PED, a new image, and mining
Today started out with a new injection of 265PED from back on Earth. This is a well needed boost in money, since I was literally broke before. It's nice to have support of people back home whilst I'm still settling in here - I don't know if I could make it without them.
My first port of call was to buy some new clothes. It's an image thing really - I want to look different from the hundreds of other new people around here. I had a good look around the various shops on Calypso (I didn't venture up to CND - the asteroid night club), and investigated the auction. In the end I found Spud's Clothing Shop in Treasure Island City, which had some nice looking stuff at a good price. I took a while deciding between blue and orange, but eventually went for the full blue outfit, including shoes.
After this I headed over to the TT to load up for a mining trip. I bought 10PED of ammo and 20PED of probes, and the necessary tools. The trip wasn't too great, but I got a few good hits near Atlas Haven. At some point later when I was near Pandora I died and got transported to the revial terminal north of Morningtear Castle. Although incredibly frustrating, I did find some oil out there.
On my way back after the mining trip I ran in to some trouble with a whole nest of Merp's. I had no chance fighting them, so I just tried running. It didn't work, and I was soon killed.
When I finally made it back I refined all my enmatter that I'd collected. It came to around 10PEDs worth, which wasn't a complete disaster on 20PED, but a long way from where I'd like to be getting. I spoke to a miner in our society and he suggested I needed better mining tools, so that's something to take a look for tomorrow.
To finish the day off I met up with Shining at Port Atlantis and sold off all the refined enmatter. Then I did the sums. I'd spent 10PED on ammo and looted 3.51PED. I'd spent 20PED on probes and mined 10PED of enmatter. The repair costs on all my equipment - FAP, Armor, AMP, Rifle - game to 6.88PED. I make that a loss of over 20PED. I don't even want to start adding the costs of the full repairs before starting the run, or the costs of my new clothes.
Roll on another day.
My first port of call was to buy some new clothes. It's an image thing really - I want to look different from the hundreds of other new people around here. I had a good look around the various shops on Calypso (I didn't venture up to CND - the asteroid night club), and investigated the auction. In the end I found Spud's Clothing Shop in Treasure Island City, which had some nice looking stuff at a good price. I took a while deciding between blue and orange, but eventually went for the full blue outfit, including shoes.
After this I headed over to the TT to load up for a mining trip. I bought 10PED of ammo and 20PED of probes, and the necessary tools. The trip wasn't too great, but I got a few good hits near Atlas Haven. At some point later when I was near Pandora I died and got transported to the revial terminal north of Morningtear Castle. Although incredibly frustrating, I did find some oil out there.
On my way back after the mining trip I ran in to some trouble with a whole nest of Merp's. I had no chance fighting them, so I just tried running. It didn't work, and I was soon killed.
When I finally made it back I refined all my enmatter that I'd collected. It came to around 10PEDs worth, which wasn't a complete disaster on 20PED, but a long way from where I'd like to be getting. I spoke to a miner in our society and he suggested I needed better mining tools, so that's something to take a look for tomorrow.
To finish the day off I met up with Shining at Port Atlantis and sold off all the refined enmatter. Then I did the sums. I'd spent 10PED on ammo and looted 3.51PED. I'd spent 20PED on probes and mined 10PED of enmatter. The repair costs on all my equipment - FAP, Armor, AMP, Rifle - game to 6.88PED. I make that a loss of over 20PED. I don't even want to start adding the costs of the full repairs before starting the run, or the costs of my new clothes.
Roll on another day.
posted by Erach at 11:00 pm
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