Wormholes and rigs

Since I have not completely recovered from a cold I had last week I spent more of the weekend watching other people play video games rather than playing myself. Not the most auspicious launch of the blog, since I rather hoped to do something in EVE I could write about on the weekend. Still, I did some things, even if in more cursory way than if I was able to focus longer.

On Saturday I finally decided to do something with all those wormholes that were annoying me by not being radar sites. Recently I trained Cloaking III, and while I promptly lost one Improved Cloaking Device II on that Iteron, I actually bought three of those, because why not. So I put one on my scanning Imicus, replacing a mostly symbolic blaster. Scanned down a wormhole, and I didn't even forget to check its status, and after seeing that it was I the last quarter of its life found another one, leading to a C2 system.

Inside there were a POS and some ships under it, but I assumed they were offline or AFK and started scanning for sites, obviously while cloaked. While sitting very near a wormhole, which probably is a terrible mistake, but without a covert ops cloak I would have decloak to warp back. Anyway, nothing happened and I located a ladar site.

I jumped a Venture with gas harvesters, started a stopwatch and started mining. According to what I have read the Sleepers should spawn after twenty something minutes. And they did. So I jumped out. Before that I saw on d-scan someone poking around the system with core probes, but didn't leave since even if they jumped on the same site the clouds are over 30 km from the warp in point, and anyone serious about hitting a Venture ninja-mining would use combat probes anyway. Probably. Anyway, nothing happened.

I harvested 840 units of Fullerite-C72. Nominally worth about five million, but the fullerites seem to have fairly low volume in most places. I actually flew all the way to Jita to place a sell order, which haven't sold since yesterday. All that wasn't exactly worth it, but it was interesting. If I am reading the stats on the Sleepers that spawned they should be trivial to take down with my Myrmidon, but I really don't want to bring it into a wormhole. A Celestis, maybe, but it has only three high slots, so I would either have to go in without a probe launcher or drop one weapon. And it is a bit too expensive still to lose.

So I started thinking about destroyers. With only two sleepers that spawn on a ladar site this might be doable, and the forums claim that those don't respawn, so it might be possible to actually mine the site out, which would be worth considerably more than a twenty minute run. Or it might not be. But I decided to try, and bought for a few million a Corax, outfitted with launchers and a MWD, which, if the number mean what I think they mean should make it possible to kite the sleepers while hitting them from outside their targetting range. Quite slowly, but such is life in EVE if one cannot afford to fly a T3 ship with T2 weapons.

I didn't actually get to try it though. On Sunday I almost completed the fit, but I wanted to put Small Auxiliary Thrusters I to get bigger speed buffer, but there were very few locally sold. So I checked how expensive the blueprints and components were. And they were cheaper than the rig itself. Actually, the small versions of astronautic rigs build around the Burned Logic Circuit, Charred Micro Circuit and Thruster Console seemed to have prices, even if at very low volumes, that were considerably bigger than the cost.

So I decided to build some of those. I don't expect a lot from them, since the volume is extremely low, at least in the region I operate, but I am still at the stage where every five million do matter, so why not. So I spent most of my game time on Sunday flying around picking blueprints and some more of those components, setting up production, in the meantime adjusting PI, and so on. So I haven't actually flown the Corax anywhere.

Well, I tried scanning down a wormhole, but apparently either I was really unlucky, or black holes don't have sites. I saw some guy leaving the hole in a capsule, followed by a Mammoth, so maybe its better I didn't try anything with active people inside. Still sitting on the hole while scanning. I mean, what is the possible risk? If I move a few kilometers off the hole then it is highly unlikely something will accidentally (or not) uncloak me. Maybe.