I canceled my EVE Online account last night.

I’ve been paying for two MMOG subscriptions for a month or two now - EVE and WoW.  And that’s only really worked because I’m not playing WoW a whole lot.  I’ll play with Terri for an hour or two here and there…  But for the most part I’ve been playing EVE.

Lately though, with the WotLK beta, I’m hooked on WoW again.  I’m anxiously waiting for the expansion to be released.  I’m playing more WoW - both regular and beta - and trying to prepare my characters for the expansion’s release.  Which leaves me with virtually no time to play EVE.

And what’s the point in paying for a MMOG subscription you can’t play?

I’m not too happy about canceling my account…  I was really having a lot of fun with EVE…  But there’s only so many hours in the day.

There’s been a lot of talk recently about “ambulation” being added to EVE Online.  Basically CCP will be adding the ability for people to get out of their ships and walk around inside stations.  Some folks are thrilled, others think it will ruin the game.  But I’ve had a very hard time finding any visuals of how it is going to look/work.

I finally found a decent video showing an early version of ambulation.

Last night I participated in my first mining operation.  That was the first time I’ve teamed up with anyone outside of one or two fleets during a wardec.

There were about 15 of us out in Nukem - a bunch of miners in various ships and a couple haulers.  We completely destroyed two asteroid belts in the five hours I was there.  Apparently they continued for several hours after I left…  Went all the way ’til downtime the next morning.

I wound up earning about 11 million ISK during that op.  I’m not sure if that’s actually more or less than I could have made on my own…  It was certainly easier though.  Didn’t have to haul anything back to the station - just dumped it all in a can and let someone else worry about it.  And it was a lot more fun too, with other people along to chat with.

I just bought a new Retriever…  4.5 million ISK…  And I only sold my old one for 4 million…  Seems like a step backwards to me, but I guess it’ll all work out in the end.  Hopefully.  Unless I do something else stupid.

This has been a very short week for me…only two days at work…  But that’s probably a good thing.  After having my parents visit for a few days I’m completely worn out.  I had a very hard time waking up this morning.  I just wanted to stay in bed and sleep until Noon.

I’m going to have another long weekend this week…  I’ve got Monday off so we can celebrate Terri’s birthday.  So that’ll mean another short week next week.  I’m sure the guys at work are starting to get annoyed with me…  But I’ve certainly earned my vacation time.

I think I’ve finally decided what to do about my predicament in EVE…  I’m going to run missions until I’ve got enough money to buy a new Retriever, and then stick my Modulated Strip Miner IIs on it…  I’ll fly that and mine and whatnot until I finish training Mining Barges V and I can fly the Covetor.

I’m not going to sell the Covetor though.  I’ll use it when I can to help earn money for my Hulk.  The training time from a Covetor to a Hulk is only a couple days, but I’ll need plenty of money to afford the Exhumers skillbook and the Hulk itself.  And the Covetor will let me earn that money faster than a Retriever can.