Soft-hearted

As was typical for the time of day and day of week that I logged on, there was nobody else online. Just me, myself, and my alt. So I started scanning.  Within seconds, a new signature opened up, and I zeroed in on it, logging in my Pilgrim and Legion to warp to the hole.  What I caught was the butt-end of a Moros rolling the hole into oblivion.

Clearly another C5 corporation looking for pew. With no wrecks on scan and no capitals doing anything, they decided our little Class 5 wormhole wasn’t interesting and kept on rolling.

So I finished bookmarking sites, updating signatures, and scanning out our new static connection.  Upon entering, I saw wrecks and a pair of Drakes on D-Scan.

Incursion Do and Don’t

Recently, when things have been slow in the home anoiki, I’ve hauled my alt out to Incursion space to make some cash.  Now, I’ve always been pretty frank that my characters have quite low skillpoints, since I’ve only been playing this game since February 2013 (as of this writing, the current date is August 2013).  I make up for their low SP by specializing in certain roles, and this remains one of Eve’s strengths: a rank newbie who spends a week specializing in a role can make a meaningful contribution in the largest of fleet battles.

The Nature of War Profits

Prior to a few days ago, the two corporations in our Anoiki had been struggling a little bit.  Living in a wormhole system is a constant battle in the first place: no stations, hostile neighbors, supply run logistics, bizarre/broken player-owned starbase mechanics, and constantly-shifting routes conspire to raise a high bar for casual gamers to surmount.  And the past week had seen the sudden disappearance of all our local anomalies in our system — likely due to neighbors warping to them uncloaked to set the 3-day despawn timer as token revenge for the fact that we really enjoy blowing away the neighbors‘ ships at every opportunity — removing local Sleeper battleship escalations from our profit pipeline.  Aggression, however, has a cost, and several of our pilots were hurting for decent battlecruisers and the ISK to afford them.