24 Month Review

Starwalker had spent two years in New Eden and since June 2011 he had been a member of R1FTA. This was only his third corporation, his first was the State Academy and then he had joined Ambivalence whilst he was working out what he wanted to do. It was reading Miura Bull's blog that had sent him in the direction of the Black Rebel Rifter Club.

Many of those original R1FTA members had now moved on including Miura Bull himself but Starwalker was still there and he had no intention of leaving any time soon. He still enjoyed the frigate combat and whilst he would occasionally fly bigger ships he was happy to fly around in frigates most of the time.

Over the course of those two years Starwalker had summarised his key areas of focus for improvement as ships, combat, skills and base. Today:

1. Ships flown were predominantly focused on frigate brawlers like the Merlin. He had occasionally dabbled with kiters like the Kestrel and recently he had branched out into using drones with the Tristan. He had little interest in exploration, electronic attack ships, mining or logistic frigates. He had flown larger ships like the Caracal, Moa and Drake but that was only really occasional rather than regularly. In general he liked frigates
2. Combat - Starwalker maintained better control of range, the situation, his modules and overheating but still wanted to focus more on situational awareness and manual flying. He suspected that he would be saying the same thing next year
3. All his core skills were trained to a reasonable level and with 36 million skill points that was a lot of skills. Starwalker had no particular new ship to train for and instead was focusing on completing a small selection of level V skills and rounding out his skill set by raising those skills that were between level I and III to IV 
4. Two bases currently had ships, equipment and a clone: Covryn and Gultraten with Covryn being the more important and having more ships and equipment. Both locations were chosen because they were comparatively easy to resupply from Hek and bordered hisec

Starwalker had very few goals in New Eden but one of them was to kill more times than being killed. That had started well when he was in hisec but moving to lowsec was a difficult period as he was being killed more than killing. However, he slowly learned and improved and by the Summer of 2012 he saw that trend turn positive.

Month	Kills	ISK (B)	Losses	ISK (B)	Efficiency
February, 2013	13	0.11	4	0.10	52.26%
January, 2013	13	0.29	3	0.04	88.01%
December, 2012	27	0.63	15	0.4	61.51%
November, 2012	14	0.94	7	0.18	83.65%
October, 2012	8	0.1	2	0.03	76.69%
September, 2012	11	0.17	12	0.6	21.73%
August, 2012	2	0.12	2	0.13	47.77%
July, 2012	36	1.26	17	0.38	76.96%
June, 2012	6	0.1	3	0.03	77.16%
May, 2012	12	2.22	9	0.13	94.41%
April, 2012	4	0.04	1	0.02	67.56%
March, 2012	2	0.85	3	0.03	96.94%
February, 2012	3	0.07	9	0.32	18.02%
January, 2012	1	0.12	5	0.19	38.52%
December, 2011	1	0	3	0.11	0.00%
November, 2011	0	0	1	0.02	0.00%
October, 2011	1	0	8	0.15	1.90%
September, 2011	7	0.14	4	0.03	80.70%
August, 2011	5	0.03	13	0.08	28.50%
July, 2011	12	0.13	6	0.08	62.79%
June, 2011	11	0.53	7	0.04	93.23%
May, 2011	3	0.25	1	0	99.60%

Starwalker had recently achieved his 200th kill as recorded by Battleclinic and he was ranked around 29,500. He knew that some pilots had 200 kills in a month but Starwalker was pleased anyway, especially with his limited flight time. He also noted that the two months with the highest number of kills (July and December 2012) had been when he had more flight time. Starwalker did not know what the next year would bring but he was happy to keep doing what he was doing.