each month, and then pay for my 2nd account with real money – if I earn extra (and pay for both accounts with ISK) then that’s good too.

Anyway! The ISK came from multiple things, as it usually does. A large portion is from PI, I now have it set up on 5 of my characters. Selling PI has slowed down a tiny bit but the prices have increased, so I’m not too phased. Another portion came from industry, I’ve been making drones, ammo, and a few smaller ships. I was contemplating getting into reactions but I have no idea what I’m doing, so I’m going to take a pass on that for now. Ratting and missions made up another portion of the ISK, nothing fancy about that. A large portion came from exploration, I sold everything I collected except for datacores. I didn’t get any exceptional drops or items, but a lot of little things that moved pretty well.

I did a little harvesting this month – gas only. I wasn’t in the mood to orbit rocks, and I avoided it whenever I could (the exception being those daily quests that sometimes have you out there). Now that both accounts are situated with game time, I’m excited about just stocking up and seeing what I can get into. I don’t fly any particularly expensive or fancy ships – maybe that will change (though I doubt it).

Skill wise – my main is currently working on supply chain management so I can work on industry a few jumps away, my exploration character is working on cybernetics V because there’s a specific bling implant I want. That’s right, it’s time for the blackglass + zeugma bling to happen. My combat alt is currently working on gallente cruiser V (only 8 days to go!) and the back up mining character is working on deep core mining III, even though I haven’t been in the mood to mine (I have a bunch of MCT so I wanted to use them up and why not be skilling). Finally, my marketing character is working on gallente hauler V, because I’m trying to get her into a blockade runner. After that she’ll go back to the marketing skills, she has all of the basic ones but I’d like to expand and specialize a bit more. I’d also like to (maybe) practice running to Jita, and I need to make a bunch of bookmarks for that, too. I’m contemplating moving my marketing stuff there. I know it’s the largest market in the game, I’m just not a fan of how busy it all is.

Anyway, June was great. Let’s see what July brings! As always, fly your way! o7

That.. Is a Lot of Mobs

I’ve never actually seen a Sentient Infested Supercarrier before – until today, at least. This is one mean encounter, and not one that I was willing to get any closer to. Thankfully there’s the ‘look at’ option, so I can stay far away (cloaked, too) and just watch from a distance. Not only was there a sentient infested supercarrier, but there was another sentient matriarch in that bundle, too. Those ones I can usually defeat without any issues, but a supercarrier is well above the content I can handle. The bounty alone is 340,000,000 ISK for that single ship. Woah.

Heavy Drones V – FINALLY Completed

My main character just reached 52,000,000 skill points – and I FINALLY completed heavy drones V which feels like it took forever. I’m very glad that’s finally done, and now I’m moving on with small projectile turret V – I believe the current skill plan I have was to optimize my Stratios for Superior Ghost caches in exploration. I try not to load too many skills up in my plan because I’d like to actually remember WHY I am training what I am. It doesn’t always work out the way I’d like, though.

Character overview:

Main – 52,000,000 skill points
PI alt – 1,700,000 sp
PI alt – 2,800,000 sp
Combat alt – 6,600,000 sp
Mining alt – 7,300,000 sp
Market alt – 2,800,000 sp
Exploration character – 13,100,000 sp

None of my characters have *that* many skill points when compared to other characters created in 2009 but I feel like I’m at a comfortable place now with things at least. My exploration character is on an account by herself with no alts, and I may eventually let it lapse to alpha state, I’m not sure. My main can already do all the fun exploration things, so the skills double up quite a bit.

I don’t really use the mining alt any more, but I know they’re nice to have, plus things may change in the future. My PI alts barely do anything except log in, re-set the PI extractors, and deliver their PI once a week. I know activities in Eve really ramp up the more accounts you have, but two is a comfortable number, we’ll see if that changes over time.

Fly your way! o7

Let’s Try Some T0 Abyssal

I’ve always been curious about Abyssal Deadspace in game, but I’m not very good at the technical aspects of eve, so I had avoided doing them and just stayed content collecting the filaments used to enter them. How they work is quite simple. There are different tiers, with different storms going on in them. You use a filament and warp to a ‘deadspace’ (basically CCP’s version of a dungeon) – but you leave behind a trace of your adventure, which people can scan down and potentially be waiting for you when you exit. To that end, you should make a safe to run these, far away from anything already in the system. Since I was just running T0 in a Tristan I decided to not even bother, if someone wanted to wait for me and gank me in a 0.6 that is OK.

I watched some videos on how to complete them, and dove right in. I did end up losing a drone almost immediately, but the T0 wasn’t too bad. I’m not good at knowing the buildings to avoid (there was one that did damage to my drones, and I forgot to fly away from that one) but I cleared two, and made a few million ISK. It also rewarded me with more filaments so I can try other ones in the future. I don’t know if the loot is worth it, I imagine for the higher tiers it must be, but it didn’t take long and I learned a lot. I don’t know that I would go so far as to say I enjoyed running it, but that might just be because I was feeling a lot of pressure, and I wasn’t really sure what to expect. Eventually, maybe I’ll progress towards a T1. We’ll see!

Fly your way! o7

Suitcase Challenge Day 50: Backing Away… Quickly

OK, I know the screenshot above is really messy, but I wanted to make an attempt at showing what a typical game play period might look like for me when I have nothing really in mind and want to explore data/relic sites (non combat). I’ve been contemplating trying to move to a new wormhole but I am pretty specific about what I want. This day was a whole lot of ‘NOPE’ and some close calls. So I left my ‘home’ wormhole (it’s covered up, and this post is postdated so none of these connections will be this way when you read about it) and jumped into a C2 with a C1 / H connection. There was nothing much going on there, so I jumped into a C1 that had no statics at all. Maybe I’ve just never paid attention before, I didn’t know there was any such thing. There was nothing there, either – but it did have a connection to a C3 that looked promising. Unfortunately that C3 had a nullsec connection – and they had been hot and heavy on the combat. Kitchen Sinkhole, Fraternity, and Salted Fish Alliance. I accidentally ran right into their little war going on, so I immediately popped back into that C1 with no statics. From there I popped into a C5, which is a fine wormhole if you’re looking to go after gas, mining, or combat anomalies, but the data/relic sites are actually combat sites and not cans – not what I was in the mood for. I knew I’d have to scan my way out of there and find something better.

It had a C4 static, but there was also another nullsec entrance, and I decided what the heck I’ll pop out – YIKES. Immediately I was in B-7DFU which had 44+ Goons just.. there. I popped right back into that wormhole so fast, I was terrified that someone would have spotted me and followed. Thankfully I had already scanned down the whole C5, so I was able to pop over to the C4 static instead. No one followed me (to my knowledge). This new C4 had a C1 and a C4 as statics. I wasn’t interested in the C4 because I knew there wouldn’t be any relic/data sites to make use of, so I decided to explore the C1. No recent kills to be concerned about, most of the deaths on dotlan looked like NPC kills. There was also very little of interest there. Shoot. I was starting to get tired and really had nothing to show for my adventures. I decided to pop into the LowSec connection and see what was around. It was empty! Unfortunately there was also only a single relic site with a few million ISK worth of items. After a few minutes, a marauder popped in so I cloaked and waited to see what he was up to. He dropped some drones so I figured he was ratting, and as soon as I uncloaked in my relic site he scooped his drones and left. I took that as my hint that he might be back in something that was meant to smush, so I once again dove back into the wormhole.

This time I went into a C2 that had a C5 and a nullsec connection. Neat. Also highly valuable as far as wormholes are concerned, there were people living there. FOUR buildings set up – but they haven’t been active lately. In fact, it looks like they had a bunch of people griefing them in early June, they lost a bunch of POCO in the system, and then The Initiative and The Tuskers Co. had a bit of a brawl in there too. No action since June 14th. I wanted to go nose around the buildings, but instead I was distracted by the EIGHT relic / data sites that were in system. EIGHT! FINALLY! Jackpot.

Finally, almost 300 million ISK in my haul, it was time to find a high sec connection so I could dump it off to my market character. Then I’d have to use my scanning character to figure out where my static HS lead to, and make my way back to my orca suitcase. All in all, it was a pretty profitable day, a nice break from gas, and I got to see some cool people doing cool things (and then I promptly flew away before I was discovered, as is my way).

Fly your way! o7