Please restock..

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I forgot how annoying it is when you don’t have the correct amount of materials in stock when manufacturing. A month ago I made sure that I had enough materials for my manufacturing runs for the next two months. That was before I decided to start doing it with an extra character.

So yesterday when I logged in on my alt account and wanted to create a few hundred T1 modules that I will later turn into T2, I was confused at the fact that I didn’t have enough materials.
This is why you should plan, and why you should have enough in stock. I have flown to Jita for different things, so many times, instead of just going there, buy everything I need, and then fly it back home.

I’m starting to learn though, yesterday I made sure that I have enough raw material to last.. Well I have no idea how long it will last. Despite me knowing that I shouldn’t, I still use my liquid ISK as a marker on how “space rich” I am. Which means that I don’t want to spend too much ISK on materials.

I did spend about 1b on fuel and 1b on materials. So I’m back down to 2b liquid ISK.

I’m kind of hoping that fuel will skyrocket with Rubicon and then I will sell a bit seeing that I’m going to start making my own. But we’ll see if that’s going to happen or not.

Boom!

I found a few screenshots with explosions in it… I think I will go run some missions, if my girlfriend doesn’t come over at least. 

Thinking of PI

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I own a few high sec factory planets. The reason why I have them is because I had gotten too lazy to update my low sec ones.

So one day I decided to pack up every planet in low sec and just put factory planets in my main system. It’s turning out pretty well, I make a slight profit by making the products, it’s not as big as the one I had in Low Sec but still, I don’t mind. It’s all about being lazy anyhow.

I now just buy the T1 mats in jita, or wherever it’s cheapest at the moment (I do this in bulk) and then I ship them over to my planets, converting them in T3, T4 stuff. Depending on what I feel like doing. It works pretty well and the times I make Robotics it spices up my little Robotics stock.

Having these planets made me think long and hard about Rubicon’s custom office change. And I still don’t know what I should do with it. My corporation isn’t that big, most of the time it’s just me and one other person that’s online. We do own a few accounts with the two of us and we both have a whole bunch of firepower at our command, but I doubt that we’ll be able to set up a few of our own POCOS.

I think I want to have a look and see what will turn out after Rubicon, will every office in our HQ’s space suddenly turn into POCOS, or will some of the interbus ones stay up. And if that happens, why?

Another thing that might stop me is the cost of a POCO, it’ll go up, that’s for sure, and despite the fact that theoretical taxes will pay it back within the month. There’s the off chance that you’ll be out of luck and get wardecced, meaning a termination of your POCO, among other things.

I guess we’ll just have to play the wait and see game.

Hmm, that reminds me, I have to fill up my planets for the week!
My little ‘Epithal’ I love you so much


o7

Mad Scientist

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I spend most of my time on my industrial character updating invention jobs. Most of them run for approximately one hour, so every hour or two I update them. It takes time, but it’s worth it. Too bad I’m starting a new job monday so I won’t be invention as much as I usually do. Good thing I still have a whole bunch of T2 Blueprints ready to manufacture.

If only I wasn’t so damn lazy, because I still haven’t gotten all of the materials to create most of them. I should do something about that, later.

I did look into ship building, I had a whole bunch of procurer bpcs lying around my hangar so I decided to invent a few.. With 1 out of 10 becoming a Skiff blueprint, I’m not sure if it’s going to be worth it to try and make more of them.. Maybe if I run out of the other copies.

I wanted to do some pvp in RvB today but unfortunately it meant me taking 24 jumps, and I’m in a pretty lazy mood today. Well almost every day, who wants to take 24 jumps, come on!

I might try harder tomorrow, we’ll see

Stay tuned o7

And this is what I do in GTA V looking at the view

Lost in Los Santos

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Haven’t done much ingame the past few days. I think we all know what to blame this on. That’s right, GTA V. I went to the midnight launch because, well why not.

Today I spent about 800m, 450 of that went to fuel blocks to pay for the POS, 3m went to Red Frog Freight because I’m too lazy myself to haul it. That and I sold my Obelisk because I thought it was too big and ugly, if I have time I might go for a Charon, they’re pretty.

All the rest went into materials for my T2 research and manufacturing, the one thing I do log in for.

I’ve updated my jobs, now I’m going back to Los Santos.

Stay tuned o7

Blog Banter #49 – What exactly does space rich mean

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This month’s Blog Banter asks a question that we all probably wonder from time to time.

What is “rich” in EVE? Is it simply having more ISK than most everyone else, is it measured in raw numbers of some other ethereal quality? Can you actually be poor? Have you ever lost nearly everything and had to claw your way back? If you are rich, how do you know and how did you get rich?

ISK makes the universe go round, ask anyone in Jita!

After seeing this month’s topic on Blog Banter I decided to join in on it. Seeing that I only started blogging about EVE a few days ago, this is my first try at it. So here goes.

I don’t know that many people in the game, but of those few I know there’s a few that think I’m “rich” and others of who I think that they’re rich. But what exactly does being rich define in EVE. To me personally, being rich in the game mean having enough assets or ISK to do whatever you want in your chosen in game occupation.
Whether you’re a pirate, an industrialist or a missioneer, as long as you have the things you need to keep having your fun, you’re rich.

I don’t see myself as rich, seeing that I gave myself a few goals to work towards, I’m getting there, albeit very slowly. But once I’m there I’ll probably get my ass handed to me and will lose most of what I’m going for. My own sense of rich will be when I can fit multiple Machariel’s and not have to worry about them every time I fly them into low/null sec. When I can just shrug it off and take the next one out.

As for being poor in EVE, I’m not sure if it’s even possible, even if you lose everything there are plenty of ways to get back on top again, it might take a while, but you’ll get there eventually. The only way I can see someone as poor would be if they’re not playing the game for enjoyment.

I once lost everything I owned, when I was still a poor little noob and I had no idea what I was doing. I can’t remember how but I had made a few hundred mill in my wallet. Having just joined a corporation that was running L4’s they asked me if I wanted to join, happy that I had new friends I said sure, what do you need me to do. Well they wanted me to fly an Abaddon, a ship and fit, that if I lost it I would lose every single ISK I had. But naive as I was, I figured I wouldn’t lose it.

Fast forward a bit, and I of course lost it, I got blown up by rats. That was a major set-back, and I think I hadn’t logged into the game for weeks after that happened. But I got back from it, it took me quite some time but I earned the ISK back and learned the most valuable lesson in the game “Never fly what you can’t afford to replace.”

Stay tuned! o7

Is it worth it?

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While updating my invention and manufacturing runs in my POS I was talking to a friend of mine who was helping me out with the understanding of invention when I first started doing it. He asked me if my POS is starting to turn out a profit yet and I had couldn’t help but wonder “Is it?”.

The one problem I seem to have while playing EVE is that I tend to forget to write down my expenses vs my profit. I have made spreadsheets in the past, and made a few this week, but those were easy ones, to state how much my inventory is etc etc. Nothing big yet to show the revenue of the POS.

So that’s my next goal, I need to start to figure out if the work and ISK I put in the POS is giving me a profit or a loss.

Running one is not cheap, I have a large Caldari tower so that means about 500m in fuel alone each month. Next to that I buy all my minerals in Jita, or near where I live, so I need to put that in the equation too. 

Coupled with how much ISK I spend on the invention and the actual BPC’s that come out. The only thing I know now, is that I have about a 40% chance of getting a T2 BPC out of the inventions, and that’s it.

I promised myself to start writing all of this down, now I just have to hold myself to that promise, that’s not going to be easy, I tend to get distracted easily while playing EVE. Channels, shiny ships, you name it, it distracts me. Next time, before I buy something or place a buy order, I’m going to write it down.
Same goes for selling, I guess I’ll know in a week or two if my POS is worth the upkeep.

Oh and in other news, I lost my Epithal last night. I was going from Jita back to base in it and remembered I had some PI mats in a low sec system. Thinking that nobody would be around at that time I went through the gate and started the warp. The moment I did a Prophecy popped up and insta-locked me and I got scrambled. Unable to escape my Epithal got blown up. That was a 50million ISK loss. Oh well, things like that can happen every time you undock.

Coming to a system near you!

Stay tuned! 

Industry pointers, do I even have them?

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While chatting with a few people in game I got asked for a few pointers when trying to make ISK as an industrial.
The first thing I thought was “Why ask me, I’m not even good at what I do”. But then I figured that as a newbie, someone who owns his own POS, has an invention line going and is actually able to manufacture a few hundred items a week is a bit better at what he does than the newbie.

How did I even get to this point myself? Well, that was easy, I had a bit of ISK to burn and decided to buy a bunch of invention stuff to see what I could do with it.

And I didn’t even make that ISK with industry so what good am I for pointers? The only thing I could tell him is to stop thinking of mining as free ore. Time is money in this game, I can earn more ISK by doing missions than by mining the ore.

I can then use that ISK to buy my own ore/minerals which means that doing the missions is more valuable to me than mining.
It’s great that there are people who enjoy mining, and I even trained my industry character as a miner. We need people to like mining, how else am I going to be able to buy my ore off the market?

One of the best things that ever happened to me while figuring out how to make more money was learning about Planetary Interaction, also known as PI. You update it once or twice a week, get the goods and cash in. There’s almost no work to it and if you have a few alts on your account who are trained in it you can easily make a few hundred million ISK extra per month. How’s that for a pointer?

I’m still trying to figure out how all of this works myself, and I’m happy to share my knowledge with someone who asks, but don’t expect the things to come out of my mouth to be understandable, half of the time I don’t even understand my own train of thought.

I bet you noticed that already while reading my blog. 

Fleet mining can be alot of fun

Industry, a start

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I’m bad when it comes to making ISK. A few weeks ago, when I started playing EvE again, a friend of mine decided to go back to null. 
In doing so he wanted to sell all of the things he had in High Sec, the ones from the corp (all 4 of us!) had priority when it came to things we could buy. And he was nice enough to give us 10% off the jita price (yay).

At that time I had about 7b in liquid ISK, so I bought a few things. Seeing that I wanted to start really producing things instead of just having the indy character being able to create things but not doing it. I bought all of his invention containers (which was about 1b in stuff), I bought his obelisk, his orca.

And last but not least, in order to do inventing myself. I bought the corporation we were in, seeing that we had a Large POS and he was going to break it down. (The pos was something we had set up back in January but he was the only one that used it.)

After all of that I had about 2b left, and I was ready to start my carreer as an inventor. I only had one slight problem, I had no idea how it worked and turns out that I didn’t have the skills for it. But that didn’t stop me and I quickly skilled up to 3 on a few of them and started my invention runs.

So here I am, a month later, having spent most of my cash and I made about 400m in return, I guess it’s a pretty good investment seeing that I’m already making money from it, but I’m not that good with all the numbers, and there are times when most of the factories are just standing there, doing nothing.

As of this writing I only have 1 manufacturing job going, mostly because I was too lazy to go to Jita to get more Morphite.

Yeah, I’m a lazy carebear…