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Indorian
Thorn Project Black Thorne Alliance
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Posted - 2012.07.05 06:51:00 -
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As i get close to my big two year birthday, I can't help but think about the people and events that marked my journey among the stars of New Eden. I've had a great time and see no real end in sight. I ask everyone to post their one event. The single event in your entire time with Eve that defined who you are.
Years Playing Eve: 1 year, 10 months Time spent inactive: 2 months My Event: When I was 3 months into eve I was flying my great hero Rifter while I waited for the learning skills I was just taught about to finish training. Can flipping in Bille, I came across a Savatage Industries mining op jetcan mining. I of course, having a very basic understanding of mechanics at the time, can flipped them. Little did I know they would open fire. Leading to the deaths of a Retriever, Catalyst, and a Tristan, before I was put to a swift fiery doom. THE VERY NEXT DAY they were at it again. This time they ran, and I failed to point the hauler used to pick up the ore. I followed the hauler one system over to Atlanins and grabbed his Cormy on the undock. At this point the rest of his corp mates undock a drake, moa, tristan, drake fleet and make to the closest belt.
I follow, in which I am greeted by a barrage of missile fire. Sadly for them, they failed to kill me, and Concord made short work of their ships. For the next 3 months I was chased by a corp they hired to hunt me, along with themselves. I was forced to make friends, work with others, gather intel, prepare pvp skills. I meet some great pilots along the way, and had a blast. It was my sandbox moment if you will.
What was yours? |
Akirei Scytale
Test Alliance Please Ignore
1742
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Posted - 2012.07.05 06:56:00 -
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Being a part of the defense of Deklein.
We fully expected to lose to the giant blob of titans and supercarriers that always landed on our fleets, but then consistently defeated their attempts to kill our cynojammers and then locked down a pile of titans into VFK for days on end. It was a true turning point in a major EVE war, and I was a part of it.
I still consider the battle of DKUK to be one of the most fun engagements I've ever been a part of. TEST Alliance BEST Alliance |
Jett0
Surface Warfare The 99 Percent
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Posted - 2012.07.05 08:14:00 -
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First low-sec roaming kill.
A friend and I wanted to try the roaming thing. He had a cloaky scout alt and a Rifter. I had a Rifter of my own. His scout found an Arbitrator roaming some asteroid fields alone. He held cloak a few km away and we gated through and warped. I tackled and we began firing. The Arbitrator targeted me with his lasers and released his drones. Immediately I got closer to avoid his medium lasers, and scrambled to target his pursuing drones. At 50% struc on my ship, we finally popped him. Occasionally plays sober |
St Mio
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.07.05 08:20:00 -
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I logged in. |
Markus Reese
Incertae Sedis Cascade Imminent
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Posted - 2012.07.05 08:31:00 -
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Event: Incursion Live events
Location: Deltole VI
It was my first time doing major FCing after getting access to my command ships. From the RP channel I was a part of, gathered a 65 man fleet and got into the largest PVE event that has ever happened in eve online. With proper organization, we were one of the only fleets not to take any losses. At least none were reported. After this event, I got largely into the RP community and heavily involved in the remaining live events.
To this day, it is still the most fun I have had in eve, even compared to large pvp fights. They had excitement and visual overload without the political fapping, blobbing or powergaming. No rewards, it was all bring it and fight with it. In the end, I lead fleets of over 200 randoms and maintained minimal losses compared to what most other fleets or individuals experienced.
Four Wormholes
The Slave Commander
Markus On Location
Under Heavy Barrage
The Swarm
The following videos are not mine, but they are awesome, a good guy I ran with later on.
The Deltole Invasion Video: Pt. 1 The Deltole Invasion Video: Pt. 2
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pussnheels
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Posted - 2012.07.05 09:35:00 -
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There have been many memorable events in the career of all my characters ,4 acounts if you need to know, but the one iremember best was the first time i undocked , that was in april 2009 , i was awestrucked by it all Another one i rember clearly was the pilgrimage i made early in my eve career to the evegate with a corp buddy , in a badly fitted frigate , i was suprised how empty lowsec actually was
A more recent memorable event was previous sunday when the alliance zngaged in a qmall fleet battle against our WT right in a low sec area during a incursion, we lost but darn that was some epic tale of fighting for a cause and betrayal I do not agree with what you are saying , but i will defend to the death your right to say it...... Voltaire |
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CCP Goliath
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2012.07.05 11:41:00 -
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As a developer, the first Dev Caravan event in Tama. Watching everyone in the office get so excited, getting over initial difficulties with newer/totally new players, worrying that noone would show up, then rocketing the system kills from 56 the day before to 2009 on our day
As a player, I'll always have really fond memories of the first time the corp I was in tried to do organised small gang PvP, got really excited roaming around low looking for some enemies, finding some, and getting HORRIBLY HORRIBLY OWNED by them I think we managed to lose around 10 ships without getting a single one of theirs (though I came close to getting a semi afk Anathema lurking when I went back to POS to get my 2nd (pointless fit) ship!) CCP Goliath | QA Director | @CCP_Goliath |
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Colonel Xaven
Decadence. RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2012.07.05 11:51:00 -
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The Delve War I got so many new stuff for me. One was that I saw a Titan for the first time. And shortly after seeing it, I got doomsdayed At this time DD was an area of effect weapon, killing everything on grid that hadnt at least 100.000 (?) eHP. Literally that was like
"Hey cool, Im in a fast crow with evil rockets!" "Hey cool, Im in a huge fleet!" "Hey cool, a Titan!" *bight light* "Hey not so cool, Im in a pod!"
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Rakshasa Taisab
Sane Industries Inc.
863
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Posted - 2012.07.05 13:17:00 -
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Investing in GS, nothing has been the same since. Nyan |
The Protato
Protus Correction Facility Inc.
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Posted - 2012.07.05 13:18:00 -
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I have a couple.
EITHER: Being dropped onto VFK-IV in a thanatos and seeing a goon supercarrier packing twenty cyclopses. Briefly.
OR: Being grudge-chased for a year by a guy for moving corps. No, really. |
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Arline Kley
Galactic Rangers
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Posted - 2012.07.05 13:27:00 -
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Taking part in the inital incursion events - ending up in a system as the first PC responder to an incoming wormhole and having a near 5 minutes with myself and an Event Actor fighting an entire wave of incursion ships as the rest of the PC fleet gathered up. Then being told that my name was being put forward for "bravery" still makes me smile.
I'm surprised my Harbinger managed to surivive as long as it did with all the agro it was taking as well..
Blessed are those that carry the Empress' Light; with it they destroy the shadows |
The Antiquarian
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.07.05 13:28:00 -
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CCP Goliath wrote:As a developer, the first Dev Caravan event in Tama. Watching everyone in the office get so excited, getting over initial difficulties with newer/totally new players, worrying that noone would show up, then rocketing the system kills from 56 the day before to 2009 on our day As a player, I'll always have really fond memories of the first time the corp I was in tried to do organised small gang PvP, got really excited roaming around low looking for some enemies, finding some, and getting HORRIBLY HORRIBLY OWNED by them I think we managed to lose around 10 ships without getting a single one of theirs (though I came close to getting a semi afk Anathema lurking when I went back to POS to get my 2nd (pointless fit) ship!)
Dear CCP Goliath, everyone has his or her memorable "events," but we beg you... please wow us with another sets of "Live Events" not purely player-driven, but also with help from certain Devs! We miss Criere Project. We all miss the Serpentis Event. Also please bring closure to our beloved Arek'Jaalan Project. =( |
Lin-Young Borovskova
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.07.05 13:55:00 -
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Earlier in my Eve carrier was scouting some gate before our system POS in low sec:
*1 neut in local for about 4 hours, same than yesterday but don't think this means something else than another AFK alt*
*k, jumping in Astarte need to join high sec for a different fit*
Suddenly something got out of nowhere, pointed the Astarte and opened cyno, I was more like this
*WTF?? -WTF?? -10 black ops 1 Aeon 2 Nyx for an Astarte?? WTH are those dudes? -ho ok, it's just Ninja Unicorns again dropping dozens as per usual, nice pvp style*
Local: "Elite PVP !! vOv"
At that time didn't knew there are people never undocking if they are not at least 10/1, but rather 20/1, and started to understand why supercaps needed a dam nerf bat or why black ops are more than fine as they are. brb |
Gazmin VanBurin
The Skunkworks
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Posted - 2012.07.05 13:55:00 -
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I had a few small events along the way, like soloing an abodon in my myrm, but the greatest event i was in, was the Skunk works Incursion greifing. weeks of hard work, weeks of battle both on the forums and in game, over 120bil ins ships killed from the incursion comunity, watching as people yelled to not trust us in local, as people where trusting us but ignoring local... Pirceless |
Josef Djugashvilis
The Scope Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.07.05 14:02:00 -
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Could not play Eve for a long time, so celebrated my 5th Eve birthday by skilling for, and timing my ability to fly the Enyo a corpie had given me when I first started for my Eve birthday
Great little ship. You want fries with that? |
Private Pineapple
Rifterlings Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2012.07.05 14:33:00 -
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I started trolling the C&P forums on Colonel Cornbread and have never stopped trolling. I am the Kingpin of the Crime and Punishment forum.
I am the rightful heir to the CSM 8 throne.
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Cutter Isaacson
Peace N Quiet
760
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Posted - 2012.07.05 14:50:00 -
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Total Time in EVE: 6 Years 8 Months. Total Time Inactive: 1 Year 7 Months.
I think my defining moment in EVE came when my original character was a mere 2 weeks old way back at the tail end of 2005. I'd joined a corp that my house mate of the time was in, part of the infamous BoB family. I was trained to use jams and scrams and used as a bait/scout ship, not that I minded, I still remember thinking how cool it was that I had the responsibility of looking out for an entire fleet of ships.
I had been tasked with scouting ahead of our main fleet during a short lived local war, my duty was to check the road ahead and then check the area surrounding where our targets were to look for stragglers or rear guards. My CEO at the time gave me a list of gates to make for, along with the appropriate bookmarks (no WTZ in those days) and then I was set free.
So of I went on my merry way, calling back on coms to alert my corp mates of any potential threats, or just some people they might enjoy blowing up for the lolz. Eventually I arrived at my destination, having gotten lost a couple of times along the way, rubbing my hands with glee that the enemy would have no idea what was about to happen. So, all full of bravado and adrenaline, I start to call out gate names and approximate enemy ship numbers and types, and then happily crowed about how we were going to kick their asses.
Sadly I had forgotten that I was talking in local, so my FC had not seen or heard any of this, the other sad thing was that I had gotten more lost than I had originally thought, and the reason I did not recognise any of the names in local (which had only just dawned on me) was that I had in fact jumped through several wrong gates and ended up in the same system as our targets, whom I had just informed about the fleet headed their way.
I called out on voice coms during a lull in the talking, trying desperately to warn everyone, but over the din all they heard was one single word.
Jump.
So they did, and all 40 odd ships were subsequently destroyed in a hailstorm of cheers and bullets from the enemy. Pods followed shortly thereafter and we all woke up 35 jumps away feeling extremely angry. Or in my case, extremely embarrassed. Needless to say I was the butt of an awful lot of jokes involving GPS, Maps and a man's inability to ask for or follow simple directions.
Yes it was a disaster, yes I was made to look and feel like a complete tool, but god damn was that adrenaline rush worth it. Numbers of terminally stupid people seem to be on the increase, I suggest we have a real life Stupidageddon to rectify this issue. |
Bloodpetal
Mimidae Risk Solutions
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Posted - 2012.07.05 15:28:00 -
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Years Playing Eve: 7 years or so Time spent inactive: 1-2 years while training.
My Event: Tough one, there's so many.
I'd say that one of m favorites has been the first time I led a PVP fleet.
We were living in Thelan before the Thelan>Hagilur pipe was opened and it was a dead end system.
It was 2 jumps from Rancer and our coalition would regularly get into scraps with the Rancer pirates that were scary as hell back then compared to everyone else in empire space.
We had about even numbers it seemed, and it was my first time FC-ing EVER. And I had about 20 battleships, of various types from kite fits to brawling fits. Typical kitchen sink "Rebel" type fleet. And we forced them to jump and engage into our fleet. I started calling primaries, but the enemy ships kept pouring in and I realized I was horribly overwhelmed on my first experience. I called a retreat and we got our asses out of there. We lost 2 battleships I think, and they may have taken a ship or two down.
Was crazy first time FC experience, and I learned a lot and it really taught me a lot about my style of FCing and how to start becoming better at it. Mimidae Risk Solutions Recruiting |
Wrayeth
We Reach Around Situation: Normal
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Posted - 2012.07.05 16:07:00 -
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Years Playing EVE: 8 (FFS, that's most of my adult life!) Time Spent Inactive: 3 months (inactive account)/2 years (not playing much due to FUBAR computer)
My event: Back in 2005, I was with Vertigo Coalition and living in Aridia and Fountain after Fountain Alliance crumbled under BoB's assault. BoB's horrible pet alliance Xelas had just moved in not too long ago, and, after a string of initial ganks on unwary Xelas pilots, it was getting harder and harder to find good PvP. At the same time, I was at odds with my corpmates over tactics. As the nail in the coffin, I was going through some rough times IRL.
At that point, due to a number of frustrations, I'd decided I was going to quit EVE, but I was going to at least try to go out in a blaze of glory. I basically told myself I was going to cancel my account after I lost all of my ships in PvP (with the exception of things like bantams, which they used to give out like candy as level 3 mission rewards; I still have several hundred of them). I wasn't going to lose them stupidly, but I wasn't planning on using the same level of caution I normally would.
I grabbed my tempest and headed for Delve (BoB's home), passing through Fountain Core (and not finding anyone to shoot; Xelas pilots were either offline or docked up) in the process. What followed afterwards was one of the most awesome roams of my EVE career. During the course of my 3 to 4 hour rampage in Delve, I got multiple kills, evaded or escaped from multiple gangs of hostiles coming to kill me, and did 60+ jumps, having to return through Period Basis because the way back through Delve was heavily camped thanks to my little escapade. I even Leroyed it into a dead-end station system, ganked a raven in a belt, then escaped out past the enemy response fleet that had formed up on the only exit gate.
What's more? There was no warp to zero at that time, and I didn't have a full set of insta-jump bookmarks for the region(s).
Needless to say, I reconsidered my decision to cancel my account. |
Cloned S0ul
Blood Fanatics
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Posted - 2012.07.05 16:19:00 -
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Ocucur a diplomat 4 years ago in a small alliance with 200 members who rent space in 0.0, this was somthing new and challenged for me, espetialy because my English is very poor, taking care of ally members, write mails, set up standings etc. Teemo for president. |
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Malcom Vincent
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Posted - 2012.07.05 17:26:00 -
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Gankaton in Copenhagen. EVE Stratics! Managing Editor Interviews, Guides, Reviews and more! |
Derus Grobb
Reconfiguration Nation Transmission Lost
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Posted - 2012.07.05 20:38:00 -
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For me it was the first week of Apocrypha.
Asked in local for volunteers to try w-space. Formed a gang of 4 or 5. We were noobs - we didn't have a clue. Went through a WH and shot sleepers, gathered loot.
I divided the loot equally. We went back to Hisec.
Then everyone realised the loot was worth a fortune. Everyone was grateful and said thanks. It made me very happy |
Barbara Nichole
Cryogenic Consultancy Black Sun Alliance
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Posted - 2012.07.05 21:03:00 -
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single event...? when I started I was immediately recruited into my husbands corp and wisked off to null sec where I spent my first years in eve. The alliance we were in was very disciplined and well organized. I learned a ton about the game from the null sec perspecitve.. The event that shaped my whole eve life however was the day we put up one of the first outposts in our region of space - and were attacked that same day by three larger alliances including a coalition alliance; no diplomacy just vague accusations in local (none true). We held for 4 days.. taking out 60 or so battleships losing only a few smaller ships. but on the forth day the dreads came in and the system was so full of enemy players we were literally lagged out of our home.
This taught me that there will always be larger groups who will control things without discipline or actions worthy of respect by virtue of the power of the blob. [IMG]http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a208/DawnFrostbringer/consultsig.jpg[/IMG] |
Katja Faith
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2012.07.05 21:05:00 -
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Indorian wrote:What was your event?
Band Camp. There was this one time... Oh, wait, wrong posting alt. |
Lystrian
Tollus Nursing Home and Rehab
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Posted - 2012.07.06 04:02:00 -
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my friend and I sitting at a star in Sasha with his woman and I tell him in another window, "you should marry this girl"
at the wedding i got to see the titans,
and the lag, i dont recall who did what, but one of the devs lit up a smartbomb (im guessing) on the titan and just about crashed the system
was a good wedding, wish my friends the best in whatever realms they are in now
(the titans defined me, those i knew someday i would build) |
Martyn Bane
Allied Defense Contractors
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Posted - 2012.07.06 04:40:00 -
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Years in EVE - 4 Time inactive - about 8 months total
Event - The first time we attempted a Null sec roam. Flew all the way through a long low sec chain with cloaky scouts, and finally arrived in Null for the FIRST time! Woohoo!
Ooooh wait - Then a huge gang entered the system we were in and after scanning a few carriers, and multiple BS's, BC's, and every other thing that was horribly scary, promply ran away and hid from them until they found us and killed almost all of us. The whole time I swear I could hear laughing in local even though I didn't have TS3 or Vent... |
Indorian
Thorn Project Black Thorne Alliance
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Posted - 2012.07.06 15:57:00 -
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Loving the responses. |
Gogela
Direct Action LLC.
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Posted - 2012.07.06 18:01:00 -
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I was screwing around with pirate fits in my home system in low sec, one jump from empire. I had my alt out scanning and he found a wormhole... then he found a POS w/ some expensive ships hanging out inside the shield. Pretty typical so far. I was kind of bored so I decided to do a little meta research on the corp that owned the POS. I searched killboards for their members, and most of them had some variant of the same name. This told me it was one guy with LOTS of alts. This guy knew what he was doing and was farming a wormhole... it was a fair bet he had some pretty good ISK. It occurred to me that when he logged in next he would discover there was a wormhole that was one jump from empire and try to make a supply run to Jita (which was pretty close by) and would probably be loaded up w/ sleeper stuff on the way there. I added all the members to my watch list and preceded to screw around in my home system, thinking I would never be so lucky. Then they all logged in at once. I started to get excited. I cloaked my alt to watch.... a helios left the POS and came back a few minutes later. Then all these alts started getting into haulers. It was on. My onyx jumped through and put up the bubble just as they were leaving. I was like a kid in a candy store. I couldn't kill them fast enough. I got about 3 billion in sleeper loot and was thrilled. Later in the night he decided to make the supply run back, and again I was there w/ my bubble. Took out a few more and got some POS parts and some interesting cap mods. It was the finest piece of piracy I've ever done. Good research. Good hunting. Great loot. Had a surprisingly pleasant conversation w/ the owner of those accounts too. No tears... he just laughed congratulated me. It was my finest hour.
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