Saturday, April 4th, 2009
In a previous post about EVE Online's certificate system I noted how the description of the certificates isn't just the corporate nonsense typically found on meaningless awards given merely for turning up to a course, but can be informative and useful both for determining whether the certificate will benefit you ...
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
I'm currently working for a manufacturing agent with Core Complexion, Inc., which involves mostly courier missions. These are nice and simple and let me run around high-sec space in a shuttle, the Orca Mk II, with most deliveries fitting in the voluminous 10 m3 cargo hold. The undemanding nature ...
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
The recent patch to EVE Online brought back the warp transition turbulence that the introduction to Apocrypha temporarily removed. The turbulence is the violent shaking your ship experiences when transitioning between warp and sub-warp speeds and is a visual cue I find to be quite important.
Normally I am not ...
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
In order to build up research points more quickly to accrue the datacores required for invention I need to increase my standing with a corporation. I have chosen Core Complexion, Inc. because it has level four agents dealing in both mechanical and electronic engineering, which suits me. To ...
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Well, that was easy. A few of my orders start being bought up and my level three agent asks me to clear a blockade, adding a nice chunk of ISK to my wallet that is begging to be spent on skill books for invention. The prices for Caldari ...
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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
My industrial career in New Eden is coming along nicely. I have trained in many skills so that I am now productive. The handful of BPOs I speculated in have gone through long periods of material research, mostly waiting for the research laboratory to be free until I ...
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Having completed some significant steps in my skill training plan I find I am a little lost for what to do next. I certainly have some more skills I would like to train but they all require over a week to complete and as I have just finished a ...
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
After a couple of diversions in my skill training, including Industry V and Caldari Industrial V, I have finally finished training Production Efficiency V. It is quite refreshing to be able to open a BPO and no longer see a separate column of mineral needs reserved only to remind ...
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
New EVE Online expansion Apocrypha may be graphically shiny but the sound is awfully disappointing. To get a better look at space in high-definition I jump in to the pod of my Drake battlecruiser and pick up a mission from my agent, leaving my industrial ships behind for the ...
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
The shiny new graphics of Apocrypha can get a capsuleer in trouble. Whilst making my journey from the system holding my corporation's POS to my base of operations I spy what must be a pirate loitering on a high-sec gate, as my ship's computer highlights his vessel with a ...
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