Welcome to the fourteenth installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed to crazykinux@gmail.com. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!
The first banter of 2010 comes to us from the EVE Blog Father, CrazyKinux himself, who asks the following: As we begin another year in New Eden, ask yourselves “What Now?” What will I attempt next? What haven’t I done so far in EVE? Was it out fear, funds, or knowledge? Have I always wanted to start my own corporation, but have never dared doing so? Is there a fledgling mercenary waiting to come out of its shell? Or maybe an Industrialist? What steps and objectives will I set myself to accomplish in order to reach my ultimate goal for this year? EVE is what you make of it. So, what is it going to be for you?
Over the last three years I have pretty much dabbled in everything, but I have really spent 95% of my time living in Null sec and I don’t see that changing any time soon as I don’t like empire for PvP (unless it is POS’s) and I don’t like Low sec PvP (to many restrictions). So that just leaves a life in 0.0 or wormholes space. For me there are two big things I want to do 1) Get more involved in PvP and 2) Make lots of ISK to support number 1.
While I have always being up for a bit a PvP I have never being totally committed to it, at best I consider myself a carebear willing to throw ships away. Most of my time in 0.0 has being spent running Plexs, ratting or doing anomalies (or just doing stuff you can’t remember but seems to take up a lot of your time…). Not that I consider myself totally incompetent at PvP, it’s just that I need to do it more often. So to that end I plan on being more involved in PvP, which is a good thing considering I am now a PvP trainer in OUCH.
One recurring problem I have had though out my time in Eve is making ISK. I tend to get a nice cash boost from some good lot which I then use to buy what I want and then it runs out and I have no ISK for a while. Therefore I plan on getting more of a passive income stream by getting involved in T2 production, moon mineral reactions, trading and a level 4 mission running. I have dabbled in all this before not with any serious intention of doing them long term. Naturally to do all this I am going to have to get a few POS’s set up in Empire so that will be the first step (and is already under way).
Skill wise, I have never really had a plan to begin with, I just train whatever I feel like at the time. I was going to get Prometheus09 into a Paladin to run anomalies in but now that I’m not in Esoteria anymore there isn’t much point. Instead I may just get skills to 5 to improve his PvP readiness, though admittedly a Marauder isn’t too far way and the skills needed for it will help me PvP wise. Caladan09 will instead focus on getting into a Paladin for mission running while Fishy Night may just get crossed trained into another race, possible Amarr as well, or Ill just get him to focus on getting more support skills.
Corporation wise, I’ll be staying in OUCH for the foreseeable future, though I’ll still be running CPR on the side and a little industry corp as well to get me ISK. Alexia has goals for OUCH and wants to see it expand into Curse as respected corporation and alliance and I will be there to help him do it. Though to be honest I have been two alliance trying to start from scratch and they have not worked out, so my presence may doom him. Then again those failed alliances weren’t run by Australians : )
There are two things I have on my wishlist to do at some time in future; start a Black ops focused corp (or join one) so I can get a lot more play time in my favourites class of ships (Stealth Bombers, Recons and Black Ops) and do the type of warfare I like most. In the future I may even be able to set up a Black Ops corp in OUCH, but that would be a long way off. Building on that I would like to move said corp into a wormhole that has a static 0.0 exit so said Black Ops corp pop in and out of 0.0 anywhere in Eve and harass some unsuspecting locals. Of course if I ever got said corp up and running I would like it to be allied with another PvE based corp in wormhole space who are attacking Sleepers just so when there are no ops on we can join in with them to make ISK etc.
So there you have it. My plans for the coming year and my Eve dream.
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- Into the unknown with gun and camera - Show me the money
- Ecliptic Rift - Enabling the future
- Inanity and Doom - New Year’s Resolutions, New Eden Style
- Break Vol - Blog Banter #14
- Guns Ablaze - What Now?
- Adventures in Mission Running - The Way Forward
- Diary of a Pod Pilot - Things I want to do
- Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah - The Year That Will Be
- Roc’s Ramblings - WordPress ate my blog
- Vive Virtual - Frontier Living
- A Mule in EVE - Next on the chopping block
- Prano’s Journey - I Peer Into My Crystal Pod…
- Life in Low Sec - Expanding the Franchise
- The Light of Stars - Testing the claims of CCP
- A Memoir From Space - A New Direction
- The Chronofile - Blog Banter 2010
- FlashFresh - What now for Flash?
- EVE Opportunist - Fyreite in 112
- Mike Azariah - Jiorj
- Yarrbear Tales - Year in Review
- The Independant Analyst - The Year Ahead
- The Travels of Black Claw - Where ma I going?
- Warp Scrammed - What to do this year
- Sered’s Lives - Searching for directions in 2010
- Finders & Keepers - New Tears, Same Great Taste
- More to come…
