My Null alt has been the main character of my game-play. So mining, production, marketing and running from reds has been happening a lot.
While mining, even in a large fleet you can get caught out, a large group of reds entered system scanned out the fleet and warped to me, scramming my warp drive.
My lack of awareness was due to me playing BF4 at the same time.
Usually I'd have warped to station when intel reported them a system away. I was aligned but a good distance away from the main group while mining so I was an easy target. Anyway there I was, two reds, both in Crow's had be scrammed. One I could deal with by warping away due to the my ship having one warp core stab but two was a no no...
While I was amongst the asteroids and already aligned to a safe POS spot being scrammed was a "concern" and I set full steam ahead, thankfully I was not webbed. After about 30 seconds the asteroids had bumped one of the crow's far enough away from their orbit that he lost the lock of the scram and I was able to warp to safety.... a triumphant shout, fist in the air and a wave of relief was in order. I got to warp away with just under 50% shields, not bad.
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| Thank you mistress luck! |
I jumped into the second last system was in mid warp to the last stargate in my route only to have 4 reds appear and me to arrive in the middle of them.
They jumped the gate straight after me and waited out the cloak timer. Hammering the warp key did nothing for the ship as expected it blew fast, unfortunately the pod was right behind it.
The real pity was I had only upgraded the clone to a full set of +4 implants a few days previously. Time for a new set. again.
Marketing what I've made is a good little earner. It's good to have a source of isk coming in that has already been worked for. Some high volume items at a cheap price. One of two items at a hefty price. It's a good balancing act. The market can be finicky but some items sell as a constant. I've leaned a lot and hope to refine that even more. Wars are both a helper and a hindrance. I may not have proved myself to the corp/alliance in pvp but I like to think that the ships, guns and ammo I sell help the cause. Truth be told my sell orders can be fulfilled by both sides, a true arms dealer isn't picky once the isk is coming in.
My mains and alt's have all been busy with training and P.I.
In going through my main's items I came across all the POS modules/fuel he had. I decided to put the POS back up.
A while ago I had bought a lot of new BPO's so I decided to research the material and time efficiency on them as well as make copies to sell. With the removal of the slots form industry I've been able to just use two labs to do the jobs. I've never used the Industry crew's and am glad they will be removed. That does not bode well for ship crew's, tho I think the future holds more cosmetic functions for their future if they are ever implemented.
The POS has been up for about a month now. At the moment it's running on the fuel that had been pre-purchased and stored with the modules. This should last another month. I think it should see me through. I hope I wont' need any more fuel for the POS. The cost of the fuel is almost a third more than the last time I had to buy some. Seeing the cost of a month's worth of fuel is a killer.
In going through my mains hangers I folded up shop in a station I used to use as a main mission hub way back in my earlier day's. Tis funny what you find.
Other than the POS the mains have run some missions and done general hi-sec "stuffs".
As part of their training both mains and my main alt got to finish off the Mining Frigate skill to level 5, I got to purchase and fit out some Prospects for them.
They are a really cool ship and I think I'll have to get my null alt into one sooner than I had planned.
With the new expansion/release the rouge drones have been sighted everywhere. As I've been mainly on my null alt (pun pun). I've seen them a lot.... everywhere.... at:
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| Stargates |
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| Stations |
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| Customs Offices |
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| Scanning my Drones |
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| More Stargates |
A few people have commented on this from their experiences on the test server, like this video.
However I like that JohnnyPew has again come up trumps and given a great walkthrough of the new sites.
The CCP Winter seasonal star (Christmas star), is back and viewable from everywhere in New Eden. Another nice touch. Makes me wonder what they will be giving away as presents this year.
One of the new things in the expansion that caught my eye so far today have been the sheer awesomeness of the new ship rendering.
Some people have been moaning about some of the recolouring of pirate models but for me the ships are so much more sexy it's worth a little grumble from a few.
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| New Crow skin |
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| New Gnosis skin |
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| AND the Amarr ships have all got their shiny back!!!! |
They have done really great work and with more on the way it's a great thing for Eve.
Another thing I am excited about is the new pop out version of the star map! It is a great new vision and a great replacement for the old version. It needs a lot of work but it's the right direction to go.
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| New Eden |
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| Constellation view |
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| Zoomed out System View |
The full patch notes are here.
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