Going Nowhere

Well I have managed to stem the tide of steady losses to my isk balance. The rub is I haven't flown in about a week. So no shiny ships getting popped but no new isk earned either. This isn't really what I had in mind when I ventured to become a capsuleer.

So what's the rub, why can't I seem to get some traction on one of the most basic and fundamental aspects to this lifestyle? Well the obvious is that I am not very good at this. While that is true the other is that many of the standard money making ventrues don't appeal to me. I don't want to grind missions or mine for a living. The idea of trading or hauling seems so boring. How about an industrialist, well all of these things I may do on a small scale to support myself but the idea of this being a major component of my life in Eve seems depressing. So that leaves exploration and PVP. So that is what I do and that is why I lose ships.

So I trained up and was ready to pilot a Rupture, a cruiser, a bigger ship than my trusty Rifter frigate. This was to be a key in my expanding financial empire. So what happened? Well lets just say I have spent almost a week just training to be able to use the guns for this ship, then I need to train for the defenses, and a bunch of other modules I want to fit... I had no idea this would all take so long.

I tried to buy a couple of Rifters to fly around, earn some isk and get some good fights but have blown about 60,000 isk on doing contracts improperly. Somehow I managed to do a contract for my Rupture but can't seem to duplicate this action. I have also been hoping I can run out the clock until I am granted Sophomore status at the Uni so I can get the Rifter hulls for free from the corporation hanger. The truth is I am cheap, I mean two Rifter hulls cost under a million isk.

So it seems I am a bit paralyzed by my circular logic. Waiting to train up this darn Rupture and wanting to wait out my promotion to get more Rifters for free. So in the interim I have been hearing recorded classes on exploration and trying to get together a small group of corp-mates to run some C1 wormholes (easiest wormhole [WH]). Both I am afraid with limited success. I do seem to be learning a bit more about WH life but am still pretty uneducated and I have two maybe three other capsuleers expressing some interest in the WH venture.

I have been trying to keep up with the goings on in the greater strategic aspect of null-sec space but I can't really find a concise source of information.  Eve News 24 is of very mixed quality. Seems war is still raging in the North but I can't really follow who is winning and havent spent the time to try to figure it out on my own.

So my life has been boring.  I will write some more e-mails and post again on the Uni forum to see if I can get some more eager volunteers.  I will keep plugging away at training up my skill-books  and suffer the wait to actually get to fly and fit out my Rupture. I will cross my fingers and hope that I make Sophomore at the Uni soon and access to the hanger so I can throw my free Rifter hulls into the face of danger but meanwhile New Eden rolls along without me, not what I had envisioned.