Business as usual

Researching blueprints is so boooooooring.

But despite real-life issues and a lot of work I managed to do something for my EVE corp as well. I fiddled enough with GoogleDocs to end up with a calculation sheet or two that I can use to organize PI installations and POS fuel consumption, and all the other things awaiting me, with. I could have used template sheets from other players but making such things yourself ensures you really know what's going on and what's important (at least one can expect to know that afterwards).

On a sidenote: I am really looking forward to the date when you can spin ships in your hangar again. I miss this feature.

Extended Downtime

Work keeps me quite busy at the moment, so its just some skilling, cargo movement, or a small mission here and there. I'll get back for real in a week or so, and I'll bring some plans with me.

Standing fail

Remember: if you are about to plant some towers in Empire space, do it before you join the corp with your low-or-negative-standing altchar. Yeah. I'll do that... next time.

Planetary Interaction is weird...

Well, it's been some time since I fiddled with Planetary Interaction. I was very excited back when this feature became part of EVE Online, but over time I lost interest and my attention wandered off towards other things. Not that it was too complex, oh no, I always thought it was just about right in terms of difficulty. Everyone with some hours of experience in any RTS game like C&C, Settlers or Civilisation won't have much trouble getting into the topic of PI. It's just that I am not a producer or inventer in EVE (at least until now), so all these complex schematics, producing schedules and time/reward ratios kind of intimidated me.

Today I though: "Ah, let's give it a new try. Even if it's not a fun process, at least I'll get some POS fuel out of it." No sooner said than done - I seeded some Command Centers and began building up. Of course, stupid me, I didn't gather any up-to-date information about it, so when it came down to planting extractors, surprise! It's a new system with extractors these days and maybe has been for some time by now, I don't know. Also Command Centers are upgradeable depending on your skills, rather than being different types of centers you have to buy separately. Yeah, don't say there's nothing left to learn in EVE these days :)

For now I planted just a few test facilites to look how much ressources I can get in empire space. I definitely will have a look or two on some tutorials to get the most bang for my buck, but unlike others who make a real profession out of PI, I think it'll be never more than an incidental earning for my little corp project. We'll se.

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P.S. and off-topic: is there any way to get your corp logo in high resolution out of EVE? Searching about this topic has got me the most diverse results and some scripts or tools to do the job, but as it seems CCP in all their cleverness restricted corp logo resolution to unbelieveable 64*64 pixels... yeah, right. I can generate 512*512 portaits from all the ugly faces in my local channel but my own corp logo is restricted to a thumbnail? You've got to be kidding, CCP.

 

This is a downscaled result of some fiddling in Photoshop, but no plugin or tool I am aware of can handle such awful compression artifacts. And I really don't feel like rebuilding the damn thing... meh.

Making myself at home in Wuos

For quite some years I lived in the south, empire-wise.
Kador, Tash-Murkon, those regions were the base of empire operations for my former long-term corporation. From there we proceeded into lowsec space and further into Providence. We did quite some missionrunning at several local agents, including Kaalakiota (very good LP shop offers and R&D agents, and as icing on my cake it's a Caldari corp). Therefore, my best standings are with Caldari State. With me now being on my own, a POS suddenly becomes an attractive idea, so Caldari space it is.

I didn't do extensive research, I just opended some maps in dotlan and looked for a nice small system within reach of Jita. My prerequisites for a new home system were: Level-4 combat agent, clone facility within the same solar system, and if possible invention and production slots as well. A free moon for a POS was no real condition, as I am well aware of the situation as it is right now in Caldari space... maybe I am lucky and will find an empty spot within reach.

So I ended up with Wuos as destination. A dead-end system with just two stations that fulfill my requirements, and two icebelts as well. (Not that I have a mining char, but hey... skill plans are made for being skipped, right?). Jita is 8 jumps away, I can live with that. Lowsec and 0.0 space are just around the corner, so I can see some expeditions coming along...

Naturally, I had to make friends with the local agent, so my chars jumped into their team-setup and did some runs:

But now the tedious part is about to start: moving. I'll take this as a chance to buy me a freighter, something I've delayed very successfully in the past. Especially with an own corp to manage in the future, this is a vital asset, so no more excuses for me.

Hello World

Welcome to Limitless Momentum.

This is the first posting in the brand new blog about my also brand new EVE Online corporation. And, because everything is brand new and cool and shit, its also work-in-progress. This is by no means an ambitious project with a masterplan (or mastermind, for that matter) behind it, its just an attempt to go my own way in EVE Online after playing in other corporations for so long.

As for now, I am planning to get some ISK together, build up my assets, and then maybe start recruiting some people that I can hang out with togehter. What am I aiming for? To be honest, I don't know for sure... first and foremost, I am a PvE player in EVE. Exploration, missionrunning, planetary interaction - that kind of stuff intrigues me. That's not to say I dislike PvP, I'm just not one of the players who need it on a daily base. Maybe this will change with me being on my own for the next time, and maybe that'll be a good thing.

Because free gaming time is kind of sparse at the moment, this whole corporation thing may take a while to get somewhere. But I'm sure, this is a problem you all know just too well, no?

Fly save! No, fuck that...
Fly appropriate fittings! How's that one? :)