Maragrite is training only her learning skills now. She sometimes trains another skill along with this if it takes less than a day like today training supply chain management to level III. All of her learning skills will be at level V by early August and her cybernetics will be trained to level V after that. Then she will buy 5 +5 implants to raise her attributes as high as they can go.
There was a war recently declared against Margarite's alliance. Apparently one of her alliance members was using some zero zero systems that some group claimed as their own so decided to declare war on Margarite's alliance. To prepare Margarite was warned to get into her low grade clone which she did. She also readied her Keres, her Ishkur and her new Vexor. She saved the set ups on these then stripped them and put the mods for each ship in a medium or small container and then packaged the ships and then put the containers and three ships in her Occator and started to fly to a system near the corp meeting point for the start of the war. She actually chose to go to a near by system she has been running missions in and when she docked there was a red star in the station with her. A red star beside a pilot's name means they are a war target or enemy pilot. This was strange to find a war target right there. She seemed to be being spied on. Anyway she logged off and wasn't able to come back much and, in fact, switched back to her more powerful clone at about the same time the war was invalidated.
First she was required by her corp to train Production Efficiency to level V then various science skills so she could become and effective tech II ship builder. She is also a corporation ammo builder. She further on her own initiative trained Mass Production to level V and Advanced Mass Production to level III. She recently completed training Laboratory Operation to level V and then Advanced Laboratory Operation to level III.
Margarite has finally trained Mass Production to level V and bought Advanced Mass Production and trained this to level 2. This gives her three more production slots for manufacturing. Manufacturing is how she makes all her isk or in game currency. She has also now trained Frigate Construction to Level IV and started training Crusier Construction and this will be at Level III in about 11 hours from now.
She tried about 8 inventions jobs and finally produced two blueprint copies for the tech II version of the Amarr frigate the Magnate. Now she is slowly making the parts of these ships. She is also now thinking more and more that she must really experience the Amarr ships by becoming skilled at flying a Amarr ships. She scouted some Amarr systems and settled down in one system. There are mission agents she can access in these high sec systems. She bought a Amarr frigate and will try a few Amarr missions soon.
Margarite was able to invent Void M ammo blue print copies. These are a tech II ammo created from Anti-Matter tech 1 blue print copies. Before today Margarite needed other corp mates to invent these blue prints So she is picking up some slack.
In an effort to save real money, Margarite is flying on PLEX time or earned time. To make the final 50 mil towards her PLEX she sold her Taranis and her Helios. She did not fly these and could not fly the Taranis yet as she did not have the skills for it. She also rarely flew her Helios and never flew it for its purpose. Since the Viator and Occator can use cloaks she uses the cloak on the Viator. She also uses a cloak on her Keres. She learned cloaking to fly an Arazu which she also does not yet have skills for because she still needs another 16 days to train Cruiser to level 5. Also the Arazu is a specialty recon ship meant for PVP. Marge generally avoids the sharp edge of PVP. Part of her game technique is, in fact, successful avoidance of PVP.
Making mostly tractor beams Margarite raised 310 million ISK and bought a pilot license extension. This is the most isk she has ever had and the largest purchase she has made to date.
Margarite has been focusing on building in the last week. She has chosen to be an Amarr ship builder. She was also tasked with making ammo the past couple of months. This past week she trained Electomagnetic Physics and Plasma Physics and these are now at level 3. This helps her make ammo, that is tech II ammo and also will help her with ship building. Of course, she is talking about building tech II ships so she must also invent the tech II blueprints. She will not be ready to do the inventions for another 27 days but she has been skilled enough to invent tech II Hobgoblin drones for a few months now. Her first attempt failed with only one blueprint copy used as she attempted invention. Today, she tried two blueprints for two invention jobs and her first was successful giving her the first success with invention in her career. Ths second invention job will finish later today. So now she will try to make these tech II Hobgoblin drones and sell them.
Margarite was set up with an agent in a safe system away from low sec systems and began completing missions there and completed her first story line mission. She has now moved to another agent who will, if she does enough missions for this coproration allow her to raise her standings high enough to think about jump clones.
Margarite is still trying to bring her low level skills up to the middle that is level 3. She has 19 skills at level 1, 60 skills at level 2, 44 skills at level 3, 26 skills at level 4 and still 17 skills at level 5. So 2 level 1 skills must move to level 3 taking about one to seven hours each to reach level 2 and then seven to nineteen hours each to reach level 3. Now she has presently 34 skills to be trained to level 3 plus the two first level skills also needing to be trained to level 3. This means 36 skills need to be trained, at worst for nineteen hours each, but this training many actually take seven, nine, eleven, fourteen, or seventeen hours for each skill. The two level 1 skills to level 2 may take a few hours say half a day at worst and then the 36 skills times nineteen hours at worst would be six hundred and eighty four hours or about twenty nine days to acheive this goal.
Margarite has about 60 skills at level 2 and about 25 skills at level 4. She would like to train 35 of the level 2 skills to level 3 and have an equal number of skills at level 2 and 4 and have the bulk of skills at level 3. She has 17 skills at level 5 and 25 skills at level 1. She will also train 8 of the level 1 skills to level 3 so that both level 1 and 5 match with 17 skills. This may take a week or two.
Margarite still needs 23 days to reach Cruiser level 5 and she has less than 15 days to Production Efficency level 5. For Research level 5 she is about 5 days off. For Senor Linking level 4 she is 2 days and three hours from completion. For Cloaking level 4 which will allow her to use advanced Tech II cloaking she is 4 days off. She has ony two learning skills remaining at level 3 all the rest are levels 4 or 5. She has also started training Rocket Science and needs Caldari Encryption Engineering Methods still to start to invent Tech II missile blueprints. With this skill book she can also invent Tech II rail gun blueprints.
Margarite was being undercut locally in her tractor beam sales. Learning to cope with his taught her more about markets. She was able in her last big production run to make 100 tractor beams and sell them all. She spent a lot on outfitting her new PVP ships and she also bought a few skill books. At present she is back on step 2 for her business plan. But she has misjudged the step starting from 20 million ISK and trying to make 40 million. After spending the 20 million on minerals she is still short minerals. She decided to make 8 tractor beams last night and set them for sale this morning.This way she can buy more minerals. She hopes this will produce 32 million ISK to buy her Viator and she will need to move fast to get her next ship after that the other transport the Occator. So far the goal of buying the transports skill book has been achived.
One of Margarite's production managers loaned her 50 million ISK and she bought minerals to make 100 tractor beams. She was short isogen and mexallion but was able so far to make 80 tractor beams and pay back 40 million ISK. She got most of the tritanium and pyerite from mining with her corp mates a week or so ago. She needed to deliver some tractor beams and fill buy orders at a lower price to make her sales. She is under some undercutting pressure in her home system so has had to cut her asking prices.
Using the first few steps for her plan she is able to make ISK income with less mining on her own. So really cooperating is the key to keeping the business plan functioning. She has repeated step 1 a few times and just this weekend repeated step 2 and actually had 50 tractor beams for sale at the end of the weekend. Just before this she bought a Keres. She has about 25 tractor beams for sale now. She is just about to start buying minerals for her next production runs. She will try to make another step 1 and then 2 before the coming weekend. She must pay for a Viator this weekend. A more experienced pilot was saying this was not a good choice but she is stubborn and will be trying to buy the transports skill book before the weekend and the purchase of the Viator. This means she needs an extra 25 million ISK outside of the production ISK she must maintain..
Margarite flew her Iteron Mark V to haul minerals while 4 mining pilots mined. She kept up well and almost never fell behind. They mined three asteroid belts and it took about five hours.
