Having terrible standings with a faction makes for a painful clawback to get better level missions. I am doing level 1 missions to crawl back from a -4.2 standing with the Amarr Empire. Having moved to Amarr space, it's pretty painful if you want to do level 4 missions. Just keep it in mind to turn down missions that have an effect on faction standings with the empires
Check out the You Tube channel, Gaming Since the 70's. This is my corporation CEO's YouTube channel and he gives a lot of insight into running an industrial empire in EVE Online.
Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/@Gamingsincethe70s
So I moved my blueprints over to my new home and was going through them. I can't beleive I had like 10 breacher blueprints. I have so many duplicates, all mostly, researched that I will never use. I guess I will just sell them, although no idea who would want them.
Another moon mining operation underway in Talidal. I have to tell you, I am enjoying mining the moons around here. Here's a snip of the fleet.
Here is a screenshot of ice mining in Kothe on 4/17/2026
Here I have an Orca, 2 Hulks (I had them handy, but will ice
break with Machinaws generally)
Well, after man years of a long break, I guess I am sucked back
into EVE Online once again. I have been
a solo industrialist basically focusing on mining and manufacturing, but now it
looks like it’s time to join a new corporation of living and breathing
souls. I admit, it is relaxing strip-mining
asteroid belts solo, but EVE has always been about interactions. You meet people from all over the world
trying to eke out a living and enjoy the scenery.
Just last night, I was in a large omber/kernite anomaly, and
I noticed a little Venture who was blue on my overview. I’m terrible with names, but I did recall inviting
him to my fleet the previous time I was in Akoosh. I chatted with him and invited him
again. It turns out he’s from the EU and
works on a cruise ship. He is currently
in port and trying to save up enough ISK to buy a new Armageddon. Unfortunately, he lost his in a level 4
security mission. I’ve been there
before. I was wrapping up the belt and I
felt bad I had to leave.
I went back to station and removed all my roles from my four
alts so I could leave my holdings corp and get ready to apply to a new
one. Only time will tell, but I wont be
going it alone.
I’ll update soon. As
always, fly safe.
While training for mining barges and ultimately, exhumers, I
tried out the mining destroyer, the Pioneer.
I was quite impressed. It doesn’t
mine quite as much as a barge, nor does it have a huge ore hold. If you are in a fleet with an Orca with ore
compression, the ore hold size isn’t really a big deal. Does it fit in betwixt the mining frigate and
a mining barge. I feel like it
does. It’s a nice little ship. It can hold 8 drones, so you can bring along
your mining drones and still have a capable flight of scout drones for
protection. The biggest limitation I found
was with CPU and capacitor charge. Maybe
it was my fit.
While I don’t recall the exact fitting, I found it’s a bit
squishy with passive shield mods. If you’re
in a fleet, it really isn’t a big deal as the barges/exhumers/command ships can
cover you with their drones to take out the belt rats. I don’t think I will bother with the T2 variant,
the Outrider. I quickly switched to
training barges after I had enough skills to make them effective.
I think it is worth a shot to train if you are new and want
to focus on mining. Going to barges
requires a lot of tertiary skills to make it an efficient choice. The Pioneer is a good steppingstone or if you
just want to mine on the side. That’s
just my two cents. This is just a quick shout
out about the Pioneer and their faction counterparts, not a detailed use case.
Anyway, fly safe.
I’ve had an Orca for a long time, but having not logged in for
several years, I wasn’t aware of the ore compression system. I’m in love.
Ore compression in space, in a fleet, is a godsend. I was doing it the hard way. I had an alt who flew a freighter and parked
in the belt and picked up the cans the barges dropped, brough them back to the
station, rinse and repeat. Now, with ore
compression, I turned that freighter pilot into another miner. I started with the mining destroyer (Pioneer)
but quickly trained to mining barge. I
am currently about a week away from exhumers.
Adding another barge to the fleet has made a huge difference in how long
I spend in belts. It’s also heavenly to
work anomalies.
The Orca fits the Industrial Core module and the Ore Compression
module. Once in the belt or at an anomaly,
you turn them on and anyone in the fleet within a certain range can compress
their ore 100x. So 100m3 of velspar
becomes 1m3 of compressed veldspar. The
compression is lossless, so there is not a disadvantage to using it that I can
see.
It makes life a lot easier as far as logistics. I’ve found that a belt in .5/.6 space takes
up about 7.5k m3 compressed. You can
mine to your hearts content knowing that you really don’t have to return to a
station for quite a while. The Orca can
hold about 185k m3 of ore IIRC. If you
run an Orca and don’t use compression, you are missing out. If you are a solo miner, see if there is an Orca
or Porpoise who is running a fleet by checking the fleet adverts. Most miners, I believe, are happy to have
someone join the fleet to take advantage of their services. You might want to kick them a little ISK, but
I never ask for it.
If you see me, Vexed Nova, flying in my Orca, hit me up or
check to see if I am fleet adverting.
As always, fly safe.
Well…It’s been a long time since I played EVE Online and
even longer still, since I have posted to a blog. Any blog.
Are these even still a thing?
YouTube had been around for a while, but things like Twitch
have really taken off. I don’t even
recall Twitch back when I was updating this blog regularly.
My original intent was to chronicle my own progression
through EVE through my corporation. That
corporation is no longer (although it still exists). I have moved on and with things like “real
life” taking priority, I kind of walked away from EVE. It can be a full-time job if you let
it. The blog evolved a bit into other
things, but I was hoping for it to become an insight into the industrialist side
of EVE. I don’t know if I ever really achieved
that goal. Probably not, and it didn’t run
for long, but it was hella fun at the time and a bunch of people were actively
involved in it in some way. Whether it
was fan-fiction or how to fit your ship to be efficient and safe. Many of those fits and protocols are long
since defunct and not relevant in the later EVE expansions. However, the principles are still the same: Fit to tank and fit for efficiency.
What I would like to do is continue where I left off. Will anyone see this and find any value? I don’t know.
I have all sorts of ideas, it’s just whether I will have the time to put
pen-to-paper (figurately speaking) or not.
What’s new in EVE for me since my return. Well, lots of new ships. Mining Frigates and variants. Compression modules for Orcas. Hell, they even have mining destroyers. Like, what?
With that, there are new blueprints that even I don’t have. There are lots of new activities and new ways
to keep track of them. Lots of new, but
still with the old bones of EVE. That’s
not a knock on CCP but there is a lot for old account to catch up on.
A long-time friend gave me the push to come back and check
it out. So far, I am happy stripping
asteroid belts, but I long for an active corporation with lots of old and new
people to fly with. I don’t think I can
devote the time to running a corporation, however. RL money and time are tight. I’m trying to pay for EVE through PLEX (Pilot
License Extension) which is a way to turn in-game currency into subscription
time. I’ve been around for a long time
(since 2009), so anything worth doing, for me, requires an Omega Clone.
I wasn’t planning on this post being as long. Hopefully there is more to come. Just be aware that the corporation is not recruiting
and much of the information here is out of date.
To those of you who got this far, thanks for your time.
