update

Wow. I cannot believe it's been 17 days since my last blog entry and 7 days since my last EF post (in my thread). Apologies to my daily visitors for not updating this blog any sooner. As always, I have been incredibly busy with work and irl. I finished work on 26th of August for 2 weeks therefore I should be able to update this a little more frequently during this time.

I have taken a step back from promoting 100 sweat for a while due to the imminent release of vu 9.0. where every player will be given the opportunity to recreate the avatar for free. The knock on effects to me and my current trade item are obvious and pretty much typifies the sort of luck I have! In fact my luck is so unexistent I will give a very good example of it later when I'll tell you about my current CND mining experience. Anyway, I don't expect to get any interest in the makeover by sorg until 2-3 weeks after the introduction of the new vu. The form of the trade item may actually change after the new vu. I may need to renegotiate what is on offer with sorg if the cost of performing certain surgeries increase. After all it would not be fair on sorg to hold him to a full makeover if the costs involved suddenly double!

Over the past few weeks I've seen a few more "trade x up to y" threads popping up and the usual kill joys shooting them down due to unoriginality. The title of the thread even says it all; if it bothers you, ignore it and move on! Show some class (or basic intelligence, if all else fails). One in particular that is trying to trade 100 sweat into an apallo springs to mind. Upon first reading it, I thought the thread starter set it up as a tongue in cheek poke at what I am doing. After some posts however, it seems like he is serious about going for it. Good luck to him, it shouldn't be long before he achieves this goal.

After a long hietus where I stayed away from SERIOUSLY mining for a while I am back into it seriously. Since finishing work, I have spent anything between 6 and 10 hours a day mining and lost count of the number of globals I have hit during this time (take note all you people that seem to think I do not actually play this game). One memorable day worth mentioning is when I hit 3 globals in 1 day planetside. 1 52 ped belk 1 72ped Caldorite and 1 160ped gazz.

I think this is the best that I have actually ever done in 1 day. The funny thing is, I expected to hit globals and was disappointed not to get more. I just got the feeling my "luck" was in. Same as the day after, when I didn't expect to hit a global. In fact this proved to be the case. I believe the highest find I hit that day was a XII. My wife would call this the "law of attraction". Which to be honest I always smirk at when she talks of it!

Now after all this mining and believing I had once again got the "feel" of it, I began getting what I call "the itch". "The itch" is the urge to go try my luck at CND. Now the sensible part of me says "no don't do it" but the gambler in me says "go for it you could hit the next ATH!". So packing the profits made from the last few days of mining I head to twin looking for a pilot. In short order I find one and find myself strapped in hurtling through space to CND. After a short stop off at CP I am there and having been told by the pilot his ship is a lucky ship and someone usually globals within 2 minutes of setting foot outside, I feverishly run through to the first teleporter I can find and beam into a dome and start dropping bombs. I keep dropping and dropping and dropping. After 2 sizable finds from 140 bombs I stopped to think (and it hurt as it often does...). I messaged a friend on my fl list and got him to randomly choose domes for me to mine in. Out of the remaining 60 bombs I then hit a 110 ped gazz and several finds XI all from what this friend randomly chose for me. Finally coming off almost even. I will continue mining CND until all my planetside profits are gone before returning back to the planet. So watch this space for a possible tower...