Running the shadows

Last week I even got invited for L4 missioning fleet by a mostly random person and didn't get horribly murdered. Apparently EVE is not quite that bad as some are trying to give an impression it is. Not that the gain was that much greater than soloing L3 when split between three people. Also micro jump drives with sniper setup seem broken mission wise, not that missions are that well though out in the first place in general. And I suppose it is not possible to kill quite everything in three minutes without full T2 setup with very high support/drone skills.

I finally reached 8.0 standing with Federal Administration, and have my jump clone. I mostly forgot why I wanted a jump clone in the first place. More wormholes, I suppose. Including going down the chain, just to see how populated are systems without k-space statics. Or dropping a clone into deep low/null sec, although of course not sovereign nullsec. It might be just easier to go there normally. I have planned training a covert operations frigate, but that is still weeks away, especially since I want some battleship skills just for completeness. Because I am mostly tired of missions right now.

Tried hitting some anoms. Apparently sunday morning is not a good time for that. Or maybe I just got unlucky, but I have seen maybe five total. No faction spawns of course. One each of a "Forlorn" and "Forsaken" hideaway though. Those should really be more common, then it might be worth it to run anoms regularly. Of course, highsec is not supposed to be particularly lucrative. I need to go through lowsec a bit more, and see how quickly the pirates actually arrive.

On that note, I played my Faction Warfare alt a bit more. I gave up on actual fighting after I got shot down with T2 weapons by "neutral" pirates twice last time, fitted a cloak and went to see how that goes. Got seventy thousand LP in maybe two hours while reading a book. In a system without stations you can just keep the cloak turned on the whole time there is anyone in Local, most people will just d-scan the plexes, see no one there, and leave after a few minutes.

I am still confused at what the timer is doing exactly when the only ship there is my cloaked ship. I think I have read, and I am fairly sure I have seen, the timer going up when no one is at the plex. But I am pretty sure in some cases it froze, and in others it kept on ticking. Strange.

Not the most riveting gameplay, to be sure, but pays ISK-wise more with comparatively much less attention that anything I can do on my main. And that's at Gallente at tier 2. No wonder the side at tier 5 overflows with farmers. Not sure what I need that ISK for, though. I guess I planned to buy some PLEXes with real money, dual train the FW alt to frigate competence, and get some actual Warfare in Warfare, which would need ISK to pay for the ships and fits.