Tuesday 14 May 2013

Diminishing returns

Didn't post for a while, but I still play EVE occasionally. Didn't have as much time as I would want to. Not doing anything particularly interesting. I have 7.74 standing with a corp I'm doing missions for, and I even checked that it does have medical facilities. Not particularly sure what I want to do with Jump Clones once I have them, especially since I don't have very high level implants, but it would make me feel better.

I am kind of at a point where I have more ISK that I do know what to do with right now, but not enough to just spend it on big ships, or PLEX, or waste it trying to PVP. Especially since I don't particularly want to PVP as such, and there is nothing, as far as I can tell, in normal lowsec that can be achieved in a ship cheap enough I could afford to lose multiple of them.

I have an idea though. I saw than in Oddysey they are adding an option for dual training on the same account. Which seems like a good move on CCPs part. There are likely many people, like me, who are either too lazy or unwilling to commit to maintaining a second account. Or too lazy to just register a second time. Lowering barriers for people to spend their money is just good business practice.

I definitely don't want to pay for a second account full time, and don't make nearly enough ISK to plex it. But I could drop a PLEX or two on an alt on the same account. For example, I was somewhat interested in Faction Warfare, but do not want to sink faction standings with Empire factions on my main. So, creating a FW alt is an obvious solution. And I played around with EVEMon, and a pure combat character flying disposable ships can be trained very quickly.

In fact, I might just create that alt soon, train it for a few days pausing my main and fly some basic fully T1 frigates to see how that works. If I get constantly blown up then I can just buy a lot of those with the money on my main, but the FW dungeons NPCs are supposed to be trivial, unless what I am reading is from before the great relatively recent rebalance. So nominally FW should be achievable in that. Which is something.

So, that's the plan. Assuming I have a block of time to play EVE, because in the burst I had so far since the beginning of May I'm not really motivated to do more than a mission of poke the planets. I though about finally joining a player corp, but same thing applies. Oh well.

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