A quiet week

I've been basically out of money for the best part of a week, so I've had to find activities other than hunting or mining to amuse myself. Unfortunately this led to sweating.

Most of my time was spent in the area around Camp Phoenix. I took off my armor, avoided using my first aid pack, and took the amplifier off my rifle. There's no point sweating if you just ramp up repair costs of expensive tools. I barely used my rifle, so the overall costs were virtually zero.

I managed to collect 1600 bottles of sweat, and gathered some useful skills in evading creatures. Today I sold off the sweat, and a few other bits I had lying around, and managed to gather a total of 30PED. That was enough for a mining trip.

Armed with 40 probes and 1000 ammo shots I headed off to Amethera. I had some reasonable results - I took around 10PED in raw enmatter, which should sell for a bit more. Still didn't cover the 20PED costs, but it's not too bad. Again, I didn't use armor on this run, or even try to fight the creatures (I'd have lost miserably!), so repair costs were negligable.

I did have one interesting incident with a Mermoth Guardian, though. They can sense you at an amazing range, and this one could easily outrun me. It decided to camp out on my claim rods, so I spent a good while coaxing it back to the teleport. When I finally succeeded I took great pleasure in watching it be anihilated by the turret :-)

I've now got enough oil that once sold I should have enough for another run. Or maybe I'll go on a group hunt if anyone else in the society is up for it.