Mission Runner Weekend

Posted by Stropp on February 23, 2009 I had a bit of a lighter gaming weekend this week. I intended to spend Sunday morning with EvilMo, my World of Warcraft Death Knight, but got caught up with some chores and the sat down and opened a book. Well that was it. Consider Phlebas had been in my to-read pile for a couple of months, so I figured it was about time.  Saturday was spent with Eve. I spent a boat load of ISK on skills the day before, so I ran a bunch of missions to build my reserves back up. I now have almost 3 million ISK. Okay, so that isn't very much. It's just that ISK always tends to burn a hole in my pocket when I'm looking at skills. The missions I'm currently working are for Spacelane Patrol, and are getting easier and easier. Mostly because they are repeating often. I'm starting to hang out for some level 2 missions. Hopefully they're different to the level ones, and hopefully there are more of them. One of the new features that CCP has added to Eve Online since the last time I played is the Certificate Planner. This is a window that shows the various certifications that are available to Eve pilots. These certificates, as far as I can tell, don't have any real function. They don't add and bonuses or provide any titles.  What they do is give an indication to the noob like me what I should be training to perform a particular function effectively. So if I want to be effective in jamming an opponents targeting systems, I might want to look into the EWAR (Electronic Warfare) certificates. Getting this certificate means that I've raised the appropriate skills to a level where I'd be effective at jamming, for instance. Just like my pile of books, I've got a pile of games to play. I'll be endeavoring to make some time for WoW this week, and maybe Wizard 101 as well. I've been wanting to get into that again. So many games, so little time. Sigh.