20071207 :: More Shots

I thought I'd take some screen caps of everything in the hangar. A few I took out for a spin.

I've got to admit that turning the bloom effects on make things look much prettier and don't put much more additional strain on the system. Granted who knows what it would be like in blob combat, but then performance always goes out the window during that.

Here's the snaps. Click for larger views:

The Arbiter



Catalyst



Drake



Hoarder



Jaguar



Mammoth



Probe



Retriever

20071206 - Trinity

I read all official and non-official warnings about the graphics update. After verifying a few things I went ahead and patched up.

Running XP I dug through the root directory of my machine (yeah, Eve is installed there, too) and couldn't find my boot.ini file. I know there is one as I've modified it before using MSConfig, so I simply hit Start->Run and typed "boot.ini" in the command line. Up popped the file.

I saved a duplicate to my desktop and proceeded with the install.

After all was said and done I repeated the above process (Start->Run...) and low and behold the file was still present. No problems.

Does it look good? I'm thinking so.

The previously unattractive Thorax has a glossy new look:

20071020 : Supplemental

Hands up, who reads this?

20071020 : Still Breaking

The exploration has been slow. I've dawdled a bit in it, to be honest, but also come up incredibly dry the last several systems I've scanned.

To break the monotony I've trained up Mimnatar and Caldari battleships and the necessary skills to make them viable. Currently I'm tooling around mid-sec trying out an Arbitrator loaded with medium drones and a pair of small lasers. The Arbitrator's a sexy cruiser, to be honest. I'm getting quite the kick out of its effectiveness. I haven't tried it on a mission yet, but could be tempted.

I think what I like the best about it is the voluminous drone bay. Against PCs drones aren't always the most effective, but facing NPCs they do an extremely effective job.

I've also skilled up to cruisers in the remainder of the races in the down time. RL be damned; I'm going to get this game sorted.

20070902 : Chuffing Along

Working a slew of nonsensical skills atm just to catch up on a few things.

I've been thinking of scoring a Raven for level 4s and perhaps some low-sec hunting. I haven't quite got the 90+ mill just yet, but hopefully I will soon.

A skills update:

Levels Trained	Level 0 : 1 (0.88%) Level 1 : 9 (7.89%) Level 2 : 20 (17.54%) Level 3 : 33 (28.95%) Level 4 : 34 (29.82%) Level 5 : 17 (14.91%)
Ranks Trained	Rank 1 : 32 (28.07%) Rank 2 : 36 (31.58%) Rank 3 : 23 (20.18%) Rank 4 : 10 (8.77%) Rank 5 : 10 (8.77%) Rank 6 : 2 (1.75%) Rank 8 : 1 (0.88%)
Skillpoints Ratio	94,407 skillpoints average per skill.

20070727 - Taking a Break

After running full-stop at preparing myself for an exploration profession I've opted to take a break from it for a while to generate some much-needed ISK.

Currently running Level 3s in my Drake to pay for further treats.

Some stats:

• Total Skills: 104 with 9,594,729 points
• Skills at Lvl 4: 24
• Skills at Lvl 5: 15

Looking back it's been a month since my last post (sad) and I've managed two million skill points in about two months.

20070527 Industrial Intentions

Still training towards Cloaking IV with a target end date of some time around Tuesday morning. I still haven't buckled and bought the actual cloaking device yet, but I've found other ways to spend my money.

I knew I was going to want the Gravity Capacitor Upgrade rig for the Cheetah and there had been a number available in the region but as fate would have it they all disappeared over the past few days. I dug around through the markets and found blueprints for the rigs not only in my home system, but also ~8 jumps out through low-sec space. With the price differential being what it was (~a tenth of the price), I opted for the far-out bp and jumped in my shuttle for the (occasionally) hair-raising trip out west. While on the way I hit the market and started buying as many of the components I could find.

The gravity rig (-10% scan time bonus) calls for Charred Microcircuit Interfaces, Damanged Artificial Neural Networks, and Fried Interface Circuits. With my current skills and the way the market is swinging right now I estimated that I should be able to produce one rig for ~10.6M.

After fetching the blueprint and grabby Freddy Sanford I headed out to collect my new purchases. Eighteen jumps later I was back at my manufacturing hub plugging in the print and burning my new (albeit damaged) purchases into a wonderfully small component. After all is said and done the one rig (plus the cost of the blueprint) cost 10.05M ISK; far below the 17M ISK average price. After the brief time in the cooker it slid right into place.

I have since gone and placed buys in the market hoping to lure more salvaged goods. I figure after I gather the pieces for the second needed for the Cheetah, if I can make three more I will be ahead in the game, netting ~8.1M profit per unit.

With all this monkeying around my bank account has tanked, and is currently only 3/4 of what it was when I started this little venture, having burned through almost 60% of my savings in one day. I guess it takes money to (hopefully) make money.