May 2024

Deciding what to Train

stargrace May 13, 2024 No Comments

Right now I have three active accounts, but I want to downgrade to just two active, eventually. I’m trying to figure out where I want my points to go, who I want doing certain things, and all of that good stuff. I did set up two PI alts (along with my ‘main’) but they still need to get their planets set up. It’s a long process, and while I know once it’s set up, it’s good, I still need to find the energy to get it started.

There’s never a lack of things to train towards, and it all takes time. I’m trying to be patient, but that’s not exactly my strong suite. That’s why you bring in alts, so they can specialize in things. It’s fine to have one character and try to ‘do it all’ too, but it’s not very optimal.

I have characters who are specializing in market, others who are doing PI, and another doing industry type things. Then of course there’s the ships and deciding which one to focus on. I haven’t had much time for exploration lately, but I hope to fill the week with it. We’ll see!

Fly your way. o7

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RNG? We’ve got LOTS of That!

stargrace May 12, 2024 No Comments

Exploration is one of my favourite things in EVE – it’s not the only thing I enjoy, but it makes up a huge portion. Hacking & data sites are a part of that, and some days I have a big payoff (like the one above, it took me maybe 20 minutes) and other days it’s much quieter. I think that’s one of the reasons I like it – I never quite know what I’m going to be in store for. Yesterday was one of the best ISK runs I had done – in less than an hour I had looted over 180M ISK worth of items, all from a single C2 WH that I stumbled into – YAY!

After I travelled to a few more wormholes, but they were pretty busy so after scanning down the signatures I moved on. I come across all sorts of people, some are just doing anomalies, some are harvesting, others are looking for a fight. I like that there are very different methods of gameplay available to everyone.

I’ve stopped trying to chase the meta when it comes to the Capsuleer Day event – it’s just not fun. I did get a few prizes from it at least, but unless you’re buying the materials and a lot of time to work up the ranks, I just find it to be too much work vs. time vs. fun. The daily log in bonuses have been nice at least.

As always, fly your way! o7

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Suitcase Challenge Day 5: Let’s Eat Pi

stargrace May 11, 2024 No Comments

Today I learned you can set up PI while cloaked in an Epithal – interesting! I’ll probably upgrade this to a blockade runner down the road, but for now I think it should work for what I’m doing. I set up four production planets, a factory planet, and a spare one for resources. I do have two other alts who are trained in PI that I might haul out here, but they’d also need to add cloaking to their list of skills, and that one takes a bit of time. Or, I could just be brave and attempt this mission uncloaked! Which sort of seems like it would be a death sentence. I’m hoping to collect PI each day, and run it through to highsec once a week. It will of course depend on where the HS entrance is and what’s going on, and all that good stuff.

For anyone else who is attempting to set up PI in a WH that they don’t ‘own’ I have one bit of advice – check out the POCO first to see if you have access. There’s tons of these around but access is either limited, restricted, or 100% taxes. A lot are from abandoned corporations that are no longer active, too. You CAN blow up someone else’ POCO, but it takes forever, or you hire someone and that’s not cheap. Then you need to install your own POCO which is a whole other adventure. You CAN also technically jettison your items into space – but that has a few issues, number one, the amount of items you can send off at a time is limited. Number two, there is a 10% tax on this for every can you jettison. Keep in mind that you could also have your access removed. It might not be a bad idea to contact the owners and see if they can give you access although that might also just give you away.

Trying to find content isn’t difficult, but prioritizing the content and trying to figure out exactly what I want to do and when I can do it, that is the challenge so far. I’ve seen a few people pop into the system, but they didn’t stick around to chatter. Ah well!

Fly your way! o7

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Suitcase Challenge Day 4: Settling In

stargrace May 10, 2024 1 Comment

It took just over an hour of jumps (before and after downtime) but I finally made it, my Orca made it to the wormhole. Probably one of the more terrifying things I’ve done, to be honest. I had my scout on the inside watching for the hour to make sure no one entered (and checking d-scan, there’s a C4 connection right now, so someone could come in from there) and I warped to the wormhole and then cloaked with the Orca to approach it and keep an eye from outside to see if anyone was scanning the system or if anyone was on grid. When I hit 2,000km away my cloak dropped and I jumped into the WH. I immediately warped (well, ‘immediately’ is not a thing with the Orca, it takes me 38 seconds to initiate warp) to the safe I have set up, and cloaked. Shew. Safe (as safe as one ever is). I logged the Orca out, for now. I don’t plan on ever logging her in unless I’ve confirmed the WH is ’empty’ (as much as I can), and I’ll log in a scout character first to take care of that. Immediately after logging in, I’ll cloak. Since the Orca isn’t going anywhere for 90 days (or more) I think this should be OK. I don’t ‘need’ the Orca unless I want to swap out ships or drop something off. I do plan on day tripping to HS to drop off goods / sales.

Next up? I’m going to wait for the current HS entrance to expire, and then figure out where it opens to next. If it’s quiet enough, I’ll bring in my ‘main’ character who will be doing all of the things. I’d like to get PI set up as my first real adventure. I just need to place the command centers, the rest can be done remotely from within the system (I’ll warp off to a safe and cloak once I place the command center). I haven’t decided what I’m crafting yet, I did bring the command centers for the planets available, and I’ll have to work within that. There are already POCO set up here with 2% tax, and I’m comfortable with that.

For now, it just feels good to be getting set up.

Fly your way! o7

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Learning how to create a ‘Perch’

stargrace May 9, 2024 No Comments

I love doing data / relic sites, but it’s very annoying (ie: slow) to move from can to can – thankfully, someone much smarter than I am created a method called a ‘perch’ – and it’s simple to do. I’ve been putting it into practice for a while now. I don’t tend to use it much in highsec because there’s so much competition, but I use it every time in wormholes.

The method is simple, at 150km from something you can warp – so you warp to the data / relic site at 100km, and then fly out until all of the cans on your overview are at least 150km away. Create a bookmark here. Now you can bounce between your perch, and your cans. It’s MUCH faster than flying from can to can, and mush safer. If someone shows up on grid, you have more time to escape – especially if you’re at the perch when they show up.

I HIGHLY suggest trying this method out if you’ve never used it before. Let me know how it works out for you!

Fly your way. o7

Deciding what to Train

RNG? We’ve got LOTS of That!

Suitcase Challenge Day 5: Let’s Eat Pi

Suitcase Challenge Day 4: Settling In

Learning how to create a ‘Perch’

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