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.