Still in Limbo
Yes I am still in limbo after having been evicted from Providence, along with the alliance and our corporation.
The alliance and corporation have very nicely set themselves up in a Northern null space, and already hold sovereignty there. But it took a huge amount of PvP to get them in that position, and as you are probably aware, PvP is not my forte.
So I am currently bumbling around High security space trying out some of the features of EVE that I have never given much thought to, such as R&D Agents.
I have been reading a lot about Research and Development agents lately, which is something I passed over in the beginning as being not worth my time. But after a couple of chats with my friend Cootsy, it finally dawned on me that I was missing out on something here, that this was a way to make ISK without having to go to the office every day, or even every three days, as is the case with Planetary Interaction.
Making use of R&D agents does not come free however, there is a large amount of work to be carried out up front in order to get them to even talk to you, let alone work for you. What? Oh! You didn’t read the link above? Well to quote a part of the above mentioned link, “Rather than the usual missions, R&D agents can be asked to do “research” for you. Once an agent is working for you, you get Research Points (RP) from them to trade for Datacores (available from the agent with RP as currency) to sell or use in invention.” And better still, I quote: “It’s very important to know that the RP are generated on a daily basis, so each day your total RP will increase by a set amount regardless of whether you interact with the agent or not.”
Now isn’t that better than Planetary Interaction? And to think, it has been around for years.
The consequence of all this, is that I am training up three of my characters in the skills required, and at the same time, carrying out missions with the normal agents to get them to the required standings. I want to be able to use the highest level of agent, and believe that the time spent getting to that level will be well spent.
I will eventually venture back to nullsec and try to assist my corporation buddies in anything that is not too PvP related, although I have no objection to small gang PvP, and will gladly help make up the numbers for them.
There is even talk that we may, one day, attempt to build our own station,,,, now that is a project that would really interest me. 
Into Tyrannis
Well I am back on the Internet and into EVE again, with a great big smile on my face.
I have to apologise for my absence over the past several Months, but real life crept up on me, and gave me a great big kiss, yeah it makes a change doesn’t it.
To keep it short, an old friend turned out to be the love I have been waiting my whole life for, and we have spent the last few Months moving in together, and organizing phones, adsl lines, as well as setting up the study. 
The phones took the longest by the way, which was only to be expected, considering the fact that I live in South Africa, where it has been proven that a pidgeon is faster than our Internet.
It seems that every time I come back to EVE, there is something new. This time it is Tyrannis, and “Planetary Interaction.” Maybe not quite as exciting as I would have liked, but being more of an industrialist than a PvPer, I will definitely get a deal of enjoyment out of it.
On the 7th of June I parked my trusty Crane in one of the main hubs in my area, thinking that the new Command Centres would only be seeded in high activity areas. Imagine how I felt when they were seeded everywhere lol.
Oh well, I ran back home, picked up a number of various CC’s and headed for the planets I had picked out previously. Then with a lot of Wiki pages open, and some help and good advice from my friend Zama, I set up my first colony, 
which I then followed up with three others. 
Now it is just a matter of managing the colonies, and waiting to see if they make a profit, ho hum.
It is nice, but….I think it could have been so much more.
To me, planetary interaction conjures up visions of docking on Planets, and having command centers and other buildings that you can actually enter. Maybe even move from your mine/extractor to your Processor. Take a walk to your launchpad, climb into your ship and head back out to space with a full load.
I don’t know if this is actually going to be a part of Dust, but something like it would be nice for EVE.
Sitting out in space and dropping icons on the planet surface is hardly “Planetary Interaction,” not for me anyway.
But for all that, I still enjoy playing EVE.
