Flying Solo In EVE: My Latest Ship Wish List

Some weeks I don't do much in EVE Online. But I haven't done much in Final Fantasy XIV lately either.  At work my group is undergoing a couple of months of training which requires my logging in an hour earlier than normal. As long as I have enough coffee and green tea I'm okay, but I do wind up taking a longer nap than normal at the end of the day. That not only impacts my blogging but the time I spend playing video games. Yes, having an hour extra at night to do things actually means less effective free time. Coffee and tea is okay, but nothing beats actual sleep. I probably need to do some shopping to put some excitement back in the game.

The weekly snapshot was taken a day late

Well, that's my story anyways. What about the rest of the players? Seems like they are settling into a holding pattern at 24,000 average accounts logged in during last week. I don't think EVE Vanguard's Operation Avalon event drew much attention last week even with the rewards. To be fair, Vanguard is in an early access alpha, but until the game becomes more integrated with Tranquility I don't think the draw will attract much attention until Vanguard reaches beta.

The price of PLEX flatlined last week

Looking at the global PLEX market caused me to double-check my code. Yes, the flat line running from 6 July's average price of 4,499,000 ISK per PLEX to yesterday's 4,500,000 ISK per PLEX is for real. The Liberation Day sale featuring discounts for the "In Rust We Trust" SKINs launched on Friday had no effect on the PLEX market. That flat line is probably not going to last much longer. Fenris kicked off another 20% off PLEX sale yesterday. We'll see how that goes with the summer slump beginning to make an appearance.

We are a little past the mid-point of 2026 and my plans for my new character in EVE took a week off to train up to flying a destroyer. But are there any ships I want to fly on my 16 year old characters?

The first one is the Odysseus. Officially labeled an Expedition Command Ship, the Sisters of EVE hull is one of the newest in the game. I have the loyalty points, I just need to build the thing.

But building a ship doesn't mean its ready to fly. I have three ships I'd like to fly but I just need to go out and scrounge up the fittings. Those ships are from the CONCORD Assembly: Pacifier, Enforcer, and Marshal. The Marshal, a Tech 1 black ops battleship, is the worst of the ships because I built the ship in a low sec station and never went back to fit the thing. The greatest tragedy, however, is that I have a pilot with all racial battleship skills trained to V, Black Ops trained to V,  plus a security status of 5.0.

I really need to take advantage of my training

The other two ship classes might blow some minds. Next month marks my 17th anniversary in EVE and I've never flown either a strategic cruiser or a marauder. These last two ship classes came as advice from Gemini on ships that would do very well blitzing level 4 Sisters of EVE missions. I went out and priced a Loki a couple of weeks ago and the price wasn't too bad. The Vargur, on the other hand, would cost over 1 billion ISK and I'm still not comfortable with prices that high.

If I really want to I don't need any more releases to keep me occupied in EVE. I just need to set out to fly all the ships on my wish list. Realistically the only thing keeping me from doing so is the desire. Oh, and the ability to replace anything I lose.