Homecoming...out of null

Well, i certainly learned alot about how to live in 0.0
The only reason i left was my surprise at how nomadic null sec life really is.
I packed up shop and moved most of my nullsec market stuff, and jump clones to H-ADOC at the far end of the curse region pipe. Hopefully i can sell almost a trillion isk worth of sell orders.

Back in high sec now, mining ice in Gosalav. Prices on ice and minerals have really changed since i was last active.
2009-Amarr mineral/ice index
2012-Amarr mineral/ice index

Within 2 weeks of returning broke and with hardly any ships (compared to what i'd been required to produce in null) I've suddenly been able to afford an Orca, 2 mackinaws, the expensive parts for my Rorqual (clone vat bay and capital shield booster),


I'm training up some ganker alts to take care of macrobotters at the ice belt. It's a nice quiet belt and hulkageddon hardly knocks there - and i'd like to keep the riff-raff away so it doesn't attract attention. Ah yes, making friends and enemies in high sec. lol
[Catalyst, Hulkageddon mk0]
8x Regulated Light Neutron Phase Cannon I (Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge S)
Passive Targeting Array I
Initiated Harmonic Warp Scrambler I
3x Linear Flux Stabilizer I
Small Processor Overclocking Unit I
1x Hobgoblin I







Planetary Infrastructure is my new focus, since R&D agents got nerfed. I'm going to try and produce fuel blocks for sale by having most of my 4 accounts (yes, i got a new account last month)...to that end i've decided to set up shop in either Khopa or Fahruni



Since CCP coded in 'corporate' bookmarks i'm painstakingly distilling most of my bookmarks into the allowed slots.

Also moving most of my blueprint copies to amod SOE station...sadly i'm forced to use the corporate 'based at' privilege as an extra security measure against theft (since i need both a station to store BPCs and another station to store valuable non-blueprint stuff)

Bubbles Burst

I recently discovered a new 3rd party program called "EveRefinery" after googling "is it better to reprocess than sell straight to market?" I've been ratting in Angel Forsaken Hub anomalies in our Alliance's new backyard and salvaging a tonne of loot. This is the first real effort i put into isk making since last year when we were on holiday in Querious. I didn't think much back then or in the past about how the market was; to me it always seemed like demand by players that used the items drove prices up and that traders would capitalize on buying up whatever module was in demand by the player base. A couple weeks ago i trundled off to market through a wormhole and took some time to compare how much i'd get from reprocessing versus selling to buy orders traders put up...i figured the REALLY expensive items were worth way more than the mineral price of reprocessing the same item. Boy, was i wrong. massively wrong about "if it's expensive it can't possibly be worth it's weight in minerals", and especially now.

Dev Blog - what is going on with mineral prices? 

Today i braved the weekend warriors in the Curse pipe (namely K-Q) with my smuggler (newly outfitted - the ECM burst sucked from my earlier fit) and got my pigs to market...

Had some scary moments, but for the most part it was a successful jaunt with some excitement at one point early on when i had to crash the CL gate in K-Q with two of my pilots at the same time - my hands were shaking so much i couldn't use my mouse properly. lol. I was stuck for a bit so waited around for some poor schmuck to get shot instead...

Waiting for a bison to run over took a while so i amused myself by making extreme range pounce points off the CL stargate with one of my three pilots until said bison showed up and i got all 3 in system and safely on my way to high sec. Unfortunately, on the way back my main character got shot in a drive by and lost a set of implants worth a total of 100m isk. ouch. and some rifter blueprint copies (whoop dee doo) 
 I got out fuel block BPOs (3 amarr;3 caldari) researched to max, about half dozen other original blueprints that were surplus (junk basically) although one is a small anti-explosive pump rig BPO researched to max that is going to be useful at my research complex (still Kourmonen's 5 lab stations.) Along with 3000 faction large ammo, some more tags for my collection, and a bunch of items worth more selling straight to jita buyers than reprocessing for the mineral value including a "Domination 100mn afterburner" that's worth about 100m isk right there.

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Oh, as for other news i finally unlocked the last of my blueprints in my research complex stations and have been losing many ships by seneschal, in that area, from either game mechanics bugging up or pure stupid "ooooo shiny thing" lack of concentration and being AFK in low sec - just a symptom i've gotten lazy about safety near my research complex:
kerblam,
and,
then,
and,
then.
Hereticus fared a little better although he did lose a shiny Sabre interdictor inside a cargo hold of a viator. them's expensive! am i mad, bro?  
My main character has been really happy with a new ship (Sacrilege) and has, after many weeks of ratting, and very little dying (or killing) has gotten an iteration of the perfect fitting for PVE.

So, yeah, i'm happy raking in about 7m isk every 15minutes. I hope this new iteration makes alot more, especially once i successfully get the proper implants from high sec (see "shot in a drive by" killmail.)  Escalations off these lowly anomalies i'm doing aren't worth doing, so i'm missing out on juicy drops but i think i can manage - it's way more than i'm used to.  

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 Do i want to really get back into mining? not while i'm on vacation. I do hope to get an Orca bought at some point when they get cheaper. 700m isk for one? yuck! here's the fit i'll be using: 

[Orca, Supertanker JesterTrek] 

Damage Control II 

Reinforced Bulkheads II 

Domination X-Large Shield Booster 

Adaptive Invulnerability Field II 

Limited Adaptive Invulnerability Field I 

Medium Capacitor Booster II, Navy Cap Booster 800 

Mining Foreman Link - Laser Optimization II 

Large S95a Partial Shield Transporter 

Small Tractor Beam I 

Large Core Defense Field Extender I 

Large Core Defense Field Extender I 

Large Core Defense Field Extender I 

Vespa EC-600 x5 Hobgoblin II x5 

 Will i stick with this Alliance? Probably for a long time although i am being very careful about how much i invest in expensive things i might lose if things go tits up. I'm trying to keep it lean and mean in null sec and keep the fat transferred to my high sec carebear alt corp regularly. Speaking of which i just re-rented a couple dozen offices now that i have the income to maintain them, although i'll drop some of the more expensive ones once i'm sure which Ministry of Internal Order agent i want to go with - yup! I've gone from Theology Council fan to Sarum Family boi to finally the hated Ministry of Internal Order NPC corp as my favorite to run missions for. I didn't like the roleplaying aspect of doing that, but after learning about the amarrian epic arc storyline mission lvl4 agent belonging to said corp i couldn't say no any longer. I seriously want to get my corp's empire standing to a high enough level to get a 0.5 sec system POS system set up in the future and this corp is my ticket to that (especially since getting high empire standing means i can run the rest of the COSMOS agents for Amarr) 

Anyways, that's my current goals. My current fear is shown in a comment i made in Jester's blog, although while i wait for my penmanship to be cleared by the censors i just have the link to the comment i replied to  ...my reply's point had to do with how the insane risk aversion the more vocal members of the eve clientele tends to warp the "reality" of eve (in this case that "PVP is the core of the game"; aka Griefers) as a whole that outsiders hardly see as the reality at all, let alone the "perception" of eve in the mainstream (being "Eve is pro-PVP. yuck!"; aka Carebears)
The whole thing is a straw man. What I mean by that is outsiders are the silent majority who let the wallets do the walking, see the game as just another multiplayer game full of carebears and griefers as any game is - full of human folly - and leave the 'insiders' (aka the vocal griefers & carebears) content to weave a web of white/grey/black lies to their heart's content among the killers, socializers, achievers and explorers of a MMOG called "eve-online" who for the most part enjoy the element of risk in a game (but i think it got deleted out of hand for being flippant and poorly written)

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." ~Mark Twain (who attributed it to Benjamin Disraeli)

ah...my original comment was cleared. haha. here it is in all it's confuzzlement:

Hmmm...There was a sci-fi space simulation MMO called "JumpGate" that i played through beta and into retail. They were crippled just after trying to branch out into another MMO that tanked horribly.
That's one opinion. The other opinion was that the developers were sucked into the same "perception is reality" spiel touted by the vocal and rabidly vicious minority who wanted more player killing "because the core of the game was pvp"...
The game base dwindled and it is no more. Will that happen here? IMHO no it won't. there's a critical mass of carebears (the socializers and achievers) that attract the explorers such as myself. A critical mass that simply cannot be killed off by the griefers.
Besides, griefers and carebears alike abhor risk. each are prone to risk aversion. I think this colors the "reality" itself. The "perception" merely seduces the developers and clients alike to buy the 'straw horse' of the so called "reality" being beaten between opposing poles of the 'risk aversion' camps.
Outsiders neither care nor see the "reality" because 'reality' is soooo much different. The minority shout long and loud and the silent majority whose wallets do the walking have the last laugh. As long as CCP never lose sight of this i'm confident this game will never die.

Herp a Derp

After a slow start to the day, and a detour to haul planetary stuff and just after getting back from a low sec R&D jaunt to Kourmonen (with a stop in high sec for some faction contracts) i lucked out on racing to a huge battle where some very large super carriers were being slaughtered. I managed to get in on 4 huge kills. muahaha. Even helped teammates remote rep until i got blown up.

Back up to 99% efficiency. w00t!

the envelope

sales for my null sec market attempt are very slow right now since the alliance Degrelle invited me to join has 'deployed' to another region farther out than last month's deployment. I'm assuming that since i'm catering to the "quick, gotta outfit right now but can't find the best item i'll go with what i can get" crowd they tend to be herd creatures by nature and obviously without us being based out of our 'home' system my sales suck right now. Either that or i spent alot of isk on stuff i'll never sell.

goodbye 96% efficiency
well, the day was going fairly well for contant roaming gangs which i ended up getting sucked into throughout the morning, afternoon and evening. Things went okay and i was in an interceptor, an assault ship and finally a battlecruiser (which i lost above)

i've dabbled in planetary mining, null sec markets, bought fuel block BPOs and medium sized rig BPOs, plus explored wormholes. quite a pushing of the envelope this month.

first time i see a Titan

http://www.fail.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=12341758
Russian carrier playing undock games and an erebus ninja jumps in behind him and POP

Well, it's been a busy week mostly missing the GF and not getting much work. Was able to spend alot of time running around null sec getting into the groove.

A day in the life

So at about 0600hrs eve time it's 10pm my time, and i'd called my GF as i usually do around then mostly every night. I told her i blew up some spaceships but was pretty much unproductive.

Ironically, today turned out to be an amazingly "productive" one. I woke up to the dulcet tones of the FC screaming for more people to join fleet and proceeded to witness a humungous battle...see below blog post. There's also a youtube video about it, here.

After that i did some ingame housekeeping and tried to refit a guardian logistics ship and an ishkur and then proceeded to go on roam after roam that night with 3-4 gangs and got on more kills than i've ever done.

1st gang engagement 1
1st gang engagement 2
3rd gang engagement 1

I'm starting to learn who the sucky Fleet Commanders are and will be avoiding joining their fleets. I find the lack of communication, the lack of repetition in orders, and mostly the plodding camper mentality that betrays a lack of motivation to obtain and retain 'intel'

Was fun and i really liked my assault ship, may it rest in peace, although i was attempting to make it better but the market and the gatecamps put a crimp in my plans...it worked okay until it died. I was so panicky when that happened i forgot to attack. lol. carebear instincts die hard. Anyways, the below is the loadout i want to get for it next time


[Ishkur, CumGetSum mk3]
3x 150mm Railgun II (Caldari Navy Iron Charge S)
Small 'Solace' Remote Bulwark Reconstruction
1MN Afterburner II
Faint Warp Disruptor I
Small Capacitor Booster II (Cap Booster 200)
Damage Control II
Small Armor Repairer II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Co-Processor II
2x Small Ancillary Current Router I

Come get some

Well, it was a good thing i lost my logistics ship couple days ago, because this morning i woke up on the sofa with the FC yelling for people to get into fleet. They'd just undocked Geddons&Guardians and warped to outgate when i fully woke up and relearned how to switch out my drone augmentor for a cyno (sans ozone) and remember how to undock. Personally, i'd have rather taken a shower at that point. Anyways, off i went and caught up to the main group as the FC was yapping about 200 people about to fight in our target system over a station (russians and -A- pets.) Since we were only 66 in fleet i figured we're gonna diieeee like last time, even though we had 2 triage carriers on standby. By the time we got their our ingate was clear and a huge fight was brewing on another stargate with subcaps. Our FC got us on the tail of an enemy blob and that's where we got most of our kills - apparently our logistics team bit the big one right away but me and my fellow armageddons were ignored for (apparently) bait low-sig-radius Tengus of our allies who had sniper tornados at range on the enemy being lured about. Once our guardians popped (no broadcasts from them nor comm chatter) our FC called for a cyno but the one triage carrier ordered in was primaried. Apparently, this new target lured the enemy away from close range to the Tengu group and allowed them to survive a bit longer. Soon after the carrier popped we were forced off the field because the enemy started getting logistics help and we lacked the numbers by then to overcome this.

So the picture above is when we whored onto -A- kills they were getting from putting a bubble up at the soon to be ex-russian station...We warped soon after to the wreck broadcasted and i think i got on a few more KMs. Then it was warp off time again for us until we warped back to undock to whore again on some carriers (i think i got a single shot off on one or two at most before they popped)...By that time -A- had cyno'd in their supercapital fleet and the station melted.

So there was nothing we could add so got warped off to outgate where i proceeded to ignore orders and madly looted. i only got faction ammo though because the good stuff had been swiped by more nimble craft.

Engagement on alliance killboard