The world is strange. Elite Dangerous can be. Yes, I accept that I sounded like Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back. Today I read in a blog, the comment of a person in Eve who comments that he was as a Booster in an ORCA, with all the modules, and that the asteroids move more than before Scarcity. I asked the corpmate who was boosting orca here in the alliance mining fleet, and he told me that yes, he can’t get closer without being thrown or moved 5 to 10 km and he’s sure he didn’t bounce with the asteroid’s box. He didn’t mine with drones but he had 5 on him for mechanical tests. Our entire fleet of 15-17 barges ships usually has 5 warrior ii in the air for gankers or NPCs.
Several of our old friends switched to Elite Dangerous even though they say that learning to take off is not easy. At the moment PS4 can be bought on ebay for 200 and it sounds reasonable, although there is also a version of the game on PC. I had the idea of making a porpoise and a pilot for a confessor but I’m not sure what’s up.
As I write I am doing an abyssal with punisher. You could probably be doing 4 at a time and they drop more money than mining if you don’t have Orca. The difference with porpoise is not that much and I don’t see myself mining without being able to build anything other than battlecruisers. Checking I see that even the freighters’ gank has gone down, not because it’s safer, but because they weren’t bulkheaded.
I have the impression that when you don’t enter abyssal for several days it gives you a better prize. In the run I just did it gave me just under 3m, but sometimes I don’t get that. Talking to someone from the mining fleet, who uses a porpoise to give shields boosts and compress, he comments that he has four accounts and that he gives mining boosts to himself if there is no fleet or someone better, with three retrievers. Use Procurers if it’s on a system below 0.9 and you do it because you like it, not because it’s good money. Personally, I know that entering with a venture to pochven gives more, but for that you don’t need omega.
His main is the booster and he is also a trader in Hek. From what I understood, he has his miners in accounts that are omega but are not training. And he has three Alpha accounts training. He started with three omega to mine, and he has already sold the 5m pilots he was doing. Train a year and sell the pilot when you reach 20m or a year, as a trader, dst or exhumer miner. The master account pilot is kept alive by extracting what he doesn’t need and selling injectors when market conditions are favourable. Sounds interesting. And then with his three alphas that are 5m long, he is going to repeat the cycle, so he ends up paying 20 usd per transfer, buys a plex offer and airtime, and manages himself. So having about 100 million points sounds profitable. I have like 45 to 50 million SP between all my characters but it does sound reasonable to me.
After all I have two years worth of time on the 24 MCT I bought the other day.
Considering that you could get a subscription at 15 USD or cheaper for more months (40 USD for three), approximately this means that each year has four quarters, at 40 USD it is 160 USD per account. For five years it is 800 USD. With that you buy a more or less decent computer. But we’re also not going to expect to be reasonable from someone who uses five accounts at once, although it’s a better deal than a cheaper WOW subscription to do just one 5 man dungeon.
My common sense tells me that this doesn’t look good. It is more sensible to use two consoles to play Elite Dangerous at the same time…. and without paying a subscription.
They say that the difficult part is taking off your ship from the base.
As an adult in his 50s, trophy ships don’t appeal to me, and neither do trophy wives.
I have the added problem of little time for any game, because I work full time, have a wife and kids, five dogs, and go to the gym Monday through Friday, plus I have a bad habit of sleeping.
Also since I started I think that asteroids are enemies (google the video of scordite is primary), because at least in my head that works better than thinking that they are cute kittens that must be eliminated (which is not the case although I prefer dogs). Niarja was done, pochven born, and the trigs want return is my RPG argument for abyssals.
So more and more Eve seems to be a vicious cycle. You can’t do much on a ship. The big ships are attacked by real life psychos (probably divorced, bad jobs et al), and just as you would not go out in your Mercedes, Camaro to collect dimes under a bridge, the mining argument does not work for anyone with common sense. And going under a bridge with a bunch of friends so you can use your BMW’s headlights to look for coins doesn’t seem like a good idea either.
I’m not spacelane patrol. I’m just at an RPG station. However, I think it’s a good symbol for ideas about the game and musings to justify what I do in Eve when common sense says get out. It is a mental challenge. It’s not personal gain, the industry is rubbish now, and commerce in colored pixels doesn’t look good either, and fighting with the neighborhood bullies isn’t a good idea either.
So for today I will stop thinking about the star patrol and its future in Eve online.