The Captains Log

The Captains Log 22/8

Skills

So I have finished training Minmitar Frigate V on Prometheus09 so he now can use the Sabre, just another 4 days and he will be able to use T2 projectile turrets. After that I believe I will work on getting my gunnery support skills up as my DPS is a little weak when using guns. Caladan09 has finished Energy Grid Upgrades V so he can now use Reactor Control Unit II on his Pilgrim, which allows him to fit the large neut I have on it now. However, the Pilgrim training is not over yet has he has to get some shield skills for the tank and drone skills for DPS. Fishy Night can now fly a fully fitted dread (still need one so if you want to donate one to me feel free : ), though he still needs a few skills to level 4 before he can fly one efficiently.

Isk

With all these skills finishing I want to buy more ships and fittings, though I don’t have the ISK for them, so I figured it was time to earn some ISK. First I thought I would run some missions. So I bought two Ravens (first time I have ever flown a Raven in nearly two years as a Caldari Pilot) and fitted them (400 mill) and started doing some lvl 4 mission, but that wasn’t getting me that much in the ISK. A couple of ships sold so I had 300 mill again. I decided that this would be a good time try some trading. I had never done this before but I knew the basics – Buy high and sell low, buy and sell in quantities and your cargo space is worth a lot. So I decided to buy and sell pyerite after comparing the Amarr and Esoteria markets, there were large quantities moving in both places with a good enough price gap it was worth doing. However, it was only profitable if I did it in a freighter, which I did not have, so I borrowed one from a friend up in empire.

The Freighter and my Crow as scout

Dosent the new Warp Tunnle effect look nice?

So now I had to fly down to Esoteria. Looking at the maps I could either travel 30 jumps though 0.0 or use jump bridges and cut that distance in half. I took the jump bridges. The only scary part was when just as I was getting to HED-GP a hostile gang formed up on the gate. However I knew they were there so I just waited till the left and continued on my way. It took me longer to collect all the pyerite than I anticipated, but that was because I had do to some travailing to get 60 mill pyerite and I kept on disconnecting. In the future I’ll just put up buy orders so I don’t have to travel to the various stations. Once After selling the pyerite I hauled up in Jita I made 80 mill.

After all the hauling all the ore I then brought my Ravens down to 0.0 to use them for ratting and plexing. As well as my Flacon.

War & Peace: My new Ravens

Plans for pew pew.

After reading Lestranges blog about wormholes and the Hellcats plans to use wormholes as a raiding base I thought it might be a good idea to plan an extensive roam into wormhole space. After talking to some corp mates who are living in a wormhole at the moment I got the impression that it is fairly busy in Wormhole space with plenty of targets to hit. At the moment I am thinking of taking my Arazu and Pilgrim out there, however after playing with some fittings I couldn’t find a fit I liked that did some decent DPS but could still use a Expanded probe launcher (I need this and not the core one so I can locate targets). So I may have to take a third character out to use as a prober.