Null sec - it's not as scary as its reputation
After the frustration of wormholes yesterday I thought I'd take a more direct route to null. Using this ship I entered null sec for the first time. My first pvp encounter came at the first gate. I didn't see what ship it was that tried to warp disrupt me as I whizzed past but I do know they were a complete failure. 700k Magnate 1 - 20+ million ganker 0.
The next couple of systems had one or 2 players in so I skipped them and carried on deeper into the unknown. 3 or 4 jumps later and I hit an empty system with no fewer than 8 anomalies. Fun. Out came the probes and I began scanning. A wild relic site appears! I warp to it and begin hacking the containers. In theory it should be "excavate" for relic sites but it just doesn't fit, so hack will do. It's then I realise just how much harder null cans are than high sec. High sec I can do the mini game in 8-10 seconds, hit every anti virus and still have enough coherence to crack the system core. Null sec containers on the other hand are fairly brutal. I won't lie, I blew up a few cans and lost what I'm sure were potential fortunes. Others that I did crack had nothing or, even worse, that eternal raspberry towards all explorers; carbon.
That's not to say I didn't get anything worth while. Far from it in fact. For every blown up can I was still managing to loot 2 or 3 non-exploded ones which amounted to a fair sum. My problem with some of the cans was however not necessarily the difficulty of the mini game at my skill level but also the distraction of other players entering local chat. Every time that happened I was so intently checking my overview and d-scan I was making mistakes. From the classic "clicking one too many nodes after you've already found the system core" to "I really should have cleared that anti-virus that was next to the most likely place the system core would be before clearing out other nodes and hitting a restoration node."
In the end the trip turned out to be fairly uneventful. I came out of a couple of gates into unmanned disruption bubbles but then again it was a Tuesday morning by this point so I doubt many people were online. In total my trip was 15-20 systems long, I had one attempt on my life which I successfully escaped and I ended up 80 million worth of loot in my cargo hold. Not bad for an hour and a half on a 4 day old character.
The rest of my play time today was spent figuring out where to sell. The prices in Jita were quite a bit higher than anywhere else so I made the trip up there. I also set up some buy orders for equipment I knew I'd be using on my ships. This would be my "in" for trading which I'd be using as a more passive form of income to supplement the exploration I'm doing. I decided if I'd be making at least one trip a day to Jita to sell, I may as well buy stuff cheap there too and transport it down to Amarr so I browsed the market for likely items using eve-central to check against Amarr prices. I came across a couple of high volume items with a decent margin (around 45% so more than decent) and placed orders.
Time to wait for the orders to fill! I logged off to get some sleep, feeling very pleased with myself. All was going well in the quest for a PLEX!
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