Margarite has been mostly busy with her alt mining the past two months. She has now built almost all the parts for the Orca. She may have to buy about 12 or 16 more parts or find blueprint copies for these, mine some more and build these. Today she mined mostly scorderite and was able to build 8 different parts.
Her alt flew an Orca a corpporation mate owned. Margarite also set up a new corporation player owned station in a new home system.
Building Tech II ships is becoming a habit for Margarite. She spends her income buying the moon materials needed to build the ship components for these Tech II ships. She has had some bad luck inventing lately but is ok with inventing the Ishkurs as these require only four datacores. At the moment she has 4 inventions jobs running to try to invent Oneiros ships again.
She is also building some 40 tractor beams.
This is all personal building compared to corporate building where she is working with others to make Tech II ammo.
Margarite was concerned at the beginning of the weekend with raising her security status. It was around 0.36 on Friday morning. Now it is above 0.5. She was successful with this goal as she had planned by joining a friend who invites her to missions. Her friend teaches her things and coaches her through the missions. In another way of putting it her friend is the leader of the fleet and calls out orders to Margarite as a support pilot. Today Margarite learned how to be a remote repair pilot and also how to group drones.
In the first mission, two Dominix's battleships had been unable to complete the final room in a previous attempt. Margarites friend and another third friend had tried this with the two Dominix's. This Saturday on the other hand, with Margarite's friend flying a Dominix and Margarite flying her Brutix, the mission was a success. This successful mission was done with Margarite avoiding being targeted. She was able to attack mostly with 5 Hammer II drones and was able to take out missile batteries, towers and frigates. The other pilot in the Dominix took all the damage and attacked the larger battleships the pirates were flying. In this first challenging mission both Margarite and the other pilot needed to warp out of the battle to repair the Dominix ship numerous times. It may have been 6 or 7 times they needed to warp out and then make their way back in via the acceleration gates. At least one time, the other pilot took serious hull damage, as they had not warped out soon enough.
Then the next day, they tried to set up the Brutix to act as a remote repair ship. This worked very well. Although the Brutix could only fit 2 small remote repairers and 1 medium regenerative remote repairer this was enough to hold the Dominix armor at zero damage. The first mission and use of the remote repair units required only one warp out and the remainder of that mission and the remaining missions were done without warping to safety. Margarite was still able to use drones to attack the smaller targets.
The basic and simple plan again was for Margarite to fly into combat once all the pirates had targeted the Dominix. She would then, for navigating the ship, simply set the Brutix to approach the Dominix for the whole battle. As the Dominix moved the Brutix would follow. This also helps the Brutix avoid being targeted by pirates at other distances, as basically they will choose to remain targeted on their first target, the Dominix. The Brutix will thus never become a closer target. In the beginning of the battle, once the Brutix is within 4000 meters of the Dominix, the Briutix would lock target on the Dominix and start the remote repair units. These then stay on for the duration of the battle. Once this is set up the Margarite launches her drones on the frigates. To do this she must target the frigates and then select them so she does not target the Dominix with the drones. If she makes this mistake and targets the Dominix, she is warned and can avoid this friendly fire. This is the other simple part of this plan. The Dominix starts attacking the largest ships and works towards the smallest. Whereas the Brutix starts with the smallest ships and work towards the larger ones. In today's three missions the Brutix would typically destroy all the frigates, all the destroyers and then most of the cruisers before the two pilots would be attacking the same ships and finish the battle with the three to five largest ships being joint kills.
While the bounty awarded for killings these pirates is nothing compared to hunting pirates in 0.0 security systems, combined with selling and reprocessing the loot from the pirate wreaks Margarite was able to buy enough ferrogel and fermion condensates to finish building all the components needed to another tech II ship and has started to build the components for yet another one. This first ship building job started yesterday and will be ending later today. The second ship to build is an Oneiros and Margarite will be able to afford to keep the Oneiros and use it as a better more effective remote repair ship as that is what the Oneiros is designed for. So both pilots will soon own an Oneiros. They must both train to use these properly still. Today was great practice and proved the effectiveness of remote repair to them both.
Right now Margarite has eight invention jobs running. With these she hopes to invent Occators and Viators.
Sales of four of these will pay for a PLEX. PLEX prices are reportedly at an all time low around 297 million ISK or even 270 million ISK. Margarite has to pay for a license for an alt character. She has about 28 days to raise the 300 million ISK and has 50 million ISK now.
After this she plans to attempt 16 more inventions of Viators, Occators and Oneiros ships. She will attempt 3 more occators, 5 more Viators and 8 Oneiros. Hopefully she will get four more BP's from this and be able to make another 300 million ISK.
The 600 million total will not all be profit so she need to continue to make ammo for her corp wages and and run missions and mine to support the costs of building these ships. Profits are only about 10 million per ship. She will also continue her tractor beams production and is, in fact, making some 40 tractor beams today and the sale of these will support the making of the tech II ships.
Margarite had 350 million isk when she set out today. This was in a large part wages from her building Tech II ships for the corp. This building program has become less profitable for the corp though, so wages were delayed. She has just joined the Tech II building crew in the past few months, and is doing even more industry tasks for the corp these past few days.
Maragrite has already spent 150 million of this isk to get enough minerals together to build 300 tractor beams. But she does not yet have enough mexallon or isogen. She has been trying to mine mexallon to make up for high mexallon prices. But today even though she set out to mine mexallon she is mining isogen. Isogen is cheap right now too, so this is not the best thing to mine right now. She needs about 800,000 units of isogen and has mined about 100,000 units so far. She has a huge supply of tritanium and pyerite from previous friendly miners selling her these minerals in abundance. The first things she bought today was enough nocxium and then she made a deal with a 0.0 miner from a former alliance and was able to get some large contracts for megacyte which has risen in price these past few months. This meant, she was able to pay some lower prices for megacyte and now has a huge supply, with enough now for about 600 or more tractor beams after she makes the planned 300. She had already bought enough megacyte for the 300 tractor beams yesterday. So all this extra megacyte was not needed yet. Rather she is planning on future building.
She has already made 32 of the 300 so has about 268 to still make .
