Launcher issues, let’s play with the skill plan a bit
It’s Sunday evening, I just got home from a little 3 day trip with my girlfriend, and before that there was a business trip.
I want to log in, and notice that my launcher doesn’t work. Well, damn… Right when I’m busy trying to get into a Low Sec corporation.
What does one do when he’s unable to log onto EvE? Work on his skill list of course.
I’ve been working on a ton of different EvEmon plans, and I have, up to this day. Not once followed them.
For some reason I, like many others, always seem to decide on another thing instead of following the skill plan I laid out for myself.
I wonder why that is…
Stay tuned o7
World Cup and EvE-Betting
As most of you know, the World cup started last week. Those of you who have no idea what it is and are blissfully unaware because their country doesn’t really participate in the whole soccer thing: Good for you!
I live in a country that was able to qualify itself, which is a good thing because we’ve been waiting on this for for a few years. Or so I’ve been told since I don’t really follow it myself. But it’s easy to get sucked into the whole atmosphere concerning the World Cup.
Which is why I’ve been actually following it quite closely the last couple of days. Saw a few awesome matches and a few that were disappointing.
What does this have to do with EvE you ask? Well, due to a friend of mine betting on soccer, I figured I could try this too, but not with my hard earned euros, but with ISK.
The fun thing about EvE is the fact that almost everything is permitted, even using your ISK to bet on out of game sports. Some people even make a nice amount of ISK on this, so I figured, why not try this out and see what happens.
I haven’t been using my ISK for anything other than the whole Prospect building “fiasco” so it’s time to make a few dumb arrangments and use it on something silly like gambling.
I’ve put 60m ISK on a few matches and nearly tripled that, so I’m kind of giddy with excitement that I actually made the correct bets. But we all know that I’ll lose it all in a while. But that’s no big deal, 60m isk is easily made in an hour or less.
Next to the betting I’ve been browsing the forum and talking to friends to see what I want to do in the game. I made an alt that I’m currently training into stealth bombers only, since I like flying them. And I’m training my main in the use of interdictors.
I’m not sure yet where I want to go with him but hopefully I’ll figure this out one of these days. Low sec is waiting for me and a friend is trying to get me to come into the wormhole.
Might just take him up on that, although I really, really need to practice my scanning if I do..
Plans are made to go down the drain
Prospecting and going out of my way to get killed
Today marks the launch of a new release for EvE. New things happening, industry wise and others that I don’t really know much about.
Why’s that? Because I only cared about one thing, a new thing to invent. Namely the prospect. In a few hours when the patch goes live we will be able to invent a new T2 frigate from Ventures. I have prepared accordingly and have about 100 Venture BPC’s ready to put in my laboratories when I get home from work this evening. Hopefully I’ll be able to create a whole bunch of Prospects by the end of this week and sell them for a nice profit.
Because that’s what this is about, profit for me. I don’t use the Venture myself and am not planning on using it any time soon. Unless I suddenly feel like going out to get some gas in a wormhole.
Speaking of wormholes, let’s talk about my lack of doing anything that might destroy one of my ships.
Last night I was browsing Reddit like I usually do when I should be asleep and saw an image linked that was rather fitting to what I don’t do.
I would link it here but I forgot to give it an upvote and I can’t seem to find it again. It basically said something along the lines of “What use is having a ship if you don’t take it out for a spin”. Although I do take it for a spin, I never seem to leave station anymore.
So I need a reason to go out and get killed. I need to stop being a ‘pussy’ and go out to low sec in a frigate to get killed a few dozen times. Or do some killing myself but, let’s face it. I’m a noob, so I’ll more than likely lose ships instead of making others lose theirs.
Unfortunately that means actually taking the time to go out. And that might take a while before I can do this. Maybe I should try out a low sec corp, have people to talk to. People that give me a reason to log in on my combat alt, instead of me just logging in on my Indy alt to update a few queues and stuff on my POS.
Plus the fact that I was gifted a key to Wildstar in order to check it out isn’t helping either. I’m AFE (away from eve) too much for my characters good.
Let’s try and change it shall we?
Stay tuned o7
Humble Bundle unite!
There’s a reason why I love the Humble Bundles. Not only does it allow me to buy games I like for next to nothing. It also allows me to choose how much of the amount I want to go to charity, thus making me feel like I’m not spending all of my money just on games.
Yesterday there was a Daily Humble Bundle containing the EvE Online Starter Pack. Despite me having multiple accounts already and having a few on hold, I bought one.
I can’t pass up on deals like that and for little over 3 bucks I got myself a nice starter pack and a skin. If I had paid a bit over 20 I could have gotten a PLEX from it too but I’m not a big fan of paying for my Plexes with cash. I’d rather use ISK for that.
Now that I have another key, to create yet another account, I just need to decide what I want to use it for. I can train something, I can do something.. But what.
Maybe I should finally do roams in Low with a low SP alt. That could get me some fun, right?
What do you think?
Plans and Decisions
Making it work
Well, that’s it for me, I not longer have any T2 BPC’s to manufacture.
One of my biggest problems due to lack of time in EvE is that my T2 manufacturing is taking hits from it too. I’m making a profit, but my profit isn’t big enough, I made about 500m after expenses in April. That’s not nearly enough to make me happy.
And unfortunately I don’t see it changing in the near future.
I need to find some new way to make ISK. Something that’s easy and doesn’t take too much time…
The answer to that is Trading. But I don’t feel like trying it again. Despite the fact that if you’re good at it, you don’t have to spend too much time a day doing it (ten minutes or so). But that’s if you’re good at it, and I wasn’t. I made a profit, but I made it slowly, it took me about 2 months to make 1b out of 100m and another month to turn that 1b into 2b.
Those numbers aren’t bad, to the contrary even. But I spent way too much time to get there. Instead of spending a few minutes, I spent a few hours a day updating orders, checking what to buy, what to sell. And I relocated four or five times in that timeframe. It wasn’t the fun I envisioned it should have been.
But maybe I’ll try again, I have 600m on my trader that I’m not using and 14b on my industrialist. Guess I should make the ISK work.
Stay tuned o7
Another milestone with PLEX
I smell something burning
But at least I can still do my invention, so that’s something. I was running out of T2 bpc’s anyhow…