New goals....

I have been doing some reading about capital ships and well there are 2 that have caught my eye. The carrier, and the super carrier. Wow they look awesome, and I am sure that pve a motherships 25 fighters (max skills) will be awesome! The major making me sit down and think, is this...they are pretty expensive, and make tempting targets for gank squads. I would need need a support fleet, or backup. Also carriers are used a support ships, the idea of a pure combat oriented carrier is very unpopular. Too bad. I mean look at how carriers are used today. They project the military might of a nation far from its shores. It is one of the major compenents of America's military strength. In eve...they are big and have really nice looking designs...BUT....they are only repping other ships, and many carriers are lost because, if a tank can not be broken, you break the healer...so 1-3billion isk carrier goes pop!

I want to have 3 or 4 carriers, for pve in low sec, or wormhole space. I want more than one because I expect to lose some to gankers. I remember this this really cool dude in a .2 system, and how he used an Archon class carrier, and wiped out a small gank force of 5-6 battleships. It was cool cause I was able to salvage the wrecks. From what happened in chat, the battle did not last long.

I am well on my way toward minmatar carriers. I am in the 16 days away from drone interfacing level 5, I already have minmatar bs level 5. A very useful skill too! My typhoon is the best mission running ship. Higly durable too!

/tata

POS ready!!

Ok so what is a POS? Basically in Eve you can have you very own space station. It can have fitting services, ore processing, reprocessing ancient artifacts that can be found in wormhole space. You can have factories that can used to build ships, or well all of the items in eve can build at a POS. Now a POS can not just be set up and your ready to go...no no. They need to be fueled, and there are limits as to what you can set up at your POS based on the CPU, and power grid of your POS.

A POS can have a number of defences, and electronic warfare modules for defence. So you can see that other corparations can attack and destroy your POS.

Now to set up a POS requires certain skills, and standings. Standings are something that can take a long time to build up. This weekend I was finally about to get my standings to 5.22 with Ammatar mandate. That means in systems with a .5 security status I can set up a POS. Well...actually I can't. The reason why is cause our corp. standings are only 2.22. This number is based on both Yogita's standings and mine averaged together. So basically if she improves her standings...we will go up very very fast in standings.

Ok..whew...some bad news...or perhaps good news....Tyrannis has been delayed until this weekend. So that gives me more time to build up our capital. Collectively we about 800million isk between us. A nice sizable sum..but....really it is quite small as some modules for say a carrier can run 300million isk!! So I want to build an infrastructure with about 1 billion isk. That can earn us a steady income. It would be nice to start making t2 modules, or even get into ship building. We could build our ships, pvp in them....blow em up and then start all over again! A large part of eve is pvp.

ok whew...

/tata

Getting back on track

Well there are loads of things happening in Eve. Our main short term goal is to move into wh space.

Perhaps a low level one, class 1 or 2. We both have over 11mill sp. I am almost at 12mill. I am starting to feel it when i run level 4's. Especially since I trained up minmatar bs to level 5! My Phoon shoots cruise missiles almost like assault missiles. I have a LONG way to go when it comes to combat. And even more for pvp combat. I want to improve my salvaging (got it to level 4).

Oh I think the biggest accomplishment for our tiny corp.....we can now finish worlds collide with ease! I have learned how to stop loosing battleships in the last room!

Current training focus is improving my tank, my armor tank actually.

Oh and dead space mining rocks!!!

/tata

ORCA READY!!!

Finally I am all skilled up for an Orca. This will help in a HUGE way. I have seen what an Orca do. It is pretty nice. I will be able to shift all of my assets in 1 or 2 jumps. Likely one will be enough if I level up my industrial command ship skill to level 4. Right now I am getting close to mimmatar bs level 5, I am about 17 days away....feels good went it was 32 days...

With my mimmatar bs at level it will make my typhoon even more effective in battle. Well I mean PVE. I will learn up more missile skills max out my cruise missiles and move on to torps....

I have learned that level 4's are good but those epic level 4's are costing us a ship every other time we get them....we can earn 100mill isk.. then boom! Lose a ship bc are about 80mill total at cheapest, while bses are like 140mill isk. To much of a hit for us so I want to concentrate on mining esp with the Orca.

So basically I am all skilled up but can't afford the darn thing....

/tata

Level 4 mania!!

We made 40-50mill isk today!! It was so awesome!!! We ran so many level 4's. Now our sp are much higher...I have about 10mill, and Yogita has about 9mill. Which means our dps, and shield tanking abilities, AAAAANNNND armor tanking are through the roof. Usually in the past we would hope one of the higher level or more veteran players where online so that we could run a level 4 with him. Well thanks to him we learned a few pointers....and I mean a few. We learned what he knew from the wonderful internet. We could find all of the details online on what targets not to hit first and what not. Most of the people who ran the missions did it solo. We have a battle cruiser, and a battleship. We are kicking ass....left and right! So for a great saturday of eve level 4 running.....YEAH!

We are industrialist well...miners, so we are at the bottom the industrial pyramid.

So now we are mining.....we still make great isk mining....might be time to expand our little corp...the universe awaits!!

T.O.A

Now acting CEO of T.O.A

It has been quite exciting actually. We have finally unlocked level 4's. I have found that yes they can earn a nice bit of isk, at our sp levels, we can not finish them fast enough. Worlds Collide was so nerve rackingly exciting. My Typhoon class Battleship and her crew did extremely well! I think special note should be given to the Engineering crew. They got her out of that dead space pocket after we loaded up the trapped civilians. We had a hard time getting up to warp speed. The entire pocket had unleashed all fury on us. We were able to escape with only 30% structural integrity field. One more cruise missle would have finished us!

We are now going back to the basics namely mining for isk, using those funds to outfit our ships, then on to level 4's for PVE fun! I am thinking about building a Null Sec fund. Buy some cruisers, or battlecruisers, go in have some fun bashing rats until either our cargo holds are full or we get ganked. Hopefully we will do some ganking!

/Jemalous

Corps.....

Eve is all about your corp! You can not play this game alone. You need a team of people working together. The most powerful ships in the game are known as titans. Basically they are like HUGE stations, with massive damaging doomsday weapons. Whole fleets have been decimated from these weapons.

To skill up to use such a behemoth takes allot of time. Almost a year, while building it can take 3 months...not counting time to gather the components. I have read reports of players who have quit Eve after their titan was destroyed. In Eve most ships can be insured. For example I bought a Tempest class battleship for about 100,000,000 isk. However I was able to insure it for about 130million! Now once I outfit the vessel that can cost about.....70 million more isk. It is a minmatar ship so ammo can cost allot of dough...or isk. BUT if i lose the ship in battle (PVE, or PVP) I can still rest easy.....130mill will be returned to me.

Titans are a different ball game. Those massive vessels cost upwards of 50billion isk to build. And even more to outfit. Someone calculated in real life currency that it cost close to 5-10,000 dollars!!!!

BUT building one is a team effort! So to those to quit cause they lost this ship....shame on them. If you have a corp behind you....you can build another.

Ok more news: I have 2 pvp kills.....BUT 7 pvp deaths. Well....ships that went bye bye. Not my pod. I have been podded only once. I lost 2 hulks to Goonswarm's idiotic campaign to rid the Eve universe of macro miners. Basically these "bot" mining vessels (usually piloting a tier 2 mining barge the Hulk) mine for hours with out stop.

Hulks are awesome mining machines!!! You can mine about 20million isk an hour in high security space. Even more in low security or wormhole space!

BUT my hulk was targeted due to a massive which hunt for macro miners, who sell their ore then sell the isk for real life cash.

I hate goonswarm...a huge corp.....no it is a HUGE MEGA HUGE CORP. That takes whatever it wants. That is eve......you have to be strong to survive! The weak will perish!

I have lost about 500million isk in ships. But I will not bitch about it. I will make 1billion isk.

/tata