Finally found another wh

I haven't been doing much in game for the last couple of weeks. My wife had a baby so that's been taking up most of my time. Things are starting to settle down now, though, so a couple of days ago I started the search for another wormhole. I found a very nice empty C3 with a few anomalies, 5 belts, 3 vast ladar sites and a bountiful lader site pretty quickly. The downside was that it had 2 high sec exits, a low sec exit, a null sec exit and a C6 exit. I decided to suck up a few of the gas clouds at the very least since they were worth about 40 mil per site with very little work involved. So I parked my miner and started harvesting. Unfortunately, by the time I made it back with my hauler the high sec exit was gone. Of course, that was the only exit that I had bookmarked with my miner....and he was stuck inside with no probes. So I hopped in my cov ops and headed for the other systems that the hole exited to. All of the exits had popped. Annoyed but unwilling to give up I spent a good portion of the next day asking for help in local and scanning with the hopes of picking up such and such's heron on my directional. All day long not one person poked their head into that damn wormhole. Meanwhile I was still looking for another hole worth moving into on Grag.

To make a long story short I found another viable C2. It had a ton of anomalies, a few radar/mag sites and some belts. We set up our POS and settled in. I had to self destruct my miner to get him out of that C3. Oh well....that set of +4s served me well for a couple of months at least. Setup was uneventful. By then it was pretty late so I scanned down the system and logged excited about all of the juicy anomalies that I'd get to start clearing in the morning.

So this morning I logged on and rescanned the system. The high sec exit was gone but nothing else had changed.

So I hopped into my first anomaly and started pew pewing. Before I could even clear the first wave a drake and a tengu popped up on my scanner. Shit. I beat feet back to the pos, switched to my buzzard and started watching. Sure enough, they were already at the anomaly that I'd been clearing. They made short work of it and moved on to the next one. Then a myrm joined them. Of course, they were all members of a big pirate corp. With nothing that I could do about it I just logged. I fully expect to log in to an empty wormhole by this afternoon. I wouldn't be surprised to see them taking down our POS while they're at it. Hopefully they'll leave quickly. A lucky break would be nice every once in a while. Ever since I brought the baby home I just keep getting bent over and beaten up every time I try to do something in Eve. Maybe someone's trying to tell me something.

Almost there

Cloaking 4 finishes in 2 hours. I've already got my cov ops and a cloak waiting in anticipation. My wife is going to have our first kid any day now, though, so rl will be intervening with my plans. My CEO is also going to be leaving for a week so maybe the timing is perfect. Being out of the wormhole has certainly been a nice break. Life in empire is so much more laid back. There's just no money in it.

Already getting antsy

It's only been a few days but I'm already ready to find a new hole to call home. I keep finding myself docked in stations, staring at my screen trying to decide what to do. The money that I made in the wormhole was just so good that I'm spoiled now. With scordite being the best bang for your buck short of rare, null sec ore I find myself hesitant to waste time mining. 5-6 mil an hour at the most just doesn't do it for me. I've never been much of a mission runner so I'm stuck running level 2s. How people can stand to run enough low level missions to be able to pull level 4s is beyond me. I've been toying with t2 invention but I can't see how anyone can make enough money for that to be worthwhile. So basically I've just been running a few missions and then logging off out of boredom. I'd try some pvp but I'm in that horrible limbo where I've got enough money to feel comfortable but not enough to blow. Hopefully, I'll find something to do soon that keeps me occupied.

So we decided to leave for a bit

After a few weeks in the hole we had pretty much farmed it out. With three of us in a C2 there just weren't enough sites spawning to keep us entertained. One or two sites a day weren't cutting it. Every single one of the holes that our C2 static exited to were just as farmed out. C2 sites were getting entirely too easy and boring, anyway. With little else to do but mine we decided that it was time to move on.

We did have a crapload of ore so we decided that we'd rather refine it than haul it all out. To speed things up we bought a large pos and an intense refinery. The plan was to setup the large, get the intense refinery going and then get out asap. Then we were going to hang out in empire for a bit while we try to find a c3 that better suits our needs. With the large we'd have plenty of room for labs, production and adequate defenses. Everything was going great. We had gotten the large in the hole and we were starting to anchor it. Then we saw a tengu on the directional. We immediately warped back to the pos and sent a scout to check things out. Pretty soon another tengu, a legion and an onyx showed up. The onyx setup a bubble on our low sec exit and then things got interesting. Our scout accidently let that point be known in local.

Right away their whole gang started making ransom requests. They wanted 500 mil or they were going to blow up our pos. Oh crap...they already found the large. Since the large wasn't worth 500 mil we just kind of ignored them. Then they started trying to rush us into making a decision, talking about how they could have a dozen battleships here within an hour and how fail fit our pos was. Oh...they were talking about the medium. So at that point we were just stalling. The large had literally JUST started anchoring. We could either wait 15 minutes and then online the large which would take another hour or we could keep stalling, unanchor the pos and get it back to our hardened medium. We decided to go the quick route.

Meanwhile, we had convinced the pirates that we didn't even have 500 mil worth of loot in our pos and that they'd be very dissappointed if they went to all of the trouble of taking it down. I was in my apoc when they showed up so they had seen it. Since that was the most expensive ship they knew about they demanded that I load it up with as much loot as possible, take it to the nearest planet, eject and then tell them where it was. By the time they asked for it I had already swapped it for my bestower to get ready for the snatch and grab as soon as the large unanchored. My CEO was doing all of the talking so I don't even know if they knew I was there. He told them that I had logged off with it as soon as they started making demands. They bought it. At that point they started demanding that we contract them some stuff from empire. By now the large had unanchored so I recovered it. With nothing else to worry about we just ignored them and they eventually went away.

All in all it was a pretty exciting night. Rather than try to setup the large again we just logged and hauled everything to empire the next morning. Unfortunately, we had a bugged gun. We couldn't offline it which meant we couldn't unanchor the pos. By now our hole was critical and it had been nearing the end of it's life for a few hours. My CEO decided to stay inside and petition a GM. The GM responded surprisingly quickly, fixed the gun and we had the medium all packed up and ready to go. Unfortunately, our low sec exit had closed. He scanned down the next exit but, unfortunately, it was deep in low sec. It was, by far, the worst exit we had ever had....and he was in an itty V packed with pos fuel and a medium pos. Rather than risking it I convinced him to scan down the adjoining C2. There were over 20 sites for him to scan (we FINALLY got a decent neighbor >.<) but he lucked out and found a high sec exit on the first try that was only 7 jumps from our corporate headquarters.

So we made it out just fine. After doing a couple of mind numbingly boring missions I'm ready to find another hole. The sleepers are much more challenging. We've done a few c3 sites since we left. We just haven't found a hole that suits are needs. I'm seriously considering buying a medium pos and moving back into a C2 by myself once I get a few skills trained. I need to get a cloak for my scanning alt. I need to work on my tanking skills on my amarr pilot. I need to be able to fly a cov ops ship. I'm also thinking that I need to get into a cov ops transport but that can probably wait. Mining abc ore at your leisure is great but getting the ore out of the hole is way too much of a pain. Sleeper sites are great money but when they stop spawning then it's time to move. I just need to figure out a setup that will keep me busy for a while.