A Rock In A Cold Place

Presenting “Sticky Of The Week 2″, with bonus features since I missed last week!

Found an exploratin fit online that was tuned for losec (cloak, plate, etc).  I decided to tone it down a little for highsec and add another tractor and some cargo space.  Hopefully i’ll find enough stuff to fill the cargo.  If not I’ll swap it for tank.   If anybody has insight on this in relation to highsec exploration (will I need cargo space?) please feel free to comment!

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!