Hi All, Some small goals I would like to achieve over the next financial year are as follows ... I am currently depositing $ 1000 a month as a consistant budget amount into Entropia. $ 200 of this will be used for chip eating, $ 200 will be used for misc items needed - eg amour, containers and later crafting bits and bobs. $ 600 will be used for general skilling and play. Goals: This is what I aspire to achieve. I do not throw out any loot to the TT but rather save everything up in 100 - 500 ped stacks to sell to the market depending on how low the markup is on those goods. 1. Chip in evade, first aid & dodge to level 30+ each (As far as $2400 USD/year will allow) At the moment I am buying Evade, FA & Dodge as cheap as possible. In the second year I will continue to chip evade and FA to level 50 which is my ultimate goal for eating chips. Dodge I do not see an immediate need to chip to 50, but it is on the books if required in future years if I join one day a top 50 society. 2. Skill Electronic/Mechanical/Metal components & Engineering by making Simple I, II & III components using oils to 3k+ skill. Each deposit, I will cycle $ 600 into doing this. Selling off the components I make and using the residue as my starting funds for the month of play (see goal #3) while waiting for these components to sell. Oil & Metal residue sold to market. In the second year I will continue to skill the above skills and in the future years to come as well to 5k+ and onwards. 3. Skill BLP Tech, Laser Tech, Longblades, Shortblades, Powerfist skills to 3k+ skill to support the five main weapon crafting engineering skills. Considering whips & clubs use the shortblades skill, skilling these will not be necessary until such time MA changes this. These I will skill each day using TT weapons and an Unlimited CB5 I have purchased working with small mobs that can be killed using these weapons. The reason for using TT weapons/CB5 is that in a day of play I am able to go through ~ 300 ped. 200 ped turns out to be loot, 100 ped comes back as TT ammo cells. So each day I convert $ 20 USD (200 ped) to storage to build up into stacks to sell off. 30 days in a month x 200 ped = $ 600 USD budget amount for play. In the second year I hope to get these skills up to 5k+, then further till I reach level 50. If all goes well by the second year, I hope to be crafting my own weapons to achieve level 50 and beyond. Primarily focusing on - P5a laser handgun, Apis BLP rifle, Rutic Bett longsword, Kesmek Bett shortsword and Loughlin Smacker 3 powerfist. I may also start work on the Force Mace Basher Adapted if funds allow and crafting level is sufficient. Whips, we shall see what MindArk has installed for crafted whips with the soon to be released taming. So there are my goals for the first year of play and a little sight into the second year. Take care all and good luck out there. Cheers, Viper
Hey Madseend, thanks, yes I have a lot of time now. Just carer duties and free time after those are done each day :)
