My confessions were supposed to describe the delicate intellectual and emotional struggles faced by immortal capsuleers as they traverse New Eden. The psychological streams of mighty corporations or individual miners and how they interplay. The loss of ones humanity and the growth of sociopathy. Deep ties of friendship set against the backdrop of danger and destruction. Unfortunately I am struggling just to stay afloat and the basic needs of life have super-ceded these higher philosophical realms. My current actions have only made this dilemma more stark.
So I last wrote just a couple of days ago describing my current malaise. Well it just got worse. While purchasing the modules to fit out my new Rupture cruiser I made a costly mistake. Yes another one. This one was perhaps my most dumb and easily avoided. With my bigger ship I can fit bigger guns, yeah! Bigger guns especially the advanced tech II variety cost more, boo. I was going to buy enough modules for three ships as losing said ships has become the norm for me and I didn't want to have to repeat this process too often. My home space station is not a major trading hub so usually to get decent prices on the modules I need I have to travel a few jumps to get there. Each new system one has to jump into yields more chances for danger especially when my corporation is currently at war and those adversaries are just looking to kill some Unistas. So each of these auto-cannons (AC) ran almost 1.5 million isk, my particular Rupture fit called for four of these to be installed for one wickedly powerful (at least for me) offensive capability. So three times four equals 12, not too hard. So why in the world did I just buy 32 of these AC's? This is around 50 million isk worth of guns, 8 Rupture fits worth, or almost 2 full brand new Ruptures fully fitted out. I was already hurting in the the isk department before this, now my situation is approaching critical. I really don't have an explanation for why, obviously I wasn't paying close enough attention and my finger strayed.
So now I was left the task of hauling said guns back to Aldrat in one piece. I fitted out my Probe (not a good ship for this but I am running low on ships at the moment and taking out a naked Rupture isn't a good idea, (which I did anyway briefly accidentally undocking from the space station but fortunately able to dock again without getting blown up) so I threw whatever modules I had lying around the hanger to try to make her a bit more robust and purchased a warp core stabilizer just in case I was tackled (this might provide me a way to escape if they enemy targets my warp core trying to keep me from being able to warp away). Luckily (which is a new sensation for me) I made the round trip in one piece and now have a small fortune in AC's in my hanger. My next pick up was for all the other modules in the system Hek. The journey to this system is considered a pipe. Not that I knew this before I left but a pipe is basically a kind of funnel in terms of star-gates (that which one jumps between systems in) and which basically forces traffic along a certain route (one basically has to go through certain systems to get from point a to b for lack of alternative jump gate options). Hek had been a system which I had feared as traveling there previously to buy some parts I saw some former war targets. It's a good place to get ambushed as it is the nearest trading hub to Aldrat (I think), my and the Uni's home system. I would be piling in some 45 million isk worth of modules in it so I certainly didn't want to pop. Luck was with me again and I planned my journey for a time where there are a lower number of capsuleer pilots flying around and made it back to Aldrat in one piece.
So now I can focus on fitting out my Rupture and finishing up training the required skills for some of these modules so I can use them (like my small stockpile of expensive AC's). This will take some time. In the mean time I have no real combat vessels in my hanger having lost my Rifter, so in wartime am really limited in what I can do. I put an order in for two more Rifters and hope to be flying around enveloped in danger trying to earn some isk soon. I also hope to be promoted from freshman to sophomore status in a couple of weeks in the Uni so that I might have access to the Alpha hanger and thus free frigates (like all my ships with the exception of my Rupture) and thus not need to buy them again and again. I will still need to pay for the modules, and with how I fit my ships (I don't go too cheap) is the bulk of the cost but when you are going broke as quickly as I am any little bit helps.
So that's it for now, more lessons learned and a basic game plan. I only hope my next confession does not yet again highlight how bad a capsuleer I am.
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