EVE Online

[Alcibiades]

Exploration is good, you can make a ton of money doing exploration in lowsec and nullsec.


Even in highsec you can make decent money if you find the right site.  I'm not that great at probing

[Syt]

I'm getting the hang of probing, but I need to skill up to get something out of it  and cutting down the time to do so (working on getting hacking/archaeology). I found an unstable wormhole in hi-sec, but reading up on wormholes, I think with my T1 frigate I'll stay clear for now.

So for the time being it's mining those rocks. And training. And trading.

[Syt]

Oh, and i just discovered the certification system. Rather useful to find your way through the jungle of skills, and to see which skills compliment each other.

My immediate plan is to deck out a Tristan with two guns (or gun + missile?), probes; plus analyzer, hacking module and salvager and go exploring hi-sec for a bit.

I would like to try manufacturing, but the logistics involved for some of the high end products (find cheap materials, assemble them in one place etc.) is a bit daunting if you're not in a corp.

Though I currently have ca. 2M tied up in orders. Is it me, or is station trading a far too easy way to make money if you somewhat know what you're doing (go for high turnover commodities, try to find spreads of at least 20%, better 50% between selling/buying)?

[Alcibiades]

The certification system is alright, not perfect, but it gets the job done.


Do you have Evemon (http://evemon.battleclinic.com/)?   Great program for you to make plans and oversee all the possible skills to train and their affect on different items and ships.  Eve Fitting Tools is also great, shows you the effects of putting items on your ship, what can fit, and what skills you need before you can use them.   

[Alcibiades]

Huge battle in lowsec last weekend involving almost 3,000 people.   Pretty neat video of the clusterfuck:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yTQHv0FrgrE#!

[CountDeMoney]

I'm still tinkering with it, but yeah, I think I'll pop down some thoughts later today or Tuesday.

Whelp, so much for that for the moment.  Plasma TV took a dump yesterday, so there'll be no PlayStationing for a bit.  Looks like the power supply.

[Syt]

The certification system is alright, not perfect, but it gets the job done.


Do you have Evemon (http://evemon.battleclinic.com/)?   Great program for you to make plans and oversee all the possible skills to train and their affect on different items and ships.  Eve Fitting Tools is also great, shows you the effects of putting items on your ship, what can fit, and what skills you need before you can use them.

Yeah, I've seen them and toyed with them, but I need to take a closer look this weekend.

[Syt]

I'm still tinkering with it, but yeah, I think I'll pop down some thoughts later today or Tuesday.

Whelp, so much for that for the moment.  Plasma TV took a dump yesterday, so there'll be no PlayStationing for a bit.  Looks like the power supply.

Yikes!

[besuchov]

Ive reactivated my account recently. Playing rather casaully since I dont really have the time, some bloodraider missions and the occasional fleet.

Is there still a langish channel?

[Alcibiades]

Yes, it's called 'languish' 


Unfortunately I'm usually the only one in it.  Don't think anyone else is really active, and im logged in most the day but check on it irregularly for chat purposes.

[besuchov]

I will join you, not super active but sometimes. Joined in on a frigate roam yesterday btw:
http://kb.the-initiative.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=128575

[Alcibiades]

Nice kill!

What's your alliance do again?

[Syt]

I've moved to an Atron frigate (4 high power slots FTW!). Fitted it with a rail gun, a blaster, probe launcher and salvager. Also: Hacker, Afterburner, Overdrive Injector. Additionally added some rigs to increase weapon perfrmanece (range, targetting, firing rate). I feel well equipped for most average PvE encounters in high sec up to 0.6. I'm also salvaging a fair bit in asteroid belts.

Also, I jumped to Jita and have been playing the market there. A killing can be made with Fullerite C50 at the moment: buy for 3.3k, sell for 4.9k (down from 5.5 already ) - and it has a high turnover. I tripled my money that way yesterday. I also wanted to go back to Dodixie to pick up some stuff.

However, on the way I decided to check out the asteroid fields of an 0.8 system. Plenty of wrecks, plus a few fresh enemies. When I had cleared the system, I had junk worth 2M in my cargo hold, so I went back to Jita to sell.

[Alcibiades]

Sounds like you have a nice little racket going, congrats! 

[Syt]

Yeah.

I'm looking to the destroyer class next (though I'll keep my Atron as well). I figure for exploration I need to gear for PvE combat and have the necessary modules installed - and destroyers have lots of high power slots for tools and weapons. It probably won't hold up in PvP but then that's not the goal.