A Pixel Nomad

While I’m waiting to return to Signal Cartel (I believe there are 6 more days before I can apply) I’ve been doing a lot of exploration. It’s one of my favourite things to do in game, and it relaxes me most when I am in a wormhole. I think it’s the whole “out of sight, out of mind” theory. Sure, there could be people around cloaked, maybe I didn’t check d-scan fast enough, maybe they were waiting on the site for a passerby like me but I don’t SEE them (at least, not yet) so I’m calm. I have a method for completing relic and data sites. I always use a perch, and I warp to and from each container, using the perch. Once I’ve got a few hundred million ISK worth of items I look for a high sec connection and I dump my loot into a structure, then I contract it to my market character to pick up. Sometimes I’ll use a viator, sometimes if I’ve got PI to pick up I’ll just add it in with the squall. Slowly, it adds up over time.

My little helios has discovered billions of ISK worth of items by now, and it’s the least decked out ship I own. The only other ship that brings in that amount of ISK with almost zero cost, is my gas huffing ships.

I’m not sure I mentioned it, but it’s nice to be back in EVE. Comfortable. I am also still playing Wurm Online and World of Warcraft, but there isn’t a lot going on in either of those games lately. In Wurm I’m working on my deed, making bricks, and attending the few slayings I happen to see posted. In World of Warcraft, I’m in a constant game of trying to catch up, and waiting for player housing. I did dip into BDO briefly, but I’m always so lost when I return to that one. I also patched up GW2, but again didn’t actually DO much. I’m usually so tired by the end of the day that I head straight to anything simple and comforting. Hopefully that changes, but if it doesn’t, that’s OK too.

It has been exactly 1 year since I returned to EVE Online, in what was my longest round yet, seeing as I’ve played off and on since 2009. I DID take a 3 month break, from the end of November, to the middle of February, but for the remainder of the time, EVE was my main MMORPG.

When I returned, I had 4b ISK to my name which I promptly reduced to 2b because I wanted to replace a Tengu that I lost. I also lost 600m worth of datacore to Safety, which was a valuable learning experience that I did not repeat (that year, at least). Over the months, I spent ISK on a LOT. I purchased 6 months of game time with RL money, but purchased the rest of my game time with ISK. I bought a lot of ships, and a lot of random things I needed. I sold off a bunch of stuff thinking I would no longer need it only to learn that I do indeed need it.

Through all of those months, whether I played or not, I kept track of the ISK I made. I’ve been waiting to see what the year long total would be and I finally have that number (note: I do also have blurbs for each month on what I spent that ISK on, but I’m keeping that out of the screenshot for intel reasons):

34,892,012,261

That’s overall ISK earned for the year after taking into account everything I’ve spent and what I started at.

What am I going to do with all of that ISK? I’m actually not sure. I’m feeling the urge to set up in a wormhole again, and I might decide to do that with a POS rather than my Orca (or rather, a POS AND my Orca) or I might just decide to fling ISK into the sky and purchase an athanor (under the assumption that the ISK is already lost). In any case, it has been fun tracking the spending habits of my EVE Online characters, and I don’t imagine I’ll be stopping any time soon. Despite the fact that I know Warcraft has player housing just around the corner, and I *am* still playing Wurm Online, too, EVE happens to scratch a gaming itch that other games can’t reach.

As always, fly your way! o7

I am not the most creative person when it comes to thinking of names for my ships in EVE Online, so I tend to go with some sort of theme. For the past year, I’ve been naming them after the date that I set them up to fly, so I can see how long they last before I lose them. After all, ships are ammo. My little helios pictured above is an exception to this rule as I named it before I came up with this new method, so it’s called ‘Sushi01’ – the 01 means I haven’t lost any – yet.

Today is PI day (I do basic PI maintenance every day, and then I ship everything out on Mondays) and right now I have over 1b ISK of PI in the wormhole because last week I couldn’t find a high sec connection that I wanted to deal with. The last one I found was 47 jumps from where I needed the items to be – nope. Not doing that in a squall. I do not store anything in the Freeport except for a single spare Epithal. I have three characters living there, two remain in their own Epithals, and the third one is typically in a Helios and swaps out when required (that character is on my 2nd account, and actually has some skills). I was thinking of getting a prospect or two set up but to be honest I very rarely ever come across any gas in this freeport or the connecting holes so for now I don’t think I will bother. Two of my PI-only characters are on my main account, and I’ve slowly started skilling them into some basic things but they only have 3-4 million skill points, so they don’t do much else. Since I am usually actively playing on that account with my main, it’s not a big deal.

The second account is a mixture of characters. One is my signal cartel character that I hope to re-join with (I was removed for inactivity when my MIL passed away because I didn’t notify them first and I took a break), one is my market character, and then the third character is a bit of a jack of all trades. They’re most frequently used as a miner, but can also fly some basic combat ships. Nothing fancy.

Anyway. Naming ships. Do you have a method that you stick to? Or do you just name it whatever pops into your mind at the time? Let me know in comments, and as always, fly your way! o7