Industry Cogs in Action

So it is working. Not yet sexy enough but at least it does its function.

Since the moment I started using it, I discovered two bugs already. Those were fixed immediately.

Now gotta find someone who wants to check the Planner as well. I've already contacted a friendly 0.0 industry monger, but that guy seems to be quite forgetful.

P.S. It's hard to express how interested I am in ORE Primea or what is the name of that ship.

P.P.S. Note to self: think twice before posting when sleepy. My missive makes little sense even to me.

Think Before You Act

It was like 2 or 3 weeks of not doing anything in the space. Except some Sansha action. Still I needed a way to put my industrial skills to work. So I run some calculations, check some numbers and realize I could try inventing Devoters for a nice profit. 4 runs – 4 fails. Yeah, fine. Need more. Bought more stuff, started some research. And then I find out that I'm not actually that good at building such complex ships. Currently I possess no skill to build a Devoter. And not in any foreseeable future.

So... Gotta find someone who will build those for a share of profit.

Seems like that military-aimed augmentation does interfere with my industrial mindset. I wonder how will the social neural mapping work. About a month and a half till remap.

Told Ya!

13.5.112 Calls Rise for Ardishapur to Be Given More Authority

....many have suggested that Ardishapur be given judiciary powers across the Empire.

Should I wave goodbye to Empress already?

As Much As I Hate Sansha....

....I wasn't there to make them suffer.
13.5.112 Sansha Invasion Underway

New Eden – Over the last two days, Sansha incursions have been reported in multiple systems across New Eden. On 12.05.112, four more raids took place, with True Slave transports apparently abducting people from the planets below.

Niarja, Balle, Tama and Kamela systems were attacked by Sansha's Nation today.

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Pilots deployed in systems around the Minmatar Republic after the attack in Kamela, attempting to anticipate the next target, but no further attacks have occurred at the time of writing. Six systems - Kaaputenen, Frarn, Renyn, Ashab, Eystur and Urlen - were reported by capsuleers as having been attacked on the 11th, with another four systems - Niarja, Balle, Tama and Kamela - being invaded on the 12th, when over 200,000 people were abducted in a continuing series of apparently unprovoked attacks by the Sansha. A possible seventh attack on the 11.05.112 in the 3-CE1R of the Jovian Empire, remains unconfirmed.

Marked systems are within my reach – Ashab is just a jump away from me. But being planetside prevents me from effectively reacting to such news.

Also, the references to some CONCORD classified data seem disturbing.

I've Gut That Feeling...

04.3.112 Ardishapur to Begin Empire-wide Speaking Tour

The Ardishapur Family announced that Yonis Ardishapur will tour the Empire over the coming weeks. The royal heir, whose recent success within the Ammatar Mandate has led to high popularity in that domain, is planning on speaking engagements in a variety of venues and locations.

Now that reminds me of an old RPG-like game I've played while in University – in some ancient society in order to get promoted to a higher rank you have to be the most honored of all candidates AND the current holder of that rank has to leave his position. Or just die. The easiest way was to be all-honored guy who kills bandits and saves innocent then just get a mask and assassinate the current holder. Voila, you've been promoted!

I'm not saying Yonis goes to assassinate Empress. I'm saying I've got that gut feeling.

Managing Stuff

De-obfuscating the app in my earlier post.

When I was building Orca, I had to keep track of all the various components a and blueprints and minerals. In the end I've made a spreadsheet that could automatically calculate what blueprints I had, how much minerals I needed to build stuff from those I got etc. That was a success and Baldachine proves it.

On the other hand some of the data I had to put in myself before I could actually use the sheet. It was also closely tied to Orcas and everything else would require some changes.

That's when the idea of specialized app had first emerged.

The design was simple at first: 4 lists – what you have to buy, what you are going to build, what you already got and what you what to have in the end. There are ways to transfer stuff between first 3 lists triggering various events: if you move some of your Capital Cargo Bays from "to buy" to "to build", you'll get tons of minerals and blueprints in your "to buy" list. When those are in "acquired" list, you have an option to "manufacture" those bays.

Later 5th list appeared – "Spent" – which contains whatever you have spent to get what you currently have in "Acquired".

Currently I'm working on saving and loading projects, as well as exporting them to external files. Short-term plans also include adding more options for moving records around and fixing few bugs (anyone else can't see Capital Ship Maintenance Bay Blueprint in the "To buy" list? That kind of bugs).

And, of course, making it all sexier is high-priority as well. Such as replacing the red bar with a nice-looking arrow pointing up – it's used to collapse the upper part to see more in the rest of lists. Maybe images of items in the list.

Orca's Ready

While it was quite a time to cook it in the end, I was too air-headed to think a name for it in advance. The idea was to name it after something that is slow and huge but still moves even if lubberly.

The image appearing in my mind was of something like a flying elephant. Not an agile little elephant who can flap its ears and do nifty air tricks. Something that can hardly control its movement.

The name is Baldachine. Ask me if you don't know who is that.