OGREI

I've recently moved into a new corporation, Omni Galactic Resource Excavation Inc.  Their headquarters in Brapelille are 15 jumps from where I used to live, and the place they're mining at right now for a contract is nearly thirty jumps out.  I've moved my most important stuff to Brapelille, a Mammoth and a Covetor to Kuomi, where they're currently mining, and have the rest of my stuff courier contracted to Red Frog Freight for whenever they can pick it up.  I spent maybe three hours moving, which isn't bad at all in the grand scheme of things.

I'm currently living in Kuomi, which is a 0.6 system in Amarr space.  There are quite a few nice things about  living here, actually.  Among them:

• The asteroids here are much better than where I was before.  Instead of Veldspar, Plagioclase, Scordite, and Omber, we've got Pyroxeres, Kernite, Scordite, and Veldspar.
• We're fairly close to the Amarr trade hub, making it easy to get anything we might need.
• Only two jumps out from lowsec.  I've been meaning to go on solo Rifter roams into lowsec for quite a long time.  Now I finally have the chance to do it.
• In Amarr space, meaning the SP I've put into Amarr ships will come in very valuable for missions and the like.  I don't think too many other people in my corp have it trained up all that much, although I could be wrong.  Amarr ships don't seem to be very popular for some reason.

Now for the nice things about the corp:

• They've got many more active members than my old corp. Granted, a lot of these guys are new recruits like myself, so my guess is that activity will taper off somewhat as time passes. But there were still 19 people in the corp channel last night, and I like seeing that.
• We held a pick-up mining up last night, and ended up with 4 mining ships being boosted by an Orca that was actually in the field with us.  I don't think I've ever been to any sort of op in EVE before, and it was very cool.  We mined out one asteroid field and were about halfway done with another when I had to log off.  And I actually had fun mining, which doesn't happen very often.
• They seem pretty well-organized and have good ideas for keeping members active.  One guy sent out a mail saying he would give a PLEX to whoever mined the most in the next month.  I think that this sort of enticement is a good way to keep people focused.

This post wouldn't be complete without thanking all of the people who helped me out in my old corp/alliance.  So Johann Rascali, Rastuasi, ZORRODEN, Hoss ... thanks.  You all taught me how to play EVE, and without your help I probably wouldn't still be playing this game.

Finally, I've gotten to the point where I don't feel like a newbie any more.  So this blog needs a renaming.

Finally an Update

Well, it's been a while, but I'm back again.

So, what's happened to me?

• I went the battleship route, and lost my Maelstrom on my first time out soloing an L4 mission.  Turns out I didn't really have the skills to come anywhere near to flying the thing properly and my fit was rather screwed up.  I took a two-month long break from EVE while my skills trained, and came back.  Now I have another Maelstrom that can tank what most L4 missions can throw at it.
• I can fly a Hulk, although I don't quite have the skills to use Tech II Strip Miners and crystals yet.  Still need Mining V and some of the asteroid-specific refining skills.
• I'm leaving my current corp, Crunchy Crunchy, for a place called OGREI.  I've moved all the essentials myself and have contracted Red Frog Freight to do the rest for me.  My current corp also got wardecced a few hours after I submitted an app to OGREI, which is too bad.  The excitement might have kept me in Crunchy for a while longer if I hadn't already been committed elsewhere.
• My Mammoth blew up this morning in a belt while I was afk.  I lost my Hoarder many months ago in a very similar fashion, so you'd think I'd have learned my lesson, but I'm afraid not.  Oh well.  It's not like Mammoths are too expensive anyways.
• I've gotten some Amarr ships.  I've got their T1 frigate lineup, an Arbitrator, and a Harbinger.  I think I'll be getting an Apocalypse soon too, especially as I'm now living in Amarr space.

Anyways, that's the grand scheme of how my EVE life is going.  I'll go into more detail on the corp change when I get around to posting next.