Ally Up!

This week, I decided to hunt down some of my old friends in EVE.  It's been about two years since the last time I played EVE so I didn't expect any of my old "corpies" to remember me.  As it turns out, I'm just not that forgettable.  Instead of dissolving Lazarus Industries, which was a very real option at one point, I decided the best thing to do would be to hop into the alliance which had been organized by three of my friends of 2 years ago.  I was disappointed to find that some of my old acquaintances had left for greener pastures, including the person who has recruited me all those years ago and a few other people I had got along with rather well.  I guess it was to be expected that some things change over long absences, i suppose.  The entire operation has gone from a rather benign "survive and make money" corporation to a full out PVP alliance.  I'm really looking forward to trying out some PVP.

Only a few days left until my asteroid belt instance vanishes and I will have lost my 15 million a day income.  In the mean time mission running and mining have been building Lazarus Industries' standings and holdings.  Slow growth...will need to begin recruiting when I get around to actually forming a cohesive corporate infrastructure.

Gold Rush

At last, the end of the Great Mies Scordite Rush of March 2011.  As I said before, some mad man (or woman) has been placing insanely high buy orders for scordite in Mies an I have been mining away like mad attempting to fill these orders as they come in with mixed results.  Elbow to elbow like pigs at a slop bucket, we miners have been as we repeatedly stripped Mies of it's, fairly common, resources.  Great money was made but, alas, it is over.  I'm finding easing back into a less competitive form of mining a bit dull, I must admit.

I have developed a new get rich quick scheme which has probably already been done.  Instance mining has turned out to be somewhat profitable, pulling in around 15,000,000.00 ISK per instance.  It takes around 2 hours, but for noobs like me, it's totally worth it.

Epic

After becoming able to accept level two missions I hastily began preparations for running one or two of them.  In my zeal, a Vexor was lost on the first mission...which wasn't really that hard, I was just being sloppy.  My wife and first Director decided to take on a second one with me, just to see what happened.  I am ashamed to say, I have lost two Vexors this day.  The worst thing is, I didn't insure the second one.

Despite these events, I can say with complete honesty that level two missions are the bomb.  I have, until this day, never been involved in anything so epic as the two battles I took part in today.  My battle lust is sated, but at what cost?

Sadly, my wallet took an incredibly savage hit as well, this day, hemorrhaging approximately 13,000,000.00 ISK.

On mining and the gold rush I witnessed in Mies this morning:  I can tell you, polite mining etiquette goes straight out the window when the local ore is going for 6-9% over the regional average.  I have come to know some of the miners in my area and, to their credit, they all have a way of keeping a polite distance when mining operations are under way.  This includes mining asteroids that are not currently being targeted or harvested by other players to warping to another field when they see the high population of a certain belt.  Today, this was not the case.  Mining barges of all makes and models were harvesting each others asteroids in some kind of rabid frenzy.  I use the term "gold rush" but "feeding frenzy" would do well in it's place.  The most unfortunate thing about the whole event was that I didn't log on until noon and as a result only really witnesses the end of it and really never got to experience the brutal hunger that my peers seemed to have acquired.

Baby Steps

After a long day of not doing anything that I had been trying to get done I decided to get to work on a web page and since I don't know how to do that I started a blog instead.  The last three days have been expensive, to say the least.  What with paying the fees for the corp, donating all of my assets to the corporation, being chased out of Bereye by pirates, getting double charged for my first month of rent and on top of everything dealing with sick children in RL, making ISK has been tricky, at best.  Liquid assets nearly exhausted, I've been stumbling around Mies just trying to make a buck...this CEO business is tricky, but I have corpies to feed.

It's worth noting that Blogspot is pretty cool thus far.  I have never done this sort of thing before and, truth be told, I have become something of a technophobe in recent years, but I'm actually not having that rough a time of it.  The only difficulties I have had so far is getting the blog to display with the correct font inside the CCP browser.  I shall continue to try.

At any rate, It's been a long day of cleaning barf and diapers so...I'm done for now.  We will see how this goes.