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Finished this 3 part mission series and it was actually fun. Once you warp out of part 1 and come back, you can pick the frigs and cruisers off one by one. Part 2 and 3 didnt even need any warping, they were doable. Ofcourse it helps when your modules actually respond once you click on them !
Science is almost done now, will be doing Rocket Science with the La Dai corporation ;).

Ever since the blood patch the server stabibilty has been crap. Lag has returned. Tried to run a few lvl 3 missions that were the usual snoozefest, then all of a sudden I get illegal activities which is pretty insane. Very tough frigs, and while you’re killing those a few cruisers on top :(. Then my modules responded very slowly, could barely warp out and had 1% hull left. Nice 1.2 mil repair bill, which is more than the mission is worth. Logged out in disgust.

Why cant CCP balance these missions a bit. Theyre either way too easy or way too tough. Didnt thye learn from those previous new missions that were ridiculous as well ? And dont start me talking about the crap loot on missions, miner I anyone ?
I am done with the Intel. and memory skill training, now doing a bit of science so I can use an R&D agent. To be honest an industrial/mission running character is a bit of a bore. Am having more fun with my pvp / combat oriented character. Will see how this all works out…

So I read all these stories about ppl with a zillion loyalty points who never get a good offer. Well my first offer from a lvl 3 agent with whom I got over 15k lp with offered me this skill book ;). Like I said, this game has been very kind to me… Hoping to sell it for 100 mil or so.

I am not spending much these days, but it’s nice to have a well filled wallet in case I have to pick up something !

We had a record mining op yesterday, killing 2 belts, veldspar and scordite were the main targets, this is what we hauled in (from Carv’s report) :

In order – Trit , Py, Mex, Nocx44
Additional Mins: 29826605 3120423 186239 16928

FYI, largest mining op so far. 6 barges at peak, 2 covetors, 1 hulk, 3 retrievers! Very rich belts full of massive scordite and dense veldspar. All in all, very rich run tonight! We have eliminated two belts.

Ah that sounds pretty boring but i am still having fun :), nothing much happened this week, except maybe our corp’s mining director loosing his covetor in 0.3 space. Just mining and doing a few missions here and there (they do tend to get a little boring though, but the money on lvl 3 missions is good). I now (finally) started working on the advanced learning skills, memory skill first then perception, cause thats a bit of a weakness and i need to get frig skill up to lvl 5, if I ever want to fly any tech 2 ships, but it’s now taking 15days and I am sure I can bring that down a bit.

This weekend I started working for the Lvl 3 / Q19 Agent at our HQ’s station. After a few uneventful missions, I got Tech Secrets ! Was a bit worried I might not be able to pull these missions off, but it wasnt much of a problem in my Ferox. Shields got a bit down when i got attacked by a lot of frigs, but there was never a real danger of dieing. Had to warp out once, because I ran out of missiles ;).

The loot was nice for a change, on part 1 where you have to get the mercenary captain, he dropped a +3 memory implant and some other named gear :). Sold it off for 36mil.. Might have gotten more on escrow, but I just wanted to get rid of it. Seems I am pretty well off, isk-wise atm. Also finished my training for a retriever now, so I can mine comfortably in a barge.

Last night was an eventful one ! My first low sec mining up landed me my first pvp kill. Our miner was attacked by a lone kestrel in 0.3 space, he was soon taking care off my my ferox’s missiles and Kikuko’s rifter fire. What was he thinking ? He was also carrying some skill books, not the smartest thing to carry stuff like that around when you go pirating. Anyway we mined quite a bit of Kernite, the payout was nice ;). And yes I got my Ferox now, more on that later.

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Last week I decided that my Eve Career needed a step up. Been playing Eve mostly solo, though the guys in the Eve Uni Corp channel have been very helpful, I felt like I needed to join an active corp in the Calderi part of the galaxy. Checked the eve forums and the recruitment channel for a while and for some reason this corporation looked really interesting, since I am both interested in mission running and the industrial side of Eve. Dropped by their channel last night and they were really friendly and funny, so I decided to join them. I am sure I’ll have a great time with these guys ! Their forums can be found at http://www.rakeriku.co.uk/