A while back my wife realized I was getting billed twice a month for EVE, of course she thought it was a glitch because I didn't tell her about the second account until that point. So I explained the purpose of it, and that it would only be active for a short time. That helped light a fire under my butt to get moving. At that point I had only logged in once to scan for an exit and hadn't had much luck.
So on June 1st at 22:02 EVE time, I logged in and took a shot. The first thing I noticed was a Mobile Depot on scan, this was the first activity, or space-trash, that I'd seen since I packed everything up. I bounced around the system in the Prowler but nobody was around. Then I proceeded to scan, but with poor results. There were 30+ signatures in system and a ton of them were gas sites. I gave up after finding a Q003, frigate hole to null, and realizing I couldn't jump the Prowler through to bookmark the other side.
A week later, on June 8th, I logged in at 22:41 EVE time. This time I was a bit more optimistic. There were maybe 12 signatures in system, and a good portion of them turned out to be wormholes. I found my E545 static null connection, a Z006 frigate hole and Z647 medium sized hole, both to w-space. When the fourth connection showed up as a Wormhole on the probe scanner I wasn't sure whether I'd be exited or disappointed. It could have been my N062 static C5 connection, but it wasn't. Landing on grid with a new connection is always fun, watching to see what code is on that wormhole... Hello K162!
I started this adventure by going through a "reaching the end of its natural lifetime" wormhole from high-sec. I guess Bob decided that was how I would end it also. I didn't know how long I had on the original entry hole and I didn't know how long I had on this exit hole either. Thanks Bob, for keeping things interesting.
End-of-life wormholes get my adrenaline going, getting trapped on the wrong side never fits into the plan. So I jumped and bookmarked the other side, quickly jumping back and logging off to find out how far away the alt was. The exit led to Antiainen, a high-sec system in Lonetrek. The alt was logged off in Charmerout in Essence. With the auto-pilot set to "shortest distance," the route was 16 jumps, mostly through Gallente/Caldari FacWar Low-Sec. This also meant I had to pass through the dreaded Tama system, specifically the always-messy Nourvakaiken gate.
With the invisible clock counting down, I started warping and jumping as fast as I could. The route through Low-Sec was mostly quiet until Tama and the Nourv gate which featured an ongoing battle, as usual. Jumping through as fast as as possible, I continued into High-Sec and on to Antiainen. After arriving in system and initiating warp to the wormhole, I took a deep breathe. There was nothing I could do now but wait and watch. Moments later I landed on grid with the quickly-pulsing wormhole and jumped through. After checking to make sure I ended up in the right wormhole, I logged and switched to Niskin's account. Not wasting any time, I jumped the Prowler out.
It was finally done. Sure I hadn't put the alt in the Cheetah yet, but after cancelling the account I still had nearly a month left active. So I would come back to that later. With a quick reversal of the route the alt took to get into the wormhole, I returned home to Charmerout in the Prowler. Once again passing by the endless battle at the Nourv gate in Tama, happy to have my Covert Ops Cloak doing all the heavy lifting.
Project "I guess I need an alt" is nearly complete. Now I think it's time to hit the Market and do some shopping. That is one thing I've missed while hiding out in w-space, shopping sprees!
Scanning...
There's nothing shiny in the solar system map. The solemn darkness eats away at your soul.
Monday, June 15, 2015
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
The Flu
I didn't realize it had been a month since my last post until I went to make this one. The last two weeks have been terrible and I didn't touch EVE at all during that time. Luckily my training queues were more full than I realized and no time was wasted.
Just over two weeks ago I started getting sick, mostly coughing, and I figured it was just a cold. Within a few days it was obvious that something more serious was going on, the symptoms had moved into my head. I stopped at a clinic thinking it was something antibiotics would solve, but that wasn't it. I had the flu, and not the 24-hour bugs that some people think are the flu, the actual flu, which is like a really serious cold. Over the course of the next week I barely ate, tried to take anything I could that would address the symptoms, and missed a few days of work. By the second week I was down 10 pounds, and showing up for work each day, but I was still miserable. Finally, by the end of the second week, the last bits of the symptoms were gone. I felt well enough to start thinking about things other than sleeping and blowing my nose.
That was this past weekend, and I took the opportunity to log into my accounts and check on things. The alt is proceeding nicely, he's about two weeks from being able to pilot a CovOps and scan with reasonable effectiveness. Since the ship he's going to fly is in the Ship Maintenance Bay of the Orca, already in the hole, I'll likely get him in there before the two weeks are up. He can remain logged off until he's ready and I can give him the ship in space, so that shouldn't be a problem. That also means Niskin can exit the hole sooner.
Niskin is closing in on level 5 for some skills that I plan to use in the upcoming adventure. He'll also be hitting level 5 on the Minimatar Strategic Cruiser skills shortly after. I was never actually able to decide which ship would be best for solo roaming, so I decided to pick one to try first. That ship is not a T3 Cruiser, mostly due to cost. I won't reveal what it is yet, but I have selected it and will be building it over the next couple weeks.
Once that is done I'll find a wormhole to jump into and begin the adventure. Where it will go from there, I have no idea. I'm excited about the prospect of roaming wormholes and not necessarily caring which one I end up in at any given time. Also, the idea that there won't be any required upkeep is appealing. Solo-PvP scares me for sure, but my hope is that even an epic-fail could lead to a good story.
Just over two weeks ago I started getting sick, mostly coughing, and I figured it was just a cold. Within a few days it was obvious that something more serious was going on, the symptoms had moved into my head. I stopped at a clinic thinking it was something antibiotics would solve, but that wasn't it. I had the flu, and not the 24-hour bugs that some people think are the flu, the actual flu, which is like a really serious cold. Over the course of the next week I barely ate, tried to take anything I could that would address the symptoms, and missed a few days of work. By the second week I was down 10 pounds, and showing up for work each day, but I was still miserable. Finally, by the end of the second week, the last bits of the symptoms were gone. I felt well enough to start thinking about things other than sleeping and blowing my nose.
That was this past weekend, and I took the opportunity to log into my accounts and check on things. The alt is proceeding nicely, he's about two weeks from being able to pilot a CovOps and scan with reasonable effectiveness. Since the ship he's going to fly is in the Ship Maintenance Bay of the Orca, already in the hole, I'll likely get him in there before the two weeks are up. He can remain logged off until he's ready and I can give him the ship in space, so that shouldn't be a problem. That also means Niskin can exit the hole sooner.
Niskin is closing in on level 5 for some skills that I plan to use in the upcoming adventure. He'll also be hitting level 5 on the Minimatar Strategic Cruiser skills shortly after. I was never actually able to decide which ship would be best for solo roaming, so I decided to pick one to try first. That ship is not a T3 Cruiser, mostly due to cost. I won't reveal what it is yet, but I have selected it and will be building it over the next couple weeks.
Once that is done I'll find a wormhole to jump into and begin the adventure. Where it will go from there, I have no idea. I'm excited about the prospect of roaming wormholes and not necessarily caring which one I end up in at any given time. Also, the idea that there won't be any required upkeep is appealing. Solo-PvP scares me for sure, but my hope is that even an epic-fail could lead to a good story.
Saturday, April 4, 2015
Everquest Interlude
If you've looked at the Legos with my kid page you know from the Kunark Cloth Map on the wall that I'm an old Everquest die hard. Little did I know, back in 1999, that one day I'd play this game with my son. He's almost 10 years old and we've played Minecraft and many other games together. Out of all those, EQ is the one that really makes me happy to play with him. Sometime in the last few years I let him get an account and he mostly just goofed around in newbie areas, not leveling past 12 or so. Then one day he was old enough and familiar enough to group and do something coordinated. It didn't take long for his Necro, and my Enchanter, to level to 44 together. We went to a variety of zones along the way, finally camping out in Trakanon's Teeth on the way to Sebilis and ended up going inactive at that point.
That was sometime last year, but suddenly he started talking about it again recently. I got us setup again and we logged in to head to Sebilis. My friend from high school, who I played EQ with back in the day, was going to try to join us with his 47 Beastlord, but schedules did not work out. So my son and I decided to try Sebilis, just the two of us.
Necro+ Enchanter is already pretty good, but the addition of mercs has simplified filling out a group when trying to do dungeons with big multi-pulls. We both use Fighter mercs which works pretty well. If the Beastlord makes it next time, he's got a healer which would make us incredibly tough.
Anyway, my son and I click the red and black glowy ball in the floor and zone into Sebilis. The first two mobs are red and yellow. With Mezmerize and Slow they both went down quick and easy. So did the next two, both red. We worked our way up to the door at the end of the entrance hall, fighting the last two mobs. Then it happened, the last mob hit 20% and ran, snare had failed. It started a 5+ chain of a train. Somehow not immediately dying as two cloth casters in a sea of red and yellow cons. I told my son to follow me and I headed for the exit, thinking suddenly to check if the zone was empty. A quick "/" told me there were 40 people in the zone, I hoped for a Trakanon raid, but as I opened the door to the exit hall I saw three or more people standing there.
As quickly as we arrived we were off again, running back to the entrance hall. My son informed me that my merc was dead, which was good to know. My son has Gate memorized at all times but I still needed to memorize it. So I did that real quick and told him to get out. We managed to kick some butt, start a huge train, not kill anybody and not die. You gotta love that.
The next day we went back and got level 45 in that same hallway. Just as we got past the door, where we got in trouble the day before, my older son came in and I had to talk to him about real life stuff. Playing an Enchanter properly while discussing the finer points of being a truck owner is not an easy thing to do. Fighting by the big rock between the entrance and exit halls, we got some wandering adds. So I made the call to gate out. My son always argues, he thinks we can fight it out. Maybe we could, but it's EQ and managing not to die still makes me feel good, even if the penalties are nowhere near as bad as they used to be.
Back in EVE things are still progressing. Niskin will be remapping for Perception/Wisdom tomorrow, finishing up T3 training and whatever he needs for the upcoming roamer mission. The alt is still filling out basic skills, but I'll be picking up the last ones he needs tomorrow. I don't have an ETA on the swap yet, but I should know soon.
Back in EVE things are still progressing. Niskin will be remapping for Perception/Wisdom tomorrow, finishing up T3 training and whatever he needs for the upcoming roamer mission. The alt is still filling out basic skills, but I'll be picking up the last ones he needs tomorrow. I don't have an ETA on the swap yet, but I should know soon.
Monday, March 9, 2015
Who doesn't like a free Venture?
A few days into the trial I got an email saying that I could get various free things if I subscribed before March 1st. For the one-month option the reward was a Venture. It turned out they were bluffing though. I totally got one over on them by being lazy, which is one of my strengths. Today they emailed me to say that my trial was, sadly, over, but that I could still subscribe and feel the power of internet spaceships even now. So I did, and I still got the free Venture, which I much prefer to not having a Venture.
But seriously, I've got Frigate 5 and I'm on to Astrometrics now. It's going to be a month or two before I can get into a CovOps properly. I've started looking at fits and will continue to do so.
That's all I have for now.
But seriously, I've got Frigate 5 and I'm on to Astrometrics now. It's going to be a month or two before I can get into a CovOps properly. I've started looking at fits and will continue to do so.
That's all I have for now.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
The Next Steps Are In Progress
Over the weekend I started a new Trial account, and began training the first toon towards Cov-Ops and Scanning. I'll take that as far as I can during the 14 day trial period and then activate the account fully. I haven't sat down with EveMon and determined anything yet, and I may not bother. I'm not really under a time crunch and in the end it will take the same amount of time to train the skills. I'd just know how long that would be ahead of time if I used EveMon. Really though I have bigger things to worry about, like what am I going to do with Niskin once I get him out of J150533?
The nomad idea is growing on me, partially because I can't think of any other good ideas, but also because it would be fun to blog about. When I first had the idea I was thinking of using a Loki, but that seemed a bit cost prohibitive, though it could be a very effective option. I'll revisit that if the other options don't pan out, but it would be the most expensive route. Other possibilities are a Dominix or Typhoon in the Battleship class or a Devoter or Broadsword in the Heavy Interdictor class. The first order of business will be determining what fits I could use on those ships and how effective they would be. Then I'll look at cargo space and refitting options for versatility.
Whichever option gives me the best balance of target discovery and combat ability with good versatility will likely win out. Combat probes will be a must. Since warping cloaked won't be possible with the current options, I need to be able to find a target, quickly refit (hopefully out of d-scan range) and warp to the target. This could lead to ganks, or traps, or decent fights, any of which could make for good stories.
The upside is that when things go badly, I'll end up back in empire space, ready to try again or try something different. That's as much as I have planned so far. I'll update you when I know more.
The nomad idea is growing on me, partially because I can't think of any other good ideas, but also because it would be fun to blog about. When I first had the idea I was thinking of using a Loki, but that seemed a bit cost prohibitive, though it could be a very effective option. I'll revisit that if the other options don't pan out, but it would be the most expensive route. Other possibilities are a Dominix or Typhoon in the Battleship class or a Devoter or Broadsword in the Heavy Interdictor class. The first order of business will be determining what fits I could use on those ships and how effective they would be. Then I'll look at cargo space and refitting options for versatility.
Whichever option gives me the best balance of target discovery and combat ability with good versatility will likely win out. Combat probes will be a must. Since warping cloaked won't be possible with the current options, I need to be able to find a target, quickly refit (hopefully out of d-scan range) and warp to the target. This could lead to ganks, or traps, or decent fights, any of which could make for good stories.
The upside is that when things go badly, I'll end up back in empire space, ready to try again or try something different. That's as much as I have planned so far. I'll update you when I know more.
Friday, February 13, 2015
Where do we go from here?
If you're like me, you've seen the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer way too many times. In fact you've watched it enough that upon seeing the title of this post it started a replay in your head that you can't stop and you will curse me for later. You're welcome. Maybe it should say "where do I go from here," but I do have three toons, and this whole intro wouldn't make sense if it said "I" anyway. Plus it's a good way to introduce the idea of a second account and potentially three more toons. Yes, after years of having one account, I may finally have a reason to get a second one.
Running two accounts simultaneously has never appealed to me before, despite the generous returns one could get from doing so in EVE. I don't multi-task well, and I don't have multiple EVE capable PC's, nor one capable of running multiple clients at once. But suddenly I find myself with three characters and a need for at least one more. With my three toons all packed up and logged off in J150533, I'm left unable to do anything else in the game until that's resolved.
Niskin has always been my main, he's approaching 76 million skill points. I had stopped training him a few years ago due to the costs of upgrading his clone after dying. My primary alt, Zibaz, then took over training. First it was skills for being able to run missions, then the skills for a corp CEO and finally the skills for scanning and being able to fly an Orca. Then I made a third alt, Pookiechu, and trained her for scanning and to be a placeholder pilot on a Drake. Once she was ready I launched the wormhole adventure and that brings us to where I am now.
No matter what I choose to do next, it will require some thought and a second account. It doesn't make sense to start a new toon on a new account and then skill that up and use it as my main. Niskin is well rounded and well trained, the best plan would be to get more scanning alts into J150533 so that I can bring Niskin out and use him for something else. As such I'll be starting a new trial account soon, and putting one or two toons in the wormhole in scanning ships. I can then leave Zibaz and Pookiechu in there, pull Niskin out, and if I ever restart the adventure I can just come back in the Prowler with the POS.
This would open up pretty much any opportunity I can think of. I could learn more about trading and try to make a go of it with my shiny new maxed-out Trade skills. Or I could start a roaming adventure in any number of ships. Other options would be joining a corp, in w-space or k-space, or doing production. That's just what has come to me offhand, there are so many options out there.
Roaming w-space in a ship like a space-nomad has some appeal, and no upkeep which is even more appealing. Due to cargo space limitations it would have to be a primarily PvP mission. I've already thought of various options from Battleships to Recons to Heavy Interdictors (which opens up Frigate holes as an option). At the moment this seems to be the most likely option, but I'm getting ahead of myself... right now I'm still stuck in a wormhole.
I'm going to keep blogging, maybe not as often as I was before though. I'll keep you up to date on my plans as I make them and execute them. I also have some other real life stuff I may post. In the end I just want this blog to be entertaining, and wherever possible, about EVE.
Running two accounts simultaneously has never appealed to me before, despite the generous returns one could get from doing so in EVE. I don't multi-task well, and I don't have multiple EVE capable PC's, nor one capable of running multiple clients at once. But suddenly I find myself with three characters and a need for at least one more. With my three toons all packed up and logged off in J150533, I'm left unable to do anything else in the game until that's resolved.
Niskin has always been my main, he's approaching 76 million skill points. I had stopped training him a few years ago due to the costs of upgrading his clone after dying. My primary alt, Zibaz, then took over training. First it was skills for being able to run missions, then the skills for a corp CEO and finally the skills for scanning and being able to fly an Orca. Then I made a third alt, Pookiechu, and trained her for scanning and to be a placeholder pilot on a Drake. Once she was ready I launched the wormhole adventure and that brings us to where I am now.
No matter what I choose to do next, it will require some thought and a second account. It doesn't make sense to start a new toon on a new account and then skill that up and use it as my main. Niskin is well rounded and well trained, the best plan would be to get more scanning alts into J150533 so that I can bring Niskin out and use him for something else. As such I'll be starting a new trial account soon, and putting one or two toons in the wormhole in scanning ships. I can then leave Zibaz and Pookiechu in there, pull Niskin out, and if I ever restart the adventure I can just come back in the Prowler with the POS.
This would open up pretty much any opportunity I can think of. I could learn more about trading and try to make a go of it with my shiny new maxed-out Trade skills. Or I could start a roaming adventure in any number of ships. Other options would be joining a corp, in w-space or k-space, or doing production. That's just what has come to me offhand, there are so many options out there.
Roaming w-space in a ship like a space-nomad has some appeal, and no upkeep which is even more appealing. Due to cargo space limitations it would have to be a primarily PvP mission. I've already thought of various options from Battleships to Recons to Heavy Interdictors (which opens up Frigate holes as an option). At the moment this seems to be the most likely option, but I'm getting ahead of myself... right now I'm still stuck in a wormhole.
I'm going to keep blogging, maybe not as often as I was before though. I'll keep you up to date on my plans as I make them and execute them. I also have some other real life stuff I may post. In the end I just want this blog to be entertaining, and wherever possible, about EVE.
Monday, February 9, 2015
Long Live Bob!
I thought this would be a good weekend for the tear down, but somehow I found myself sitting at my desk eating dinner on Sunday, my POS still up with all of its defenses, and the SMA and Ammo Array still online. Friday night my family attended a fundraiser for a friend of my son's who was diagnosed with cancer. We stayed fairly late and crashed when we got home. Saturday I was supposed to work from home but we ended up being lazy, and I watched Gone Girl and Divergent with my wife. On Sunday I did the work that I was supposed to do on Saturday, leaving me with some free time while I was eating dinner, so I decided to log in and make some progress.
First off I wasn't alone, there was an Astero and some probes on scan when I logged in. I was already in the Prowler, having stashed my Cheetah in the Orca the week before. After warping to a safe that is on-grid with the POS, I started doing warp dives to the batteries that were outside the shields. First were the guns, emptying them of ammo before offlining and unanchoring them. Then the Energy Neut and some ECM batteries. While I was doing this, the Astero disappeared from scan and a Venture took it's place. The name sounded like bait, but you never can tell, I wasn't going to be messing with it anyway.
At this point there were three things left outside the shields, a Warp Disruptor and two ECM batteries, one of which was clustered with the Warp Disruptor. I hit that cluster up next, and just as I had both batteries in my cargo hold, a Buzzard appeared on the overview. I tried to cloak but he was already locking me up. Burning for the POS shield, I hit the MWD but he had already landed a scram. I was going to have to slowboat back into the shields at ~300 m/s. The Buzzard wasn't doing any damage but a Sabre had just appeared on scan. He landed and started shooting, getting through my shields and shaving just a touch of armor before I slid past the edge of the POS shield and their locks dropped.
Both pilots were members of Isogen 5, but not names I was familiar with from the forums. I wondered for a moment if they had read my blog and were watching for me to move out. But as time went by it appeared that these two may have just been in my wormhole by chance. Shortly after our encounter, both pilots convo'd me. They were asking for 200m ISK to leave and roll the connection so I would be assured they were gone. I thought about it for a moment, that was roughly the combined cost of the ship I was in and the tower I was going to scoop. They had given me 10 minutes to think it over. I decided to pass on the offer but didn't have anything witty to say in response, so I logged off.
Knowing these pilots were part of a capable organization, I wondered if they'd reinforce the POS. I had enough fuel left in it to deal with that situation, but it would complicate things. I monitored my EVEMail for the rest of the evening but no structure notifications ever came. For whatever reason, the only time I ever get Corp Hangar Rental Bills is when I'm simultaneously worried about my POS being shot at. This night was no different, the bill came through and spiked my heart rate for a moment before I realized what it was. It wasn't the first time this had happened, it's just a strange irony I keep running into.
I spent the rest of the evening watching Heroes with my wife, she had stumbled upon the series on Netflix, saving me the trouble of talking her into watching it. We watched a few episodes together, then she went to bed and I got caught up to where she had gotten without me. I figured I'd finish up the POS stuff the next night and so I headed to bed too.
The next morning my wife had to wake up at 5:00am, which meant I was going to be awake at that time too. Falling back asleep doesn't always happen and since I had to move my car at 6:00am so she could leave, I laid there and thought about what was left to do. I figured I would have time to make some progress right after she left, right before downtime. As I walked back in just after 6:00am I headed downstairs to the computer room to find that EVE was down. I could have sworn downtime was at 7:00am, maybe I didn't pay attention when Daylight Savings Time changed. Anyway it was back up pretty quick and I logged in to get to work.
With one ECM battery left outside the shields and five hardeners inside, there wasn't much left to do. I bounced and grabbed the ECM battery right away, then worked on the hardeners. Then logged off to grab my secondary alt and use her to log off in the Drake. With that done I switched to my primary alt and got the Orca loaded up. Space was tight, tighter than I thought it would be. All my extra Strontium had to go overboard, and a few Cap Boosters, but that was only a few million ISK worth of stuff. One Magnate didn't fit in the Orca's Ship Maintenance Bay, so I ejected that too. With everything else in place, I scooped the Ship Maintenance Array and Ammo Assembly Array, and warped the Orca to a safe spot. Once it was logged off, all that remained was grabbing the POS in the Prowler.
The time to unanchor a small POS is 15 minutes and that was exactly what I had left before I had to wake up my youngest son for school. Figuring "what the heck" I pulled the remaining fuel, offlined the tower and started it unanchoring. A quick warp back to the on-grid safe allowed me to watch the timer tick down. I ran off and got my son's breakfast ready and started waking him up, arriving back at the computer with 1 minute to go. As the final seconds ticked down, I warped to the tower, scooped it, and cloaked. Then I warped to a safe just to be sure I was clear. With everything complete, I logged off, the wormhole adventure now officially on pause. The tower was up for nearly 100 days, almost exactly in fact. It was within 6 hours of that when I took it down.
The only signs left now are a can and a Magnate, the can will fade quickly, but the ship will remain until it's destroyed or despawns (after 30 days I think). The name of the ship: Long Live Bob
o/
Fly safe and thanks for reading.
First off I wasn't alone, there was an Astero and some probes on scan when I logged in. I was already in the Prowler, having stashed my Cheetah in the Orca the week before. After warping to a safe that is on-grid with the POS, I started doing warp dives to the batteries that were outside the shields. First were the guns, emptying them of ammo before offlining and unanchoring them. Then the Energy Neut and some ECM batteries. While I was doing this, the Astero disappeared from scan and a Venture took it's place. The name sounded like bait, but you never can tell, I wasn't going to be messing with it anyway.
At this point there were three things left outside the shields, a Warp Disruptor and two ECM batteries, one of which was clustered with the Warp Disruptor. I hit that cluster up next, and just as I had both batteries in my cargo hold, a Buzzard appeared on the overview. I tried to cloak but he was already locking me up. Burning for the POS shield, I hit the MWD but he had already landed a scram. I was going to have to slowboat back into the shields at ~300 m/s. The Buzzard wasn't doing any damage but a Sabre had just appeared on scan. He landed and started shooting, getting through my shields and shaving just a touch of armor before I slid past the edge of the POS shield and their locks dropped.
Both pilots were members of Isogen 5, but not names I was familiar with from the forums. I wondered for a moment if they had read my blog and were watching for me to move out. But as time went by it appeared that these two may have just been in my wormhole by chance. Shortly after our encounter, both pilots convo'd me. They were asking for 200m ISK to leave and roll the connection so I would be assured they were gone. I thought about it for a moment, that was roughly the combined cost of the ship I was in and the tower I was going to scoop. They had given me 10 minutes to think it over. I decided to pass on the offer but didn't have anything witty to say in response, so I logged off.
Knowing these pilots were part of a capable organization, I wondered if they'd reinforce the POS. I had enough fuel left in it to deal with that situation, but it would complicate things. I monitored my EVEMail for the rest of the evening but no structure notifications ever came. For whatever reason, the only time I ever get Corp Hangar Rental Bills is when I'm simultaneously worried about my POS being shot at. This night was no different, the bill came through and spiked my heart rate for a moment before I realized what it was. It wasn't the first time this had happened, it's just a strange irony I keep running into.
I spent the rest of the evening watching Heroes with my wife, she had stumbled upon the series on Netflix, saving me the trouble of talking her into watching it. We watched a few episodes together, then she went to bed and I got caught up to where she had gotten without me. I figured I'd finish up the POS stuff the next night and so I headed to bed too.
The next morning my wife had to wake up at 5:00am, which meant I was going to be awake at that time too. Falling back asleep doesn't always happen and since I had to move my car at 6:00am so she could leave, I laid there and thought about what was left to do. I figured I would have time to make some progress right after she left, right before downtime. As I walked back in just after 6:00am I headed downstairs to the computer room to find that EVE was down. I could have sworn downtime was at 7:00am, maybe I didn't pay attention when Daylight Savings Time changed. Anyway it was back up pretty quick and I logged in to get to work.
With one ECM battery left outside the shields and five hardeners inside, there wasn't much left to do. I bounced and grabbed the ECM battery right away, then worked on the hardeners. Then logged off to grab my secondary alt and use her to log off in the Drake. With that done I switched to my primary alt and got the Orca loaded up. Space was tight, tighter than I thought it would be. All my extra Strontium had to go overboard, and a few Cap Boosters, but that was only a few million ISK worth of stuff. One Magnate didn't fit in the Orca's Ship Maintenance Bay, so I ejected that too. With everything else in place, I scooped the Ship Maintenance Array and Ammo Assembly Array, and warped the Orca to a safe spot. Once it was logged off, all that remained was grabbing the POS in the Prowler.
The time to unanchor a small POS is 15 minutes and that was exactly what I had left before I had to wake up my youngest son for school. Figuring "what the heck" I pulled the remaining fuel, offlined the tower and started it unanchoring. A quick warp back to the on-grid safe allowed me to watch the timer tick down. I ran off and got my son's breakfast ready and started waking him up, arriving back at the computer with 1 minute to go. As the final seconds ticked down, I warped to the tower, scooped it, and cloaked. Then I warped to a safe just to be sure I was clear. With everything complete, I logged off, the wormhole adventure now officially on pause. The tower was up for nearly 100 days, almost exactly in fact. It was within 6 hours of that when I took it down.
The only signs left now are a can and a Magnate, the can will fade quickly, but the ship will remain until it's destroyed or despawns (after 30 days I think). The name of the ship: Long Live Bob
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Fly safe and thanks for reading.
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