MUDD Monthly Xmas Entry
26 Jan 2023Darkbeetle
I've just returned from the black. It was fun, but the are more... sensitive things to attend to back home. First thing I did after coming back to the bubble was moving most of my ships out of Ohm City in LHS 20. It's been my home base for a while now, but I'm moving in with the squad! Now, it's time for the ENGINEERING GRIND. Yikes. But then, out of the blue, I was suddenly distracted by none other than the shipyard. That Krait Mk2, I swear it was staring me in the eyes. So I spent a total of about 100 million credits outfitting it. Ah, now that's better. TIme to engineer the hell out of that bad boy! I proceeded to engineer 6 modules, the most I've ever engineered a ship. In fact, up until now, the only thing I'd ever engineered was FSD. Now with the G5 power distro, I can afford to put on 2 large beam lasers and not worry about capacitor drain. Infinite boosting with the G3 dirty thrusters at 450 m/s! This made me truly realize how OP engineering can be... But still not worth the grind, in my opinion.I started learning some odyssey stuff after that. Stuff about raiding settlements, stealth, or something? Can't remember. Had WAY too much fun massacreing people at settlements. They didn't even see it coming! That is, I did have to disable the settlement alarms stealthily though. But it was still so much fun! I got new gear thanks to the squad's help and started raiding tons of settlements. Then, it was Christmas. It was also around the time I noticed that I should probably start expanding my credit balance. When I had just returned from the black, I had around 220 million. Even with desperate attempts recently at trading, I was still faced with a net loss of 100 million in credits. What did I do? In true beetle style, absolutely nothing! At least, for now... I have a really bad habit of procrastinating. Recently, I've been spending and not saving. Now I'm approaching the critical 100 million credit cushion! If I go below this, I won't really feel safe even if I still have loads of rebuys for my ships.
Other than my impending financial crisis, everything else is going well! I hope to write up a new logbook this month as well so do check that out on my Inara when it comes out! Speaking of logbooks I’m gonna put in a shameless plug for my new story Thargoid Crusade also out on my logbooks page. Go check it out! This is CMDR Darkbeetle signing off, o7