Prices are back to June 2012 levels for most items, or nearly there for the rest. Which meant that I was able to reduce my own stockpile by a good 60% this weekend. Which meant adding another 9B ISK in liquidity to my net worth.
I'm nowhere near being hard-done by. On top of the 8B ISK in ships, modules and ammunition that I have sitting in Egghelende, I have another 20B ISK in cash (and still another 5B ISK in implants still stockpiled.)
Considering that I'm losing far less ships in PvP on a monthly basis, while tripling my participation, if I were stop earning outside income, I could safely subsist on my assets until 2014 (maybe longer.)
I'm of course still trying to earn more ISK. Mainly seeding the Egghelende market with ships, modules, ammunition and drones that are in demand. Others are now doing the same thing, and the Egghelende market is becoming much more competitive (which is bad for the bottom line, but great for Fweddit and Imperial Outlaw PvPers.)
My hauling alt has been busy as heck as a result. And I'm now diversifying somewhat, finding the cheapest empire volume pricing, and then returning to Sinq Laison for resale in Dodixie and Egghelende.
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I recently hit 30M skillpoints on the main. I hit Battlecruisers V and Destroyers V back in early October, so I'm all prepared for the change to racial destroyers and battlecruisers. By January, she should be able to fly all the ships, battlecruiser and down, for all the factions, with T2 weapons. I'm in no rush to head straight into larger ships. T2 large weaponry is still months away on my current skill plan.
My hauling alt, Scottish Play, hit his one year anniversary last month as well, and 20M skillpoints. He's currently skilling towards dreadnaughts. Apparently we want more pilots for those in Fweddit. (I don't want to rush my main into larger ships.)
My third super-secret alt is on hiatus. I just wasn't using it. I may resume that account if the need ever arises.
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My new favourite ship is the Osprey Navy Issue [ONI]. I get to do two valuable things, and survive fights. The two valuable things are applying DPS, which the ONI is reasonably good at, it volleys for 1240 (or 1263 if all my skills were at V.) I also get to do some ewar (sensor dampening and target painting) making my fleetmates more effective and the enemy less effective.
I'm rarely the dude doing top DPS on a ship, but in any primary that takes longer than 40 seconds to pop, I'm usually always in the top five for damage dealing. Which is fair enough, as far as I'm concerned. As long as I'm a good contributor to the overall effectiveness of the fleet, then I feel good about the role I've chosen for myself.
I originally had a scram on this thing, which rarely got used, because I mostly float out around 40KM from a brawl. The idea with the scram, was that my Osprey could be used as tackle for any ships that also sit out at range (i.e. Blackbirds), but in practice this has proved unnecessary. Blackbirds are squishy enough that they can be taken down quickly by the ranged and fast tackle ships in the fleet, plus if you range dampen them, they have to move closer to the fight making them more vulnerable to the brawl they're trying to disrupt. So I recently swapped out the scram for a sensor disruptor (using a targeting range dampening script.)
[Osprey Navy Issue, PvP (Ewar)]***
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Scourge Fury Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Scourge Fury Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Scourge Fury Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Scourge Fury Heavy Missile
Large Shield Extender II
Experimental 10MN MicroWarpdrive I
Phased Muon Sensor Disruptor I, Targeting Range Dampening Script
Phased Weapon Navigation Array Generation Extron
Phased Weapon Navigation Array Generation Extron
Signal Amplifier II
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
Medium Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Medium Core Defense Field Extender I
Medium Warhead Rigor Catalyst I
Hornet EC-300 x2
The Amarr have pushed back the Minmatar to T3. Based on the math others have done, we've taken enough systems from them that T4 is out of their reach. Apparently, without their hordes of loyalty point farmers, maintaining a high tier is proving to be difficult for them. Plexing is simply not something that PvPers want to do. All well and good when there is a thwack of ISK whores doing it for them, not so great when those ISK whores have moved elsewhere to earn their cash. I'm hearing some rumblings that Hans is now getting some pushback on the PvE mechanics from his own peeps, mechanics the Minmatar were in love with not just a couple weeks ago (when it looked like they could hold T4 in perpetuity.)
(I'm not saying I'm in love with the mechanics. Far from it. Scaled earnings are lame. Orbiting buttons are lame. There should be more focus and reward on the PvP, not the PvE. But it is amusing that the Minmatar are now complaining, where once they were the champions of the system.)
I think most of the plexing is being done by PIE (Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris) and Agony. So kudos to them for caring.
That's not to say we're being assholes and aren't helping out. We've done some plexing of our own in the Ezzara area, and to help out with Lamaa. But we mainly do the plexing to encourage fights. If the fights come, we sit, hold ground, do battle and run down timers. If the fights don't come, we've abandoned plexes with half-complete timers. We simply don't see any point in doing PvE unless it's going to lead to PvP.
We'll see how the warzone continues to play out. The Minmatar might actually get off their asses and do what they've always expected their horde of LP farmers to do for them. Or they might complain enough to Hans, get something changed to their favour. (God knows Hans doesn't orbit buttons, he earned all his riches during the summer running missions.)
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Fweddit pretty much cleared out all the miners in the systems immediately surrounding Egghelende. Just throw cheap Catalysts at the mining "problem." Earned a tidy profit on the order of 700M ISK. That's not Ministry of Love money, but it affords another couple hundred free Thrashers for the newbro hangar.
We're currently waiting for the carebears to respawn so that we can go through, clear all the systems again.
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