Monday 25 February 2013

Whafu?

Y115.02.25

Him

Well, a quiet month for me – in the few roams I have managed, I have flown logi in an attempt to help build up some logi love in alliance and the bloc roams have been bloody structure bashing or utterly devoid of targets – ‘should have been here last night, mate’. Thanks. 1 kill. Dreadful. On the upside, long time RL bud, corpie and proper PVE / PI whore has thrown off his carebear shackles and is now happily blowing up heathen shit in the name of the Empress. He has even forced the usual corp #1 killah to fly fast tackle to keep up with him. Nice job matey. AMARR VICTOR!

Me
So, I settled down for some serious DPS action the other night but the laptop power socket went again, but nothing that shouting at the bloke who ‘mended’ it last time in a shop full of punters couldn’t fix in 30 minutes. New PSU to boot as they didn’t have the right socket. And a new laptop is ordered with a quad core and a bit more screen real estate to see WTF is going on other than bloody windows.

The bitch is moving along nicely with those trading skills that reduce sales and order tax [Accounting & Broker Relations] in order to sell the mission loot / hangar crap that keeps appearing. Contract the shit back to the main to melt and make PVE ammo and keep the salvage to make rigs. I should probably look at making and selling rigs, but those pricey numbers [Large CCC / CDFE’s] eat up the salvage and I’d rather make the money elsewhere and keep a buffer of salvage for when I don’t want to pay 20mil for a rig. Rig BPO’s are so cheap, that if you have enough salvage you can save a ton of ISK. Must look into buying the raw salvage and making rigs from it to sell, as 4 Large CDFE’s is 100mil in the bank.

So
New PC incoming means a clean install of the client and redoing all the settings that entails. Might be time to try all those things I talked about in some previous posts – build myself a new overview from scratch using the EVE Uni guide as I really don’t use very many of the ones in Louis [admittedly great] settings and tool around with Azual Skoll’s great ideas [scroll down] on all kinds of PVP shite such as keybinding and screen layouts. The Altruist is a really great blog, which actually tells you stuff you need to know, not just some twat banging on about rubbish.

PI
Found a great tip about PI on FHC the other day [page 5 is where it’s at] and I will implement this when next in the PI system.

I currently use 3 planets – P1 [processed materials] on 1st planet + P1 on 2nd planet, then ship to a 3rd [factory] planet to make P2 [refined commodities] and subsequently P3 [specialized commodities]. If I was to use 4 planets to make 1 P1 each, then ship to a 5th [factory] planet, I would increase [double?] my yield and therefore profit. Mmmmm, profit. Could probably do with CCU V though and no time to train that until large lazors is complete. The bitch could do it though…

Training
Just browning off Large Energy Turret V, will take the remaining pulse & beam specs to 4 [maybe just 3 for large], then either CCU V or surrender monkey Cruiser V to have them all up there. Or Large T2 Rails. And I now wanna fly Cap ships too.

w00t, some actual information there, enjoy.

Fly safe

o7

Monday 4 February 2013

Ah, that's better

Y115.01.30

Succour
Fear not subscribers [ah, ok], my ‘oh noes, lost some ISK again’ huff taking me out of PVP for a couple of weeks to carebear my back up to a reasonable wallet balance, is over. After trading of all the mission loot to the trade alt to flog, I have discovered this new feature on Aura for Android where you can see not only the combined balances of all linked characters and a monthly cash flow statement. I was minus half a bil in January. That’s even after all the mission rewards, selling a bunch of loot and having bugger all to show for it. Easy come, easy go.

You can also see their combined assets at market price, which made me feel a little better about having no free ISK, as I can now see where it went, apart from contract stuff & PVP losses now totalling 2-odd bil, of course. And now the API feed for the alt seems to have stopped importing to Aura and I have no idea why – I wasn’t drunk last night, just updating sell orders and shouldn’t have clicked anything I shouldn’t. Still, this month’s cash flow will get off to a good start when it does link.

I ran out of Trit, of all things, to make PVE ammo and had to buy some, eurgh. Alt has moved all the cheap shit to the melting station for me to melt and build more now though. I shot around 20,000 rounds of EMP L, plus some Plasma and a bit of Fusion. In 3, maybe 4 nights. Probably 900 presses of F1 if they weren’t on auto-repeat. T2 AC’s FTW.

Training
I got Security Connections up to IV and this has brought that NApoc even nearer, just as they have dropped 100mil in price in a month. w00t bloody toot :/

Even though large T1 lazors / hybrids seem no longer to be regarded in the same light as leprosy, Sharpshooter V is cooking to open up large lazor / hybrid spec when the respective large turrets are up to V. And salvage drones are shite.

Fly safe

o7