I do plan to join a corp, though, once I've reached at least something on my own, too (unless I get too frustrated and decide to look for one earlier, hehe). Then I need to find one fitting for me. With members who don't shoot me, like some of the terrifying stories you hear suggest happens a lot, hehe.

but I donGGVt often see people using T2 afterburners. I am not sure why, ...

Talking about the darker side.


So I got into my Vexor and warped to him and, right, there he still was. .. 30km away.
But closing in on me, so I set an angle to approach and .. dang, he still pounded me good. I was already partly in structure as I finally dispatched his drones and was in an 1km orbit (which turned out to be more of a 2-3 km orbit in real).
My cap almost empty since I had to run my repper that much, but I felt reasonably save in that close of an orbit.

WRONG! While I was recovering my cap a little to start my repper again without losing my warp disruptor or afterburner, whipping out my medium drones to attack him.. I got hit again.

BOOM!
Destroyed :(

"Take care of your business and leave me in peace."

So cold..

While I think your on the right track as far as ninja salvaging/baiting is concerned, I think there are some considerations to be made:

- Most mission BS's can wield very good tanks, almost always active (for certain exceptions like a Rattlesnake's super Drake-like passive tank), but typically fail hilariously when they are neuted. You may have to end up relying on a ship that can neut well (Asshimu, Curse, or fit medium neuts to a T1 cruiser). Neut them and their tank will fail. I'd also recommend using a buffer tank rather than armor reppers on your Vexor. It'll allow you to handle alpha hits like you encountered and be less cap reliant...which is really needed in order to keep your neuts running anyways. I'd also recommend a cap booster if you can fit one. An Arbitrator would be a good ship to use for such a thing, however it doesn't do phenomenal DPS if you are running a full rack of neuts and aren't using T2 medium or heavy drones.

- When going after turret based ships, one thing that could help you substantially against getting nearly alpha'd off the field is a tracking disruptor with tracking speed disruption script. On your approach it's less likely you'll get hit if you close distance at a steep angle rather than burning directly at them. Even if you have a microwarp drive to make closing distance faster you should be moving too fast for their guns to get a good hit. I'm hoping that they make tracking disruptors work against missile boats soon, too. I know CCP had some problems implementing it.

Hope that helps!

So .. well, I realize most, if not all people here will see this as a minor thing, but anyway:

So I decided to be a thief. I got myself some skills for scanning, bought myself an expanded probe launcher and some combat scan probes and fitted those to the Imicus I got from one of the tutorial missions, together with an afterburner.

Then I went to Dodixie since I've read there might be a lot of mission runners there.
After 10 tries, or even more, of following some battleship to its destination system (several stargates being right next to each other and me often warping to the wrong one *grumbling*) and scanning them down (oh gosh, I feel so clumsy when thinking of my attempts) I managed to see a Vargur warping off to someplace above the star in a neighbouring system of Dodixie.

So I sent my probes out, trying to catch that thing. Luckily Marauders seem to be easy to scan down, because I found the Vargur pretty quickly, and 5 minutes later I had a warp-in.

So in I warped.
Accelleration gate.
Okay.
Warp again.
Vargur, many red crosses, some lootable wrecks and.... another ship, which upon inspection said it was a T3 battle cruiser of the type "Tornado", in the same corp as the Vargur.

At that point I almost warped out again, but then decided to take at least a look into the wrecks. I mean .. only looking doesn't make them able to shoot at me, right?
I was careful not to draw attention of the red-marked ships, and.. once peeked into the wrecks, I couldn't help myself and grab some things that my AI told me were expensive.

Heart thumping, ready to warp out.. but.. nobody shooting at me.
So I continued zipping from wreck to wreck, grabbing something here and there, and suddenly...
Half my armor gone.
Dammit, why was I so careless? Warp! Warp! .. and.. after two more misses of the large .. artillery? of that Tornado, I was warping out.
Phew!

Sold the stuff I got, at least worth several times my Imicus.

It was really exciting. It might sound silly, but it was really exciting.

One question, though: I could have shot at that Tornado, right? How long could I have?

I was playing with the thoughts of warping back with my Tristan, trying to shoot that thing down, but then decided against.
Because I didn't know how long I'd be able to shoot at that thing, because I was fairly sure I wouldn't be able to deal enough damage to kill it, and most of all because there were two ships, fairly far apart from each other, of the same corp, and I suspect the other one could have blown me away easily.
And now that I think about it, I didn't have a warp disruptor either.

.. Well, that's it. Nothing special, I just wanted to share, since this was my first illegal activity and being shot at.

Thank you for your advice!
I'll have some new information to consider now.

I created my fit based on the fit of another Vexor some nice person donated to me completely fitted already, but with many t2 modules I cannot use yet. Mainly the weapons now, though, for the rest I am on a good way.
It uses small autocannons, presumably to shoot at drones and otherwise help out with dps a little, and has a big-ass 1600mm armor plate fitted for this buffer you were talking about, but a medium armor repairer, too.

I think the reasoning behind this has to be to have a buffer to get in close and get rid of the drones, then have a repper to slowly rep yourself up again in case something went wrong.

It also has a stasis webifier.

[interesting and helpful stuff]

Thank you :)

I forgot to mention the rigs before, yes. They were capacitor control circuits. From what I read they are often somewhat .. well.. frowned upon for pvp. I suppose if you have a cap booster anyway, so the "natural" cap regen makes only a (possibly small) part of your cap, they aren't very efficient.

With 10mn afterburner (named one) and 1600mm plate and without armor rigs my skills made me go at about 450 m/s.