Selling PvP Alt

Due to many reasons, I'm selling my minmatar pvp alt with his 58 mil skillpoints, Kla'strit.

You can see the auction here.

- 58,045,957 points
- -4.07 sec status
- no kill rights
- was not used in scamming or corp theft
- neural remap available
- positive wallet balance
- amarr shuttle is the only asset.
- high Minmatar Republic Fleet standings, able to run level 4 missions (possibly level 5, I can’t recall)

Highlight skills:
Minmatar Battleship V
Minmatar Cruiser V
Command Ships V
HAC V
Tech 2 Large, Medium Projectiles
High level leadership skills
Covert Ops V and Cyno V for covert cynos

Reimaging

So, with the new character creator I've been slowing re-imagining all of my characters and trying various styles, options, etc. I'm glad we had the remap (and get another one tomorrow) because a few characters didn't work out in retrospect.

First we have Kirith with the same appearance but altered portrait. I went with less 'in your face angry' and more 'smouldering resentment'. The shadowing is an attempt to emulate the growing darkness on his soul.

Grr.

Then we have Kla'strit, my minnie combat and recon pilot. I tried to make him chunkier and yet more angular, and in his portrait I wanted him to look arrogant and disinterested.

Whatever.

With industrial alt Korannon, I wanted him to look more business-like so very Caldari formal wear for him, and I altered his portrait to look more scarred with better lighting and still friendly and open compared to his brother Kirith.

Load that freighter now! I have a run to make.

Korneilia lives in the wormhole overseeing the colonies so in my first attempt I tried to make her look very professional like a corporate leader would. I did not like it. So as you can see in the composite shot below I changed her hair style, makeup, and face angles a bit to make her look more adventurous like I imagine a person living in a wormhole would have to be.

Welcome to my wormhole.

My next two alts, don't see a lot of action but I did spend an inordinate amount of time on their avatars. Selia, on the left below, is supposed to be a broken lost soul who is blind outside of a pod, while Sun Tomah acts as the public relations director of Ninveah Enterprises. These are the original images and neither one worked for me. Selia was too gaunt and the makeup for Sun was too... wrong.

For selia I mostly altered face structure to make her more human, and for Sun I fixed the bad makeup choices. Both of them are much better to me now.

I had something to eat.

Welcome to Ninveah Enterprises.

Finally we have an alt that assists Korneilia in the wormhole with probing. She is young and modelled after my wife as much as we could. There is some similarity to my wife as a young woman, although I probably should have made the hair darker. I also went with a profile portrait for a change.

The eagerness of youth.

There you have it. A lot of fun and it makes the inner roleplayer in me eager for Incarna.

Perfect Maelstrom

Last night I got my Eve time and went to the computer to log in.

"Emergency Downtime"

Well crap. So I puttered around with various things like Gratuitous Space Battles (would have been Batman but it was uninstalled for space) until Eve came back and I could log in again. I found the corp was gearing up to take out a few anomalies so I jumped Kla'strit into the Maelstrom and buckled up for a test flight.

I was pleased with the 1200mm artillery range and DPS. At optimal the salvo could punch holes through the shields and into armour, battlecruisers especially melted under my weapons in seconds. The multiple flights of drones are so nice (FIX THE ROKH) and the tank was impressive enough that even when I caught most of a spawn's aggression I handled it without sweat as the X-Large Shield Booster II fixes over 1100 points per cycle on this ship with this setup. Overall, more than acceptable as a PvE ship. But.....

But.

But its not me.

Its been months but whenever I log in and fly as Kirith I feel like an impostor. I've gotten familiar with Minmatar ships and projectile weapons (ignoring the fact I had 2000 rounds of the wrong tech II ammo in my hold last night) but I miss my Caldari ships, my Gallente backups, and my railguns and missiles. I miss my carrier. I miss my name in local and my ugly mugshot.

The good news is that Kirith will be free to leave the confines of the supercarrier in a bit more than a week as the alt is nearing the end of its training. I can't wait to cruise down to Tash Murkon and shake the cobwebs out of the Ninveah.

So Long Sweetheart

Derranna is up for sale.

EDIT: Link to auction on forum.

This was not a decision made lightly. I spent the entirety of last week wrestling with whether or not it was time to let the girl go. She's been with me a long time, has a lot of useful skills, and has served me well.

But that's the problem: "served". Lately she's been nothing but a skill trainer. I've lost any interest in the hassles of invention and manufacturing now that writing and trade pay so well so her massive array of science and industry skills are going to waste. And I really don't ever see me going back to that as a secondary play style in Eve because my real life situation has been altered radically such that logging in to move some materials to a factory station or put ten blueprints into a lab for invention is just more effort than I want to invest.

I just want to PvP. And since I have Kla'strit as a PvP alt while Kirith is guarding the supercarrier, Derranna is a third wheel.

What about having a jump freighter pilot? Well, Korneilia (my other alt from last year with 5 million skill points) is only a couple months training from Jump Freighter so I'm working her up to spec, and probably towards an Orca afterward. Then logistically, she will match Derranna.

As I said, it was not an easy decision. But my Eve life has changed and its time to let go and change with it.

This is all assuming of course, that she actually sells :P

The Long Slow Redemption of Kla'strit

An old friend from the Strife Mercenaries days was leaving Eve and asked if I wanted his character Kla'strit. I was loathe to see a perfectly good character get biomassed and after I agreed to not sell the character to someone else we transferred the character named Kla'strit to my account.

This character has about the same number of skill points as Kirith but doesn't have any put into capital ships. Where Kirith has specialized in Caldari with some Amarr and Gallente crosstraining, Kla'strit is pure Minmatar up to an impressive Command Ship level V. Where Kirith has tech II Hybrid skills, Kla has near perfect gunnery skills for Projectiles up to tech II Large Autocannons. Where Kirith has good EWar skills, Drone Skills, and missile skills, Kla has intermediate levels and abilities in those areas.

In essence, Kla'strit was purely trained to fly mean Minmatar tech II combat ships, especially Command Ships.

The character had in his assets four ships worht mentioning. Two interceptors which can go incredibly fast, a Vagabond (with a cloak fitted, natch), and a Sleipnir Command Ship that has an impressive gang PvP setup.

And Kla'strit came with a -6.30 security status. This was a big pain in consolidating the assets by the way.

I decided to put Kla'strit into m3 corp and use him as an alternate PvP character if Kirith is up in Empire for some reason. It also allows me to move him down into Providence and begin the long trek of reapiring his sec status with some prudent and occasional ratting. I purchased and fit up a cheap Cyclone battlecruiser for that purpose (and spent some nights learning about projectile ammo in the process).

Last night I was ratting with Kla when some reports of reds being hunted nearby went up so I docked and reshipped into the Sleipnir and joined up with the fleet. His Skirmish Warfare link module gave a 21% boost to the fleet's AB and MWD speeds and they were suitably impressed.

We failed to catch any of the reds floating around, their stealth bombers and vagabonds proved too elusive for our small gang, but I started to get a feel for what the Minmatar ships could do... and got Kla's sec status to -6.29. Sigh.

Rise of the Noob

In order to understand where I'm going with this, let's back up. Way back to when my main hobby was Warhammer 40K.

Back then (in the Dark Ages I like to call it) I was not just a participant of the hobby, I was a true hardcore fanboy. I ran a gaming club, internet forums, tournaments, the whole shebang and I loved it. I had multiple armies in multiple game systems (3 armies in 40K, two Battlefleet Gothic fleets, and an Epic army at my peak) and almost all the rulebooks.

It was expensive. Spending 100 dollars a month was the usual (models, paints, rulebooks) and a couple times of year I would "treat" myself with an extra purchase or two (like a $200 Hell Talon fighter bomber from Forgeworld).

Egads that seems all so insane now.

Eve is much cheaper. The rules updates are free, new models are free, the only thing I need is a good computer to run the program and a subscription that amounts to about $15/month. When I started back in 2006, I started with two accounts so I could experience the game more fully. After all, what was $30 a month to a guy used to spending three times that much?

The problem is I still get the urge to splurge once in a while and Eve does not provide a lot of opportunities to do that. I bought the Eve Map book and the Eve Box, but they didn't give me the visceral feel of spoiling myself that I'm accustomed to. (Somewhere a Free to Play MMO developer is trying to woo me...)

So this rambling tale is all to explain how last December I decided to spoil myself with a year subscription to a third account which I used to start training the ultimate miner. It was foolish in hindsight but I'm weak and my Eve-fu was lacking in the area of Hulks and Strip Miners. MUST EXPERIENCE MORE CONTENT!

So Grumhold was the result, a super miner and super refiner with the ability to pilot an Orca if need be. I used him in several mining operations and was very impressed at the rate of asteroid depletion he could cause.

But, alas, I decided it was not for me. The only way I could see really enjoying it was taking him into a corporation with other miners and doing massive operations on grand scales in the best ore fields you can imagine. But that would take away from my true love of PvP and that is unacceptable.

So Grumhold has been put aside and will be disposed of shortly. It was a good experiment and experience but time to move on.

I don't plan to renew the third account when it comes due in December but I still have months left to train a character. So now we actually come to the subject of the title: I created a new character called Korneilia who I am going to use to experience the Level 1 Epic Mission Arc. Once that is done, she will train for a frieghter and then either be sold or transfered to one of my main accounts.

The reason I'm trying out the Level 1 Epic Mission Arc is because I want to see how well its done and if it makes me interested in trying out the Level 4 arcs with Kirith. I've run a few of the missions last night already and my impressions of them so far will come in a later post this week.

The Big Five Oh

Last night my main character Kirith Kodachi surpassed 50,000,000 skill points. You can see the details here at the In Eve site, but here are some highlights.

211 known skills
53 skills at level V
11.58 million in Spaceship Command
7.69 million in Gunnery
6.89 million in Engineering
Skills cost = 1,643,308,154 ISK

And I can pilot 112 (48.48%) of a total 231 available ships.

An Old Face

I was browsing contracts for the Nomad I'm going to buy when one auction caught my eye:



Sarah Elkadar? Is that my original Research Assistant I created back when Kodachi Enterprises had that research POS in Hrober in Molden Heath? Derranna Elkadar's sister?!

Why yes it is:


Good to know she's still out there and judging by her auctioning a frigging Jump Freighter, doing well for herself.

*sniff, wipes a tear* Makes a gamer proud. I sold her after I took the POS down from low sec since I lost like three loads of fuel to INFOD *shakes fist*. When I later put a new POS up in high sec, I really wish I had kept her and had to create Sun Tomah to replace her. Ah well, live and learn.

Plan Jump Freighter A Step Closer to Reality

I put Barak up for sale on the forums this week and had some nibbles of interest here and there. I started the auction at 4 billion and a buyout of 6.5 billion. I wasn't sure if I could get a full 6.5 but I figured it was worth a shot. I wanted at least 5 billion because combined with my current wallet that would afford the Nomad jump freighter.

Well, I had an offer on Monday for 5 billion buyout. I considered it but politely turned it down as I figured I could get more. Today my patience ran out and I approached the pilot that made the offer seeing if he was still agreeable to it. He said yes, we negotiated the transfer of isk and character, and now I'm 5 billion isk richer.

Could I have gotten more had I waited out the auction? Maybe. But I got what I needed to satisfy my goals. April 20th can't get here fast enough.

Optivus Up For Sale

The last roadblock to selling Optivus cleared when the original owner commented last thread that he felt no more attachment to him (which was my main concern) so I posted the auction today. Details found here.

Will I get 3 billion ISK for him? Remains to be seen. What will I buy with the ISK I do get?Not sure. Some BPOs are in mind, perhaps Raven, Drake, and Ferox. Or maybe some Rokhs to play with and lose for fun. If I get the full 3 bil I'll definitely get the Fenir freighter for Derranna that she is trained up for.

Ending the Double Life

Being truly addicted to Eve, I have a few characters as I have mentioned before. Three of them have been my main characters in corporations like m3 and Strife; Kirith as combat pilot, Barak as freighter and carrier hauler, and Optivus as Cyno alt. The other three have run Razor Technologies for me; Korannon as CEO and trader, Derranna as main researcher and inventor, and Sun as research assistant.

But now that Razor is closed and on the shopping block (see sale post here) I find myself with several characters I don't need. After the sale Korannon will be out of a job and not needed anywhere as his only unique skills are CEO management. Optivus only does cyno generation work for Barak and Derranna can do that just as easily. Sun Tomah is not required for research as Strife has enough pilots with skills to run the labs.

I'll keep Korannon. I have some sentimental attachment to the old boy and if I ever need to start up a corporation again, he'll be point man once more. But Optivus and Sun are tempting to sell for ISK and clear up the alt slots once again.

Someday, after Kirith has trained up for his Carrier, Barak will see his carrier go to Kirith and his freighter go to Derranna and he will officially be redundant as well. But for now, I still need him.

In Eve .Net

There is a website where you can upload your character's information and let everyone in the world see. I resisted at first but eventually the temptation was too great.

Presenting Kirith Kodachi!