EVE

The Search For Hrada-Oki Bivouac 

stargrace November 18, 2024 No Comments

News came through a few days ago about a new wormhole site that acts as a deathless exchange outside of Zarzakh – and someone on reddit claims they found it (and are of course selling it to the highest bidder, unless it moves).

Signal Cartel excitedly posted about it, and of course I wanted to start searching and see if I could find it. Speculation is that it has a red giant star in system but if the site moves, who knows. 2 days later there was no follow up on reddit about whether or not the site had moved on.

I’m still living in a Wormlife Freeport, doing PI daily and hauling with another account once a week, so I headed out to see what was around. One jump from the freeport I found a C1 shattered system, already picked through but a good selection of other wormholes were there. I jumped into a C2 (C1 and HS static) but there was nothing of interest and a few fights had happened recently, so I backtracked and I found one that lead to a ‘dangerous place’ (that means C4-C6) and figured why not give it a peek – turns out it was another shattered system, this time a C4, with a C3 and C4 static. A little imicus showed up and was bouncing around for a while too, so I left one of the data sites up and wandered back home (it was about time for RL dinner anyway). I’ve never found a shattered that lead to another shattered before, so I thought that was pretty unique.

I doubt it will be easy to ‘stumble’ into this new wormhole site, but I like the idea of it. There’s a lot of lore behind the deathless, and I found a few more eve-centric discords to join so I can get more familiar with it. I also plan on running some Signal Cartel TripTik’s in the future, and I’m pretty excited about that.

As always, fly your way! o7

Personal EVE Economic Update (October)

stargrace November 6, 2024 No Comments

I know this post is coming a bit late, but I took a tumble down some stairs (no, really, I did) so typing has been awkward and sitting at my chair incredibly painful. Hopefully things can get back to normal, whatever that is.

October was fantastic as far as making ISK in EVE Online goes. I settled into a pattern with my three active accounts, and expanded my PI process so now 8/9 characters are currently doing some form of industry. You’ll also see I made some pretty big purchases on October 30th, which I will talk about at a later date. I’m trying to space everything out a little bit so it’s not immediately blown up. My monthly earned was higher than I’ve ever had in the past, at just over 7 billion ISK. I also bought a bunch of new ships and did some hefty spending. Most of my income these days is coming from day trading. I’m still producing consumables, mining, ratting (though only a little bit) and I have also started getting into reactions.

Reactions are annoying. Well, to start with, at least. There’s no real good updated guides because that would almost be giving away trade secrets, which no one apparently wants to do. I keep hearing “reactions can make you billions of ISK, but it also costs billions of ISK to get into it” and I had no idea what they meant or what they were talking about. So I started looking into how they worked, and picked a few smaller ones to get started with. I’m still in the initial stages, so we’ll just have to see ‘how’ profitable it is.

The halloween event has ended, and I’ve got to say, I was very disappointed with it overall.

I felt like I spent most of my time hunting down sites and trying to find the right ones that I needed, which of course were never the ones I found – but I did both types any way because there was a chance at some neat loot from them. I did get quite a large collection of ship skins, instead of selling any of them I decided to keep them all for myself, and later on down the road maybe I’ll sell the extras.

This event was very difficult. The hacking was tough even with max skills, the combat sites were things I couldn’t even attempt. I’ve been a bit disillusioned with CCP lately, and this event did absolutely nothing to change my mind on that. There is another “expansion” planned for a few weeks from now, but once again I think very little of it will pertain to me or make a difference in the grand scheme of things.

I guess we’ll see.

Fly your way! o7

Expensive Month (preparing for fun)

stargrace October 23, 2024 No Comments

I’ve mentioned before that I was curious about putting my own structure up in space, and so this month I have been preparing to do exactly that. I also invested in some ISK to get some proper hauling ships. I bought a viator & an occator (and fit them appropriately) and then practiced doing the MWD & cloak trick that I had heard about many times but had never actually executed. Turns out, it’s pretty simple, but there is some muscle memory involved so I flew around highsec with my empty occator just practicing (I keep forgetting to align and use bookmarks to dock, instead of warping straight to the station, which is bad, because you can end up outside of the docking area). I also set up a second highsec corporation, because once I have a structure down I’m open to wardec, and I wanted someone who can still do my PI hauling and act as a market character. Another reason is simply because I enjoy doing the 50lp dailies and wanted to be able to complete them. As far as I’m aware, there’s no easy way to do this from inside a WH.

As much as I’ve played EVE, I have zero experience with structures and I’m learning a lot. For example, I need to set up an ‘ACL’ which is ‘access control list’ so that I can allow / disallow people to do things like dock. This is how structures like the wormlife freeport operate, and something I hadn’t even considered. Somehow I forgot that structures are going to require fuel, though I am less concerned about that. I can either attempt to produce my own, or buy some and haul it in, a few months in advance.

I’ve been keeping an eye on the system I plan on using, and it has been quiet – but not silent. Some people come and go, and am pretty confident now that no one is actively living there. I will be setting up a POS to start with – I want to get the hang of things, and then from there I’ll expand and upgrade. It takes much less time to set up a POS than say, an athanor. It was an expensive week, but I feel confident in my spending and honestly the viator and the occator were both ships I had plans of purchasing eventually, anyway. The next ship I’m hoping to pick up is the Deluge. I have been flying a squall, but I think the upgraded version is quite beefy.

As always, fly your way! o7