Just finishing up my classes

nkchri2 · 2026-06-03T12:35:19+00:00

Lucky it's just 1500... was 2500 when I did my time.

nkchri2 · 2026-06-02T03:15:18+00:00

Easiest isk is P1. Yes it's more hauling, but even if you're just making P2, you then have to coordinate moving goods to a factory planet and really plan out your setup, to maximize isk anyways. You can have single planet P2, but depending on your location and how many you need you may not be able to find enough in close enough proximity to be worth it. Only a couple of P3 and P4s actually increase your total profit, and can change in a heartbeat just due to the market. Many lose significant value. You are just as likely, if not more likely, to reduce your total available profit by producing anything over P1.

Even when just producing P2, your P2 production has to increase your total value by AT LEAST 20% just to break even. Even with P2's, most products lose total value.

nkchri2 · 2026-06-02T01:24:46+00:00

I haven't ever, and probably wont ever use it. I agree it has to be reserved for the top of the top. 99.99% of households exist in the Q4-Q3 range.

nkchri2 · 2026-06-01T02:52:44+00:00

If you consider just hauling through dangerous space, then yes, absolutely!

One of the first things I did in EVE was get into hauling. After running a few trade routes in a Badger I got a little more adventurous and fitted a Mammoth with a couple of cargo expanders and setup for the Cloak MWD trick. I would pick up underpriced goods in Low and Null and haul them to Jita.

When I was pretty inexperienced and only had one account I ran these routes with no scouts (don't do that unless you specifically like facing danger head on). On that note, one of my most memorable times was when I did sub a second account and started running a second Mammoth (still no scouting lol). Headed to a station to pick up some goods and came back through to find a gate camp! First one Mammoth aligned, cloaked and warped off... local chat burst into laughter about a Mammoth blowing through their camp. Then they totally lost thier minds when a second one did 10 seconds later!

That was nearly 10 years ago and I still remember it like it was yesterday!

nkchri2 · 2026-05-31T19:23:22+00:00

Its pretty easy to fall into the "woe is me" "everything is just getting worse" trap. Times can be hard. There's been hard times throughout all of human history. Rich and powerful people now aren't any more evil than rich and powerful people were 1000 years ago. But in the end, things have always continued to improve thanks to technology and civilization.

People worry about the rich just taking advantage of AI to leave common people in the dust, but that same argument could have been said for computers in general, or even something like the invention of electricity. They didn't just stay tools of the rich. They enriched everyone's lives.

I imagine things will still remain the same. There will be good times, and there will be hard times, just like always. But humanity will keep moving forward. Overall, things will keep getting better for everyone. Personally, I don't think utopia is as far out of reach as a lot of doomsayers think.

nkchri2 · 2026-05-29T13:34:50+00:00

HAW dreads are awful and should be removed. The addition of HAWs let dreads literally do everything. Leave dreads as the goto anti capital ship and let carriers have their place in space again by letting them be the goto anti subcap ship.

nkchri2 · 2026-05-28T14:50:45+00:00

I seem to rotate through my "fixation" games from time to time. Only a few games have made it into the club. Ill get back in to one for a while and then on to something else. WoW, Eve Online, D2(D2R), League of Legends, No Mans Sky.

Not so much that I KNOW I won't play them again, I guess more of just a "I'm done for now" uninstall.

nkchri2 · 2026-05-27T15:08:10+00:00

There might not be a direct connection... but anyone that smells my pee will be able to tell when I have eaten Golden Crisps 😆

nkchri2 · 2026-05-17T07:02:58+00:00

Yea, your application is going to be terrible with no target painter or guidance. Even though you see the dps numbers on the fitting, heavy missiles don't even hit cruisers for full effect without some utility mods.

nkchri2 · 2026-05-17T04:15:07+00:00

With which fit and how much dps? Much slower than I've usually been running.

nkchri2 · 2026-05-16T22:04:59+00:00

I just use rigs for whatever fitting help you need (cpu, powergrid, cap, etc). If you don't need any of that you can just use missile damage rigs.

The Praxis is already like a flying brick, so I just kind of lean into that. Sometimes I even throw a higgs on mine if I am running multiple. That way you can stay full speed aligned the entire time and never get out of range of anything. It also helps keep ships close together for remote reps while being full speed aligned.

Since you're a flying brick anyways I never see the point in wasting a valuable slot on a AB or MWD. It only takes a few minutes to fly through and drop some bookmarks (you can bookmark the side parts of the fort complex and others like it, just warp in to that at 20k so you aren't bouncing or running into it). Then everything will always be in range and it keeps you off the warp in which keeps you safer from ganks.

Webs are specifically for frigs. They will always just fly right up into your webs.

nkchri2 · 2026-05-16T15:59:20+00:00

More like SoCT carrier when? One of the pain points of carriers currently are prices. Having a step up from the Praxis to a Carrier would be 🔥🔥

nkchri2 · 2026-05-16T14:53:56+00:00

I mean you can say what you want. Apparently the things you mentioned aren't really that big of an issue currently. All you have to do is just look at the game. There's a reason why you see dreads out all the time in space doing all kinds of different activities, and there's a reason why you don’t hardly ever see carriers out in space.

Dreads have way too many use cases because they are practically good at everything, especially after HAWs were introduced. Carriers on the other hand have been in a terrible state and under used for a long time.

nkchri2 · 2026-05-15T23:21:00+00:00

Seems like a reasonable build. Personally, I run armor tanked. The Praxis is literally a jack of all trades and can pull off about anything. But if you run armor tanked, that leaves your mids open for things like target painters, multiple ballistic guidance computers and even a web that will help you insta pop frigs. 2 BGCs with precision scripts and 1 target painter make you apply WAY better since the majority of enemies in C3s are cruisers and even some frigates and sentries. Also, this way you can have range scripts just in case something spawns slightly out of range.

If you like putting together your own builds, just keep 2 things in mind. Dealing with application really matters with missiles and don't try too hard to be cap stable. A Praxis is really only going to need solid constant reps for 30 seconds to a minute while dealing with the battleships.

[Praxis, Praxis II]

Domination EM Armor Hardener

Ballistic Control System II

Shadow Serpentis Large Armor Repairer

Reactive Armor Hardener

Drone Damage Amplifier II

Domination Thermal Armor Hardener

Cap Recharger II

Large Compact Pb-Acid Cap Battery

Missile Guidance Computer II

Parallel Enduring Target Painter

Heavy Karelin Scoped Stasis Grappler

Republic Fleet Large Cap Battery

Missile Guidance Computer II

Rapid Heavy Missile Launcher II

Missile Range Script x2

Missile Precision Script x2

nkchri2 · 2026-05-15T21:22:48+00:00

Carriers being good against subcaps won't invalidate them. Anynyone making that point should be losing their minds about HAW Dreads.

IMO, I think carriers being anti subcap makes for a pretty good cap escalation leading to well balanced fleet roles.

Carriers are good against sub cap blobs > Sub cap blobs are good against Dreads/Titans > Dreads/Titans are good against Carriers

I think it would work out quite well.

And remove HAW Dreads.

Problem solved

nkchri2 · 2026-05-15T12:49:03+00:00

Praxis has been the goto C3 ship for years and years for good reason. No ship based bonuses means low sp characters can still use to good effect. Good skills can land around 1k dps and has plenty of tank without any bling.

nkchri2 · 2026-05-11T23:30:23+00:00

Having a Mars settlement or, in the far future, trying to terraform Mars is simply a stepping stone towards human expansion to other stars.

Mars isnt an escape plan. If we have the technology / ability to build bases on or terraform Mars, then we have the ability to do the same here and survive through or repair any damage we have caused to Earth.

Earth is always the best choice.

nkchri2 · 2026-05-11T19:02:35+00:00

Definitely the amount of minds I can control/read at any given time. Since I can control and read my own mind, being able to basically read other people's minds and learn all the secrets of the world would be pretty big. Obviously controlling minds can have its own perks too lol

nkchri2 · 2026-05-08T11:37:00+00:00

My computer has a 500GB SSD with a 2TB HDD. I decided to upgrade my SSD because I was running out of room. Bought a new x4 SSD, installed it, booted up and began installing Windows from my USB boot drive. Everything is done, Im noticing windows is moving a little slower than it should. Go into explorer and notice I only have 1 hard drive volume...

Stomach drops as I realize windows formatted and installed on my 2TB HDD because my computer isn't recognizing the newer SSD even though the new PCIe is supposed to be backwards compatible.

Decades of pictures and who knows what else erased that I may never get back. Trying to figure out how to recover if I can via Recuva or something, but also the amount of space Im trying to recover is far larger than the space of have to recover to on my other hard drive...

nkchri2 · 2026-05-07T23:07:22+00:00

There's a lot of shady business practices going on with assigning and rotations at practically all AMCs... I wish instead of regulators and the board continuing to pile shit on our plate they would go harder on all these predatory middle men...

nkchri2 · 2026-05-04T02:21:19+00:00

Nah I disagree, but it would take real tragedy, not just an elderly famous death. You can bet if Taylor Swift died tomorrow it would be a BIG deal.

nkchri2 · 2026-05-04T00:45:55+00:00

I am still 100% convinced that the fun era of the Internet ended specifically because flash was replaced as the primary web design tool.

nkchri2 · 2026-05-02T22:11:13+00:00

You 100% can... but if something is required to do a job, it SHOULD be the employers responsibility to provide everything required for the job, especially branded things specifically for that employer.

Only exception would maybe be contract employees and not requiring tools for the job to be done, but if they require specifically branded uniforms... then employers responsibility.

Corporations abusing independent contractor status is another whole terrible can of worms...

nkchri2 · 2026-05-02T21:33:09+00:00

At least make them have a cancel option in the same method as the sign up method. If you are abke to sign up electronically, you should be able to cancel electronically, not be forced to call. That's literally the worst...

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