Category: Economy

Lately I haven’t been very active in Eve, just been doing some missions for the La Dai Corporation to gain standings in order to get access to better research agents. Just like The Ancient Gaming Noob I decided to give Invention a try. Though the cost to get into it, is still pretty high, it has lowered quite a bit since the racial encryption skill books, like Caldari Encryption methods have become more common drops and thus are a lot cheaper these days.

I decided to not start too ambitious and just tried a few Tech II missile BPC’s. And out of 5 tries, I got 3 BPC’s and my hacking / related research skills were at II. After that I tried my hands on Tech 2 drones, but both tries failed, even though according to the failure message I was really close. I have no clue whether those messages are even serious though, think I saw a forum thread about that once and what different messages people got. No one seems to be sure whether they are just random or have some meaning.

After the two failures I decided to skill up the related hacking and science skills and then try my hands on a Drone T2 BPC and maybe some other parts, like Ballistic Control II. And since I can use some datacores now, I will also get the skill to use more than one research agent. Shame it’s 40 Million though :(.

In case you’re wondering how Invention in Eve works or want to know more details, there is a great guide at eve-production.org: Invention Guide and the Eve-O forum thread on the Invention Guide.

What a nice mission :). This week I am milking the omber from this one. It has 6 huge 90k Omber roids in the first room, that take about an hour per laser to take down in my hulk. Very nice bonus reward ! The isogen from these I use to either build some ships or sell some on the market. And since it’s in a mission pocket, no nasty can flippers in sight.

Some modules like the cap recharger II and Invulnerability field II, had not passed my mind lately. I remember the times when these costs like 15 – 20 mil., which I refused to pay even though I could afford them. But the past few weeks I purchased a few of these. It seems Invention is finally doing what it was supposed to do (I assume this was ccp’s intention) and the price of these modules have dropped considerably to 2-3 mil or there abouts. So my mission Raven got a little better lately ;).

Also the T2 ships like the Cerb have dropped a lot. It’s actually affordable now (though I lack the skill for now to fly one, my alt flies Amarr HACs) at 80mil instead of 200+. Most notably is the price drop on the Hulk. I am currently learning the skills (about a week to go) for the exhumers and checked the price again. A drop from 450mil to 130 or even lower. Probably everyone that can / want to use one already purchased one, so demand is getting lower as well.

All in all a good thing, if you werent in the T2 business :).

As you might have noticed I replace the Google Adsense (that was dominated by Isk Farmers) by a new service called IskSense. The advertisement money solely deals in ISK :). So if you click on one of the ads, you give morph a few more isk to get that new shiny ship ! It’s amazing how creative some players are in Eve !

Check out the isk sense website if you have a blog or other related Eve website, and dont forget to visit the eve-o forum thread.

In case you missed it, there is a very interesting blog post on the official eve site on the state of the economy, this one focuses on the production of spaceships.

http://myeve.eve-online.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=505 

All the numbers and graphics are very intriguing, also the price of the minerals is discusses. Check it out if you like this sort of thing !