As I will shortly be the even more Occasional Capsuleer for a week or so, there are various tasks I set myself to try and avoid complete dead time in game.  These are pretty obvious, and one I’ve failed miserably to plan ahead for, but anyway…

• Training.  Goes without saying, but, make sure you get a decent length skill training.  I’ve experimented and even with alts on the same account you can’t rig it so that another toon starts training after one finishes.  Which is a touch harsh, but I guess if you could get basic access to your account you might at least be able to activate the training queue.  I can’t assume that, so I set enough time to allow for delays in travel etc before I can get online again.  When I return I shall have Customs Code Expertise trained up to the max, just to try and minimise my PI costs in hi sec.
• Planetary Interaction.  As it happens, my typical resource gathering period is 10 days, so this works out nicely.  I’ve simply stopped and restarted all my extraction processes so they’re not sat idle.  Yes, you can harvest more aggressively than this, but this sort of period means I have no backlogs or storage issues.
• Manufacturing.  Had I been more organised, I would have bought a load of minerals and just made… stuff.  I haven’t been very active in manufacturing of late as I tend to use reprocessed minerals from missions, but it’s categorically a passive income maker in terms of the manufacture time so I really ought to pick it back up.
• POS?  I’ve never tried setting up a POS for mining, or anything else for that matter, so if you have, I’d be interested to hear your experience, particularly in trying to do it in hi sec which I believe is trickier than it sounds.  I imagine that if you fuelled it appropriately you could leave one ticking over for an extended AFK period?

Anyway, see you all on the other side…