It’s a hot first of July here in Europe, so what better way to spend it by being behind my computer while the Airconditioning Unit is trying it’s best to keep the temperature in the office at an ok level.

The past few weeks have not been very busy on the EVE front, partly because I’ve been busy with IRL stuff.

But most things are done until around September so I can concentrate on gaming, and blogging once again.

But that does not mean that the EVE life was at a standstill, not at all.

Our little wormhole corporation is growing, we have a lot of new blood that have joined us over the past week and a half. Expanding both our member base and time zone presence. Which is quite nice, but it does bring in some logistic challenges.  

A truth that is universally acknowledged is the fact that in general, people are lazy.
This is also true for those of us that play EVE Online. We want ease of access, we want things to be there for us to grab when we need them. Meaning, that someone needs to make sure that there is an actual supply of things.

In the case of wormhole corporations that’s usually the officers doing it, or someone that wants to make a little bit of extra ISK by providing ships on contract for a little markup and doesn’t mind hauling from time to time.
Unfortunately, due to the fact that we don’t have hundreds of members, that means as officers, it’s us doing it.

Which means that we’re risking corp ISK when we inevitably get ganked. Which obviously happened to me not too long ago.

Providing doctrine ships at a reasonable price, making sure that SRP can be done when fleets get a bit too dangerous etc etc. All on our little list of things we have to think of. Couple that with the fact that you’re also looked at as a content provider, you definitely know what you need to do.

Despite all of these things that seem like a hassle, I wouldn’t trade it for anything. I did my nullsec stints, I lived in highsec for ages when I first started the game, I tried lowsec and didn’t understand what was going on.

Nothing compares to wormholes and the camaraderie you get, knowing that if someone comes to kick your sandcastle, you’ll lose everything in it.

With the new guys coming in to complement us old guys, I’m curious to what the next few weeks will bring.

We all know that EVE tends to get a “summer break” as well, but I truly hope that with how many new people, we won’t feel it as much.

I wouldn’t know what else to do to keep myself entertained

Stay tuned o7

I promised that I would update more and I just realised it’s been almost two months. My apologies, I have been in the middle of a move and stuff so real life has been busy. But that does not mean I was sat still in EVE! Au contraire!

436 million ISK, that’s the profit I am supposedly making per item I am currently manufacturing. Well, I see I, it is in fact a little co-operative between myself and a buddy of mine.

It started as a small part of the nullsec adventure and has since evolved into the only part of said adventure.

I have taken all my combat characters back to wormhole space and am just doing industry things in nullsec.

It’s quite fun though, despite the fact that I should probably get the logistics done better. Especially when it comes to sourcing materials.

Right now what I do is buying things from Jita at buy prices, have them moved a to a highsec right next to a low, and then from there I use my jump freighters to get it to null. Luckily, all of that is just using one cyno.

I make the parts in Null, jump them to lowsec, go to highsec, and start the end product in high. This mostly because the end product is a bit too expensive and big to move on my own. Once it’s been made, I use public contracts to move it to Jita and sell it there. At a profit of roughly 400 million ISK per.

I’m sure it’s a bit less if I were to take into account my fuel cost, but for the sake of my own sanity, I can’t be bothered figuring the exact number out.

The current goal in this little endeavour is to get it to the point where I’d be making roughly 20b pure profit a month purely from this.

I’m currently closing in on that, having around 35 printing right now and in another week or so I’ll be setting 10 more up.

Theoretically if I get my whole manufacturing process in order, as well as logistics. It would mean that each time a bunch of product is finished, I can set up the next one. Without having to stop and wait.

The fun thing in all this is that despite the fact that the past few months have been a bit slower, I’m actually making quite a nice profit on my initial investment.

I have been tracking my wealth for years, but I’m getting extremely close to my first 500b

This is obviously peanuts in comparison to what other people have like Croda or Oz or a lot of other people, but, seeing that I never really took it all THAT serious, it’s nice to see that in the past year or two I have quadrupled my net worth.

As for the wormhole side of my endeavours, we’re still recruiting!

We need to drop a Fortizar at some point, and we have.. it was just shot up before it was ready, but that’s all fine. We’re taking things easy, and I’m learning how to nano (albeit slowly)

Stay tuned o7

I’m currently still producing in null sec, but I’ve had a few issues with the new material costs, my calculations were a bit off so my shopping sheet was also a bit… Wrong

But this has been fixed, at least I think so. We will see, I have just put up around 20 bill in buy orders in Jita and we’ll see if everything works out the way it should.

Wars are annoying me though, it means I have to move through a few extra hoops to get things where they need to go, but it’s not the end of the world, it’s just part of the process.

As for the wormhole, I’m quite enjoying C4 space. We’re taking it easy, get content where we can find it and just do our thing. There’s zero pressure to log on, people just come online and shoot stuff, it’s relaxing.

The other day I did some ratting in C4 space to help a corp member out. We ended up doing 20 sites, 25 even, he had already done 5 before I joined.

I have done enough ratting for the next 365 days I think. I have never really enjoyed it. Not that it’s bad isk wise, I just have different ways of making it. And ratting will always be at the bottom of my list of how to make it.

I don’t have much to say right now, it’s been a busy few weeks IRL but there are more things to come

Stay tuned