I seem to be on the spiraling path of acquiring more and
more spaceships for various reasons that make a lot of sense to me but not much
to my wallet. With the cruiser changes more and more cruisers are
appearing in my hangers. One of the side effects is that I must fit all
of these ships. That has started to get expensive. Therefore I look
to trim cost here and there. There are useful things like the corp ops to
build our own ships and building my Cynabal's from my own blueprint copies.
However, it is the rigs that have irritated me of late.
Most T1 ships wind
up fitted with three rigs. A trickledown effect of recent changes has
been an increase in the cost of salvage. The increase in the cost of
salvage increases the cost of rigs on the market. Shield rig prices have
gone up and they are staying up. It's annoying.
On a 10 or 15
million ISK ship I am dropping that price again in rigs. I'm not going to
not have the rigs. Once I learned and saw how invaluable they are to
improving the ship, especially in areas of tank, I have no interest
in not having them. However, the price increase
is unpleasant and I realized that I was an idiot.
I have a lot of
salvage. A lot of salvage. Often times the pathetic price for
salvage is such that I just shove it into a container until it grows into a
large enough pile to be worth something. Some salvage prices have risen
while others have dropped dramatically. I'm into making my own
stuff and for once I have a financially sound (I think?) reason to do so. I am not making more off of
selling the salvage then I am off of making the rigs.
I feel a bit
stupid for not thinking about it sooner. A few days ago I went and
grabbed some basic rig blueprints for small and medium shield and armor rigs
and started making my own stuff. My first batch came out of the oven. It's like I made magic only I could have done it a
long time ago and never thought about it. Now I am rolling around in
piles of salvage that I am rapidly converting into rigs and the BPOs have paid
themselves off. Plus I have rigs and its super cool to make new stuff.
On a side note, to
my absolute fascination, someone pointed out that a local group has
a campaign on their kill board against my
alliance. It is kind of amusing. I wonder if that is why there
is traffic here from their forums. I've never been into war decs and
enemies and war targets and such things so having a group be like, "We
shall seek to killz them" is rather mind boggling for me. I'm the
pew and let pew type without need for formal declaration or any
declaration. I even think I'm pretty friendly and okay to have chats with
outside of the spaceship violence moments.
Did we piss them off? Maybe it is just
their thing that they do to have motivations and goals within their
corporation. It is odd to be the target of such but I guess it was bound to
happen. I personally have not tangled with them outside of the POS fight
with 7-2 the other week, I don't think. From the kill board the boys have been more
active with them, having several very good fights with them.
Now I want to talk
to them. I guess I can try and see how it goes. Between the forum
traffic and this campaign thing I'm now curious about them as people. I
do hope they have fun with this. The boys are always happy to have fights
brought to the table. It would be pleasant for it to stay group
vs group for whatever reason it is and free of the weird vicious
bitterness that so often follows behind conflict. That may just be a
dream of mine. Then there is the thought that they may look for
information in my blog. If so, I feel bad for them wading through my
insecurities, confidence problems, random babble and
habitual discussion about industry and the social complexity of
Eve. But, for now that is all speculation.
When fitting cruisers or other cheap ships where I don't want to spend a load of isk on rigs I usually fit resistance rigs instead of field extenders or trimarks.
ReplyDeleteNot as effective but it also means your resists are usually more even across the board and you don't have that typical em/explosive hole in your resists. And that thermal rig means it's usually your strongest resist instead of the second hole while almost everyone deals thermal damage because it's usually the best guess for the second worst resist.