Tag: EVE

500,000th Cache tended/sowed

I’m a very proud member of Signal Cartel, and have been for over a year now – minus a small break I took in November of last year. Most of “what I do” involves tending / sowing caches that are located in wormholes, these caches are made available to people who may be lost in space. As with everything in EVE, they don’t last forever and they do need to be refreshed. A big part of what I do is simply opening the cache and taking note of the content, making sure it has probes and a launcher. Sometimes we include ‘hugs’ which are just symbolic items of note, like milk or a book. We’re not allowed to leave corpses in the cache as this could be considered an act of violence, and while we’re allowed to defend ourselves if we’ve been attacked, it is against our credo to instigate any sort of combat. Signal Cartel helps those who are lost, and is completely neutral to the ongoings of the universe.

In other words, this corporation is perfect for my playstyle. I love helping others out, and exploration is the main feature of EVE that appeals to me. Anyway, this week was an exceptional one because the 500,000th cache has been tended / sown! Pretty amazing. Each one of those actions is someone dedicating their game time to another to help take care of those caches. I’m very happy to be a part of it.

Fly your way! o7

Back in EVE? Back in EVE.

In March of 2024 I decided to return to EVE Online, having played off and on since 2009 (but never feeling like I actually achieved anything). This time, for whatever reason, things stuck.

I will say there’s a lot of negativity in the community overall, and it’s not always a friendly place for female gamers – but – I managed to find a few good friends that I get along with very well, and I think that is a big reason as to why I’ve stuck with it. Even though I did take a 3 month break at the end of November.

Anyway. I’m back in EVE. I have three active Omega accounts (again) and while I need to wait 30 days before I can re-apply to Signal Cartel (if I decide to, I am unsure) I have been trying to decide what else I would like to do. Besides ISK making, of course. I picked up with my spreadsheet again so expect an update on that. I’m quite pleased with the liquid ISK I’ve made in the last year, even with my break.

I started off with the easy things. I have a porpoise and two retrievers, and I went mining. Warp core stabilizers apparently changed. Not a fan of that. You can only equip one and now the item is something that needs to be activated once you’ve been caught. Then you attempt to warp again. Mining is still in a pretty pitiful state, but there’s rumor that March 12th is going to bring about some news. Honestly, I’ll believe it when I see it.

The universe itself hasn’t changed much. Apparently before I quit I went on a selling rampage and I got rid of a lot of my ships that I had, so I had to spend some ISK to fix that. Did a little ratting. Nothing fancy.

I haven’t done any WH exploration yet. I did get PI set up, and I have been using the new planetary industry templates that you have to toggle on within feature previews. They’re a good start at reducing the tedium of PI, but could still use some work (IMO). Still. It’s something.

Let’s see how this round goes. As always, fly your way! o7

EVE, Wurm, Warcraft – and an Update

I haven’t been very good about blogging regularly for a while now, there has just been too much going on in my day to day to set aside the time for it, so I won’t promise that I’ll be any better about that, but I do still hope to do some semi-regular updates about my gaming adventures. After all, the blog will be 19 years old in June, and that’s something to celebrate. So. What’s up with me?

First of all. I was having a LOT of issues with my web host, and I’ve decided to just migrate back to good ‘ol wordpress. I know they’re the evil corporation of blogs, but they’re also one of the easier ones for me to shuffle off to, so that’s where I’m at. My previous host kept shutting my blog down as AI bots were crawling it constantly creating a bunch of inflated traffic. Then they removed my ability to post pictures (unless hosted at a place like imgur) and still the problems were not solved. I’m paid up until November, so the old version will remain, but all the updates will be here going forward.

EVE – I started playing EVE again. No surprise there. Due to my inactivity I was removed from Signal Cartel (no malice there) and I cannot rejoin until 60 days has passed since I was removed. So far it has only been 32 days. I’m undecided as to whether or not I will re-join. While I do enjoy the corporation, I cannot guarantee my activity levels, and that’s not fair to the corp, really. For now I’m in an NPC corporation and still living in the Wormlife Freeport. I’ve been testing out the ‘new’ feature of PI templates, which is pretty cool (it only took 15 years) but it will also take me some time to create / save templates. Still, I’m thankful that PI got any sort of attention at all.

Wurm Online – Still working on my deed, Quail Landing. This is a castle deed attached to the mainland of Independence. I also created my 3rd deed, over on the Exodus server. This is just a retreat type of deed for when I need a change of pace, or am looking for something ‘new’ to do for a while. Upkeep is set for the next year, so even if I don’t use the deed I can just keep it there and forget about it until I’m feeling that itch again. Yesterday there was a green dragon slaying over on Release that was quite fun to attend, and I also participated in my first rift (well, sort of) this week. I couldn’t attend the actual combat portion, but I did help complete two of the colossus which are part of the pre-event. I earned a lot of rift points, and some rift materials (used for runes). It was fun!

Warcraft – Sadly Warcraft has been my neglected MMO at this point. I keep waiting to hear more news about things like player housing but I feel so out of the loop and I just haven’t had much motivation to log in. When I do log in, it’s for some simple collecting, or just updating a few things. I haven’t done anything re: making gold, or the economy. I think a large portion of this is due to still not finding my ‘people’ in game. I do not have a community I belong to, where as in both Wurm and EVE, I have a somewhat large community of people I can talk with and interact with at any one given time. Still, I’m not ready to cut ties completely. Especially with housing just on the horizon.

Playing anything fun? Avowed? Palworld? Waiting for the latest expansion to your favourite game? Let me know in comments – or as always you can find me these days over on Mastodon and Bluesky.

Happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

The Search For Hrada-Oki Bivouac

News came through a few days ago about a new wormhole site that acts as a deathless exchange outside of Zarzakh – and someone on reddit claims they found it (and are of course selling it to the highest bidder, unless it moves).

Signal Cartel excitedly posted about it, and of course I wanted to start searching and see if I could find it. Speculation is that it has a red giant star in system but if the site moves, who knows. 2 days later there was no follow up on reddit about whether or not the site had moved on.

I’m still living in a Wormlife Freeport, doing PI daily and hauling with another account once a week, so I headed out to see what was around. One jump from the freeport I found a C1 shattered system, already picked through but a good selection of other wormholes were there. I jumped into a C2 (C1 and HS static) but there was nothing of interest and a few fights had happened recently, so I backtracked and I found one that lead to a ‘dangerous place’ (that means C4-C6) and figured why not give it a peek – turns out it was another shattered system, this time a C4, with a C3 and C4 static. A little imicus showed up and was bouncing around for a while too, so I left one of the data sites up and wandered back home (it was about time for RL dinner anyway). I’ve never found a shattered that lead to another shattered before, so I thought that was pretty unique.

I doubt it will be easy to ‘stumble’ into this new wormhole site, but I like the idea of it. There’s a lot of lore behind the deathless, and I found a few more eve-centric discords to join so I can get more familiar with it. I also plan on running some Signal Cartel TripTik’s in the future, and I’m pretty excited about that.

As always, fly your way! o7

Personal EVE Economic Update (October)

I know this post is coming a bit late, but I took a tumble down some stairs (no, really, I did) so typing has been awkward and sitting at my chair incredibly painful. Hopefully things can get back to normal, whatever that is.

October was fantastic as far as making ISK in EVE Online goes. I settled into a pattern with my three active accounts, and expanded my PI process so now 8/9 characters are currently doing some form of industry. You’ll also see I made some pretty big purchases on October 30th, which I will talk about at a later date. I’m trying to space everything out a little bit so it’s not immediately blown up. My monthly earned was higher than I’ve ever had in the past, at just over 7 billion ISK. I also bought a bunch of new ships and did some hefty spending. Most of my income these days is coming from day trading. I’m still producing consumables, mining, ratting (though only a little bit) and I have also started getting into reactions.

Reactions are annoying. Well, to start with, at least. There’s no real good updated guides because that would almost be giving away trade secrets, which no one apparently wants to do. I keep hearing “reactions can make you billions of ISK, but it also costs billions of ISK to get into it” and I had no idea what they meant or what they were talking about. So I started looking into how they worked, and picked a few smaller ones to get started with. I’m still in the initial stages, so we’ll just have to see ‘how’ profitable it is.

The halloween event has ended, and I’ve got to say, I was very disappointed with it overall.

I felt like I spent most of my time hunting down sites and trying to find the right ones that I needed, which of course were never the ones I found – but I did both types any way because there was a chance at some neat loot from them. I did get quite a large collection of ship skins, instead of selling any of them I decided to keep them all for myself, and later on down the road maybe I’ll sell the extras.

This event was very difficult. The hacking was tough even with max skills, the combat sites were things I couldn’t even attempt. I’ve been a bit disillusioned with CCP lately, and this event did absolutely nothing to change my mind on that. There is another “expansion” planned for a few weeks from now, but once again I think very little of it will pertain to me or make a difference in the grand scheme of things.

I guess we’ll see.

Fly your way! o7