Weekend that was.... week that is.....

I had great intentions on what to do with my pilots in Eve last weekend but all progressed in the usual PI/POS/skills manner without much else happening, the week has progressed in a similar fashion.

Orca + odds and ends skills.....

The Main Alt is a few days away from flying an Orca, I decided not to train the Indy command ship and mining foreman skills to IV, this frees up a lot of time. Once the skills in the pic are cooked I'll add in Indy command ship to 3 and consider it done.

Meaning that my lil'ol null alt will get back to training around the middle of next week.  I just need to get his +3 implant clone back into null from Amarr.... or have him sit in amarr for a "while" getting cybernetics to 4 lol.

In preparation for his move I've clone jumped to his "training" clone which has the implants. Even sitting in Amarr the amount of reds is crazy, I’ll have to make a mad dash no mater what, there is never a quiet time in a major trade hub.

My general Eve plans are to fly my Minmatar alt for a few missions. Then switch to my second main to farm level 4s' until a bpc of the cruiser can be bought from the LP store. Then switch over to having both mains's do the epic arcs (Caldari and Amarr). I also hope to get my Null alt back into action beyond the daily PI overwatch.


These plans are being hampered by my other gaming (mainly wow).
A few more matches of BF4 have seen some great lengthy games with many twists and turns, great action overall :) 
Wow is too easy to get stuck into and end up grinding mats to go do X,Y and Z, then alt hop to get farming done.... next thing you know the day and night are gone and it's Monday morning..!
Am conflicted with wow at the moment, how to play, what character to play and if to play at all.I usually uncomplicated this by playing low level alts.

But I did get some things done in Eve.
I got to team up my alt with a friend for a few missions, I got to test the alt in the Tempest and he got to do his salvaging :)

Mission and Salvage 1

Mission and Salvage 2

An unscheduled downtime was a bummer on missions.

Nothing says I love you more than a person stealing your loot "because its part of the game" ;)

The tempest handled really well, cap was a problem but that was handled by the Tempest munching on cap boosters to getting a cap link from my friends Dominix.
Once more level 4 to be sure and I'll be happy with the Tempest fit.

My friend in the Dominix is instead of buying a second Dominix going to get a Hyperion. Along with the new Hyperion "paint" job and then fit it with t2 rigs. The fit is still being finalised but he should be a missioning machine in it. I've tried to suggest other ships/fits but his mind is set.... It should be good... I just have to loan him some isk to make it come true. 

My Null alt did get to move out his PI assets and the first batch of Robotics went for a shade under 40 mill. I'll have to see how this goes over the coming weeks.

I may end up selling the Robotics and any extra materials on top so that I am not swamped with materials just lying idle.

The Dev blog’s regarding the summer expansion are all about Industry.
http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/reprocess-all-the-things
http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/building-better-worlds/

With the refining changes coming up I hope there isn't too much of a nerf in NPC stations, I know there really will be but I can hope!! Perfect refining with standings was a cool. I will have to see what else is said in dev blogs, I might have to start getting the POS modules for ore refining instead…

I did come across a good link to a site regarding station trading this morning....
http://theeveindustrialist.blogspot.ie/2014/04/station-trading.html

 

A UI tips and tricks vid from a ccp employee Bára Gunnarsdóttir was very helpful... it's the type of stuff that just needs to be shown once and can make a huge difference...

 

I may have vented a bit about the lack of a dust 514 community online but a post by Jester has an interesting last paragraph. Dust's CPM seems to be alive and well. They should be more vocal.
I've been doing a match or two a day and the bonus sp is maxed on a rolling per day basis, once built up over 8 days it stay’s maxed as long as you log in…

Some more matches have been one domination point, spawn point turkey shoot’s. With matches like that I tend to just spawn in the starter gear and not lose any purchased items…while trying to outflank the enemy.

I still have to mess about with the Amarr freebie gear I got as well as the keyboard and mouse option of control……

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The WoW distractions are all based around going back to old raids with a friend to get achi's and to see if mounts drop etc.

I finally got the swift white hawkstrider yesterday.  My new insta-boosted rogue has been a very lucky charm in regard to getting rare boss mount drops. First the Raven lord and now the white hawkstrider. I will have to try a few more with him :)

I should be doing a lot of gearing up through raiding and tweaking of gear with Mr Robot but I just end up redoing characters transmog's....  like my Paladin... he can't hit for much.... it's an epic battle to kill a wounded farm critter... but dámn he looks good doing it.... ;-p

If only Eve could let it's ships be changed in a similar way to transmog's....


I felt my hunter needed an update so on a whim I altered him a bit: