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Zakarin
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Posted - 2008.07.08 21:41:00 - [1]

I remember about a year and half ago when I quit eve there were always tons of pirates hanging out in this forum and sharing stories, videos, kills, tips, whatever. Now it seems like all of that is gone.

Are there still any well known pirate corps? Do people still do the rove around and ransom ships, camp gates for isk?
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Posted - 2008.07.08 21:49:00 - [2]

Yup
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Posted - 2008.07.08 21:55:00 - [3]

You mean shoot people? No way, everyone mines.
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Posted - 2008.07.08 22:11:00 - [4]

Originally by: MarleWH
You mean shoot people? No way, everyone mines.
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Fedor Emilianenko
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Posted - 2008.07.08 22:25:00 - [5]

I'll stick my neck out here and break the combo by giving an honest reply. I think it has certainly degenerated alot in the oldskool 'roam low-sec' sense, which is something alot of the oldskoolers mourn the loss of.

That is not however to say that it has completely died out. I am though, personally of the opinion that the profession of piracy has been massively neglected. I know it's meant to be hard mode and I'm not after it being easier, I just want more pirate related content :D
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Posted - 2008.07.08 22:50:00 - [6]

I recently returned to the game after a break and I have found quite a bit changed.

It is rare to encounter another solo pilot, I am not talking about the 2 week old players ratting in a .3 space, but more of targets that would actually be fun to engage. If you happen to come accross a solo pilot 9/10 times if you check adjacent gates/systems with your cov ops alt you'll find he has friends waiting.

The game has definately shifted from small gang warfare into a large gang mentality most commonly using some form of baiting. Piracy is of course still there in the sense that there are -10s rolling around, it has just changed.

A lot of engagements follow a similar pattern of 2-4 players engage 1-3 players who in turn have buddies warp in/uncloak/undock w/e then the aggressing gang either dies or was just baiting the defending gangs friends into the fight so they can out blob them.

In short if you want to not die too much you have to roll around with a solid group, and dont forget to mix in a couple falcons, 1 to jam their gang and another with just caldarri racials to jam their 2-3 falcons.

Dont get me wrong though, this game is still a blast, just gotta adjust to the changes.

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Posted - 2008.07.08 23:06:00 - [7]

Well maybe Cranberry was right, maybe he was the last of the legendary pirates that made EVE what it was...

That, or maybe all the pirates are ninja salvaging at the moment. It's getting to be such a fad... salvage prices are dropping accordingly.
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Posted - 2008.07.08 23:10:00 - [8]

Originally by: Zakarin
I remember about a year and half ago when I quit eve there were always tons of pirates hanging out in this forum and sharing stories, videos, kills, tips, whatever. Now it seems like all of that is gone.

The problem isn't a lack of pirates, it's the forum full of Garmon-tards that now pollute the area.
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Fedor Emilianenko
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Posted - 2008.07.08 23:28:00 - [9]

For my part I still enjoy piracy, but when it comes to rock paper scissors, it's just not a great deal of fun to see who can bring the most of each to each fight :(
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Posted - 2008.07.08 23:33:00 - [10]

Piracy is very much alive and well in the bleaks. Factional warfare has brought lots and lots of targets.

Most fun we've ever had pirating tbh.
Lars Lodar
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Posted - 2008.07.09 00:50:00 - [11]

In my area, piracy is alive and well. Lots of competition as well as plenty of anti-pies and random targets. Over just 4 systems we managed to kill at least a dozen ships/pods, 1 successful ransom, a couple faction mods, and a firetail BPC. We also didn't loose any ships in our gang of 4 which is always a plus.

Everyone is right about the baiting and falcon tactics which is rather annoying but if you play things smart and get to know the region locals before committing your better ships, you can usually size people up pretty well.

Having a lot of intel as well a few decisive victories will usually earn the grudging respect and fear of local pirates and anti-pirates alike.
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Posted - 2008.07.09 01:36:00 - [12]

It is easy to say that piracy doesnt exist from the safety of high sec... do a bit of roaming and you will find plenty of pirates. Most pirates today exist because they were sick of claiming space in 0.0 and wanted to return to the smaller roaming gangs and away from the blobs.

There are still old school pirates out there... just harder to see because they are spread out and you have to actually enter low sec to find them. With faction warfare, many people are busy on alts as well...

Piracy is alive and well...
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Posted - 2008.07.09 01:40:00 - [13]

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Posted - 2008.07.09 01:46:00 - [14]

Lars speaks the truth.
Tbh, piracy is still there. Though a lot less than before, and I'm not that old. And fights happening are mostly pirates vs pirates, sorta.

Because of the new "mentality", everyone might have gotten a bit more shy about fighting. You have to take a lot of time to gather intel to avoid painful reality checks. It's a game of outsmarting, it's always been. And if you're getting blobbed/falcon'd, well you just been outsmarted too, sad and true.



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Posted - 2008.07.09 01:54:00 - [15]

The "good ole" belt piracy is pretty much gone. I have also noticed a shift in victims.

Victims are less vocal. I don't know if this is evolution from other MMOs but my hatemail of death threats, put your head in an oven, etc has gone down I'd say 90%, and my wallet has increased by about the same.

With low-sec dead here is what I see on the other two areas, and it is similar (just different in scale)

In empire space:

This has evolved to exthorting (with wardec) entire 100 person+ corps for a relativly small (but individually large) sum of around 100mil on average from a one or two person corp. It's a very shadowy business and very political, and pays very well. But, take the experience and tactics of a couple old-skool low sec belters coupled with the new ships and fittings, and a couple pirates can obliterate, (slaughter really) ANY blob of 10-30 ships they encounter.

In 0.0:

Take those same old-skool belters, give them powerful ships and even more skills, they can annhilate any alliance roamer gang. And, with 0.0 Alliance mega-blobs and cap ships, big alliance blobs are getting slower and slower, with agile pirate gangs waiting/hiding out the blob and striking faster than the blob. So a moderately sized pirate corp can control an area of space as nomads without being burdened by a large logistical footprint using NPC outposts.

My warped take really. In summary victims are keeping their mouth shut more, pirates are becoming more political, and low-sec camping/sniping/ganking has been nerfed to oblivion. Even ore-theiving has been nerfed from pro-miners with 10 accounts sucking empire right after uptime, and a ore barge that has the cargo space of a jet-can.

The only honest empire pirating nowadays that makes headlines is suicide ganking which is staring at a nerf bat also.

<shrug> my 2 isk

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For a good pirate read check out the Taxman Chronicles for some good 'ole piracy.

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UberNero
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Posted - 2008.07.09 02:02:00 - [16]

I solo pirate mostly (in a taranis or my shit-fit Thorax)
As a semi-new player (under 4 mil SP still about 1 mil in industrial related endeavours /me smacks forehead) It can be tough at times, isk isnt great as well, although if i get one or two ransoms per day+ salvage from wrecks i can turn a meager profit at times, although loosing a ship more than twice a week can severally put a damper on things. Still fun though.
Tai Paktu
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Posted - 2008.07.09 02:36:00 - [17]

Originally by: Zakarin
Are there still any well known pirate corps? Do people still do the rove around and ransom ships, camp gates for isk?


Nope. All gates into low sec are now clear of all camps. Carebears should feel free to bring officer fit CNRs and Nightmare's into said low sec as well as unscouted freighters and haulers. Cloaks and MWDs are no longer required.

There are no pirates.
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VicturusTeSaluto
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Posted - 2008.07.09 03:46:00 - [18]

Piracy is still alive and kicking, changes to the game have just made it progressively harder.

The FW superblobbing in low sec has calmed down a bit, so piracy should be picking up again.
Rev Fernie
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Posted - 2008.07.09 07:45:00 - [19]

Edited by: Rev Fernie on 09/07/2008 07:45:13
I and my new Corp have just hooked up with some well know pirates, having decided to forget about 0.0 politics and boring POS wars.

It is not what I expected but the general opinion it is the most fun we have had in EVE so far.

IMO Piracey is now all about:

Probing Mission Runners
Who's got the most Falcons
Not hanging around in one place for to long
Getting blobbed *Waves to GIS*
Getting baited *Waves to Q-S*
Baiting
Ninja Gate Camping
Being smart
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Not seen to much ransoming yet TBH

As far as roaming goes, I notice more targets seem to come to us now we are Out Laws living in an Out Law Community. In fact we roamed Black Rise last ngiht and didn't see anywhere near as many targets as you'd expect.

Gilgamesh1980
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Posted - 2008.07.09 07:58:00 - [20]

Originally by: Tai Paktu
Originally by: Zakarin
Are there still any well known pirate corps? Do people still do the rove around and ransom ships, camp gates for isk?


Nope. All gates into low sec are now clear of all camps. Carebears should feel free to bring officer fit CNRs and Nightmare's into said low sec as well as unscouted freighters and haulers. Cloaks and MWDs are no longer required.

There are no pirates.



what he said.


I think the problem is that piracy tends to be quite seasonable, priates have to evolve when new mechanics come into EVE< and the ones who stay behind have a hard time to make money anymore.

I do have to say though that a lot of losec regions seem to be dropping in activity and profitable targets.

over the last days two fleets disptched for a nice old roam in losec, one went towards goinard form Oulley, and the a roam yesterday in the placid region.


the Goinard area was pretty dead until one stage we actiallly had a 50 man GC sitting on the other side, we were 24, so a nice small gang. we jumped through and wanted to engage them and they ran away, it was really surprising, just goign by the numbers they shoudl of had the upper hand, kind of put it down to the Blinky red thing when 24 ships appear on the overview, flashy like a disco. and this was apparently also a FW hotspot, but no encounter.

Placid was weird too, about 6 months ago there were corps in that area that server our arses to us on a plate, but this time? nothing, we got hell of a lot of kills within a short time, but compared to a few months back, it was dead. NOrmally full of faction ships and good PvPers but nothing in this case.

also a lot of the Pirate corps have probably suffered the most after the Big alliances, in terms of people leaving them to 'try' FW. so many of the known Pirate alliances have crumbled to a small number, and I know this from how wel lthe recruitment has been goign for our alliance, sometimes gettign 10 to 12 people form a single corp applying at the same time, and staying there.

Pirates also don't stay in the same region for long anymore, like in the days, you woudl have a known pirate corp in one area, and they woudl be the underdogs, causing pain for eveyone there.

Thhese days, they don't do that either.

ah, where are the days, when a CNR woudl come through the gates at least three times a day to be removed from existence


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Mika Meroko
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Posted - 2008.07.09 08:01:00 - [21]

nar, everybody is in faction warfare blobs for the pew pew...




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Posted - 2008.07.09 08:08:00 - [22]

Originally by: Gilgamesh1980

we jumped through and wanted to engage them and they ran away, it was really surprising, just goign by the numbers they shoudl of had the upper hand, kind of put it down to the Blinky red thing when 24 ships appear on the overview, flashy like a disco.


this seems to happen a lot lately.

other than that, there still are pirate entities out there. but it seems to get less, yea..
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Posted - 2008.07.09 08:30:00 - [23]

I'm dead, it's true, confirmed.

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Posted - 2008.07.09 10:31:00 - [24]

Originally by: Tai Paktu
Originally by: Zakarin
Are there still any well known pirate corps? Do people still do the rove around and ransom ships, camp gates for isk?


Nope. All gates into low sec are now clear of all camps. Carebears should feel free to bring officer fit CNRs and Nightmare's into said low sec as well as unscouted freighters and haulers. Cloaks and MWDs are no longer required.

There are no pirates.


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Posted - 2008.07.09 12:03:00 - [25]

I saw some CONCORDs podding piracy last night :x
Spectre3353
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Posted - 2008.07.09 14:40:00 - [26]

Hi Lars and Uber.

Pirating is certainly not dead. I have no idea what it was like years or even months ago because I am a fairly new pilot myself, but I have found plenty of action since I started my pirating life. Here are some examples of what I mean:

http://evenewb.blogspot.com/

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Posted - 2008.07.09 16:33:00 - [27]

Piracy, as mentioned before, is definitely not dead. However, yes it has changed quite a bit. I really really really miss the old days when I could roam around solo and not have to worry about a giant WTFPWN gang jumping me for hitting their bait.

There are next to no miners in lowesec anymore, no ratters for the most part. So most of it is gate/station camping or scanning people down in missions. I really miss the piratey times from about 1-2 years ago :(
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Posted - 2008.07.09 16:37:00 - [28]

Yarring in Metropolis and Lonetrek is still alive and well.
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Posted - 2008.07.09 16:42:00 - [29]

Honestly, Piracy was killed of by the huge influx of immature smack talking griefers who call themselves pirates, all the honest pirates have left or moved to the background.
Omarvelous
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Posted - 2008.07.09 16:56:00 - [30]

Familiarize yourself with your local 0.0 alliance's empire pipeline.

0.0 ->low sec -> high sec

Just remember 3 golden rules to piracy...

Always assume you will be blobbed (have an escape plan ready).

Always assume the enemy will bring ecm.

Always provoke hilarious nerd rage!

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Posted - 2008.07.09 18:13:00 - [31]


Pirating is so 2007.

Ninjas are the "in" thing.
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Posted - 2008.07.09 18:32:00 - [32]

I miss reading lots of the "good on ya!" posts in C&P. There's less thoughtful posts and more "ur a dumb nub" going on here. That said, I've seen several threads in recent days where there has been some old C&P flavor. Like this one, for example.

As EvE evolves, so should piracy. If what you were doing becomes less viable, change your tack. I think that's where the real beauty of EvE lies. The fact that what worked six months ago doesn't work so well now really keeps things fresh.
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Posted - 2008.07.09 19:55:00 - [33]

Quote:
Has priacy died out?


Don't know about priacy but Piracy is alive and kicking, it's just different now.

I like when older pirates wax nostalgic about how it used to be and how the new pirates aren't really pirates. Things change, Piracy changes and with that so do Pirates.


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Posted - 2008.07.09 21:10:00 - [34]

Yep since i started the age of the myrm has gone, being told constantly now that no one goes round low sec alone - i'd put it down to more people playing but really i wouldnt know - gate camps are stiil in many of the same systems and also at high sec ones more and more often - i see wrecks and cans all over the place, usually haulers but shuttles and Atrons (my atron :( to be precise) are getting ganked for valuables.

Maybe CCP should start a police corp like the FW militias entitling any within to treat low security status pilots like war targets? That might just make things worse.....ugh
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Posted - 2008.07.09 21:37:00 - [35]

Originally by: Rawrior
WTB warp to 15 \o/





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Posted - 2008.07.09 21:40:00 - [36]

Piracy is indeed different from back in the day, But that's not all bad. It's gotten harder, thanks a lot for that. Now we don't have to share the vacuum with random wannabe riff-raff. I do miss the golden days at times (remember when all the mods we're inside in the circle and you had to press a button to switch between High-med-low? :D)

And really, Cranberry is not a legend.


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Posted - 2008.07.09 22:37:00 - [37]

You might want to fix your spelling. I honestly read "Has privacy died out?" I quickly found out, of course, but you still might want to work on that.
Although yes, there seems to be less of the "swapping stories" sort of thing.
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Posted - 2008.07.13 06:55:00 - [38]

Edited by: Father Weebles on 13/07/2008 06:56:38
When I first joined Eve over 2 years ago I moved to Placid. There was a couple corps that were infamous for piracy. Fast forward a year, this time low sec right outside Geminate there was another group of pirates that claimed the area. Eventually, these pirates were kicked out by 00 pvp corps.

I think that as the population of Eve has gone up pirates have not been able to keep up, meaning there are less and less of them, and more and more alliance blobs. Also, as alliances have grown and moved their empire HQ's into lowsec, the small but elite pvp corps have followed them right into previous pirate territory. Due to the availability of 'free' targets right next door, pvp corps and alliance blobs go after pirates with little problem. It is impossible for these pirates to make a living being blown up and camped in stations all day, so they move to different regions that are known to be more ghetto (space with little value to alliances). I'm sure there are pirate corps that still live around Placid because it is right next to Syndicate, where no major alliance calls home. I suppose their numbers are more condensed in these certain regions of space.




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Posted - 2008.07.13 07:41:00 - [39]

I've seen several pirates hassling FW fleets.
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Posted - 2008.07.13 09:18:00 - [40]

Originally by: Zakarin
Edited by: Zakarin on 10/07/2008 01:24:11
I remember about a year and half ago when I quit eve there were always tons of pirates hanging out in this forum and sharing stories, videos, kills, tips, whatever. Now it seems like all of that is gone.

Are there still any well known pirate corps? Do people still do the rove around and ransom ships, camp gates for isk?
Yeah, piracy has died out sadly to say. Amamake and other previous pirate hubs are now devoid of the filthy slime...(aka, lowsec is free, come and enjoy)

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Posted - 2008.07.13 11:33:00 - [41]

Originally by: Hesod Adee
I've seen several pirates hassling FW fleets.

I've seen their wrecks.
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Posted - 2008.07.13 11:39:00 - [42]

Originally by: MrChook
Originally by: Hesod Adee
I've seen several pirates hassling FW fleets.

I've seen their wrecks.

I've seen several FWs hassling pirate fleets.

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Posted - 2008.07.13 11:56:00 - [43]

I've heard of lots of "Oh ****"-moments from pirates when they've been doing their business as usual and FW-blob jumps in, and local spikes to 104 (and then a few seconds later their overviews clutter up and the outlaws end up in their home stations cause who can save their pods to that lag).




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Posted - 2008.07.13 12:08:00 - [44]

Originally by: Gilgamesh1980
Originally by: Tai Paktu
Originally by: Zakarin
Are there still any well known pirate corps? Do people still do the rove around and ransom ships, camp gates for isk?


Nope. All gates into low sec are now clear of all camps. Carebears should feel free to bring officer fit CNRs and Nightmare's into said low sec as well as unscouted freighters and haulers. Cloaks and MWDs are no longer required.

There are no pirates.



what he said.


I think the problem is that piracy tends to be quite seasonable, priates have to evolve when new mechanics come into EVE< and the ones who stay behind have a hard time to make money anymore.

I do have to say though that a lot of losec regions seem to be dropping in activity and profitable targets.

over the last days two fleets disptched for a nice old roam in losec, one went towards goinard form Oulley, and the a roam yesterday in the placid region.


the Goinard area was pretty dead until one stage we actiallly had a 50 man GC sitting on the other side, we were 24, so a nice small gang. we jumped through and wanted to engage them and they ran away, it was really surprising, just goign by the numbers they shoudl of had the upper hand, kind of put it down to the Blinky red thing when 24 ships appear on the overview, flashy like a disco. and this was apparently also a FW hotspot, but no encounter.

Placid was weird too, about 6 months ago there were corps in that area that server our arses to us on a plate, but this time? nothing, we got hell of a lot of kills within a short time, but compared to a few months back, it was dead. NOrmally full of faction ships and good PvPers but nothing in this case.

also a lot of the Pirate corps have probably suffered the most after the Big alliances, in terms of people leaving them to 'try' FW. so many of the known Pirate alliances have crumbled to a small number, and I know this from how wel lthe recruitment has been goign for our alliance, sometimes gettign 10 to 12 people form a single corp applying at the same time, and staying there.

Pirates also don't stay in the same region for long anymore, like in the days, you woudl have a known pirate corp in one area, and they woudl be the underdogs, causing pain for eveyone there.

Thhese days, they don't do that either.

ah, where are the days, when a CNR woudl come through the gates at least three times a day to be removed from existence


We try to please in Placid region, but we are a rather small corp, and cant really fight against 20+ man blob. Well we try, just for the lolz. And if can be really fun beeing chased by FW blobs. But as we cant muster big numbers and standad tactic in eve is bait and nberblob for ganks, you cant blame people to not engage obvius baits.... Rolling Eyes
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Posted - 2008.07.13 12:13:00 - [45]

Not at all. How can piracy be dead ?
Blobs, bad, but present targets, coupled with the usual loners, mission runners, traders, etc. makes it all better.




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Posted - 2008.07.13 14:05:00 - [46]

Originally by: Gerard deRidefort
Honestly, Piracy was killed of by the huge influx of immature smack talking griefers who call themselves pirates, all the honest pirates have left or moved to the background.


Faceless alt 1, Crime and Punishment 0.

When you know where to look, piracy is still very much alive in Eve.

Sadly most of the mainstream stuff seen now is people craptalking eachother, sitting in gatecamps podding rookies and bigging themselves up with alts in an attempt to create some form of reputation.

I remember a time when this forum was full of genuinely funny stories, when people wrote piracy guides for rookie pirates and when people traded punches for real reasons.

I'm glad I decided to distance myself somewhat from this forum, it's done nothing more than turn into the lowsec version of COAD.

Bring back the glory days of piracy with Jexter and Fist, Shamis Orzoz, Drosssk, Fairlane, Zap, TBone, Siddy, Ikvar, Trey Azagthoth Tank and Daakkon along with m0o, The Jokers, Frick and Snigg, to be honest. What's around now isn't a patch on the character those guys had, and the stories they created.




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Posted - 2008.07.13 14:06:00 - [47]

Originally by: Commander Thrawn
Originally by: Rawrior
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smartbombs wouldn't works as well then YARRRR!!


Quite the opposite.

With warp to 15km - you would sit at 15km and smartbomb - follow the landed target - and get two of three or four salvos off.

As well as being able to kill frigates/inties (as you can now on warp to zero) you could kill haulers with ease, cruisers, recons etc

Dont forget this was before the HP boost as well - so ships had a good 33% less hitpoints.

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Posted - 2008.07.13 15:03:00 - [48]

Originally by: Cal Sinai
Originally by: Zakarin
I remember about a year and half ago when I quit eve there were always tons of pirates hanging out in this forum and sharing stories, videos, kills, tips, whatever. Now it seems like all of that is gone.

The problem isn't a lack of pirates, it's the forum full of Garmon-tards that now pollute the area.
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Posted - 2008.07.13 15:31:00 - [49]

Originally by: Verone
Originally by: Gerard deRidefort
Honestly, Piracy was killed of by the huge influx of immature smack talking griefers who call themselves pirates, all the honest pirates have left or moved to the background.


Faceless alt 1, Crime and Punishment 0.

When you know where to look, piracy is still very much alive in Eve.

Sadly most of the mainstream stuff seen now is people craptalking eachother, sitting in gatecamps podding rookies and bigging themselves up with alts in an attempt to create some form of reputation.

I remember a time when this forum was full of genuinely funny stories, when people wrote piracy guides for rookie pirates and when people traded punches for real reasons.

I'm glad I decided to distance myself somewhat from this forum, it's done nothing more than turn into the lowsec version of COAD.

Bring back the glory days of piracy with Jexter and Fist, Shamis Orzoz, Drosssk, Fairlane, Zap, TBone, Siddy, Ikvar, Trey Azagthoth Tank and Daakkon along with m0o, The Jokers, Frick and Snigg, to be honest. What's around now isn't a patch on the character those guys had, and the stories they created.




You're making me even more nostalgic than I was. *Sigh*

And no, piracy isn't dead... I'd say it's more like... "zombified"... but not in the Yulai zombified way, because that would be somewhat cool.



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Posted - 2008.07.13 15:54:00 - [50]

Originally by: kublai
I'm dead, it's true, confirmed.


I see eve dying twice a week in general discussion, so piracy must be dying too. Crying or Very sad
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Posted - 2008.07.13 17:12:00 - [51]

Originally by: Nilkarus
You're making me even more nostalgic than I was. *Sigh*


I feel your pain mate, I feel your pain. Sad




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Posted - 2008.07.13 18:17:00 - [52]

Edited by: Vorlan Fuze on 13/07/2008 18:20:43
Bah the "real piracy" was when Biomass, SPVD, KCFOS, Huff, Jokers, Mo0 were around,(when you could fit any damned missile in any damned launcher) this here/now is alot different then how it was in the golden days.

Ill miss you Skillz

PS BTW Zap was an idiot, If you wanted some good from that corp, eather Stavros or the Revenant
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Posted - 2008.07.13 22:51:00 - [53]

Piracy alive and well. What's wrong with people?
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Posted - 2008.07.13 23:16:00 - [54]

Most of the younger pirates are in the minmatar militia now as it's easy pirating - Amarr will bring their ships to you as timely as a pizza service YARRRR!!
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Posted - 2008.07.14 01:24:00 - [55]

Originally by: Gilgamesh1980


Pirates also don't stay in the same region for long anymore, like in the days, you woudl have a known pirate corp in one area, and they woudl be the underdogs, causing pain for eveyone there.



heh, we barely even leave our one system. YARRRR!!

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