Project Alpha

After over a year in Reconfiguration Nation, a corporation mostly made up of old friends that found themselves nowhere to go when SPLU (founder of Transmission Lost) went belly up, I decided that I wanted to give myself a new challenge. I was to go solo carebear'ing!

I had only put one of my characters (less than half of my total SP) into R-NAT and had stayed in empire with the rest. Fooling around with all the fine gents in 'The Nation' had been fun, and I felt safe. Too safe. They had (have) a project for making ISK and a plan on how to spend it on pvp, but I felt that the turnover was way less then it could be. We could be living much higher, taking more risks and reaping larger rewards.

Living in w-space and with over 200M SP between my three main characters, I should be able to fly whatever I wanted. And to be able to lose it however I wanted. I simply felt that I could not do that. The dreaded risk aversion had set in. I could have started to try and lobby, to try and reform, but I think that would possibly have polarized the corporation as many did not feel like I did, but was perfectly happy with how things was conducted. Who was I to try and change something that worked just because I felt I did not fit in?

I have been living in w-space since the Apocrypha when the wormholes of New Eden first appeared. Surly I should be able to do whatever I wanted?

During a week I thought about what I wanted to do. Finally I settled for doing some ISK by plexing C4s. C4 combat-sites is probably the hardest you can "solo" (read dual-box'ing), but if you do, they pay quite well. I have never really liked C3s, so the thought of farming C3s was not a pleasing one.

To do C4 sites, you need a system with a static C4. The most popular kind is a C2 with static highsec and C4. You basically live in empire, have no logistics issues at all and can roll your C4 looking for perfect plexing. On the other hand, the least popular is a C4/C4 - nobody really wants to live in a C4 because they never connect directly to k-space, and your static is likely to just be another C4/C4, creating long chains of C4-systems.

However, this means that C4s are quite empty and don't see so much action. Suits me perfect! Of course I would pick a C4/C4 to live in. That way, I could do the sites that spawned in my own system as well as roll the static for systems suitable for plexing. And I would have to tend to my own. My new hermit-life would be glorious!

You can find the first post in that adventure here.