The Cranky Sysadmin

I’ve gone back to EvE for a while. I dropped off the face of the um… universe when dominion came out, so I missed out on a lot of those changes. Planets are mow actual nice looking spheres instead of discs for instance.
random notes on my return to EVE

Five days later, I don’t regret buying the Orca. I notice my habits changing though. I am more willing to keep stuff since there is a much higher limit to the stuff I can move around.
See more about my packrat tendencies

I spent almost all of the ISK I had to buy and insure an Orca. My two characters are now living out of the Orca. The way I use it now is to park the Orca near a planet cloaked while my combat character goes out and finds exploration sites. I then switch and fit ships with the maintenance bay to handle actually going into the sites.
read on about living out of a bus

Just a short post. To start research, you only need to have one of the skills at level 1 that the research agent covers. For example, if your agent has Gallente Starship Engineering 4 and Plasma Physics 4, then you need one of those at level 1 to start research. Of course, you can only start research in areas where you are skilled and the agent covers.

I’ve mentioned before that I plan to try my hand at invention. I have some skill work to do before I’ll be efficient at invention, but I can still get the ball rolling by signing up with a research agent. I chose Roden Shipyards for my first invention corp because I already had 5.6 standing with them. The other corps (Duvolle Labs and Creodon) would require a lot of standings grinding to get the good agents.
Read more about invention

Ever since upgrading my laptop to 64 bit Ubuntu 9.04, the in-game browser in Eve stopped working. This was mostly an annoyance, so I never took the time to try to fix it. It turns out that in my case, the fix is easy and it’s actually part of the wine FAQ. The problem is that wine wasn’t resolving hostnames properly. The fix for 64 bit Ubuntu users and possibly other 64 bit linux users is to install the “lib32nss-mdns” pachage. It may be named differently for other distributions. Here’s the command I ran:

sudo apt-get install lib32nss-mdns

The next time I started Eve, the IGB worked fine.

I really don’t like mining, but on occasion I do if I can’t pay complete attention to EVE. With the fluctuating prices in ore these days, it’s hard to tell what will be most efficient to mine. Deep in Halada’s guide, there is a link to the Ore Table at Cerlestes. It gives average prices of the various ores by the can. If you’re too lazy to do your own research, like me (when it comes to mining). This may be a good resource for you.

I stumbled across this virtual hosting site a few weeks ago. It’s an interesting business model which wouldn’t work without EVE’s fairly liberal virtual money policy. I wonder how or if they ever convert to cash. I also wonder what other dubious but interesting business opportunities are out there in this line.

I’m looking for new things to do in EVE Online and one of the newer features that I have mostly ignored is w-space. W-space is that area beyond wormholes which is full of sleepers, t3 related loot, and great mining areas. One of the problems with w-space is the logistics. Our corp has setup a POS in w-space in the past and will probably do that again. I think the Orca is a good solution for those of us with a more solo attitude.
Orca for w-space? Sure!

I took my new Ishtar out for a spin in EVE and did the Recon (1 of 3) mission. It was slow going as I haven’t done a mission in a while and I was in a new ship with different handling then my Dominix.
Missions are OP