Balance my friend... I hit the gym 3x per week no matter what.
Balance my friend... I hit the gym 3x per week no matter what.
Truth. That is actually WHY I love EVE so much. I hit the gym every other day, and even when exam weeks crop up and I don't log on for more than 2 hours in the week my character is still making substantial progress. It's like an end of the week present when 7d of training went by without even batting an eye.
What I really miss is when you could cancel your subscription for a month and you could keep training whatever skill you were on until it was complete. I get why CCP disabled that, but knowing I had a long skill completed did help motivate me to come back to the game a couple times.
Started playing again after a number of months off. What is up with Eve and AA? I was playing previously at 1920x1200 with interval x1(which I assume is 2xAA) on a GTX260 and now I'm still stuck at this same AA level. Now using a 5870 if I try to use interval 2(4xaa?) I drop down to between 20-30fps. Poor coding. Also wth can't they add a larger font? Even on a 24" monitor a size 12 font is killing me.
Anyway what corps are you guys in? Does anandtech have a corp?
Question. How do I use cargo containers? The ship I'm mining with is a badger.
There are about 7-8 Anandtech members in Diplomatic Disruption (my corp), but while we don't discourage mining, we are nearly 100% PvPers. If you are interested in joining, you can message me in game (Martimus28) or Michael (Myrdin Potter).
I used to run L4 missions for all the new members on a regular basis, but I can no longer enter high-security space (where my L4 agent was) so I stopped doing that about 6 months ago. I would run 6/10 plexes with other corp members as well, until recently.
I should probably reach out to the newer members like I used to. The biggest reason I do not is because I am leaned on much more by my alliance to run gangs, and find targets. I just need to take the additional effort to try to take newer members along with me while I am doing that.
You are always welcome to come out with me when I lead a roam, but I don't make it a corp only event - or even alliance. Any blue ship willing to shoot at my enemies is welcome to come along
Only reason I mine is because it's an easy way to make money. I've been saving up to buy a stealth ship so I can start doing something new. What sort of isk is involved in what you do? Also in addition to my badger I have a Cormorant. Don't know what good that would be. I haven't really enguaged in much pvp aside from my own personal theivery. I've don't pretty well on my own robbing other much larger vessels with a ship loaded down with warp core stabalizers and shield extenders but I've never dared to do such things in .4 space as I would surely be wiped out. Anyway I am interested but first I'd like to learn a little more about exactly what you do, what the role would be be for someone with very modest experience and most importantly what the benifist are(isk wise).
Started playing again after a number of months off. What is up with Eve and AA? I was playing previously at 1920x1200 with interval x1(which I assume is 2xAA) on a GTX260 and now I'm still stuck at this same AA level.
Question. How do I use cargo containers? The ship I'm mining with is a badger.
The presentation interval setting has no affect on anti-aliasing, it affects whether the game vsyncs and/or triple buffers. There's no option for turning anti-aliasing on in the game.
Mission running will make you more ISK than mining and after you've got some experience it's not very difficult. Mining in an industrial like the Badger however, is the worst way to mine. Use one of the mining frigates or cruisers that have a bonus to mining.
You can mine using containers either by using jet-cans or giant secure containers. With jet-can mining you jettision your first load of ore, creating a jet-can automatically. As you mine more ore, put it into to the jet-can. Once you've got a hauler load or ore, dock your mining ship and come back in your hauler (eg. your Badger) and collect the ore. The problem with this method is that any one can steal your ore and people will.
Using giant secure containers (GSCs) keeps your ore safe from theives, but you can only anchor them in systems with a security rating of 0.7 or less. Buy one or two GSCs, assemble them, take them in your hauler to a belt, anchor them them there, and then set a password. It's imporant that you set the password after anchoring or they're not secure. Then mine with your mining ship, dumping the ore in the GSCs. When they're full, come back in your hauler and empty them.
You can also use GSCs to expand the cargo carrying ability of your hauler, as they can carry a bigger volume of stuff (3900 m3) then they take up in your cargo hold (3000m3).
If you want to make mining your primary source of income in EVE you should check out some of the mining guides on the WWW. Don't mine in low security space, you can find ores in high-security space (currently Kernite and Plagioclase) that will make you more ISK per hour than any of the low-sec ores. Don't buy a Procurer, they can be out mined by cruisers.
Yes my robbing isn't based on ISK either. Historically I love the rush of stealing from a much more powerful ship or group of ships and maybe even swooping in a second or third time ewhen they are expecting me. I can't express the thrill of such a success. So yes there are definetly worthy tradeoffs to isk.
Sorry...What is a plex?
I'll pm you in game sometime today.
L4 mission grinding is the burger flipping of Eve. Anyone can do it, and it's reliable, predictable and boring, relatively low income.
Mining is AFK income. Nobody sane stares at their screen for entirety of mining cycles. You alt-tab to forum troll, check on your ship every 6-15 minutes. It's nowhere near missioning income, but then, it's also zero effort.
Most of my income is Jita trading. When I'm not feeling lazy I have 90 pipelines of industrial capacity. I can crank out mass quantities of anything t2 (except command ships and HICtors) plus cap ships and modules. Easy 100M/day, but requires about half an hour of clicking.
I grind level 4's pretty frequently. Maxed social skills and I can easily get 60-70 mil a day. Mining high-sec gets me crappy money, maybe 10-20mil a day. I don't even bother trading on the market because it reminds me of work -_-
60-70m a day? You mean an hour? There's no way you're only doing 65m/day with hand-in rewards, loot/salv (if you bother), and LP.
When I did run L4 Missions, I would usually only make around 20-30M a day, but that was actually about 1-2 hours of work as that was all I played in a day. This was about a year ago, so income levels may have really gone up since then.
Also, I used a Domi, drew aggro, set out drones, then went somewhere and made dinner/took a shower/mowed the lawn. When I came back the mission was either done, or it was time to go to the next room. So my method was likely slower than a more focused method.
I don't think you can make 50m/hour doing level 4's. Like Martimus, I used the domi plan (which is not the fastest for doing a mission), but looting and salvaging alone takes a decent amount of time. 20M an hour is decent and you can probably push it to 30M if you really concentrate. Maybe if you add up all the LP (which is a longer term payoff) you'll end up with more.
I do know that the last time I seriously grinded missions was to earn isk for capital skill books and I hated it. I much prefer ratting in 0.0. At least there you might get a faction spawn and you need to watch local a little.
Michael
Everyone that mission runs counts the LP as well, I don't know what the current rate is really for how much an LP is worth but that is part of the equation. I've known a few people that with a good agent run lvl 4's an they make counting everything in last time I know around 50-70m an hour. They just blow through them in CNR's. Mission running is about the best isk/hour you can make in high sec if you don't have a whole manufactoring/trade setup. It is just boring and a constant grind, but when you can bring in a nice income for a bit of work it is worth it to suck it up once a week or two and just grind.
Yeah I guess it depends on how many hours a day. I haven't missioned in quite some time and the last time I did I was doing them either in an Abaddon or Raven and I swear I was making like 50m/hour easy.