Margarite sold the Orca she built.
Margarite sold the Orca she built and bought a friend a Pilot's License Extension. She had 80 million in change after this and proceeded to build more tractor beams.
Margarite Liberte's Engineering Career in Eve Online.
This blog is dedicated to the memory of the women engineering students killed in Montreal, Canada. The world needs more female engineers. They will not be forgotten,
March 03, 2010
February 12, 2010
The Orca is almost done now.
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.
February 07, 2010
Margarite's spreadsheet for Gallente Tech II ships.
This spreadsheet allows one to budget and estimate profit for building Gallenete Tech II ships. It is generic and you fill in the green market prices and purple number of ships you want to make. Here is the link
Gallente Tech II profit spreadsheet
January 09, 2010
Building an Orca
Margarite bought for 40 million isk an Orca blueprint with an Manufacturing Efficiency (ME) of 3. Her corp has some of the blueprints needed to build the capital parts for the Orca. Margarite bought herself the skill book for capital ship construction and started to build capital cargo bays yesterday. She still must build 24 more of these cargo bays. She started one run of capital construction parts and will need 13 more runs of capital construction parts. Other than this she will have to be buying parts for this Orca. This ship, the Orca is for her alt.
December 28, 2009
Margarite completed a level 1 version of "Worlds Collide"
Margarite was able to complete a mission in 0.0 space. It did not seem any different from high security space in terms of the mission itself. Because it was 0.0 space though, Margarite had to be on the look out for non alliance members who would kill her. In the end she needed help to complete the mission.
December 19, 2009
Margarite has joined three alliance fleets now in 0.0
The intelligence aspects of alliances and corporations prevent me from writing too many details of what Margarite is doing in 0.0 that is no security space. She has been flying in fleets so far and doing her bit to progress her alliances' agenda. She has had a little time outside of fleet to get her bearings. She needs to find a way to make isk out here in 0.0.
November 15, 2009
A corp member bought a Megathron Gallente Battleship blueprint and has given Margarite a copy of the blueprint today.
Margarite depends on the gifts sometimes from corporation members. Today one member who owns a Megathron battleship blueprint worth about one billion ISK gave Margarite a copy of this blueprint. She will build a Megathron now and sell it. Battleships need a lot of minerals to build. She mined for about one hour to get tritanium and pyerite and will need to mine plagioclase ore for another three hours to get enough mexallon and even more pyerite and trianium. Other minerals that she can not mine are going to cost approximately 25 million ISK. She should then be able to build this Megathron battleship in under five hours and sell it for 72 million ISK.
Margarite has been making Tech II ships and tractor beams and some Tech I ammo.
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.
November 12, 2009
Margarite needs to earn some isk for her next PLEX.
The tractor beam market seems to be way down. Mind you minerals are cheaper. Also Margarite's alt flies a Hulk mining exhumer now, and can mine for her. Along with this gain, Margarite's corp has had some regular mining operations in Empire pulling in millions of isk an evening.
Margarite was promoted to her corporation's Production Chief yesterday.
Margarite does not really do much PVP. Most of her corporation does PVP and actively seek out 0.0 alliances to join. Meanwhile Magarite does a lot of industry. She for instance invented 23 Tech II ammo blueprints on Sunday. She has also started to regularly invent Tech II Galllente ships for her own income. This has given her a reputation in her corporation of being an industrial pilot. She has had access to buying and selling using corporation funds for a year or so now and is getting used to this to support industry. Also the corporation experienced an item robbery and then were compensated with ISK. Margarite was the first one who initiated the re-stocking of the industrial hanger and the restart of the industrial production. The former head of industry has become the CEO now so Margarite was promoted to industry chief. Her new title is Chief of Production.
October 31, 2009
Margarite is managing to earn the ISK she needs for a pilot's license extension.
Margarite was trying to earn enough to buy her alt a Pilot's License Extension (PLEX). She almost made it then the alt decided to buy a Hulk mining ship which he now flies. So Marg started again earning isk for her own PLEX and now has two Ishkur's being built and these will sell for 26 million ISK each and make up the remaining 50 million ISK she will need for her license.
October 11, 2009
Margarite lost a battleship in a level 4 mission earlier this morning.
Margarite had built a Maelstrom battleship from a blueprint copy she had bought. She had done this inspired by the little fan fiction film "Clear Skies". Last night her buddy wanted to teach her more about damage. They worked to fit the Maelstrom for shield protection. Then they went into the mission "When Worlds Collide". Margarite got jammed and could not warp out to safety and the pirates destroyed her battleship. She escaped in her capsule. It was not too serious and Margarite collected some insurance on the ship. She was not using this ship too much so she felt no great loss in all this.
October 03, 2009
Margarite was targetted today in Jita but escaped.
There was only one war target in system in Jita when Margarite logged in today. She had arrived in Jita last night with an escort. She had brought 1 million units of tech II ammo to sell. She made all this ammo. She bought some moon materials in Jita and was ready for the flight home. She predicted the war target at worse would try to target her Occator when she undocked but that she could get into warp and sustain damage and still make the first gate. In fact, the one war target did target her but he did not even get a shot off before Margarite was in warp and away. Once out of Jita no further war targets were seen.
September 07, 2009
Margarite flew four level four missons in her Brutix ship with three of these as a remote repair ship.
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.
September 05, 2009
Margarite was successful at invention.
Margarite did invent two Occators and one Viator and still has the Oneiros blueprint.
August 31, 2009
The normalization of skills is looking much better.
Margarite has now the same number of level II skills as level IV. She has 43 of both. At level III she has 94 skills and at level V 29 skills. She has zero level 1 skills.
Tech II building plans.
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.
August 30, 2009
Viator success.
It took four inventions and two times 32 datacores ( 32 mechanical engineering and 32 Gallente Starship) and then Margarite was able to invented one Viator BP. Then she made the ship and sold it for 74 million ISK resulting in 10 million ISK profit.
August 23, 2009
Margarite is building one Oneiros now and is trying to invent a Viator blueprint.
Margarite started the manufacturing for one Oneiros now. She also has some of the components for a second Oneiros now. She also started two invention jobs for a Viator blueprint.
August 21, 2009
Margarite is focusing on her first Tech II ship build outside the corp production system.
Margarite is focusing on her first Tech II ship build. She has of course been inventing blue prints for ammo regularly now. She has been building components for ships too. She needs to train cruiser construction to level IV to really start building Tech II ships for the corp. But this is all corp production where much of the materials and blueprints and labs are provided by the corp. At the moment she is trying to build, on her own, two Oneiros. She is using blueprints from the corp supply but providing all the materials on her own. She is close to having almost half of the components made now for the first Oneiros. She will focus on this and then try to invent some Viators and Occators.
Margarite has now trainged all her learning skills to level V except presence.
It took her a large amount of time but Margarite has now trained all her learning skills to level V except for one skill that of presence.
August 16, 2009
Margarite left the corp rocket fuel purchase some 29 jumps behind.
Margarite was shopping for the corp the other day. She was also in Jita buying the first moon materials for building the two Oneiros ships. She forgot to load the rocket fuel she bought. So she is flying back there this morning to pick up the rocket fuel. She will also clean out a station she is not using anymore and move the items back to one of her home bases.
August 15, 2009
Margarite has been completing her first level two missions this weekend.
Margarite has been given some help getting her standings up with the Federal Navy. She can now ask for level two missions. She completed two of these missions last night. She has had it fairly easy finding agents to complete missions for around Gallente solar systems. Her old corporation are all very helpful pilots. For example, to improve her standings for refining at a station where she commonly refines ore she was given an agent's name, solar system and station location to run missions for, and this agent is from the same corporation as the refining station corporation. This means when she gets increased standing for completing the missions her standing also improve for refining. This is the agent she worked for for a number of mission and was able to reach level two missions. She also has the advantage of time. Because she rarely completes missions she has trained all kinds of skills and has the best ships for these missions. She used her Brutix almost completely fitted to the specs for a level two mission runner, a former fellow corp mate posted on battle clinic. She is only missing one rig to make it complete. It works very well for these level two missions so far.
August 12, 2009
Margarite's first goal when she left the Center for Advanced Studies was to own an Arazu. Now she owns one.
The first Tech II ship Margarite set her eyes on when she graduated from the Center for Advanced Studies was an Arazu. She has, just this past week purchased one of these from her corporation ship building program. She still must train cruiser piloting to level 5 to fly the ship but she is well on the way now. She long ago trained to fly recon ships.
Margarite's Occator now has rigs and can hold 35 K cargo now.
The most expensive parts to building cargo rigs are the armored plates. Margarite bought the amount she needed to build two rigs for her Occator. The Occator was a planned ship a long time ago and of course her tractor beam business plan supported it. In the end it is more likely that what actually paid for this Tech II transport ship and now the rigs she just built are her corporation production wages. At any rate her number one transport can now carry 35 K of cargo up from its previous 26K..
August 09, 2009
Margarite invented two Tech II Gallente Logistic ships blueprints.
Margarite was able to invent two Oneiros ships blueprints which are for building Tech II versions of the Exequror cruiser. She now needs to source the materials to build this Tech II ship. She needed 80 datacores to do this invention. She only had five invention runs but was lucky and got exactly the two blueprints she needed. One for her and one for a friend.
August 08, 2009
The corp industry wages were paid this week, finally!
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 .
Margarite is mining a scanned site this weekend.
One of Margarite's allies in Eve has scanned down a site and the two of them have been mining Omber for about two hours now. The ally is now calling it a night and Margarite will continue to mine the site for a few more hours.
August 03, 2009
The long day continues now flying in the Occator, as Margarite picks up a mexallon contract and buys datacores for invention of tech II ammo.
The Occator Margarite has been flying almost exclusively is a great long space travel ship for carrying large amounts of materials and thus is a good trade ship. Today while mining a corp mate offered some mexallon on contract at 28 ISK. So after loading up with the minerals from the days mining Margarite traveled 27 jumps to pick up the mexallon from the contract. Once here she started the many jumps back back to the production home world. She also needed to buy more datacores for the corporation ammo production. She has almost now purchased what she needs and is picking up these datacores and making her way home again.
Margarite completed some solo Jet Can mining today but this is just the beginning of her long day.
Margarite needs mexallon and zydrine as the more expensive materials in building tractor beams. Zydrine prices are maintaining their prices at around 1600 ISK or slightly lower. So this expense is not increasing. But the mexallon prices have gone up from the 24 to 26 ISK range to now 30 to 34 ISK and higher. This has effected the costs of production for Margarite so rather than buy mexallon as she would usually be able to do, she committed this morning to mining mexallon producing ores. Her goal initially was to mine until she had produced 500 million units of mexallon or 15 million ISK worth at 30 ISK per unit.
As she mined she reset her goal to a lofty 1 million units of mexallon. As the mining operation continued through the day, she grew tired of mining and reset her expectations back to half a million units. Then after mining 10 cans of ore a friend who was in the area alerted her that the low sec route Margarite needs to return to her home system was clear of pirates at that moment. So Margarite stopped mining after 10 cans of ore and after refining she was just short of 400 thousand units mexallon. By quitting short of the goal though she was able to get the minerals safely out of the mining area and into her Occator for transport to the production system for immediate use in building tractor beams. So today it was mostly mining that Margarite completed.
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- Margarite sold the Orca she built.
- The Orca is almost done now.
- Margarite's spreadsheet for Gallente Tech II ships.
- Building an Orca
- Margarite completed a level 1 version of "Worlds Collide"
- Margarite has joined three alliance fleets now in 0.0
- A corp member bought a Megathron Gallente Battleship blueprint and has given Margarite a copy of the blueprint today.
- Margarite has been making Tech II ships and tractor beams and some Tech I ammo.
- Margarite needs to earn some isk for her next PLEX.
- Margarite was promoted to her corporation's Production Chief yesterday.
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