I have had to change my mouse cursor to yellow. I was too often losing it across my 6 screens. I suspect there isn’t an option to do that in EVE, but I will have to check.

My new character has made its 1-month birthday. I was not overly active in EVE since my last update, so the statistics did not change much. I ran my daily goals, did some mining, and started investigations into a second mission hub.

Skill points went up to 4.1M (427K Free), mainly due to Winter Nexus daily login rewards.

Wealth increased 10M to 470M (147M ISK Wallet, 323M Assets), with an extra mining destroyer added.

I am pleased with the wealth accumulated in only a month, given it was not a grind / slog to get there. I expect things will slow down, but it is a solid base to work from.

One aspect of EVE that I don’t think the new player experience explains well enough is faction standings. As I gained positive standings with the Caldari faction by running their missions, I started to accumulate negative standings with the factions who do not like them. If you let these negative standings get bad enough, it can result in those Factions attacking you in their space.

The main empire faction with negative views of the Caldari is the Gallente Federation. If I balance my mission running between Caldari and Gallente, I should maintain access to all Empire space.

The mission hub I found for Caldari has been excellent. L1-4 of different types in a small area. It is not too busy, and the gankers and griefers visit but are not a constant presence.

The first possible Gallente mission hub I checked out was mainly for mining agents. I found gankers and griefers were a regular presence, including seeing them using combat probes to scan down mission runners and attempting to gank them. This also wasn’t just about profit, since the Killboards showed they targeted new players in cheap hulls as well. Some of the gankers that I watched in Local were 10+ year old characters that I recognised. There wasn’t much chatter – but it felt toxic.

I might have to keep on looking. I might also have to pay attention for longer to what EVE in Hi-sec is really like today.

So, what’s next? I need to step back and do more with my main character, so progress on this one will slow but it won’t stop. Aside from setting up a balance of mission agents, I am thinking about the low-level COSMOS agents, and low-level Abyssal space content. I also have more thoughts on the new player experience to get back too.

I can not believe the number of stations that get destroyed by asteroids that you have to go out and mine…

I don’t always do this – but I do want to acknowledge the start of 2026.

I do not recall a time in my life when evil had so much power in the world, where there was so much social disharmony, so much disinformation, so much blind ideology, and so much corruption in our institutions such as democracy and capitalism. I can see the sinking ship / everyone for themselves mentality all around me.

Having said that, I lead a quirky but charmed life. It is by no means perfect or entirely happy, but it would be a rare day indeed that someone in Australia could claim to be having the worse day out of the 8.2 billion people around the world.

So, I will try to enjoy and appreciate the day to day and continue to prattle on about the solo playing of an MMO internet spaceship game.