A new week...

I’ve always used a usb stick to keep my own files in one place while on the go, mainly gaming and blogging related stuff while at work. Easy to keep and move about with, but also as I discovered last Friday easy to forget when its not in “its proper place”, it happens. The more the day went on the more I noticed it’s absence.  Like mislaying a phone, I felt like something is missing. So I ended up putting info onto another stick and merged it later, including stuff I would have put up on Friday. Guess this is going to be a longer more waffle filled post than usual.

As soon as I had gotten in the door from work on Friday my friend was texting asking if I was gonna be on eve, lol, late one day and early the next, he works from home so it's no wonder he has "odd" hours.

So dinner went on and I did my usual eve housekeeping on the “mains”, by that time dinner was ready and once done I hopped onto eve… for 3 hours of level 2 missions. It was a grind.
About the last hour was a real pain, the nearest agent was a security lvl 2 and I put it out of action by declining a mission. I didn’t’ want to hurt too much faction rep with the grind and had declined a mission. This lead to a distribution agent and a lot of jumping about.
As I was jumping with a full cargo hold I missed an opportunity:

Rep was put up a good bit by the end of that session, over the weekend I completed the lvl 2’s and got the 3.01 rep to move onto level 3's. It was so good doing distribution missions that I found myself playing Battlefield 2 multiplayer on the xbox lol.  
With luck we can get some lvl 4’s going soon for rep/isk and some gear from the LP store.

I got an alt to donate 35 mill to my Amarr alt and used it in getting and equipping a destroyer and a cruiser.

I also checked the ship / gear on my Minmatar alt again, to really slim down even more what was really usable. So a Gnosis on that character went to the SOE rep grinding alt. It's been put through a few missions so far but it's not as hardy as a Drake I would have taken, still good. But I'll be hopping into a Raven for the level 4's and then in two weeks (training going well) a Tengu. My Friend may have a marauder by then and we will both be hammering the lvl 4's on both ends (Warp into mission, he hits the BS's working his way down and I hit the frigs/cruisers and work up).

I need to start to "play" my null sec alt, he has no real isk to get him off the ground. Since starting him I wanted him to be free from ever getting anything from another alt/main. I need the isk to get the PI done and making money properly…. To do that I need to get isk in .. to get isk in I need to rat for bounty, mine and sell the stuffs I pick up. But that’s a few hours work that didnt' quite get done last weekend. Will see how it works out. The alliance is really well established and has not problem doing well, am glad to be part of the corp I am in. The last time I was in this area of space I was much deeper in and part of another corp. On the POCO/COCO front the alliance have 70 planets converted to the cause.

I did a tiny bit of ratting, not much but it ended after 2 BS’d marked as having over 1mill bounty each that really damaged me, the harder/higher bounty BS's have a tank that my alt can't break..… 

I was determined to salvage what I could and that lead to me having to strap on a repper and get that fixed.

I'm thinking along the lines of SOE rep grind/lvl 4's when my friend is on and null alt when he is not about. 

On my mains I've updated a lot of skills and gone back to train some skills that I had previously ignored. I think the new ISIS ship identification is a great new addition. It definitely makes me want to skill up some more in area's I have missed and I can't wait to see if they do the same things for the likes of industry.
My first main now has all of the subsystems to lvl 3 ... I will always use a Tengu but no harm in having all the others as well. I just need Gal and Minm Cruisers to V to learn the T3 for each. I think Gal will be done first as I still have some ships that were given to me that require the Gal Cruiser to V to hop into.

I have also renamed the POS in Hi-sec again and will be keeping it... Will see what the future holds... it may be used one day again.

I closed down hi-sec PI on my mains. I had noticed that most of the custom offices have been taken over by some corps. With one final removal of all PI materials and a sell in Jita it proved to be very little margin for profit. Loosing about 40 to 50 % of my profits a week per char.... why should I keep going in the PI game to line someone elses pockets. Its a very cut my nose to spite my face emotion. The only PI that I will do will be on my alt in null. 
I've also noticed that a lot of the people that had taken over offices have themselves been attacked.

PI in hi-sec is proving to be very volatile on the PI side, I wonder if and when it will "stabilise".
Evehermit has had some good posts about his experiences in adjusting to Rubicon PI.
http://evehermit.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/and-1-makes-4/
http://evehermit.wordpress.com/2013/11/23/paying-attention-until-my-brain-hurts/
http://evehermit.wordpress.com/2013/11/24/existing-through-the-ignorance-of-others/

As the expansion stuff has hit a lot of people have been trying the new gear out… Jita undock was filled with these depot’s:

And as I writing I saw an entry on Reddit that sums it up ….

http://i.imgur.com/RnQ91t9.png

I have yet to give the moble depot a go... 

 

On my second main I bought 2 new command ships and fitted them up in the missioning hubs that were lacking them … seemed better to do so over the weekend while I waited on other stuff. It's a lower cost effective ship with lots of potential....

Since getting them I am not as opposed to the new model changes that were made. The new command drake does look cool. I admit it.

I also noticed that the machariel had dropped in price to about 850Mill… I was tempted to buy but said no and they promptly returned to 1.2 Billion. I think that the price going back up was due to too many people buying them..... the price as of writing is back down ... 797Mill in Jita....tempting.....