A Rock In A Cold Place

I was focusing on getting Abaddor into a Hulk.  In my noobishness once i got into a Retriever my train of thought was “better harvesting requires better ship.”  Reviewing the 39 day training plan to get Astrogeology and Mining Barge to V, I was starting to feel impatient.  Remembering the mention of T2 Modulated Strip Miners in Halada’s mining guide, I decided to see if I qualified.  Lo and behold, I do!  So I went out and bought a pair and some Veldspar crystals and went to work!  Well, definitely quite the improvement, and that’s with T1 crystals!  So, given that there are T2 crystals out there that I cannot use yet, but could soon, I rethought my plan.  Of course, getting qualified for these means working on refining skills, including Refining V, which will open up Refinery Efficiency (I got that skill in a tutorial and have been storing it for seven weeks now!). 

So…these new training goals, which will get me into some T2 crystals in a week, should ramp up the cash flow during that long trek to Hulk pilot.  And the Refinery efficiency, trained to a modest 3, should make it profitable to refine instead of selling ore!

This leads us to the first Sticky Note Of The Week!