Off the Rails

Well, hasn’t everything changed in the last few days?
Having reached my November goal for my wallet, I jumped over to Eglennaert to do some missions. I am at the threshold between level 2 and level 3 missions. So I looked at my wallet (121M) and bought a Myrmidon battlecruiser. Being the anniverasary of the loss of the HMAS Sydney, I named her in honour of her predecessor.
So that took my wallet down to around 80M. Nevermind, I thought, I have a chunk of November left to get back to my 110M goal.

Then I came up with my next daft idea.
I have a deal with someone to supply large amounts of tritanium and pyerite at healthy prices. So I put some buy orders out across Sinq Laison for these minerals, at a price that makes it worth buying, collecting, and then selling to my buyer.
But if I’m going to do that, I should do it good, so I put in orders for 10 million of each. Result: a wallet of around 11 million. A mere hundred million less than my November goal. With only a week and a half left in the month.
Good planning! *clap* *clap* *clap*

I am currently trialling something else too. I’ve been speaking to some other miners, newer pilots. I’m getting some of them to mine veldspar and scordite, then sell the tritanium and pyerite to me. I made the mistake though with a couple of agreeing to collect the ore if they accepted reduced prices. They could get better prices elsewhere, on the open market. But I’m their agreed buyer and I’ll collect. So they’re on a good wicket.