Losing my 3rd ship

My wife is away in France at the moment so I have more time than I usual to indulge in my current MMORPG fixation. The current focus of my time and energies is Eve Online.

I have fallen in with a corporation of nice English lads by accident which has given me a pool of experience and people to talk to in the evenings. Though I entered the game with the intention of giving PVP a go I have never really felt ready – always a skill short or money short and on top of this the guys are really pleasant and I don’t want to hurt any feelings by moving on. So, as a natural liberal democrat, I chose the Gallente and was bashing away at improving my Federal Intelligence Office (FIO) standing. I was undertaking level 3 missions in my pride and joy, my Myrmidon and had risen to a standing of 5.8ish.

I was beginning to bore of logging in and sending my drones off in another round of kill the rat when I found out about Cosmos missions on Monday evening. It was described on another BLOG as an attempt to ‘questify’ Eve. I carried out one of the missions which gave me some blueprints (for meta level 7 gear!) and serious amounts of standing. I now stand at 6.61. I need 6.90 to use the quality 18 agent near the corporation base. Unfortunately I don’t have a ship to do them in. So rather than hang round getting bored, I went and helped out Smint get his rating with Quafe up a bit then wandered over to Chi and Harkennen to help them out.

In the mistaken belief that they where playing in frigates, I bought myself one to go and play on even footing. Seeing has how my drones skills are high, I settled on the Imicus with it’s drone bay of 15 cubic metres – or 3 scout drones. I then picked up a level 2 mission (The Seven) which was done before you even realised it had started. As the two of them looted the place I went off and got another mission.

This one went rather pear-shape. In an enthusiasm I warped in, picked up all the aggro and before you could blink, my pod was floating in a cloud of dust. Scratch one new Imicus and tech2 Hobgoblins. Notes for self. The cap in the Imicus is tiny – the guns and armour repairer chewed through it in no time. Point the frigate away from the rats, AB on and let the drones chew everything up.

My skill training is focused towards flying an heavy assault ship – the Incursus (October 08 - I think I meant Ishtar). Never mind that I don’t have the money to buy one! It requires a whole pile of basic skills to be level 5 (Engineering, Gallente Frigate, Mechanical, Weapon Upgrades) which will be good whatever I end up flying. Before this though I am working on electronics 5 – this should allow me to train up cloaking! Each of the level 5 skills takes bout 6 days to train so it will be autumn before the Incursus is gracing the skies with me at the helm.