Gaming – Nomadic Gamer

Good ISK – Tough Event

stargrace May 5, 2024 0 Comments

The Capsuleer event is running for the entire month of May, and so far I’m not finding it terribly exciting. Anyone else? I’ve been sticking to the exploration path because that’s what I enjoy doing, and the cans never reward that much. When I was doing the combat sites they at least rewarded me with skins and other goodies. I managed to work my way up to the 3rd level of relic site before deciding that it simply wasn’t worth it, and deciding to sell off all of the spare materials I had collected. Jita might be over flowing, but I managed to sell everything I had to some whales in another system, for well above baseline prices – and I couldn’t be happier.

I’ve been back in game for almost two full months, and I’ve been having a great time refreshing my knowledge as well as learning a bunch of new stuff. Turns out I never really knew much about the game – and that’s alright. I feel like these days I have a MUCH better grasp on things, which is probably why I’m enjoying myself so much, too.

I’ve been thinking about what it would be like to live in a wormhole. I recently stumbled into a quiet C2 with C4/H connections. I’ve heard about people living out of their ships, but I’m not sure if that’s the route I want to go. I did some reading, and I realize that setting up some sort of POS could be fun – but also could turn into a job, and requires a lot of dedication if you’re just one person. That leaves me with perhaps finding a WH corp to join, but I’d want it to be industry / mining / PvE heavy, I simply don’t have the blood lust required for PvP and I do not enjoy it.

For now, I’ll continue to think on it and try to figure out what it is I want to be doing.

Fly your way! o7

EVE Gaming

A Night Exploring

stargrace May 4, 2024 0 Comments

I wanted to try to make a little progress with the capsuleer event that’s going on right now – but I have to say, it is quite a slog. Basically, you collect what I’ll call T1 materials from sites, and then use those component to craft T2 filaments. Then you run the T2 sites, and collect materials to craft T3 filaments. See where this is going?

I decided to make use of some of my own filaments, the Noise-5 Needlejack ones. These drop you into nullsec, randomly. They’re supposed to drop you into ‘quiet’ areas, but things happen – like I was dropped into a 20+ Pandemic Horde alliance fleet. Whewps. There’s a 15 minute timer before you can use another filament, and in the meantime I was basically a sitting (cloaked) duck. I didn’t want to take a gate anywhere and risk getting caught (I’m in a corporation of one, and that never looks good) so I just stayed cloaked and eventually they moved off. When they did, I scanned down the sites in the system, looking for a wormhole to jump into. Didn’t find one, so I ran the relic / data sites that I found, and when I saw people poking in again I used another needlejack and jumped out. The next jump sucked. There were no signatures, and 5 people in system just hanging out. I decided to wait out the timer one more time, and the filament put me relatively close to ‘home’. Only 3 nullsec jumps out (and a single low sec).

I was in my speedy Helios, which is fit for this type of exploration and is not an expensive ship by any means. My only goal was exploration, and while it did take a fair bit of time, I think I did alright.

I have enough materials to craft one more ruined filament, and I have most of the supplies for a single devastated electrical filament. I know you can just purchase everything off of the auction house and work at it that way – and I know that I’m neglecting the entire combat side of things, but that’s how I like playing. I doubt VERY much I will get anywhere near the 5,000+ points required for the final items, but at least I’m making a little progress.

Fly your way! o7

Gaming

Stratios: Doing the Math

stargrace May 3, 2024 0 Comments

It was time to do the math on the Stratios, and see where I would end up.

I paid:

10m ISK for the BPC (thank you hypernet)
260m ISK for the materials (I had already collected a bunch of them, but this is what their value is set at)
990,075 ISK for the industry

Total: 270,990,075 ISK

If I were to purchase the ship in Jita today, it would cost me 314,700,000 ISK (this gets more expensive as you get away from Jita, which is not my preferred area to sell in, I tend to avoid Jita at all costs) so I saved myself some ISK by crafting it myself. This isn’t always the case, so it’s important to make sure you’re doing the math and figuring things out.

I’m very excited!

As always, fly your way! o7

Gaming

Earning LP for SOE

stargrace May 2, 2024 0 Comments

The ‘easy’ way for me to buy a Stratios would be to just use ISK and buy it off of the market – but what fun is that! Having goals (large and small) in EVE Online is essential to game play. My goal, is to earn enough LP to purchase the BPC and then to craft the ship myself.

SOE sells the BPC for 120,000 LP (and 30,000,000 ISK). Because my game time is limited, and I don’t want to burn out by running missions (they’re not the most exciting things in game to do) I’m going to aim at earning around 5,000 LP a day. That will mean it takes me approximately 24 days to earn enough LP to afford the BPC. Give or take. Right now I CAN work with L4 agents, but I don’t think my Tengu is the ship of choice I want to use for that – so I’m sticking to L3 agents. If I can find a reliable L4 mission runner that I can actually fly, I will probably swap over. Getting into different combat ships has been difficult for me, I’m so used to flying just a tiny handful and doing pretty specific things. I think I’d like a little reprieve from the ammo heavy missiles I’m used to, and I might even head towards some sort of drone ship. Maybe an Ishtar? Rattlesnake? Marauder? There’s just so many suggestions out there. I’ve already got skills in drones from previous years I played, but I have no clue when it comes to deciding what to fly. It doesn’t help that EVE is so old that a lot of the posts that show up when I do a google search are from 14+ years ago, heh. I’ve taken to adding the year at the end of my searches so I can try to find something a bit more updated.

Speaking of updates! April 30th marks the beginning of Capsuleer Day, and it will be my first time ever participating! I’m excited. Expect future posts!

Fly your way.. o7

EVE Gaming

GMs still Exist!

stargrace May 1, 2024 0 Comments

** Before I start this post, I do want to say that I know I pretended to be new when I wasn’t, and that isn’t the greatest behaviour, but I *was* on a new account, and I thought it was neat that they reached out **

I have 3 EVE accounts. One account has my ‘main’, and is in a corporation of just me right now. I did try out Catskull Cartel but it wasn’t for me. That’s OK, not every corporation is going to be a forever home. I have a second account, far less skills, this account has my Signal Cartel (love this corporation, can’t say enough good things about them) character on it and two PI alts. The account has been around since 2009 or so, but I barely ever kept up with it.

Then I have a 3rd account, this one is brand new, and is linked through steam. I created a character on the account in the hopes of doing something completely different from the norm (for me, at least), and I wanted to get some blog posts in about starting a fresh account and doing the AIR Career path along with whatever happened next. I also wanted to see what was available as an alpha, and test out content without having the omega skills. I see lots of YT videos following this path, and I find it interesting.

While I was finishing up the AIR Career path a GM Maverick reached out to me, and asked how I was enjoying EVE. They said they saw I was a new player (the account is 41 days old, alpha). I didn’t mention that it was just an alt account, instead I went forward as though I was a new player. I explained what I thought about the introductory quests, and they offered some advice on what I should do next, and where I should go. The interaction was wholesome and I loved it, especially in an age where very few MMORPG have these sorts of interactions any more.

They gave me a few beginner friendly ships (the same ones the AIR Career will provide) and a Gallente welcome package, which was neat.

In fact, the more I play EVE, the more I fall in love with parts of the culture – and that’s not to say there isn’t also a lot I dislike about the culture (it can be pretty rough) but surrounding myself with positive influences has been key. Anyway, I hope GM Maverick knows that their interactions made a difference and were greatly appreciated.

Fly your way. o7

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