Monday, April 30, 2012

The money game



So once again into the fray.
Now over the weekend I didn't make as much time for the isk gatherings I expected, but that's part of the overall picture.
I've toyd around with the thinking that if I just sat down a few hours each day mining I'd be home free (today mining is rather profitable). I heard last nigth something about 4,5M pr can, and well I used to do 3 can's pr hour which ends out in something around 25M for 2 hours of effective work. Now that'd be enough to cover the Plex cost. And I COULD do this. But i don't like the idea of shifting from main toons to purpose toons.

Rigth i got the numbers from asking a frined for a loan seeing what he'd be able to muster up considering the short timeframe and considerable low skill settings. And from what i can gather a good 200 should be loanable.

Yes yes, I know it's petty cash to you hardcore types, but our group tend to rather have a pretty relaxed approach on all the money stuff, we don't really need it much and we have what we need, it's low budget as we don't shift Battleships every week or so, rather we saviour the good setup we build around a concept, which is we for the moment Myrmedons are the ship of choise of not the hulks and haulers.
It's the kind of thinking that comes with age I suppose....

Now back to gathering for a plex with a trial.
As said, the skill set isn't really desirable, but part of the challange is afterall to get flowing from scratch. I'm still moving towards the Vexor as ship of choise and I notice that the Cat starts to have trouble cutting it, it's simply doesn't dish out enough damage, think I saw it doing 92+6 dps. Sure I migth ramp it up with some weapons upgrades, but that'll hurt my tanking, and the tank is bad, really bad. Like 23 dps, maintained for 50 seconds that is.

It's starting to show with Level 2 missions already taking skill to do, and that's rather time consuming and thusly impededs the cashflow, I only made 2 millions in some 6 hours yesterday, which is really too little.

At any rate the Vexor should be within reach soon enough, from the fit I'm joggling it'll be okayish. Loads of compromises that comes from the fact I just don't have this and that skill. Some are in the que but it's already taking hours rather then minuttes to finish.

[Vexor, Step 2]

4x Anode Ion Particle Cannon I (Antimatter Charge M)
Small Tractor Beam I (not activated)

Medium Capacitor Battery I
10MN Afterburner I (not activated)
Cap Recharger II

Medium Armor Repairer I
Damage Control I
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
400mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I

3x Hammerhead I (4x in a few hours)



 Wow. it still needs a lot of work. A think That's always made me wonder is T2 armor plates... Why? The tungsten is ligther, cheaper, easyer to fit and provides the exact same amouts of armorpoints? Why would anyone use T2 steel plates then. I really don't get it.