Be Excellent To Each Other

Also, lovely memory and intelligence there Dr, that'll put you in good stead for all future skill learning. What's your learning skillrate/hour? I'm currently at 1361, fwiw.

That was the plan, yes. I'm getting 1248 sp/hr. I need those learning skills.

I wished I'd realised before setting up my profile. I normalised all of my attributes to the same number using my 5 optional points at the start. so I started off with everything on 7.

You are all bastards. I really, really miss it now.

I should resubscribe...

Yeah, I reckon you should.

GAH in the middle of 0.0sec with a transporter stuffed with Khumaak's when the server went down!

You'd better get your arse back online at 1pm.

Meanwhile I've just had the most exciting 45 minutes of my EVE life so far. An eve radio DJ was a running a competition. The first one to find and buff his ship won 60 million isk.

He gave out clues to his location, first the region, then the constellation, then the system. I managed to crack the clues and warp 8 jumps to the right system, which unfortunately is massive. With no further clues I warped to every station, and then to every asteroid field, and then started on the planets (of which there were 10), and then moons (of which there were shitloads), but I didn't make it in time, lost out by about 5 minutes. Gah!

When I did eventually find the fucker I buffed his ship good, damnit.

Anyway, back to work. Cursed radio.

You bet. I could tell you how much this cargo's worth, but you'd probably cry.

Tell me where you are and I'll come and find you for support, as long as you agree to replace my cheapass ship if it gets destroyed.

About ninety jumps from the Rens system.

Could take a short amount of time, but I'll come if it'll help

I'll be nearly back before you arrive. It's not too busy atm, so I'll be okay.

I might try the trial of this... the week after next (when I'm working lates, as I'll have hours after 11pm to waste puttering around in a shit ship.)

In! Sell! Buy! Out! Set destination! 139 jumps to go!

I'm fucking determined to have my BS set up and ready to pwn that mish before it expires at 11pm.

Think of poor Kate!

What? No one? No one's going to do anything with this?

By doing so, I am. When I work lates I don't have to be in work until 2pm, hence I can stay up really late... while she has to go to bed at about 11. So, by not playing this until those two weeks of lates, she won't be deprived of me due to my playing it as I'll just wait until she goes to bed.

What of poor Ange? Are you going to buy a job lot of wine boxes, and when she bursts into your little hideyhole...

INT - Night. Myoptika's little games/guitar/GTA maps room.

ANGE bursts in the door, raging.

ANGE: MATT! You're playing the fucking spaceships game again! You never come and talk to me any more! What the f...

MYOPTIKA, without taking his eyes off the screen, reaches into a crate filled with boxes o wine, and holds one out to her.

ANGE: WINE!

ANGE seizes the box, bites a hole in the side and leaves the room, pouring the contents into her mouth.

MYOPTIKA winces as he gets podded again.

I JUST WENT INTO 0.4 LOW SEC SPACE TO PICK SOMETHING UP. THERE WAS MAN FLASHING RED AND HE WAS A PIRATE. I RAN. I SURVIVED. I'M HAPPY.

On my way back again with 90million in my cargo bay. I am sitting here sweating like a peado in a playground.

Sitting listening to EvE Radio - both myself and Comical doing missions.

Comical - "This DJ says Win far too much."

*Sheepeh sends message

EvE Radio - DJ Wiggles (Live on air) - "I've just had a message from Sheepeh telling to to say ComicalGnomes is so, so not win. Win."


Ace.

He then proceeded to change the word "Win" for "banana" at Com's request.

He just said 'Win' again and declared the banana hour over.

See, it's perfectly safe.


Also, Grim.. seems to be too rich. Now I has this computer running again, we'll see what can happen.

Found my screengrabs

Three days in the end. Mission complete!

I'm pretty sure it was Friday yesterday, then I played EVE a bit, and now it's Monday somehow.

Tell me of your adventures, traveller.

Spent Sat just hooning around, reading about the game, planning skills, that sort of thing. Did one or two low-level missions and helped some other folks on similarly easy missions, whilst listening to Sheepeh and CG discussion salvage and trading runs worth ten times what I have in my wallet. Spent Sunday afternoon mining in my new Ibicus, made 300K or so for myself. Then we all went mining Sunday evening, very disappointing haul -- despite scouting a dozen fields we found only low-grade minerals. We made 2 mill or so. It was in 0.5 space and we had pirates and I had to warp my pathetic little tub away for repair and everything.

I want to do some basic crafting, starting with ammo. What ammo types do my corporate overlords use? Taking requests now.

2 million ain't bad, though, is it?

And I was always skint in EvE, but, I have a plan to switch the router from WPA PSK to WEP and see if my computer can work with that.

Well, it took over two hours, so it's not great as it took six of us. Sheepeh and CG can make money at 5x that rate working by themselves. The actual mining was carried out by myself, Eggwan, and MyFinger though (i.e. the frigate-wielding n00bs) so we were holding things back. Grim... has just informed me he has a proper mining barge, so if he'd been about it would have probably helped.

Hopefully us new players are not far off being able to fend off NPC pirates in 0.5-sec systems; I think my next ship would be up to it. If that happens, it'd make more sense for us to be the combat ones, whilst the richer people with massive strip mining laser arrays do the mining.

I knew that actually, but forgot to use the jargon, ta.

Heavy mizzles, please.

I was rumbling up and down a 110-jump trade route, taking drones out into deep space and bringing Khumaak back using my BS insurance as collateral.
Impressively, even though I was doing it remotely and using autopilot, I didn't end up dead (possibly because you weren't playing ), even after eight runs. I am now rather rich again

I have a procurer mining barge that I bought last week, totally ignorant to the fact that I couldn't (and still can't) fly it. So it's sitting there until I get around to learning the appropriate skills.

The Gaywood shouldn't overstate my earning capability. I've managed to turn around a few marketplace deals to earn a few mill, but viable items are in short supply, so it's a variable thing. It's particularly hard when you haven't got any trading skills at all, like me

If you wnat me to look into manufacturing anything in particular, just ask.

I'm still using small hybrid charges as I imagine you are, so anything like that would be awesome, because I'm always running out

What about trade goods though? I don't think I'm going to be good enough at crafting, yet, to be any cop at making much beyond ammo but it doesn't hurt to look at blueprint costs and run the numbers. What goods have you been running on these trade routes?

Hardwiring implants for slots 6-10, although I have no clue how to manufacture these.

I was always rather poor, until a Crow decided to have a pop at my Vexor one day as i was travelling somewhere. It gropped a Gistii Shield Boost Mod (and an impressive amount of smacktalk), and I flogged that for 100million ish. Then, after a small (3-5billionish) corp theft from someone in my corp's alt, my share was 100 million. So, that bought a few ships (Arazu, Pilgrim, Deimos) and the rest went into trading fund to make more isk. I think I've 160million ish when I stopped. Ships, now, I dunno, probably a job lot of ishkurs and Vengeances.

'Ratting' being killing NPCs?

I can't shake the feeling that every thread in this board is about EVE in some way.

"Holy fucking shit.... I've made 100mill on a massive trade run". "Norfolk enchants.... with its array of high-yield asteroid belts. "Game VI Day 1... skill training completed". "Monday's game... ratting in a 0.5 sec system."

For some reason I just thought that this board was going down for an hour at 12, and I wouldn't be able to post again until 1.

For anyone interested in concentrating on mining as a long-term plan, this is a painfully detailed guide.

Looks like this ore map would have come in handy yesterday.

Hmmm, last news update 2 years ago? Doesn't make me confident in the up-to-dateness of the site.

Good point. Depends if it is grabbing data from the EVE API I guess.

I'm fairly sure the API is character info only.