So I have officially pulled out of Caldari invention for the time. After reviewing margins in EMU they aren’t what they use to be and that means time for a change. I finished my last 2 Manticores and I put the rest of my prints on Jita contract, shame they were some good ones (4 x 5 run Nighthawk and a 5 run Vulture). I still have 2 3 run Bustards which I will cook off once profits are back.

I took a dive off the deep end and stuck all my isk into a batch of Vaga inventions. My first 6 are cooking now and I have another 12 waiting for parts. Given their prices seem to stay constant right now (even spiking) I think this will be a good direction until things shuffle again.

I have started putting Nam back into combat training again, which means he is not long to stay in Larz Corp. Given my 2 choices for PVP being the hounds within the alliance or back to 0.0 I think I am going to send him back to 0.0, I base this choice only on one thing: I don’t know how long Nam can stay in combat and I don’t want another sec status grind to deal with should I need him in HS again. While the hounds fly more of the style I like (gotta love LS pirating) the sec hit is too much of a factor for a short term PVP run.

I am also counting (dreading) the days until I rip the tower down. With the increase in POS fuel prices it doesn’t make sense to run a tower for 2 people with my margins as tight as they are now and with Nam moving on one person is not worth having a tower up. I am down to 1 month fuel bank and the 2.5 weeks in there now then the thing comes down. Should be nice, the sale of the tower and labs should net enough to fund the rest of the Vaga builds.

Nam is in a bit of a pickle, he has “enough” combat skills to be quite effective, but there are some specialty areas he could use some focus on:

• T2 Large Hybrids
• T2 Sentry & Heavy Drones
• Interdictors & Heavy ones
• Logistics Ships
• Command Ships
• T2 Missiles

Yet the 0.0 corp I am going to send him to has 2 sides, when they roam they roam hard and are very effective, yet the down time is spent in corp mining ops and plex running. The latter Nam is good with, but mining is epic fail atm. So I think that Nam is going to need to get to Hulk level and support skills and then start focus on the PVP stuff.  The good news about the PVP will be you can expect to see more of those interesting ship fits we use to run here.

Hosting has been fun, we did our first install of the API bridge for PHPBB, from what I hear it is going well.  Things have been a bit slow and we are about to drop some accounts for payment issues.  It kinda stinks there is a good bit of isk in the collections bucket I hate to leave, I wish people were a bit more responsive if they wanted to drop services.  We also have another update to the KB’s to do so I will write something up for that when we get close to doing it.