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10 hours ago, Jonni Favorite said:

Thanks Oshri. I think life just is interesting =) But quite often, like in Eve, you have to make your own content! And sometimes you get podded..

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Aggghh, I could go on and on about sandwiches, what a marvelous invention!

 

I  think we're twins! Tolkien is great and love him or not you have to give him credit for what he gave to the genre much like with Asimov and sci-fi. Thank you for mentioning Elric, I thought I was the only one who remembered him and Melnibone.  

 

I wrote a paper on I, Robot when I was 12 and it hooked me on Sci-fi. 

 

Your sandwiches are on point. Im a big fan of flat 'breads'  - pita, tortillas etc. They are so convenient. I had a bahn mi crepe a few weeks back -  folded up and eaten by hand. So good. 

 

I like you already space brother. 

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Hi Simone, thanks for the warm welcome!

 

I don't mind sharing, but I should state that I've always been fairly casual in my trading. I'm not the type to sit in Jita and micro-manage each order. I also don't do much in terms of buy orders, although I have thought about it at times.

 

Early on I focused on one item exclusively, and I did this for many years. Tractor beams. In Gallente mission hubs they would sell for up to 2mil sometimes, yet a region or more away you could buy them from an industrialist at less than 1mil, so eventually I had a good spreadsheet with buy/sell locations. I would regularly load up several transports and dump a huge order in each market as 3 month sell orders. They would sell rather quick, doubling my investment. If they didn't sell, I would adjust markets until I reached the proper zen state. It proved a rather nice income for my starter years, with fairly low time investment.

 

Once I was involved in Null, I figured stocking up the most active inter-regional gate systems made sense. Systems like Torrinos on the EC gate were quite profitable for a while, the recent turnover in the north changed that a bit. I stocked the markets by hoarding all the pve mods I salvaged, melting anything that didn't bring good profits. Usually meta 4 pvp items would sell quite well, with profits well above Jita or other trading hubs. Items like lg turret mods, arbalest, smart bombs, webbers, points etc. 

 

So my market activity is fairly passive, as I have other means to make isk, but it's a nice variety and a way to re-purpose the loot for maximum profit. While living in null I tend to not mission much and I don't recall salvaging anoms much, usually the bounties are enough to provide the isk I need to re-fit my own ships. But I would sometimes stock the market if I noticed items missing, usually things like miner equipment sold well, and scripts are sometimes a good sell, they are easy to carry and you can get away with a bit of a markup without everyone calling you a traitor to the cause =)

 

Oh also when they changed rigs from universal to sm, med, lg. I made a fortune buying up BP for these rigs and selling in trade hubs. I am STILL selling them on some alts after all these years, although a lower profit than before.

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16 hours ago, Oshri Paliako said:

I  think we're twins! ....

 

I like you already space brother. 

 

I'm surprised Elric seems to have so little following. Not that having a movie is representative of popularity or impact, but well an Elric movie would be awesome!

 

Did you read any other Asimov stories? I understand he had quite a few short stories in an ongoing publication before he even got to I, Robot. Sadly I haven't read any of them =(

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12 hours ago, Scynner said:

Welcome Jonni.  Two questions for you:

 

1) What's your favorite ship to fly or what's the ship you wish you could fly.

2) List your top three board games.

 

Thanks Scynner

 

Perhaps you'll notice a pattern with my replies, but when it comes to choices of things I love, I have a hard time settling for just one =) But I'll try.

 

1. The first few years I grew super fond of the Myrm, I flew it in PVE, PVP, armor tank, shield tank, triple rep, I lost a bunch of them, just about everywhere. When wormholes were introduced I flew on in a C5 the very first day. Died in a blaze of glory of course! Northern Alliance CTA called for Megas, I flew a Myrm. To my defense, it wasn't an act of rebellion, I think at the time I just didn't know any better, it was my first large fleet fight. I still have a screen somewhere of the fleet returning and smoke trailing from my Myrm. Maybe one of my proudest moments in Eve. Sure I was at 10% structure, and way out of range to hit anything, but I made it man!!!

 

However, I moved away from the Myrm, finding the Cane an excellent ship and quite versatile. No longer dependent on drones and the fallout for AC is much kinder for pvp. But it's been a while since I've taken that into combat.

 

Not to knock drones, of course, so the Ishtar and Domi I've flown many times with success in small gangs. The Domi, despite its whale like structure, is quite capable.

 

I like frigs a lot and the Ishkur and Jaguar would be my favorites in that class. I love the Jaguar and I've used one effectively in pvp many times.

 

What I would like to fly though, and I haven't had a chance to yet, is a HIC like the Phobos, but I've always been fascinated by Ewar, I have top skills in most ships but have not seen much combat. I've dabbled in some good fits for the Rapier, sadly the only pvp I've experienced flying one ended up inside a bubble in Provi. That didn't work out well, but I didn't really have much of a chance to begin with. Besides these subcaps, I own a Thanny and would very much like to take that out on an op one of these days! I would also like to fly logi, I've spoken to Valence about it and hopefully I can jump in on the alliance training ops soon!

 

2. Board games - wow it's been a while. As a kid I used to make my own, growing up in a Eastern European country didn't afford one such luxuries as toys, so we had to make our own =) Thankfully I didn't have the same problem when I moved to the US and some of my favorites are:

 

a. Axis and Allies - superbly balanced and easy to play but also non-linear, despite it being based on historical events. My friends in HS played this a lot, often stretching over several days for one campaign.

 

b. Monopoly - hard to get tired of this one, turned out to be even more fun when drinks are involved =)

 

c. Risk - perhaps a scaled down version of Axis and Allies, but the simpler game concept allows for several campaigns in one night. Or one hour, depending on your opponent?

 

What about you?

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3 hours ago, Jonni Favorite said:

 

I'm surprised Elric seems to have so little following. Not that having a movie is representative of popularity or impact, but well an Elric movie would be awesome!

 

Did you read any other Asimov stories? I understand he had quite a few short stories in an ongoing publication before he even got to I, Robot. Sadly I haven't read any of them =(

 

 

I agree, Elric would make a great movie; it's right up there with the Witcher for protagonists needing time on the big screen.

 

I have read several of Asimov's short stories including Bicentennial Man, but I haven't read the Foundation series yet, which makes no sense.  I really need to get off my butt and read them.

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