While I like to credit myself as having a bent for strategic vision I must admit there exists a more primitive side to this capsuleer. Here I was patiently training so I could fly a covert-ops frigate so that I might fly unnoticed and unmolested amongst the stars. The last time I moved up in ship class, into my trusty Rupture cruiser, I grew a bit despondent by the amount of time not just to train into my cruiser but all the fittings (guns and the like). I suffered weeks of indignation as I had this beautiful new ship in my hanger but couldn't fly her lest she fall prey to war targets (WT) and not able to fire back and defend herself.
So now being a more experienced capsuleer I began adding up the time it would take me to fly and fit out my new cov-ops frigate. My mouth popped opened when I saw it would take more than a month. Now good strategy is good strategy and patience is a virtue. So I must confess that I am not a patient capsuleer. I quickly tossed my laboriously studied plan for a risky and I must admit unwise plan of buying a Noctis. Now a Noctis is a strange ship, for instance she can't mount guns. She is an industrial with only one real purpose and that is to salvage. Salvaging being my main source of accumulated wealth is quite important to this high-sec explorer. I had originally envisioned the reverse order, cov-ops first then salvager. The cov-ops frigate would allow me to more safely find higher value cosmic signatures in addition to my lowly anomalies and in return net me more isk and then my Noctis would quickly swoop up the salvage. The plan was Cheetah (cov-ops frigate) finds and bookmarks the sites, quickly dock up and pull out the Rupture who proceeds to smash the teeth of the Angel pirates and crack and loot the more advanced signature sites with their requisite tools and then the Noctis to clean up and salvage all the kills. Not that I like the idea of needing three ships to do what, if I had the money and the skills perhaps one ship could do, but it could potentially increase my isk earning potential from a few million isk per hour to potentially tens of millions, heck maybe even a hundred million isk or more per hour depending on the drop and loot.
Now the plan is to use my 30 million isk Rupture to find the lowly anomalies and kill everything in sight and my a hundred cough cough, and some cough cough million isk Noctis to sweep up the loot. The fact that it could take me a very very long time to pay off the Noctis in this manner is not lost on me. I still do hope to be in my Cheetah in a bit over a month but I have decided to run a big risk. The Noctis will come close to cleaning out my cash reserves. In Eve the golden rule is don't fly what you can't afford to lose. I can just barely afford to lose the Noctis, I won't be able to replace her and with WT's buzzying around and industrial ships banned by Uni policy to be flying in war time I also run the risk of being kicked from my corporation. You see industrials make expensive and easy targets and the Uni's strategy is to make war boring for the the other side.
So why continue with this lunacy? The truth is I am getting a bit bored. The Rupture pretty easily punches the teeth out of these scrawny pirates and it takes so long to salvage the loot with it. I figure with the Noctis I can spend more time blowing things up and less time salvaging. This has the potential to increase my earnings as I can spend the time saved on salvaging into clearing more anomalies. It's still chump change in the Noctis cost scheme of things, but it's different and it's a challenge. So with that in mind I hopped in my Rupture (hadn't fitted out my Rifter) and made the daredevil trip out to Hek, the local trading hub that the WT's like to hunt, and with heart pumping made the trip back in one piece. Now sitting in my hanger are all the pieces that will fit onto my Noctis's hull. In four days I will be ready to fly and fit everything I need for one tricked out mighty salvager. This time I am waiting to buy her until I can use her, no more ship spinning in the hanger but flying in the cold dark space. I only hope she doesn't get popped on her first flight.
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