So I am getting a feeling that these confessions are beginning to highlight a rather unfortunate streak in my capsuleer career. My interpretation of this leads me to believe that I am not a good capsuleer pilot. This is not a good first step in my dreams of Eve domination.
The latest misfortunes relate to my issues earning isk. Had it not been for initial my windfall by cashing in through another capsuleer on my entry into the capsuleer life (described in my earlier posts) I would be running roughly 20 million isk in the red. There are a couple of reasons for this. The first being that I am not very good at making isk. I could do missions through NPC mission agents but I find them so boring, I want to roll with capsuleers. I could mine, but again to me it's one thing to mine to make something for myself and another to sit there every day just to turn a profit. I don't want to be an industrialist as it's not really specific to being a capsuleer, I mean I can fly these cool ships with big guns shouldn't I be hunting something? So this really limits me.
My idea is to do high sec exploration. It's non-linear and I get to blow things up. Unfortunately the fact that were at war and I am being hunted, successfully I must admit, has slowed down my work. The last couple of days I have grown more confident and more careful and have begun again to poke around a bit. Well last night I found an angel hideout, not really knowing what this was and wanting to clear it before other capsuleers go in on the action I hopped out of my probe (I really need to learn how to scan these down on my D-scan so I can stay in my combat ship) and into my Rifter and proceeded to the site. Lots of Angel Cartel NPC's, actually a lot more than I have ever fought at once. No worries my quick Rifter can get the job done but then I see another capsuleer in a Rupture has joined me and is taking out these NPC's faster than I can. In fact there are so many NPC's that I am having to warp out and dock to replenish my shields before I can engage again while the more tanky Rupture gets more kills. Well we clear the site and proceed to salvage. Sensing a bit of lack of honor on the Rupture pilot rudely interrupting my killing spree I pick up my loot and salvage my wrecks and then begin to ninja salvage his wrecks. Ninja salvaging is a not so honorable practice of getting to the NPC wrecks that the Rupture killed before he can. While this is not technically a hostile act, as oppossed to say taking cargo directly out of said wrecks which would of given the stronger Rupture kill rights on me (meaning I would not have Concords heavy stick to back me up), it certainly is not a noble act. I did it because I am going to the poorhouse and in my little mental world it's a form of payback for him getting in on my site (I was there first).
I get back to the station and drop off my meagre loot and begin the process again. Switch ships to my Probe and find another site, switch ships again and clear it in my Rifter and drop the loot off in my hanger. Not having a lot of luck the value of the loot is small. Repeat the process and I am back clearing another hideout on my own and something goes wrong. I am having to warp out and repair my shields within only a minute or so at engaging with the NPC's. There is just too many of them and now miss the Rupture who I had previously scorned. My speed is not enough to protect me from all of the Angel Cartels ships and I am only getting one kill before I need to bug out again. So I decide to engage the ships I think are the strongest and pick them off first and then perhaps I can clear the whole area. So after repairing my shields I drop back in flick on my afterburners and choose my target, his shields are dropping so are mine, he is into armor, I almost have him into structure. My shield alarm goes off, I am running out of shields my primary defense. Just a little bit more and I can finish him off, out of shields and my paper thin armor vanishes. Crap warp away, like a frightened weakling, too late I lose my 10 million isk Rifter, pop.
I humbly return to the station in my capsule defeated. With bounty kills and value of my loot I probably made less than a million isk. My venture yielded me negative 9 million isk. This is not working out so well.
So lessons learned, I need to disengage when I hear my shield alarm. I had been doing this consistently but got overconfident and greedy. I also need the right ship for the right job, it was obvious that the way I fly my Rifter this was not a good engagement for me. Too many enemy vessels and my speed tanking (flying really fast around my target so that they can't hit me) does not work against many multiple targets because some of those targets will be able to track and hit me as my angular velocity to them will be slower.
So I have been playing with my Rupture fit and designed one of my own rather than just borrowing one like I did with my Rifter fit. I figure you need to learn and just can't copy. So my Rupture when fitted will cost close to 30 million isk when I have the skills trained. I hope it will allow me to engage more of these cosmic anomalies I am hunting and then when my skills train get into some cosmic signature sites.
The rub is I have no more Rifters, my Rupture is a barren hull. My corporation is at war an I will need to fly around in dangerous space in a weak ship to pick up all these valuable modules. I will need to buy more Rifters and Ruptures and my bank account is hurting. An auspicious start to my Eve career.
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