Poorer by about 400M (though some of that I've taken from Mal's legacy
And Richer by an Orca which I should probably now learn how to fly. Or navigate. Or something.
But the poniez have a Really Big CargoBay to play in. (Though the feed bill is enormous -- does anyone out there want a semi-carnivorous ponie for company on long flights ??!!)
Sunday, 8 November 2009
Thursday, 5 November 2009
Not the greatest of days
DDD has gone.
Not like Mal: he hasn't *quit*, but he's Moved On.
Apparently White Carnation and he stayed in contact, and she told him that she'd found a system with something called kerniate ore. And apparently it is worth A Lot.
So he called me up for loan of my Flying Brick (Mal's old one), and yesterday I went out to Klaevik, and loaded up with ore and veld and a couple of ships, and miscellaneous gear (I thought my hanger was messy, but ... !!!), and he loaded up his TRusty Badger, and we flew out to the back-end of beyond (but still in hi-sec) and relocated him to a new station.
Then I had the joy of flying the Brick (an Obelisk, for the trainspotters among you) back to my bit of space, watching all the way for the orange flags we'd been getting coming down. Even to the point, on the way down, of one of them locking target on the Badger, but DDD warped off in time.
So, both my Caldari chums have found their way to me, and then headed out again. I stay in touch but it's not the same.
Except that Carnation has started sending me ISK to repay the loans I made for skillboox, and DDD is definitely coming in on a share in teh Orca when I get it (he sold the veld (because he can always mine more) and made 70M isk in one bite). I'm 2 days off Mining Foreman V, and then I but the Director book and learn that, and then it's just the 40 million for the Orca book, and I'm set to go shopping.
Not that I have the cash yet, but if DDD sends me 100M, and I spend some more of Mal's legacy .... (And I let a couple more poniez go to Good Homez ... )
Neats
J
Not like Mal: he hasn't *quit*, but he's Moved On.
Apparently White Carnation and he stayed in contact, and she told him that she'd found a system with something called kerniate ore. And apparently it is worth A Lot.
So he called me up for loan of my Flying Brick (Mal's old one), and yesterday I went out to Klaevik, and loaded up with ore and veld and a couple of ships, and miscellaneous gear (I thought my hanger was messy, but ... !!!), and he loaded up his TRusty Badger, and we flew out to the back-end of beyond (but still in hi-sec) and relocated him to a new station.
Then I had the joy of flying the Brick (an Obelisk, for the trainspotters among you) back to my bit of space, watching all the way for the orange flags we'd been getting coming down. Even to the point, on the way down, of one of them locking target on the Badger, but DDD warped off in time.
So, both my Caldari chums have found their way to me, and then headed out again. I stay in touch but it's not the same.
Except that Carnation has started sending me ISK to repay the loans I made for skillboox, and DDD is definitely coming in on a share in teh Orca when I get it (he sold the veld (because he can always mine more) and made 70M isk in one bite). I'm 2 days off Mining Foreman V, and then I but the Director book and learn that, and then it's just the 40 million for the Orca book, and I'm set to go shopping.
Not that I have the cash yet, but if DDD sends me 100M, and I spend some more of Mal's legacy .... (And I let a couple more poniez go to Good Homez ... )
Neats
J
Saturday, 31 October 2009
Thursday, 29 October 2009
Been A While
It wasn't my intention, it was just the way things turned out.
I've been running courier jobs, mostly to earn ISK without getting my shabooies blown off. In and among they ask me to do combat ops, and once in a while I take one. Which resulted in me having 3 holds-full of loot and salvage. Which I was taking home as and when I passed through the system.
Then I got a 1 m3 courier job, and decided it was daft running a BS or a Mammoth for that. So I podded five jumps and bought a Rifter, took her to my main base, and fitted her out -- and named her Tsangerei after a planet in a song.
And ran the courier job and on the way back decided to look at a drone spawn point. And had fun !!!
I'd forgotten what a joy it is to rat in a Rifter. Turns on a sixpence, bites bum with the best, and (with AFB) runs away as soon as the damage rises. Yes, I know: majorly vulnerable to web/scram, but it's a Rifter, it's worth maybe 3M tops. I might even buy rigs for it. And faction ammo (though it eats ammo like a wolfhound).
So, could we have a little Yay!! for the Rifter and the joy of killing drones
I thang kew
I've been running courier jobs, mostly to earn ISK without getting my shabooies blown off. In and among they ask me to do combat ops, and once in a while I take one. Which resulted in me having 3 holds-full of loot and salvage. Which I was taking home as and when I passed through the system.
Then I got a 1 m3 courier job, and decided it was daft running a BS or a Mammoth for that. So I podded five jumps and bought a Rifter, took her to my main base, and fitted her out -- and named her Tsangerei after a planet in a song.
And ran the courier job and on the way back decided to look at a drone spawn point. And had fun !!!
I'd forgotten what a joy it is to rat in a Rifter. Turns on a sixpence, bites bum with the best, and (with AFB) runs away as soon as the damage rises. Yes, I know: majorly vulnerable to web/scram, but it's a Rifter, it's worth maybe 3M tops. I might even buy rigs for it. And faction ammo (though it eats ammo like a wolfhound).
So, could we have a little Yay!! for the Rifter and the joy of killing drones
I thang kew
Monday, 12 October 2009
Good News at a Distance
White Carnation commed me to say that she now has a second R&D agent in hand, and is grinding toward a 3rd.
Meanwhile I'm presently trying to stay afloat by doing L4 courier runs (especially when AKFT paid me back by covering my arriese -- indeed my entire upper two thirds -- in the combat mission I got thrown up). Had to pay for repairs when the entire pocket agressed on me (despite me Running Away at full pelt) and buy a new clone because the old one was full.
So my Orca is no nearer, and all my ISKies in the bank are gone. And may have to sell some poniez as the feed bill is getting big. Is it my fault if I can't resist their pleading little eyes as they look at me through the pet-shop bars ?
Meanwhile I'm presently trying to stay afloat by doing L4 courier runs (especially when AKFT paid me back by covering my arriese -- indeed my entire upper two thirds -- in the combat mission I got thrown up). Had to pay for repairs when the entire pocket agressed on me (despite me Running Away at full pelt) and buy a new clone because the old one was full.
So my Orca is no nearer, and all my ISKies in the bank are gone. And may have to sell some poniez as the feed bill is getting big. Is it my fault if I can't resist their pleading little eyes as they look at me through the pet-shop bars ?
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
Not the Greatest
of Days.
I was running some Sisters missions, while building up my resolve to quit COSMOS space and go back to ordinary missions (with the Sisters at least I'm working up to earning some boosted probes), and I got led to a L4 agent who was offering non-combat missions. So I did two, in a shuttle, and got away with it, and then a third came, and it was apparently pure reconnaisance, so I took that one.
Gated in and was blatted by two cruisers and a BS. Ran, returned to station. Was going to look up the mission and see what else I might do, but got call from AKFT person who needed help catching Dagan (Don't worry if you don't know the SP -- either you eventually will come across him, or you won't and it won't matter). So I threw up the 7-figure mission, and went to help him in Mal's Megathron.
I tanked, he blatted, I threw in a couple of drones, Dagan went down. I salvaged and handed it over, and went back. And then found that my shuttle ought to have coped, and that I'd thrown away a 7-figure mission.
Snit city. Ponie-cuddling time.
Bless
I was running some Sisters missions, while building up my resolve to quit COSMOS space and go back to ordinary missions (with the Sisters at least I'm working up to earning some boosted probes), and I got led to a L4 agent who was offering non-combat missions. So I did two, in a shuttle, and got away with it, and then a third came, and it was apparently pure reconnaisance, so I took that one.
Gated in and was blatted by two cruisers and a BS. Ran, returned to station. Was going to look up the mission and see what else I might do, but got call from AKFT person who needed help catching Dagan (Don't worry if you don't know the SP -- either you eventually will come across him, or you won't and it won't matter). So I threw up the 7-figure mission, and went to help him in Mal's Megathron.
I tanked, he blatted, I threw in a couple of drones, Dagan went down. I salvaged and handed it over, and went back. And then found that my shuttle ought to have coped, and that I'd thrown away a 7-figure mission.
Snit city. Ponie-cuddling time.
Bless
Monday, 21 September 2009
Not Good News
I don't know where they heard it from, but according to what I was told ....
I've stayed in the Pator Tech corp since I graduated -- they're good people, they have clean stations, and they do what they can for their graduates. Now, apparently, CONCORD have decided that they have to start charging us (or taxing us) to stay members. They want us to join the commercial corps (which tax anyway), because they say that they protect us by blocking pirates and null-sec gankers, and we ought to pay for it.
So I lose all my friends, and then I lose this protection because the null-sec people simply war-dec hi-sec corps, which means they can kill you as they like and you get no rights against them. My poniez are scared stiff.
And if I'm going to save up for my Orca, I really can't afford the taxes.
On the other hand, had excellent day yesterday with the AKFT, mining and chatting -- mostly mining. Ursus was there, too, which kept my spirits up.
And tomorrow I'm planning on ... well, never mind: don't want the gankers to hear me ....
I've stayed in the Pator Tech corp since I graduated -- they're good people, they have clean stations, and they do what they can for their graduates. Now, apparently, CONCORD have decided that they have to start charging us (or taxing us) to stay members. They want us to join the commercial corps (which tax anyway), because they say that they protect us by blocking pirates and null-sec gankers, and we ought to pay for it.
So I lose all my friends, and then I lose this protection because the null-sec people simply war-dec hi-sec corps, which means they can kill you as they like and you get no rights against them. My poniez are scared stiff.
And if I'm going to save up for my Orca, I really can't afford the taxes.
On the other hand, had excellent day yesterday with the AKFT, mining and chatting -- mostly mining. Ursus was there, too, which kept my spirits up.
And tomorrow I'm planning on ... well, never mind: don't want the gankers to hear me ....
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