This Snake needs no Venom.

Alot has come and gone since my last update and I only hope I can remember it all!

The ratting in our null sec has been fantastic to me, dropping over 2 billion ISK my way so far it has to be the most fun I've ever had not shooting at another player!

Not in the form of bounties though, no that would make the game too easy, it had to come in the form of 4 overseer's personal effects (valued at 620 million ISK) and a Machariel BP (Valued at 744 million ISK) which presented us with a major issue at the time...

With us being at war with the overwhelming forces of the NC any easy route to high sec has been under constant attack and even with a Covert Ops Transport we were unable to successfully move a single item out!

Until one fateful morning when i drearily hit the scan button once more in my Buzzard, and found a Worm hole straight to low sec, heart racing i filled the frigate with billions worth of loot and set off on a journey i would not advise to those with weak hearts...

But alas i made it to Jita safely and sold off the loot. \o/

With the money made Jason (the CEO of my corp) and I decided upon a few items that would make our lives that much easier in the harsh depths of space.

Number 1: An Ammunition Assembly Array, making our own ammo seemed like a great idea as it was our biggest expense so far.

Number 2: A Drone Assembly Array, drones are also expensive and making our own also seemed like a good idea.

Number 3: The big one. The Gurista Flagship, The Rattlesnake!

But our troubles were far from over...

Moving a 700 million ISK ship through low sec was a stupid idea, gate camps along the way would tear us apart, our only hope was to wait for a worm hole between high sec and our null sec. After weeks this didn't happen i finally gave in and asked in alliance if someone could move them out for us and to my amazement someone offered.

And so we set out, piloting our faction battleships through the safety of high sec before reaching the low sec where our Carrier friend was waiting.

What we didn't quite expect when we warped to the Carrier was to find a Nyx Super Carrier waiting for us... Talk about safety!
After a short talk about how much bigger super carriers SHOULD be, Jason and I docked our Rattlesnakes away and Jump cloned, or in Jason's case self destructed, back to null sec.

Though i must say the Nyx looks rather large from the point of view of a pod.

A Short History.

I've tried many different tactics to make money in EVE, none of them so far have said "stick to me! I'll make you the most!" but I think it's this jumping that makes EVE such an enjoyable game. Well played I say to you CCP, you have made the game balanced enough so that those of us greedy enough to pursue wealth in the universe have so many options that picking one and sticking to it is an almost impossible task as at one point we all go "well i could give that a shot I suppose"

Todays post is a short history of my plans to get rich quick and how they resulted.

Number 1: Mining.

When I first started this seemed like a great way to make ISK with little to no risk and very little commitment. This was true I did make ISK in decent amounts with little risk but as time dredged onwards it seemed that although this appealed to some, the option of "higher risk higher ISK" seemed to be more for me.

2-12 Million ISK an hour (high sec)

Number 2: Missioning.

This tickled my fancy a little more, the steady increase in difficulty and reward coupled with a healthy influx of death to those I came up against meant an interesting time spent whenever i logged on...

At least for a while...

It seems with the universe expanding, downtime getting shorter and the hundreds of thousands of players keeping the many worlds turning, not one person is capable of writing perhaps 20 new back stories for the missions! Yes they did a good job making it so every mission is not just kill X of Y at Z and letting us choose our own style of missioning was another good move by our beloved CCP but even if we are killing X of Y at Z I personally would appreciate the story to change a little bit... how many times have I killed my agents mother in law? enough to make me question his love life...

Varies Greatly with skills (I made about 8 million ISK an hour on level 3's)

Number 3: Wormholing.

This was an interesting journey and a short one for those who have read my other posts you would know this, the money in everything you do is amazing. The problem these days is finding an unoccupied worm hole that you can occupy, this doesn't sound too hard with over 2000 active wormholes currently in EVE* but let me assure you it is. The risk is relatively low unless you happened to pick a static high sec wormhole and you are in a corp with less then 40 active members. The main problem i found with living in a worm hole is that any money you make sits in its raw form (those of sleeper parts or ore) for days or weeks until you ship it out to sell, this doesn't sound too bad either except you then run the risk of 2 things; first you have all your hard works ISK in one place thats a god send to anyone who happens to stumble across whatever your using to move it. Secondly you run the risk of leaving yourself stranded on the other side after your worm hole collapses from too much traffic (this isn't too bad if you have corp mates with probes inside).

15-25 million ISK an hour. (sorry no pics)

Number 4: Ratting, Belt and Anomalies.

This so far has been my favourite past time to make money with, the Sanctums in my home system provide much in the way of ISK to those who clear them and the drops and salvage are more then enough to fit any ships you want (up to meta 4's) the main problem with this style of profiteering is that your eyes are pinned to local and every time a threat enters system your finger hovers over the warp to POS button. The only other problem i've had in this method is that it takes a decent amount of SP and newer pilots would have incredible trouble with even the easiest of anomalies, however this does come back to my theory of method jumping.

Number 5: Planetary Interaction.

This is not a full time devoted way to make ISK but it is a method none the less and I have given it a shot and it seems to work out ok. The problems with PI are simple, Its not user friendly. Once you get the hang of it, it proves to be no problem at all. I've met people in my time in EVE that are absolute masters of PI making hundreds of millions of ISK a week from their planets, and I by no means am one of these masters, I set up a new planet today in the system over from my home and it took me a good while (with some much appreciated help) to get it up and running. The plus sides to this venture seems to outweigh that of the negatives though. The whole PI operation requires very little SP, meaning you can start this very early on in the game, and it also takes little in the way of ISK to set up. The other advantage to running your own planetary setups is that it only requires you to be on (at most) once every 4 days!! And only for about 15 minutes at that, this also means you can run this in the background of every other venture you try to make ISK.

Number 6: Trading.

This was a great area for me when i begun, high profit with little SP needed and little risk if your knew what you were doing. In fact trading was the whole reason i started this blog!

Trading is a very fine art that requires lots of attention and patience, you sit in a fairly slow ship all the time moving from 1 location to another most of the time manually to keep your ship from getting high sec ganked...

It is a wonderful way to get on your feet though if you're just starting out, reading guides online and finding the routes will take you about an hour and after that its a steady stream of money to get that ship you've always wanted (within reason).

Varies too much for estimated income.

I have yet to try my hand at many other forms of making ISK and I would love to hear your stories about any form of profiteering you can think of! leave a comment below or email me at evepurelybusiness@gmail.com

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A sight to behold... For those who were there...

I am quite sorry to say I missed the biggest battle in the history of the drone lands from a writers point of view, but as that of a gamer I am quite glad I missed it...

The fight over our station beat Jita's record with a staggering 3500 pilots including 4 Titans! Though they were only there as a show of power. I regret to inform you that we lost. Though we haven't given up and we continue to halt the advance of NC as they try their luck at taking us down.

Though the battles may be epic the losses are crippling and the threat of our transports to high sec being intercepted is a massive worry as with everything in eve war cost money... lots and lots of money.

With my freighter training completed I decided to start training up tech 2 modules in area's i'd overlooked or deemed less important then upgrading ships and now that those skills are nearing an end i looked once more into the pool of things to train for...

After a good 2 hours on EFT (Eve Fitting Tool) I stumbled across my old pipe dream the legendary pirate ship the Rattlesnake, with a base shield of almost 13,000 and the drone capabilities a pure Gallente ship would have problems matching, I drooled over the numbers as they flew up with each module i fit.

The numbers (with my current skills) were amazing, over 1000 tank and 600 dps, with this kind of firepower i could easily solo sanctums and havens and rake in more money then i'd ever seen before!

Of course to every upside there is a downside, and for the Rattlesnake it's the cost, 500 million for the hull alone is a fair bit of money, and there is also the issue of moving said 500 million ISK ship through over 20 jumps of low sec and null sec...

Unless we use a carrier...

Which we will.

In other news our Corp has split into 3 corps, 1 for null sec life, 1 for the people not yet ready for null sec life and 1 for high sec war decs, 2 of my characters live in null sec and today the third joined the war dec corp having finished his training for a Wolf (Minmatar Assault Frigate) and the specs on that little bastard are beastly for pvp! Almost wolf like...

Specs (With min SP)(With Max SP)

Sig Radius: 33m/33m

Max Speed: 709mps/861 mps (with T1 AB)

Cap: Stable at 70%/90%

Dps: 139/232

EHP: 8732/9745

Very cheap and in my eyes a fun future to look forward to!

New Alliance, New Fight.

With the dispersion of Draconian Covenant, my corp began looking for a new alliance and with some better then expected results we ended up as part of the Drone Russian Forces (DRF for short)

With sovereignty over several systems i felt safer then empire ratting in my new home, not to mention the money is fantastic.

But i'm getting ahead of myself, moving to null sec is a challenge in itself.

Getting one person out is easy, fit something small, fast and cheap and you will generally be left alone, problem with this is you don't have anything decent once you arrive.

I took two haulers on two out of three of my accounts filled with covert ops, stealth bombers, mining barges and modules, the entire trip i was freaking out thinking every gate activation was going to result in my death but alas the excellent scouting of my corp mate led to my safe arrival in our null sec.

With my stuff safely stored i turned my attention back to the rest of the corp, mainly Tom...

and his Orca...

full of our corps POS equipment...

So once again i set off through 28 jumps of null sec, this time safely in one of my covert ops ships, and arriving back in high sec i swapped to my Dominix to serve as an escort.

After a few minutes organizing we set off, an Orca, Bestower and Itty V escorted by two battleships and a cruiser. Even though this seemed like a decent enough amount of firepower we still worried for the safety of our Orca, luckily for us the orca wasn't destroyed and our POS is now operational in our home system.

With all the excitement of the new alliance, new home and new ways to make money my eyes strayed from the bigger picture.

Our new alliance is in the DRF.

Which is at war.

With NC.

Many alliances are at war, but for those of you who don't know about either NC or DRF i suggest you read the EVE news. (Link below)

http://www.evenews24.com/tag/drone-russian-forces/

With NC attempting to invade our homelands, my blog should be full of stories in the next few weeks.

The biggest fight in the history of the Drone lands begins in 2 hrs 44 mins, and i get to be a part of it!

Hope we win, sorry NC guys... Purely Business.

No ones favorite past time.

Me: Losing hundreds of millions of isk is no ones favorite past time.

Tom: Making hundreds of millions of isk is mine.

~Me and Tom on PvP~

With my return to EVE the corps numbers have been rising steadily and casual roams in battle cruisers and battle ships soon followed as the number of capable and willing pilots rose, though still small in number the quality of "lols" from the fights has increased as losing your ship to a gang by yourself sucks it loses it's edge when your with friends who make it worth while.

The original intension of this blog was as a journal other people could read to know how my crazy idea's to make huge amounts of isk were going, and so that they in turn try their luck at it, with that being said i must admit i did buy a plex recently, boosting my fortunes to a reasonable 750 million isk which was a joyride to blow on everything from a Megathron that lasted a full hour (i wish i was kidding) before getting blown up, to a Dominix i lost to rats in high sec... to ships that still sit ready in my hangar like my Covert Ops wormhole hunter. All that money has to go somewhere though so with the isk to back it, my training queue turned once again to trading, the business opportunities with such a large sum can only result in profit out of this world... or the most upsetting suicide gank in the history of eve.

You probably guessed by now i'm planning on flying a Charon, which in my opinion is the best freighter.

For those of you interested in the PvP side of my blog, this part should sate your thirst.

750 million isk means i didn't need to mine or trade for a while because i couldn't fly anything i could afford, so that meant hours fitting ships for PvP and testing them on anyone brave enough to fly into range.

My new favorite battle cruiser is now the Myrmidon, after several tests against various ships from a blackbird to a drake to a scorpion, i discovered a wicked tank that even the toughest ship would have problems with, unfortunately my luck in PvP has been a consistent low having lost all my Myrms to ganks, though with the tank they had problems with anything less then a BS + BC or 3 BC's (Post a comment and I'll link the fit i used if your interested, it's better then a drake... at least for me)

After our last roam through low sec, myself flying a Myrm of course, and getting ganked by 3 bc's and a jaguar one of our older pilots mentioned moving his Carrier to the low sec we use for our roams, my mind drifted at this point to how funny it would be in a fight with a few BC's and having a carrier jump in on them.

And finally we recently discovered a Wormhole next to one of our home systems that i have moved my alt into, back to the 10 million an hour afk mining i suppose...

The Long Awaited Return.

After my unfortunately extended absence from EVE i was eager to return to the universe and get back in business and to my delight upon logging back in i saw corp chat full of people new and old.

Unfortunately this excitement was short lived in that once my frigate dropped from warp where our POS should have been i noticed that in my time away the wormhole had served its purpose and the corp had moved on...

With all my stuff...

So i was now stuck alone in a wormhole with only my other account for company as i started trying to scan down an exit.

2 cups of coffee later I had it, with both my accounts at the gate I held my breath and dived into the deep end hoping for the shortest amount of low sec between me and safety.

I never would have expected my luck to be as grand as it was though as upon arrival at the wormhole exit i saw i was ONE jump from high sec, as well as only 7 jumps from my destination.

And my luck slowly continued through out the day, first finding my drake full of the minerals i thought i lost making me a swift 20 mil.

This luck however was balanced by the loss of my 2 retrievers as well as my salvage catalyst.

Now during my forced vacation from EVE I wasn't exactly looking forward to the mining for my return (though i do enjoy making money) I was really hoping to blow something up, much to my dismay and the alliances well being we were not at war with anyone anymore.

Which only left one option...

Something i tried and failed at before.

Pirating... Well Anti Pirating, hunting -10's.

With my Stealth Bomber fully fit i set out to low sec to hopefully find some pirates having a go at each other and it had seemed my luck had run dry at this point in the afternoon as all the pirates seemed to be working in groups of 3 or 4 and at one point 20, that was an epic fight to behold.

The hours dragged on and no one came close enough to fall prey to my missiles so with a frown i returned my bomber to its hangar, once again pulling my drake out for ratting.

I stuck around low sec in my drake in the hopes of finding a red i could blow to bits, but local never peaked past the lonely 1 that was myself and while this made for peaceful ratting it's appeal was fleeting as my lust for PvP increased rapidly with downtime approaching.

In a last ditch effort to scrape a kill i waiting outside a low sec station that seemed popular, with less then 20 minutes till downtime i decided i would call it a day and sell all my loot, making about 20k (terrible loot) i set out to head back to high sec when i saw a Probe dropping a cyno, so with little concern for my own health i popped the frigate and giggling like an 8 year old girl i aligned for the nearest planet, and with my engines blasting into full speed i turned my camera and my jaw dropped at the Archon now sitting over its fallen friend...

Close but still a victory!

Delay

My EVE accounts have run dry and unfortunately so has my wallet, so i've been off EVE for about a week and should be back sometime in the next week... hopefully.