A more permanent home...

Alright. It feels like it's been awhile since I updated you all on what's been going on. So here it goes...

So where I left you off was when I had escaped out of W-space. I also told you how AWESOME the Tengu is. And it's only been getting better...

So anyways, I have partnered up with a former corp mate. We have decided to run W-space together which will be very different in and of itself for me. So our first night running sites (we just ran sites in a C3 that spawned close to our base), we didn't really end up running many sites. hehe. We did pvp though... Bob in his Tengu, Ant in her domi, and my (now) corpy in his tengu. We were running sites and all of a sudden, a harbinger appears at our WH back to hi sec. Followed by a Raven. At that point bob was in the salvage boat about to warp to the sites to salvage the wrecks. They shot at him!

Well we couldn't stand for that. And feeling EXTREMELY cocky in our shiny new Tengus we decided to show them up. So I jump back through the WH and make a bee line to the station to get my Tengu while corpy and Ant warp to the WH to engage. Apparently these pilots have no appreciation for a Tengu tank...or dps. We decided to primary the harby. So one domi + tengu = harby kill mail. One domi + 2x Tengu = faster kill mail. Yeah, my sleeper war now includes casualties of the human variety. The Raven warped off with it's tail between its legs.

Feeling victorious we logged for the night.

A few nights later, my corpy made a great find. A C3 from lo sec leading to a C2. It turns out that the C2 had a static C3. Exactly what we've been looking for. One problem...it's inhabited. drats.....

So my corpy links their corp after finding their pos and I strike up a conversation with one of their diplomatic contacts. I had been looking for a hole like this for awhile and I did NOT just want to move on because it was inhabited.

The convo started out pretty tense but we soon got past the this-is-w-space-and-i-have-to-assume-that-you-want-to-kill-me formalities. After awhile I simply asked if he and his corp would be willing to share the WH with us. And to my complete enjoyment, they accepted!

Not only does this WH have a static C3, but it also has a static hi sec exit. When considering this before I really didn't want to have that in the WH I inhabited. But since I have learned WH management (thanks Stack All!) it actually seems more like a great asset to have. The security of always having a hi sec exit means I will never have to worry about fuel or making sales runs. I think this is gonna work out just fine...

So I brought in the Medium POS setup that I had ready in the orca. Within about 2 hours it was all ready to go.

Today was the first day that we really made use of our friendly relations with our WH neighbors, to the benefit of all involved. I logged on before anyone else in the WH and checked out the new C3. Nothing doing. No sites to run. Oh well. So I closed it. Next WH. Same thing. Oh well. Closed it. By the time the new WH had opened up there were about 4 other pilots online from our WH coop. Turns out this WH had about 7 sites to run. So we ran them.

Boy did we run them. We had no less than 3 tengus, one domi, and one raven. The sleepers fell like flies. And it all took less than an hour. Not too bad. I'll report in soon about how much we ended up making...

Just a quick update

So I have now been in this C4 WH with my very generous hosts (Stack All) for about a week. I have only really run sites with them once, while having a few other adventures tossed in as well. In short, I'm itching to get into my own WH. Nothing against my current hosts but I feel that everything I do while I'm here I have to do very carefully as I don't want to mess anything up for them.

I suppose I just can't wait to be in a spot where all my mistakes are my own and affect no one but me. Live to learn I suppose. This time spent here has not been fruitless however. My time in this C4 has gained me invaluable experience on WH management due to the tagging along on ops with Stack All. Closing WH's. Learning more, first-hand, about static WH management. All valuable things which I will certainly benefit from in the future.

Right now, as I have the urge to move on, I will really be looking for the first relatively-suitable hole I can find. I made a run out to Jita through a lo sec exit (popped out only 5 jumps away!) and stocked up on fuel (now I have two weeks worth), modules I've found I need, and some skill books leading to more modules I've learned I need.

So I feel I'm ready to hit the open road. This WH I'm in has a static C3 exit so I'll be looking at the next few that pop up and a) move into that WH b) move into an adjoining C2 or C3 from that WH. I have had a little while to consider this next move over the last week and I have a few ideas rattling around in my head. I will be flushing them out over the next few days and will certainly post about it as I do.

P.S. I promised in a previous post that I would report on my earnings from the sleeper campaign I ran with Stack All. I netted 76 mill isk. Not as much isk/hr as I make running sites by myself but not too bad either. Also more fun running with cool capsuleers!

An interesting oppurtunity

So I logged once more today after the encouraging sales run I made earlier to run some more sleeper sites. I had run another two sites when I had my first visitor. Had a good conversation with 'I Noob' about WH living and hope to stay in contact with him as he attempts to work with WH's in the future.

Not long after, while I was sitting in my pos, a heron appears 150 km or so out, then quickly cloaks up. I was able to open the pilot info before she disappeared so I convoed her. Turns out that she was part of a C4 WH corp. Their system had opened up a WH to mine. After a few minutes talking about our situations, I showed her the way to my lo sec exit WH and she offered me the chance to move into their C4 WH with them until I could find the proper C2 WH I was looking for.

As I had just finished the last of the sleeper sites, I jumped at the oppurtunity. So as two of my chars stayed behind to start packing up my POS I decided to run out the little bit of loot I had acquired from the two sites I had done. Surprise surprise, I sold it off for a lot more than I had thought I would. Another 84 million isk. The cost of my tower has been completely covered at this point. Who knew that running 4 sleeper sites in one day would cover the vast majority of my initial investment...

So an hour or so later I had successfully ferried my small pos setup along with my 5 ships into the adjoining C4 WH. My main goal while here is to find a vacant C2 WH that I can occupy for awhile. Shout out to the Stack All corporation! Thanks for the non-hostile arrangement! Should be an adventure...

And on a quick note, I grabbed the necessary skill book and module so that now my Domi pilot has two large shield transporting mods fitted to assist Bob in the Drake. Makes a difference and helps make sure that I don't have to warp out now from C3 sites.

Couldn't find a WH to live in but....

So, since I spent the entire day on eve scanning down WH's looking for my new home, I was kinda tired of scanning. I wanted to blow some sleepers up...

So it was a few hours from downtime and I found a c2 WH that was perfect. Well, it would have been perfect had there not been a huge POS in there. Whoever was in there definately had some serious production going on. However, there were about 6 perimeter sites, just begging to be cleaned out. I scanned the whole system and didn't find any other ships, and the hi sec system I came through was also quiet. So I decided to get it out of my system. I simply did 4 Perimeter Hangar sites. Took me 1 1/2 hours total, to take out the sleepers and to salvage the wrecks.

I wasn't expecting a whole lot in the way of isk from this adventure but after running it all to my favorite local trading hub, I netted a cool 57 mil isk! Not that bad for 1.5 hours in someone else's WH :P

Almost all of the isk came from two item types. The most profitable was the melted nano ribbons. That accounted for 30 mil, that's only 6 ribbons. The second most profitable was 112 sleeper data cores selling for 22.4 mil. Not half bad.

This first isk run certainly made me feel better about not having my own WH yet. Although it has definately whetted my appetite as to what I'll be able to net once I'm in a WH 24/7

Searching for the First WH

So today was really the first day that I focused on finding my first WH. Man...I scanned...a lot. I scanned down 15-20 systems, some lo sec and some hi sec, and found WH's in almost every system. I think I'll keep better track of the exact numbers next time. Every WH I found was either taken, or not what I was looking for. Right now, I'm looking for a c2 WH that is vacant. I really don't even care if it has a ton of sites. I just want to get in there and set up my pos and test out the logisitics. A few sleeper sites would never hurt...

In the recent past, while gaining interest in WH's, I scanned down and took down a few sleeper sites. The amazing amount of isk I made in a little amount of time was what really caught my interest. I had mainly roamed a few c2's so I know that I can clear those sites. Well, at least the ones I have tried. And I did those with Boblakov in the Drake solo. Having Antiochian along in the Domi will surely make things go quicker.

So I scanned down 15-20 systems in my cov ops, scanning down 15-20 WH's. Each time I saw that 'Unknown' scan type come up I kept thinking, "this is definately gonna be the one." But I never did. Ran into a lot of occupied WH's. A lot more than I thought I would. The only empty ones I found were c3's. I did come across what I believe to be a rare find however, a WH in hi sec leading to a c5. It was STOCKED. There were so many sites in there, and no structures or ships showed up in my scans. Too bad that's well above my pay grade. I tried to sell the location to ppl in my various chat channels but nobody was interested :P

So after a long session of scanning, and finding WH's, then finding I couldn't use them, I decided to call it quits on the rollercoaster of scanning emotion for the day. But tomorrow is a new day...