120 bil isk...and counting....

In Eve money matters. In fact in game prices are often influenced by real world inflation of currencies. Right now a plex will run you about 950mil isk. Now when I started this blog they would run a cool 360mil. At that time I thought....WOW so expensive.

However, as time past yogi and I got better with making isk in Eveonline, and learning how to defend ourselves...just today this happened when high security space (psuedo safe space in eve, basically if you get attacked who ever attacks you will get destroyed by the "police". Well its been a long time since I was a noob... 2 ganking destroyers got a nasty surprise.  http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=26156624

I could not get drone on the other ship but...I trolled them in local.

Back to isk...well yogi and i have about 120bill combined in just isk. We could buy a titan if we wanted....pretty stupid cause we would be broke after that. BUT this isk has less buying power now. Plex keeps on rising and rising.

Ok on to skill que:

max naglfar: siege tech 2, capital projectile turrets to level 5, and finally dreadnought to level 5 (minmatar). I will need to train some gunnery skills to level 5 too but that is for the spring, winters training que is full!

My wife and I carrier ratting....wooo hoo!

/tata

update time

Wow its been way too long. But alot has happened. We left the corp we were in...it was on a downward spiral and well its at rock bottom right now.

Skills wise....I have amarr Carrier 5 and minnie carrier at 5...AND fighters 5.

Fighters have been buffed to make them really useful and I get up to 2400dps with both nids and archons.

I have decided that pve in null is a mainstay but you never know when you might be evicted. So I have decided to skill up some pve skills. Murauders level 5, heavy attack cruiser 5 (ishtars are even better now), and finally heavy drones 5. Once I am done with that I will focus on dreadnought training, min dread to 5, siege to 5, and cap guns to 5. THEN all of the gun and missile support skills to 5. That should take about 6 months or so. I hope to have my wallet well over 60billion isk, with wh ships ready to go: archon, naglflar, and hopefully a good team and start farming high end wh's.

Yogita and I have started training alts last year when we in India. We figured...its about time. Now my alt has really nice missile skills, and drone skills. I want my alt to fly tengu, Ishtar, and exhumers (i have exhumers to level 5), so purely pve, and indy.

Currently I am grinding to unlock level 4's, and heck try at level 5's later down the line. Basically to support my main toons pvp.

My wife and I ratting away both of us have carrier skills at level 5. Its sweet. Its not the best way to make isk but we burn through anoms very fast and our mtus are working overtime!


Anyways still having blast!

/tata

50% to amarr carrier 5!

I love having carrier at level 5. Well I have minmatar carrier at level and the repping power it has is just awesome. I would love to use it in wh space....but well we will see. Archons are the best carriers for most wh systems. So likely my nids will have to be used in some other role....POS repping...ugh.

Archon at level 5 means that I will gain extra EHP just hoping into it. 4% armor resists across the board. Triage 2 capable means that I can keep repping with a whopping -20% cap drain from doing so. I can keep my local tank running a bit longer.

I will ask yogi to train recon 5 cause I have a feeling that a rapier with at level 5 will web like a boss. Basically outshining the loki, I will use meta armor rr for the rapier....it has a ALOT less tank that the loki, but I will have a back up loki just in case it goes pop.

Basically when we return to wh's we need to set up a team of people who can farm the hole regularly. That was the mistake we made. We would have ended up in the black despite losing over 8-9billion in ships...and another 3-5 billion in implants. Instead we broke about even. Can not let that happen. Run sites regularly, move loot out of the wh and get the isk into our wallets. Rinse wash and repeat until we get ganked. Hopefully by that time we have enough isk that we will laugh it off, and have back up capitals ready to go.

I think the next really long skill train for me will be marauders 5. I LOVE BASTION MODE!!!

/tata

Archons at the ready!

Well actually this is old news but we have completed construction of 3 Archon class carriers. One for Yogi, lumbo and myself. I am now t2 triage capable and even bought the module as well. I should have no problems with capacitor the next time we run c6 sites. Now I am aiming for Amarr carrier 5. I am about 36 days away from level 5. The main benifit in a wormhole is that I get an addition 4% armor resists across the board, and one extra drone/fighter. This can be very helpful when running sites, the additional tank is something I really need.

So whats next? I realize more and more that null sec revolves around a small core of players...perhaps 200 or so. These in turn generate content for thousands....no tens of thousands of other players. So when it comes to training I am aiming for a me first approach. For example our current baltec fleets called for galente battleship, and hyrbrid skills. For me I will make sure that I can fly a decent Kronos  with t2 guns, because if I leave null, I need something to sustain me. Marauders with the addition of the bastion module....means sustainablity if I am ever outside of null sec. I can run level 4's in a semi blinged ship and still make enough isk to support pvp, or any other venture I might want to parttake in. When we had drake fleets, I made sure to train bc 5, and train up command ships. I can now fly every command ship in the game. So I think next on the table might be to make sure I can reprocess modules so that this summer's expansion doesn't leave me "nerfed". The archons we built we obtained 85% of our minerals from modules obtained from ratting.

I can now say that I have fully recovered from the loss of my 5billion isk Archon. Yogi and I have still not broken the 60billion mark....perhaps that is a goal to reach by this summer.

On another note....the ESS deployable module is AWESOME!!! Earning 105% from bounties PLUS a very nice amount of lp I will reach 60 billion in short order!

/tata

a bit of a slow down

The holloween war is just about over with the CFC having to grind structures.....which really is boring....but not too tedius since we have super capitals, and capitals to grind down structures with and not stealth bombers which really was a pain in the ass!

I am staged back in branch at the moment  with my alt ready to join fleets that might come up.
I plan on going into isk making mode soon cause I want to raise some isk for new capitals, and fittings. I want to see if we can stay in a c6 longer this time, while regularly running sites. The key word is regularly. Thats the only way to make stupid amounts of isk. I want to eventualy buy a supercarrier while having an insane amount of isk.

I am even thining about getting back in to level 4's. I can get the expensive implants I need using the LP. (the +5 implants for the wormhole).

I will need billions more isk this time....and hopefully I can in turn make that turn into 20 billion? Ok maybe actualy numbers might be helpful. I would like to invest 6-8billion isk and make 2 or even 3 times that amount back. This is hoping we don't get ganked by that time.

I think an even better idea would be to use marauders to take "day trips" and clear c4-c6 wormholes with a gang of corpies. The isk might not be stellar but it would be a lot more fun. Eve is all about generating content yourself, with your friends.


/tata

Pandemic Legion and friends super titan blap fest!

So we were feeling a bit bad about not joining fleets, and basically pvp wise we slowed down. The massive fight in the Hed system kinda left us jaded. The tidi was so terrible I was happy when I got insta popped. It was worse than usual due to the large numbers of drones. I think CCP improved things cause it was bad but not 23 mins till your ships systems responded. I think it was more like 8-9 minutes.

Jaded we stayed in branch, made a bit of isk but basically didnt do much at all. Then there was a ping....a ping about a PL system that had lost sov and the CFC/RUS coalitions were going to steamroll in and take the system.

I decided that this might create some interesting content because that system was a staging system. This means that most of PL's carriers, dreadnoughts, and sub capital ships were in the station. THAT meant....FIGHTS! So I bought a domi off of contracts for 340mill insured it and got on the titan.

In Korea it was around 11pm when we started....it didn't end for us until 5am the next day....all of in 10% time dilation. Basically time dilation of tidi is a unique feature that allows thousands of players to fight it out by slowing time in game. so likely the big battle was only 1.5 hours of intense combat stretched to 6-7 hours.

It was worth it! When the battle started we took out an archon with our domi's. I knew this was something to get in on.

Of course I got popped, and  reshipped and came back in a cheap e-war cruiser fit it so that it could lock targets out to 200km away and went right back in. I am so glad I did. The result was for yogi 3 titan kill mails 4 dreads, and 2 carriers. For me..a whopping 6 titans!!!!!! My kill isk ratio is forever green!!!! LOL

Oh Lumbo and decimager....I am so sorry but...you guys missed some awesome killz!!!

/tatah!

Going back in!!!

Ok now we are out of our C6 and we are preparing to go back in. This time we prepare even more so that if we get ganked we can fight back more effectively. We got jumped by 15-20 people. However about 50% were in easy tp pop ships, the others we could have held if we had better back up. I managed to kill a vigilant, and a legion. Well we all got on the km before my carrier went down. So now I am planing to train archon 5 and triage 5. Well Triage first cause...its more important. After that I will go for amar carrier 5. Its a long train but at the end of it we hope to have back ups of our capitals. So if our moros goes down its ok, cause wormhole pvp is all about fighting..not invading. WE WILL BATTLE!! But we will have back ups. So 2 archons, 2 moros, and 2 lokis and rapiers.

So to the group that took us out...we will be back!! You will get a better fight and WILL lose more ships!!

So the plan is to build 4 capitals, heck if we get good at it...keep building or buying caps so the wormhole adventures never end!

But we are null sec players at our core. We are currently involved in a HUGE war in the south. This will take priority. So I will get loads of kills and get killed...alot. THE CFC WILL PREVAIL!!!


/tata

There is still tomorrow!

I love wh space...but I will take a short break and rebuild my iskies 53bill...it aint enough!

I want to experiment with marauder class battleships in pve and pvp, also I want to fly the new sisters of eve ships. This is still so much to do. We also have the wars to fight in the South. Actually, we really weren't that active the in wormhole. I logged on and got like one kill on my alt.....thats not good. So I will bring my pvp numbers back up.

Lessons to be learned. We could have won this fight. If we go back in...I will have back up capitals, and subcaps. We will like did this time fight our asses off. And even if we lose ships...its ok cause we have back ups. But...that isnt for now....like....3-4 months from now. Err...maybe I will wait even longer..but WE WILL BE BACK...THERE IS STILL TOMORROW!

So I will train amarr carrier 5, I will train triage tech2, I WILL BE BACK!!!!!!!!!

GANKED!!!!

Well all good things must come to end...well..we will return but I think we will take some time to rebuild of course......

Here is the short story, we were happily farming our anoms when a sabre came in and bubbled us....I put my drones on him but he got away...then...we were torn apart yogi and lumbo got podded. I was able to save my pod....I wonder if they let me live....

The long story is that we had become very complacent in our c6 wormhole. You see in our corp we had some members decide on invading a C5 and evicting the current residents. They were Russians I believe. Anyways we reinforced their tower, and popped a dead tower in the same system. Next we sat and got ready for what we thought would be an epic brawl. Lo and behold we lacked in numbers, and watched as they will help from others reinforced our 2 towers! Ouch! In the end we evacuated all of our capital ships. 

Well we decided it was stupid to try and evict people from a wh since we are null players we do not have the connections, that these wh dwellers do. In addition they excel at small-medium gang warfare where as in null we are used to massive fleets where tactics are...well different. 

So we settled in an empty C5 and set up shop...this was perhaps 3 weeks later or so. So once again 2 towers. Yogi and I had one, and the corp had a main tower set up for the rest of the corp to use. It was looking good! We had our ships ready and we had our team set up. It was a tiny team, only 3 pilots. Lumbo = Our big gun Moros, Yogi Loki hero webber, Me Archon, Mission KEEP THE LOKI ALIVE!!! 

We ran one site...we were so nervous...but we DID IT! Yogi and Lumbo worked together to take out battleships, I repped, and kepted Yogi capped up, while keeping myself alive. It was awesome we looted and salvaged and prepared to hit another site. 

That is when the shit hit the fan! Me like a dope capped out....I like a dolt fit ONE more eanm to my carrier...Hey more tank is good right? NOOOOO it isn't! I capped out and we lost a 1billion isk Loki. We had a corp mate save us....thanks to him we got both capitals out. 

Well a few days later we were ready to roll again, we had a new loki, new fittings on the Moros, and Archon. We were ready to rock and roll! Uh...NOT! We got evicted again....my Archon got blasted to kingdom come, and with it went yet another loki, tengu, and some assorted ships. I wept softly in my pod while they...well they....they...ugh took me out of my pod and exposed my naked body to the vacuum of space. (yeah they podded me...lost 2.5bill in implants....)

So we decided lets not go with the corp, lets go it alone! We built up a wh fund no isk left our wallets we simply turned deapspace and faction mods into cash and bought what we needed and set up shop again,

We ran a bunch of c6 sites without losing a single ship. We maintained hole security....rolling c5 and c6 wh's ASAP or rather collapsing them. Then...we got lax. While running a site a new c5 opened up on us....we did not notice it...we kept farming like cute little carebears. That is when the sabre warped into us. When the rest of the gang landed we managed to pop 2 of their ships a viligalent, and a legion. I thought...hey we got this we were actually fighting them! Then...a nagflar flew in...then an archon.....then we died.....pictures show the aftermath, I

Is there still life in our c6?

Well I found a nice high sec connection but it was very unstable and I was able to get 6billion isk to market so we all made another 2billion isk each. This isnt big money in terms of numbers, but the amount of time that we put into running the sites....this is indeed big money.

We can clear a site in about 35-40 minutes, plus 5-7 minutes for salvaging. Some sites take longer like 45-50 minutes. We usually make about 200mill each per site. Its a very laid back style of site running. We could make a lot more, but we are all very busy with jobs and family, so this laidback style is actually very nice.

Last  week I took about 3.3billion to market (chump change really), but at that time it looked like the wh might be drying up. However, over the weekend we saw that we had several new sites that spawned. We ran em all. The next day there were like 4 more that we like running and a really hard one we hadn't ran before. Well we did that too! Thats how the 6 billion was made. So all in all we made about 9billion. We invested about 6billion....not from our own wallets per say, but from deadspace mods we had stockpiled in branch from running the 10/10 escalations we got there. Actually we ran other escalations as well and stocked up quite a nice pile of loot.

So the isk we made it is nice, but I dont want to think about leaving until I am 60billion + in isk, and I am very comfortable running c6 sites. IF our corp decides to move into a c5, my team WILL be the go to people cause...we run c6 sites! We use only 3 ships and its pretty damm cool!!


So I am hoping that tonight that we get more Core Citadel sites, or Bastion sites very good isk to be made. My alt is trying to get into a stealth bomber asap to support alliance level siege fleets. Basically a siege fleet is a super cheap way of structure grinding with torp stealth bombers. Since my main is in the wh I need to comtribute with my alt. No...I must!


/tata

Living in a c6 wormhole!

When playing eve you very quickly learn that making isk the in game currency is very important if you want to be able to enjoy the game. Mastering this is very skill intensive but it's worth it later down the line.

We have run level 4 missions, raided c3 wormhole, to make isk. It was fun and very exciting.
We thought have a couple billion isk was great. It is or rather was. Now the price of plex and in game item that you can use in game currency to buy has risen in prices. No it has skyrocketed and looks
Like it will keep going up. Currently it cost about 630 million isk for 1 plex worth 30 days game time.


Well to fuel pimped pvp Lumbo yogi and I decided to do the unthinkable! Settle in a c6 wormhole. To make money off of the sites we use an archon, Loki, and a Moros. So far we have raked in about 3.6 billion in the handful of sites we have run. We are now going to figure out how to not "clear" the sites they last much longer that way allowing us to milk em even more.

Our corp maded plans last year to do this very thing....it failed. The corporation triad again and this time we ran one site but lost our webbing Loki in the next one......and need rescue cause Lumbo's Moros, and my archon were running low on capacitor.

That...was a c5 the second from most difficult wormholes to run. This time we upped the ante....and ventured into a well buried c6. And we adapted, and reviewed our fits from the experience gained in the c5, trained up even more and lo and behold we run me with no lost ships over even close calls!

My dream of having a large collection of pimped ships for small to medium sized pvp will be a reality. Perhaps a super carrier is in my future?

We plan to settle in buried c6 wh's on a regular basis as time allows. Null sec life doesn't really lend time to a more permanent presence. So hopefully we make our goal of 5 billion isk.


Below are screenshots of my carrier it tanks c6 anoms very well and in about 2 more weeks or so it will tank even better!