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Graviton Physics – The bane of my existence

stargrace November 22, 2015 0Comment

[31/50] Doing L1 distribution missions in my Tengu – why? Because I can. Well actually it’s more like because I have to. See, I recently returned to EVE Online and wanted to check in with my R&D agents – except one of my agents now suddenly hates me and won’t talk to me, even though I’m pretty sure we parted on OK terms last time I was playing. I’m not quite sure what happened, maybe I left a faction quest incomplete, or maybe I worked a quest for an opposing faction that lowered this one. In any case, my R&D agent is insisting that I run lower level missions and earn back her trust.

Low level missions are not much of a challenge for me these days, but everyone has to start some where, and hey I needed a refresher course in pretty much everything anyway.

[32/50] I did also manage to cut down some of the crap that I had floating around at various stations. I even made a little notebook dedicated to EVE Online stuff and marked down which stations were service what purpose (ie: home storage, invention, etc). Nothing fancy, but I do love organizing.

[33/50] I put a blueprint original in to copy, and was a bit surprised at how quickly it completed. In the past there were days when I would have to wait almost a month for a copy to complete, but now it was just a matter of hours. I also put in a few manufacturing runs, creating more drones and then T2 drones from those runs. Eventually I’ll need to make a run to Jita to sell everything I’ve been collecting, but it’s quite a jump from where I’m set up, so I’ll wait until I have a good amount before setting out.

[34/50] I haven’t started back into Planetary Interaction yet, but everything should be set up so that all I need to do is go collect my storage items and set the factories running again (I know they’re not actually called factories, but that’s what I consider them to be). I had thought of starting up some new PI from scratch, as my setups are quite old and are probably not optimal any more, but on the other hand, why re-do it when they already work. Components from my PI setup used to sell for a pretty nice amount in the past, but I have no idea if that’s still the case. I suppose I’ll see when I haul it all to Jita.

[35/50] The changes to the skill queue system are not that new any more, but it still surprises me to see when I have 139 days worth of skills queued up. Right now I’m working on shield emission systems, mostly because of the reduced capacitor need for shield emission system modules. I have a bunch of ‘reduce capacitor need’ skills in the queue right now, my Tengu fit isn’t stable – though it doesn’t need to be because I rarely have everything active at once, still the longer I can keep it running, the better. Once I’m done with those skills (is anyone ever really ‘done’) I’ll go back to my production / mining skills, and toss a few more drone skills in there just because.

For me, EVE is a very calm game. I know that isn’t always the case, especially with so much PVP built into it – but as a PVE player, I adore it. You just have to remember not to get too attached to your thinks.

Collecting Datacores (Again)

stargrace November 10, 2015 0Comment

[18/50] Next thing I wanted to do was head out to all my R&D agents and pick up my datacores. I’m not sure if faction decreases over time, but for some reason one of my R&D agents now hates me, and I can’t interact with them to spend my RP (I’m at -2.9 standing, did I maybe decline a mission unknowingly? This is a possibility). I’ll have to figure out a way to fix that before too long. I tried to get my agents all in the same area, but of course it doesn’t always work out that way. The R&D agent I’ve apparently lost faction with is my graviton physics datacore supplier, which I use quite frequently in my line of crafting, so I’m a bit miffed at whatever happened.

I ran around to the agents I was able to visit, picked up my cores, and hauled them all over to my crafting area. Since I didn’t have the datacores that I wanted, I decided to start 1 copying job, and 4 manufacturing jobs (10 runs each job) in the meantime while I figure out what I want to do about the R&D situation.

I also decided I should clean out the bits that I have spread all over the universe. I looked at where my assets were at, and labeled what each location was for (as in what the purpose was of me even being there). One location I consider “home”, another I use as my base for missions, and a third for my crafting location. The other areas are just junk that I’ve got strewn about, like my smallest ships located in Jita for whatever reason. I’ve also got a PLEX stored up that I’m contemplating using, either to sign my second account up for a little while to use for mining, or to sell off for a bit more ISK. I don’t really need ISK especially if I get back into production and PI but it does come in handy.

I still don’t feel like I’ve remembered everything I need to (yet) or feel that I’m particularly settled. There’s still a lot of changes that I don’t know about and that I’m sure I’ll stumble into. With that being said, it is sure nice to be playing again.

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