Day Job

While my Rupture continues to ply the high sec exploration trade new Eden continues in the flames of war. Even my corporation has never not been at war since I arrived in this dark universe. Unfortunately Eve University does not do a very good job of explaining what the hell is really going on. Strategically I learned from overhearing a pirate corporation CEO last night that the Uni makes a juicy target. Lots of members, most of them inexperienced, makes for some fun kills. I am still curious about joining the Ivy League, our military wing but for now have taken to earning some isk, as for the better part of my career I have become practiced at losing. Here is where my Rupture is growing on me. Sure killing lowly Angel Cartel pirates is not nearly the same level of challenge as killing capsuleers but it sure has been turning into a profitable venture. While I have yet to really sell most of the goods I have looted or salvaged I do almost seem to be near even based on the estimated value of those goods in my hangar. I don't expect to get this amount for them as when I have sold items I generally take a steep cut from these prices, but none the less my hanger is growing in value.

This leaves or rather leads me to my next planned progression. While flying around in high sec doing some exploration and running combat sites brings in some immediate isk in the form of bounties and I am learning to use my drones more and getting mused to my Rupture I understand this is not real combat. Capsuleers are far more deadly than these rats. I had been attempting to be a bit more disciplined planning my skill training and actually becoming a bit more balanced and training up my support skills. These are skills that help me fly my ship a bit better like, managing my power more efficiently (capacitor), allowing me to fit different modules with less penalty (fitting), blah blah blah. Yeah it's boring. Not nearly as cool as being able to use some killer new auto cannon or getting my drones to be more deadly but this was the plan I had for the long term. Well when I saw it was going to take me two weeks to train some obscure skill I bailed on my plan. I am now at the beginning of a two week skill to improve salvaging. What's the difference? Well salvaging is my bread and butter. Salvaging is what I do to those dozen of broken pirate spaceship hulls after my Rupture has said hello. Salvaging is slow and boring, but a potentially deadly exercise. I need to be able to do it faster lest a war target find me and have me for lunch. When I finish this skill (Salvaging 5) I will be able to salvage faster and be able to salvage tech 2 ships (which I haven't yet killed I think) with a Salvager 2. Yes two weeks for this. But salvaging faster means I am less stationary and less a potential target and I can earn isk more quickly.

What next, back to my original plan. Probably not. Clearing cosmic anomalies has been fun but it is getting boring. I did do well last night clearing some 23 million isk or so in a little over an hour (luck of the drop) but I want to broaden my isk earning potential. I am needing to go further into exploration and do some cosmic signatures. These are more specialized sites that require some different skills and equipment. At my level I will need to do these sites in two different ships, one to find the sites and the other to run them. I had planned on using my Probe as the scout ship but in the middle of multiple wars, despite being able to fit a cloak, I think I need a true covert ops ship and and aiming for the Cheetah. The advantage of the Cheetah is that I can warp cloaked as well which provides much more security. So I need to figure out the right balance, how much to improve my fighting skills, specialized exploration skills, and finally fitting skills so that I can actually fly and fit the Cheetah. The Cheetah will also allow my to fly cloaked to Jita where I can finally start selling some of my loot and maybe get me to a market with better prices to buy some of the more expensive goods.

So this side track into isk earning has really put a dent into my PVP development, which is really why I am in New Eden in the first place. Such is the life of a Capsuleer, I need a day job.