When I returned after my holiday I was full of confidence that this was going to be a real "knuckle down and get on" kind of month, where I would play near daily and really push how far I could take my industry. Then real life got in the way.
We are in the process of trying to sell our house, and after a few months of very little happening we received an offer while we were away which we accepted. This kickstarted a whole bunch of admin, selecting and instructing solicitors, filling in forms, trying to find things worth viewing and squeezing in said viewings. My evenings were suddenly full of admin, exciting as the prospect of a move is.
At the same time, I am dealing with a HR situation at work, one that I thought I would wrap up my first day back. Stressful but over and done with was the idea. Then HR caught up with Legal and it became a whole big drawn our process. There has been a lot of uncertainty, and even though it is clarified for me now it means I'm staring down the barrel of several more months of dealing with this. Not ideal.
On top of that I was ill most of last week. In classic fashion the kids had it for about a day and bounced back but it hit me and my wife for about a week. I struggled through work but it really took its toll. Also I'm 80% sure I broke my big toe playing football as well.
How this affects EVE
Why the big real life dump? I hear you ask. Well partly it's cathartic for me to put down what I've been dealing with, manageable though it all is, and partly it's to explain that I've actually played very little EVE since getting back. Indeed when I have had time and the inclination to play games I've mostly been playing a retro football manager save. Less cerebral than trying to work out how to expand my EVE business and come up with better processes.
Tonight though I have a clear run, so I've filled up my slots and taken stock of where I'm at. The high sec business continues to chug along, the process is easy and the profits are good. Null is a bit more complex though. Though I realised through Ansiblex gates I was actually only a few jumps from my old operating ground the Sotiyo I operated out of has been taken down. I have seen on the discord that there is a plan to add more industry structures near E8- but for the moment I think I need to be content to operate out of raitarus. Not a dream situation but one I'll put up with for now.
Also, those characters have kind of trained everything I need them too for now, and they're sort of aimlessly training skills further and getting mining skills up. So I've decided to utilise those accounts better and create new characters to put in my high sec venture. I will initially train them for slots and then beeline for rigs, though initially they'll probably be mobile depot factories. I would like to add more characters for Null but I don't feel like I have a good handle on material acquisition or even a semi permanent operating base, so they'll be better utilised in high for now.
Trading, or how to make the most of the login bonuses
The Solar Fest event is going on right now, so you get rewards on login. Mostly this is SKINR detritus but there are also crates containing quafe zero classic and green apple. These are boosters that give minor bonuses and are reasonably cheap most of the time. This is especially true at the moment:
As you can see the volume is up and the price is at a 52 week low. Green apple usually goes for 15-20mil and is currently sat around 13mil in Jita, and classic usually goes for 40-50mil and is currently 30.
CCP can and will reintroduce these, and the volume isn't enough to sink hundreds of billions into but I'm putting a few billion in buy orders up to snap some up in all 5 high sec trade hubs. If I hold onto these for a month or 2 I should make 30-40%, which would be nice.
Other big industry news is the SCC charge for researching blueprints has been halved. I haven't researched any high level blueprints but I gather the charges are excessive, and bringing these down should only be a good thing for newer industrialists (like me!)
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