Today the plan was all about gas and finding a trade hub.
I tackled some more gas and explored a few chains but there were no good routes to K-Space. One showed up in a Trig invasion and another showed up in the middle of nowhere. So no trade today. I have two days left before leaving on vacation so I really do need to find one.
It was a wonderful surprise to discover an ore site in my home system so I did a bit of gas huffing and later some ore mining. As with the gas, I am stockpiling some ore as well because I will need it when it comes time for reactions.
I closed holes and rolled my static before doing the ore mining because while huffing gas, thinking I was alone and secure, there were all of a sudden scanner probes on d-scan. That just goes to show you are never safe in J-Space and you are never truly alone.
Planetary Production
| Excess P1 | 727,000 |
| Excess P2 | 1,570,000 |
| P3 | 21,500,000 |
| Costs | -11,182,400 |
| Total | 12,614,600 |
Ratting
I still have a Token, or maybe a Barren, gas site I haven’t used yet. There is only about 9,000,000 isk in gas there so it’s not a high priority for me. I mention this in the ratting section because I have activated the site, I just forgot to go back and get the rats.
I did, however, activate and remove the rats from my ore site bringing in 2,000,000 isk in blue loot.
Huffing
I spent a little bit of time in the Vast gas site. I was torn between gas and ore. Both are boring. Gas brings in more isk. I need to stockpile ore too.
So I got a bit of gas and after splitting the stockpile earned 12,700,000 isk of Fullerite.
Ore Mining
I spent some time in the ore belt. I am after the three rare ores as, when processed, give the minerals I will need for reactions. That and when you compress it, sells for a pretty penny and is easy to transport.
After splitting the stockpile I have 11,660,000 isk of compressed ores to take to market.
Spare System
I popped into the spare/parked system this morning just to see what is happening in there. It, of course, had a connection 4 jumps from Perimeter which helps me not at all!
There are still a lot of gas sites in there and very many ore sites. I activated the gas but not the ore. There was a kill in there a few days ago of a mining barge who must have been a tourist.
There were two people doing a trade run from a K162 but still no structures and very little activity.
Financials
| Balance Brought Forward | 0 | -944,304,200 |
|---|---|---|
| Planetary Production | 23,797,000 | 11,182,400 |
| Ratting | 2,000,000 | |
| Ore Mining | 11,660,000 | |
| Huffing | 12,700,000 | |
| Totals | 50,157,000 | -955,486,600 |
Today that gives me a profit of 38,974,600 isk with a closing balance of -905,329,600 isk.
Parting Thoughts
I could have earned a bit more isk today than I did, and to be fair, I should have.
I spent a lot of time looking for a trade route, time I could have spent either huffing or mining. I’ve started using Pathfinder when going on expeditions like this, and the map it generated was just a mess of spaghetti. But here is one from later in the day once I learned you can drag systems around:
J-Space 