Lost two Apocalypses in the span of two days. Was jumping from Tpar to Ure to try to rat there and jumped at the wrong time and got killed by two BBYD that were in the system in Vagabonds. Bad timing. Couple of days later was mining and a Co-en jumped into system and we assumed jumped out but he scanned down asteroid field and logged there. I had my apocalypse cloaked in the belt to kill some rats when they came and when Coven logged in, I luckily got Dezmon out of there in time to save the Hulk. The coven was in an attack frigate and I figured I could've killed him with one or two volleys but it took like 30 seconds to lock onto him when I decloaked and my drones didn't do as much damage as I thought they would. Oh well.

We changed Alliances and now are with Romanian Legion. They are much larger, much more organized and stricter. There is a mandatory CTA today at 1 and I'd like to go but I don't know how I'm going to be able to do that with Jeremy. I know he'll be jumping all over me to go outside, play with Emily, go on the slip and slide, etc. It's really difficult to do things during the day with him. I'm definitely going to start to get into PVP and go into fleets with these people. I need to fit some ships though. That's one of the reasons why I'm avoiding the CTA as well, as I only have one ship fitted and the rigs aren't right for the CTA. We're also wardecked so we can't get anything from Jita right now and have to deal with what we have down there. I want to get a few ships fitted and shipped down, some inty's, maybe a dictor, an Apoc, and another Harby.

We moved down the chain to the second to last system in the chain. We're basically in a dead end of space which makes things nice and quiet. They were pretty quiet the last two days but I've been hearing that we're going to get more activity in the next days.

It's mandatory that we're logged into Teamspeak when we're in game. I don't mind it; just don't know what to say certain times. It's interesting hearing some of the other guys speak and what they're talking about. You can learn a lot from them. I know just listening to the one guy has given me a much greater Apocalypse fit for ratting. I'm going to focus on the ratting on Benwayy. He says he makes about 35 million isk per hour ratting and I'd like to get somewhere in that area. Last night, when doing my first Hub of this new ratting goal, I got an officer spawn!!! Dark Blood Capacitor, Dark Blood Web, Dark Blood Warp Disruptor!!! That's about 170 million in one shot. Was very happy and got them safely to the station. I might try to sell the two out there and see what happens.

Don't quite know what to train Benwayy in. I went for the Large Turrets to give my ratting a boost but it's twenty days to get them. With all the talk of carriers, I've even been considering going down that route. The real problem is with Dezmon. I was going to get trained into Gallente and Caldari but the past few days I have been leaning towards Caldari. But I don't even know if I want to keep that character. I've been toying around with many different ideas, from selling him to training him into a Drake to getting him into Industry. I don't know. Many choices.

I started doing some trading and have made some money off it. Trained up a small trading alt. To change the market orders multiple times a day gets to be a pain in the ass so I may just play the market game when I get in the mood to. But I'd like to have that passive sort of isk coming in. I want to build my bank account to 5 billion and we'll see how that plays out during the next couple of weeks. I think I'm just about 1 billion right now.

Been in corporation for about a month and a week. Didn't get to play much during finals week. I have gotten the hang of null sec and feel pretty comfortable. Some of the things that happen are a pain in the ass, like the neuts in the system or the roams that come through. But last night is an example of a perfectly calm night where I got to do some mining for about an hour and a half, whereas yesterday morning I tried to get some done because the belts had just respawned and I couldn't do anything. Mining is fine, if not boring. But if you're doing other things, it's not so bad. I can rat while I mine and then warp to the miner to kill the rats that spawn or as I started last night, I can haul while mining. I inquired about joining the corp pvp fleet and I'm expected to get corp fit ships, which pretty much means minmatar. I don't know if I really like the idea of cross training because of the time involved. We'll see what happens when I get to that point. Right now I'm training up all the prerequisites to fly every small ship type. Just got done training for interceptors, now training Weapon Upgrades to 5 which opens up a few ship types. After that, probably go for Destroyers to 5, Interceptors to 4 to open up Interdictor. I was toying around with the idea of taking the mining guy and training Caldari/Gallente on him and then train Amarr/Minmatar on the main guy. I wouldn't mind two guys to run some of those more difficult anomolies as they show up, because the loot in them can be worth quite a bit.

Starting to run some of the archaelogy sites as they show up. They have the potential to have Capacitor Consoles, which sell for more than 20 million each. The one morning a bunch had spawned in our system and one of the sites gave me 5 of those in one sitting! Some of them don't give any great loot, just salvage. Hit or miss but most times worth trying. Having fun with the game right now, just trying to make a lot of isk and looking into ways to make the money more easily. Right now I'm putting a lot of effort to make the isk I'm making and there are other ways. I think once I get a decent amount of isk stockpiled (2 billion), then I can start doing other things. I still have to try PI, which might happen this week. Here's the training plans:

Weapon Upgrades 5
Interceptors 4
Destroyers 5
Interdictors

Mining Character:

Gallente Industrial 5

Been in Corp for two weeks now, haven't gotten to play much lately though. I have gotten some mining done but I've too scared to do it most days. We had a lot of hostile action in our system. I really need to get some better tanking and drone skills on my miner. I had no implants on my guy in null sec so I decided to drive my clone with implants out there. I made the forty jumps, with one close call with a guy trying to bubble me but got out of there. I make it into the system after about an hour's worth of work and decide to go ratting for a little while. Hostile comes into system and gets me right away, destroying my implants. All that work and I got blown up a few minutes after arriving in the system. Ridiculous. But I guess that's just how it goes. That was the only ship I had in the system so I had to wait until my other two ships got carted down. I like flying the Harbinger better than the Apocalypse, which I just got down there last night. Faster, deals better damage for now and not as bad if I lose it. I think I'm starting to get used to Null Sec but I'm still nervous whenever I see a neut enter the system. I had done a fair amount of ratting in our home system, never venturing to the better system for fear of death and because of the traffic that system gets. I want to try to get in game this week and grind up that isk. My goal may be to grind up enough isk to buy another character. All I think about is other characters to fill roles I would like to try instead of waiting the time it would take to get my character up to that point. Training plans:

Hull Upgrades 5
EM Armor Comp 4
Thermic Armor Comp 4
Weapon Upgrades 5
Assault Ships 4
Heavy Assault Ships 3

Going to get the main HAC capable after I can use those the type 2 hardeners and boost my resists. I don't see myself doing the HACS in the very near future but I can see how useful the type 2 hardeners and more resistances will be. I would like to be able to use the Zealot, as it seems capable and popular in PVP fleets. I've also been considering the stealth bomber route and have plenty of missile skillbooks but I don't know if I want to devote the time to that right now. If I do, I can always cross train into Caldari but that's a long away from important skills. As for the miner I'll finish out:

Refining Efficiency (tonight)
Metallurgy 4
Bistot Processing 3
Arkonor Processing 3
Cronkite Processing 3

Get this guy up to using the crystals for these types of ore. After this, I don't know where I'll take him. Possibly Gallente Industrial to 5 which takes 20 days and get him into freighters or maybe PI skills. We'll see.

Finally joined a Corp

I got my Apocalypse all fit perfectly, went out to do some Level four missions and was immediately attacked by pirates. This happened on Thursday Night and I survived and would've killed a Hurricane but got nervous because it was my first time flying the Apoc. Go out the next night and get tackled during mission, killed by three ships. Should've been smarter because there was a frigate hovering around me and now I know how to react against these jerks. I should've just warped out when I had the chance. I don't know what I was expecting the idiot to do so I deserved to lose that ship because of my ignorance. So I applied to a 0.0 corporation and was approved after a few days. I have my ships in contract, waiting for them to get transferred down there. I jumped cloned the main and flew the miner down there after going 20 jumps in the wrong direction and having to jump 40 jumps through low sec/null sec. I made it though without a problem, hitting one bubble but there was no one in the system and I immediately warped away anyway. I'm bringing a Harbi down there and hopefully that will be enough to survive and rat in. My training queue has been all fucked up lately. Started training Energy Systems, then Navigation, and then moved to Small Pulse Lasers in order to fire the T2 weapons on the Harbinger. I actually hadn't noticed all the rig requirements to fly the T3 ships and the cost was too prohibitive for me at this point. Stealth bombers actually seem like another fun class of ship to fly and I might cross train into that in the next few weeks. Here's the immediate training plan, which seems to change everyday:

Small Pulse Laser 4
Medium Pulse Laser 3
Energy Operation 5
Medium Pulse Laser 4
Armor Comps (Depending on the Pirates/Rats in the system)

After this, I may try to get those missile skills up in order to be able to fly the stealth bomber or train into HACS or gunnery skills. I was even thinking of improving the scanning skills. We'll see what's needed and what I can do.

Even on the miner, I have different things I would like to achieve. I don't know how often I'll get to mine those worthwhile ores so just in case I'm going to get Refining Efficiency up to 5, and then get the ABC ores up to 4 each so I can use their crystals. If that doesn't work out, I may go into the PI route or something else. Everything is up in the air.

Drone Interfacing 3
Refining Efficiency 5

I am really excited to get into Nullsec and the corp seems helpful. Every time I log on I have to join fleet and I'll have plenty of PVP possibilities now, for good and for bad. The whole thing is very interesting and there has been plenty of information to learn over the last few days. I still don't exactly know what's going on but over the next few days I'm sure I'll learn how to live in Nullsec while hopefully making a decent profit. Just kind of nervous learning the ropes and asking questions, don't want to seem like a complete idiot and I hope the Harbi can survive out there. Being part of a group seems pretty interesting anyway and it's a nice change of pace from just mission grinding. If I ever need a break, I can always jump to a clone and grind out a few level 4s or something. Happy and excited about this and we'll see how it all turns out during the next few days/weeks. Definitely a new part of the game that will hopefully keep me interested for a decent amount of time.

Mining Ain't So Bad

Been mining with my new character since he was transfered on Tuesday Night. Mining really isn't that bad and I've been doing it while doing the math assignments that were due this week, along with Accounting. I had someone can flip me today and it pissed me off a bit, wish I had my main with me. As it is, I'm going to send this guy to Amarr space so I can grind rep for both of them, along with having someone to run the ore and to have the opportunity to mine Pyroxes. I have Carthum Conglomerates at a 2.2 standing so I can start to run level 3 missions with them. Maybe get this guy as a Datacore alt or something else, I haven't really decided yet. Or possibly get the Orca skills. There are a few different ways to go here. Finishing up the Exhumers skill that the previous owner had, then going to probably get the drone skills up. I'll be able to increase my yield pretty well by getting that fifth drone and having interfacing up to 4.

Hulk Mining Character, Random Skills

I trained up the skills for the Pilgrim but haven't used it. I do everything retarded in this game. I've been actually playing the game the last few days, doing some assorted missions for Theology Council and for the Carthan Conglomerate. I did some missions with them yesterday, just grinding up their standing but in order to do research for them, I'd need a lot of training time. Basically, everything I'm doing is backward. I bought a Pilgrim and Apocalypse but don't really have great skills for Apocalypse. Been training some gun skills the last few days and I would eventually want to be able to use Mega Pulse Laser 2 but that is like a month of training time.

I've been looking on the eveboards for a character and was originally going to buy a Caldari pve/pvp character but I decided to buy a Hulk character. He has just under 5 million sp and I should have him today. I got a decent deal on him and the guy sold me his Hulk as well. I hope to start mining tonight and see if I like it at all. I was going to put the new character on my account but I decided to buy a new account through the buddy program. For the extra five dollars, I should be able to give the mining character almost 3 million sp in the 51 days of game time I get. Plus, I've been credited the free month of game time so my main account has more than 80 days on it and the secondary account has 51 days. I'm going to see how much I like the mining and if I don't like it, I can always sell the second character for some kind of profit, while training essential skills to get him into an Orca. My plan with my main is:

Small Pulse Laser Specialization 1-3 (finished)
Motion Prediction 4 (just finished)
Controlled Bursts 4
Small Pulse Laser Specialization 4
Medium Pulse Laser Specialization 1-2


From this point, I can get those engineering skills I so badly need or go into the Medium Pulse Laser Specialization to 4, or Large Energy Turrets, which I'm probably going to get first. So many skills to train, so little time.

Mining Character Plan:

This guy has Mining Drones to level 5 but only has Drones 3. My immediate plans with him are:

Drones 5
Drone Interfacing 4
Electronics 5
Engineering 5

This is all depending upon how this character plays. Drones are a definite but we'll see how badly his cap does and if so, get the electronic skills first. Lets see how much I like mining and how much of this can be done afk. I was also thinking of taking this character along the industry root, getting the essential skills for building ships or maybe even the datacore route with science, grouping him with the main to do level threes to skill up quickly. These are all possibilities.

Eve

I'm 3 hours away from flying the Pilgrim! I was playing around with the game for a while the other night but there seemed like there was nothing to really do. Just too much of a pain to fly around, find an anomaly and then have to get the battlecruiser which could be more than 5 jumps away. Pain in the ass. I was trying to scan down anomalies, wound up just going into a wormhole to see how I could make out. I tried to solo the easiest one and couldn't do it. My cap kept running out. I had some more luck when I was using the drones but I warped out before getting them back in my ship and I was limited on their numbers. The sleepers were targeting and killing them anyway. I think if I got the ship fit the right way I could do much better. Using the tech 2 weapons, tech 2 ammo, tech 2 drones and use the extra 2 turret slots for Large guns instead of the small I was running now. I really do have to try it with that optimized fitting. Here's the training plan:

Covert Ops 4 (3 hours)
Recon Ships 1&2
Drone Interfacing 3
Amarr Battleship 1&2
Energy Upgrades
Energy Systems Upgrades

I really have to get the cap skills up as I could have done better if I would have had the extra 10 percent in cap skills. That's about two weeks of training time :(. Still have a lot of training to do before I see some kind of increase in the character's skills. All this training time and none of the skills really effect how he performs in combat. But I do have some ship options now. We'll see what happens with everything. I wouldn't mind getting the Battleship skills OK so I could run level 4 missions. There's supposed to be good money in those. Anything where I can make a boatload of money. We'll see what happens. I'm about to buy the GTC and convert it to ISK. This will give me the cushion I need to buy some new ships (Battleships!), fit everything the right way and maybe even pvp some. It takes money to make money.

New Vegas

Been playing New Vegas quite a lot the last few days. It's a fun game, the stories are interesting and I'm having fun with it. The use of the companions may make it a bit too easy but I can dismiss them at any time if I feel like it. It's one of the rare games where I just want to explore to see everything I can. I don't want to miss anything. Maybe I'll give Fallout 3 a try sometime after I'm done with this one. All depends on how I feel at that point. Got kind of pissed off with the Vault 34 mission last night. Was stuck in there for hours, trying to figure it out. Too much of a maze and looked it up online.