Out-of-pod holiday

Well, time for my holiday has arrived, and about to park up the ship while I take a vacation. Unfortunalty its supposed to rain for next 2 days, which really means could be in for a miserable day unfortunatly...

Passed the 27m of corp funds remaining to Jax after purchase of Zydrine (some 4500 units)... so he can get buy orders filled while I'm gone and setup a 3rd outlet store for our wares. Coproration has 90m of items up for sales currently, which is ~ 2 weeks of supply. Whats great is the coporation rate of sales is increasing weekly, as is the actual funds. All without further investment, and with monies being taken out for blueprints.

Personal wallets of both characters are doing very well due the amount of l3 missions stacked on Sunday - enough to consider buying a vast quantity of skillbooks on my return... For both characters.

Anyhow bed is calling - see you all in 2 weeks.

Too much loot/salvage.....

DeafPlasma has a non-T2 fitted salvager, a Catalyst destroyer, fitted with 3 tractors, and 5 salvagers - which seems the ideal mix for speed salvaging. Low slots are filled with 3 basic cargohold extenders.... giving 650m3 of cargohold on board, with an additional 400m3 available if needed in the Myrmidon. Until last night a single mission had never filled this amount.

One mission last night resulted in 1500m3 of loot/salvage total, requiring a trip back to the hanger to drop off the loot. I am trying to avoid having loot piles over many systems so I don't have a big hauling job in future, but think its going to be a requirement sadly if these huge loot missions become regular.

Thanks to Mynxee for the tip on POS fuelling, it looks like training for Blockade running can wait a while on DP. Its still literally months before a POS can be errected anyhow, due to corp standings being low, and also the fact we are literally nowhere near prepared for life in low sec. We'd literally be eaten for breakfast! DT only has 3 skills at L5 currently, but Gunnery is fast approaching 1m SP. I don't think I'll be risking going into Decon with Doom Armada around right now needless to say.

I have 5 factory slots in operation 24/7 currently in preparation for the time away next week/week after - and a full weekend of playing ingame, and building up the personal funds needed for some essential skillbooks. L3 missions really increase your isk income :)

Industry is getting to 1-2m profit per day right now. Now if I get that to 100x that figure I'll be very very happy.

Mineral price update

Over past month in Essence based on my spreadsheet stats and what I'm buying raw source minerals for:

1. Tritanium still increasing 2.75 buy order price average
2. Pyerite over month - pretty stable
3. Mexallon - stable
4. Isogen - small increase
   
5. Nocxium - Increased by 10 isk on buy-order price
6. Zydrine stable
7. Megacyte - Small increase

No real shortages causing production delays as in previous months for the industry section - apart from the almost constant usage of slots in the DSTIC home base. We now have to queue for manufacturing slots in Ours. Not a huge issue currently when we are building jobs that take > 48 hours, as the 2-3 hours wait for the slot is minimal. More of an issue in future. We'll build a manufacuring and science POS in low-sec soon enough to bypass all these issues. Only problem then is fueling and hauling minerals in/out.

Industrialists, how is it in your region?

Logistics wise has anyone got any ideas on strategy for fueling POS's in low-sec so I can prep my longer-term skill plan. Are rigged industrials best with WCS's, or is using a proper transport ship/blockade runner best?

Myrmidon is go!

Yesterday got the Myrmidon for Deafturret.... And I started
investigation of the areas to do level 3 missions for the intelligence
office - to my surprise DT has standing now for some level 4 missions!

Anyhow took a trip around essence visiting various mission areas...
The funny thing in doing this is I discovered the best agents were
next to low sec and therefore you had a good chance of being sent into
hostile territory for missions!!! Checking the low sec areas with a
shuttle to lay safes and check out the locals I found them to be
piratey.

My guide to spotting pirates in low sec...

1/. Take a snapshot of local residents and use this to investigate
their security status, corp and alliance info.
2/. If security status is under 0 they probably are a pirate.
3/. Check personal info notes Corp and alliance info and google it -
they may well even advertise the fact they are pirates!
4/. If all the above are okay you may be safe - but still stay alert
as situation may change..

Anything anyone else can suggest to improve the above list???

On a side note got 2 systems to inestigate tmrw for low sec ratting
and pos possibilities after checking out the official eve maps book -
which by the way is one of the best ways I've found to investigate new
eden space prior to flying to a location... Fingers crossed one of
those systems is good and relatively pirate free... It's low sec I
don't expect 100 percent safe space but it's nice if there's a nice
anti pirate Corp or two setup to discourage the yarr brigade...

Battlecruisers are go!

Last night I though I had it sorted, but made a crucial mistake with DeafTurret: Myrmidon requires BC level 2, not 1. Doh! So I didn't have the required skills for my BC of choice until, well, past my bedtime.

I have 50m isk ready to buy, insure, and fit my new Myrmidon with the best equipment I can afford and use currently in Ours.

Industry wise, last night, decided to take a break for skilling DP on Refinery efficiciency as he can get to 5 during the time I'm out of game from next week onwards. Decided instead to concentrate on trying to get DP to have some of the skills required to do research - which is progressing very nicely. Though this is unlikely to be finished by time I go away, it'll be close. Once I can use a few research agents simultanously it'll then be a case of leaving that going while copying blueprints for invention and buying the Interfaces required.

Downsides are today I will not get a great chance to this new Battlecruiser... as time online is extremely limited today & tommorow due to needing to be up early tommorow & not getting home till extremely late same day. Getting old is really starting to eat into my Eve time as I can't stay up as late as I could in the past with an early start.

Best news is with some quick skill purchases tonight - I now have 2 chars capable of hauling in an Industrial ship, meaning mineral flow back to manufacturing base from purchase point is increased.

Has anyone else noticed the terrible inflation in Ours for Tritanium recently? 2.76 was the price this morning, a noticable increase from the 2.4-2.5 range of previous weeks. I am now a net trit importer into Ours, as its getting too expensive to manufacture from the in-system buy-order price.

Weekend updates

The new Tales from New Eden site is live. It's a blog where I'll put my eve fanfic when I get inspired to do so. It'll not be as frequently updated as this site. Its a very very low-publicity launch until I get some more Tales on there. And get better at writing fiction.

Skills, well, Deafplasma is currently still working on Refinery efficiency 5 (14 days left!). I may start him on advanced Laboratory skills shortly so I can get a few extra lab slots. DT is working on a multitude of items. DT can get a BC tonight and likely will be doing so and should also be doing his first L3 missions. DT is still months off being a decent pilot sadly.... But every week he is improving at missions...

Industry... wallet at 27m, 50m of items on market, and still a sizable stockpile of minerals of all types. Blueprint shopping is waiting until 45m. Did buy 10 million of trit over the weekend, as had run out! Also have to consider the period I'll be offline (almost 2-3 wks - though will be online in 3rd week on/off), and thus need to be building a huge huge amount of modules/ships for sale in the period offline. I have 8 days until the offline period.

I've been waiting for the inevitable mission into Decon, luckily so far have avoided that particular bunch of pain for the moment - but expect it to happen at some point, especially when I start doing L3 missions. Thinking of fitting the BC to also deal with threats from PvP - well at least to allow me to be competitive. I think a warp scram, afterburner (as will be in deadspace a lot), and webber will help here...

Can't wait for L3 missions when I login tonight.

EVE Daily update

I missed blogging yesterday, awfully busy day at work... and prefered to play EVE than blog in the evening.

So updates:

Finished the level 2 mission of "The Blockade" which is the 1st time I've had that mission. It made a decent level of profit for the corp. Another day of grinding/standings for the corporation basically. We're getting there. I have personal standings for L3 agents now.. and money for a battlecruiser. Sadly have no skill to fly one, as this week instead of doing BC skills brought up my shield, drone and hull support skills.

As a battlecruiser will be essential for ISK generation, this is next on my list, and in theory DT could fly one by end of the weekend. This will unfortunatly mean a relocation out of Oursuleart (although corp base will still be there), and another hauler route. Which leads to... DP needing to learn skills to fly an industrial class ship next week also.

The rent is paid for the corp hanger until November now, so it means I can go away on holiday knowing none of our stuff will be locked down by the authorities for not paying a bill.

Industry is ticking over at 4-5 million isk a day now, with a profit of 1-2m depending on the day. Not bad for sitting down not doing much and hauling some goods around occasionally. Jax's industry hanger is also selling, though not at the rates of DP's.

Big news is this will be new blueprint weekend. I'm hoping to have cash tonight to go and buy the 25m of blueprints I have marked for profit making potential. I wish I could blog about what I'm buying, but think its sensible not to pass on my industry analysis, as I know someone else will just undercut and reduce the margin for me. On T1 goods the ability to spot a good selling, high profit line thats undersupplied is essential.

I'm about to start a new blog to cover Tales/Stories from EVE (ie fanfic), which I don't think are best placed here. Will post/link URL once the page is done. Submissions from other authors welcome. I aim to update this new blog weekly with a new Tale.