Third day in Trossere VII

Coming from a Gallente activist background, my training space is located in Trossere VII. Most my time is spent within the station where my capsuleer is patiently training his skills, while I read articles on how to survive in EVE. The fourth agent I am dealing with is quite boring as he constantly asks me to scan the area for anomalies only to return with a flimsy paper that proves I’ve been there. Until I am sufficiently trained, it seems reading about others’ adventures is more appetizing. I do get around picking up items purchased on the market, although when 6 jumps are needed the prospect of buying higher than the regional average price is tempting.

The skills and Attributes article at EVEWiki details a ‘do-it-fast’ scheme which is exactly the type of thing I like. I’ve abandoned my questing to sit around and learn about learning. There was one critical issue I came across regarding the optimal training order – not enough credits to buy an advanced skill!

Oh wait, they said I can make legit ISK(Interstellar Kredits) trading PLEX by paying CCP and not some random ISK spammer – a small move that will give me the edge, or so I tell myself. After waiting out an hour the PLEX arrives and I go straight to the market, only to find out I don’t have enough credits to place a sell order. The servers were going down in fifteen minutes and I was pleased with my situation. There had to be way.

The answer came to me immediately. I duly knocked the door of a trading channel and closed my first ever contract to fatten my wallet with a friendly chap who guided me through the entire process. Now I'm one proud nouveau riche ready for a shopping spree. Time for some serious upgrades.

Knowing that my capsuleer won’t get pod-killed in the days to come, I buy five basic implants and rejoice at the reduced training time. The much adored application called EVEMon, which monitors characters’ growth, has a unique function that outputs a skills pie chart. This only shows what a good student I am.

My play time has suffered significantly due to fractured sleep cycles, but more importantly I seem to get disconnected from Tranquility on an hourly basis against my will. The friendly ISD(Interstellar Services Department: players who volunteer to serve as advisors in channels) CoffeeCup provided a link to a connection support page, suggesting I test my ping. The results are as below:

Now, CCP states;
“This tracert gives you the ping or connection latency at each point it uses to connect to the server, if any of these entries contain latency (shown in ms) above 250ms as well as high packet loss or packet errors, then you can expect that server connection can be lost occasionally. If this is the case, then there is nothing that we can do about it but we recommend that you contact your Internet Service Provider and inform them about the problem.”

Meaning I can’t do anything about it unless I either succeed in persuading my ISP in Korea to reroute my connection to Iceland, or find another one that fares below 250ms. Losing connection while engaged in combat will sure make my day. To prevent such an unfortunate fate, I guess I’ll have to train some more and get decent equipment that can tank while I reconnect.