Ventured....

RL has been handing my butt to me in spades over the last weekend. Including an extended lack of sleep and an emergency department visit for my wife. Things settled down by Saturday night with both of us catching up on lots of sleep. So since last posting gaming wise I've not been up to too much. Sunday was semi normal and I got to enjoy some gaming time.

I used both my mains to do a few more missions. My second main is about halfway to getting the LP needed to buy the BPC of the SOE cruiser. Isk is being made from bounty and loot sales. The sec status is being upped little by little...



With my main doing a clear out just before last weekend, I decided to give the Minmatar alt a spare venture and some extra BPO’s that she could use. On her way back home she got killed via suicide gank.

I've done silly things in the past that have warranted my being deshipped or express podded back to a station. I've tried sticking my head into lowsec situations that have ended badly. And of course I've done some silly things in general that were "doh" moments at their best. This was my first experience of a hi-sec suicide gank done on purpose.

The kill mail lists my alt as being a 2.4 ish million loss with the thrasher ganker being slightly more of a loss in isk... I just found it strange that the Venture would be ganked. All you hear about on the web is that anything under 100 Mill probably won't be ganked. Probably eh.

Granted the alt was on autopilot and granted the cargo did have 3 blueprints, one for small emp ammo, another for small phased plasma ammo and a minmatar shuttle so unresearched they equal 230k isk.
Hardly worth it... so that did surprised me.

Both ammo bpo's were material and time researched to 100, looking on the contracts market the one ammo bpo that dropped was going for 12 Million.
So assuming they went to sell it and did undercut the current contracts, minus the cost of the ship and fit that was used to gank, that leaves a profit of about 9 ish million.
I doubt the shuttle bpo would sell for much at all on contract.
I guess it was the gankers chance to take.... Not too bad of a gamble gank this time, assuming he or an accomplice were the ones to loot the wreck. 
Perfect eve life I guess CCP would say.
Wrong neighbourhood at the wrong time. I should have known better.

I placed a 20 Mill cost to the activation of the kill right. And make it available to anyone. That if taken would be nice isk to get in return.
I've already got my main working on getting new bpo's to the same levels, they should be done in a few day's.
I might have to see if I can start that into a business.... see what bpo's are being sold for massive profit, up the ME and PE(TE) a bit and sell them on....



My main sold off more ships and the named advanced lab from the last run on the epic Caldari arc that was in storage.. Altogether they sold to make his current clearout profit about the 1.8 Billion mark. I still have no idea on what to do with the isk, but it's nice to have it that high in the wallet again.


There was one piece from this blog that got my attention, a sleek new redesign of the Dominix.

I like this new design.


Some interesting news about the next expansion/release being delayed a month.
http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/delivering-the-industry-new-eden-deserves/

http://themittani.com/news/kronos-industry-changes-delayed-until-july

More interesting reading about the consequences of the changes due to come are blogged about here

CCP Seagull explains things a bit more than the fanfest presentation / vision.
http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/from-2-expansions-to-10-releases-eve-onlines-new-release-model-explained/



A lot has always been banded about the solo players of Eve, and it's great to see its finally being talked about more seriously rather than being mocked by the pvpers.
http://jestertrek.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/the-seven-percent-solution.html

http://evehermit.wordpress.com/2014/05/10/do-you-belong-here/

It will be interesting if anything is done to progress the solo player's perspective.


I've only really ever done security missions as a "missioner". This blog speaks to the farming of mining missions. Which I have to say sounds really appealing in a strange risk averse way. This maybe one I'll have to look into doing with an alt(s).



Besides Eve a few random BF4 matches were had and that's all.



I'm away from home this week so I doubt anything other than a touch of eve and wow will be had depending on the internet connection......

 

Next week I'm 100% away from all technology so updates will go from slow, light this week to non existant.

Fly Safe o7