Liteshow
Caldari
The Leather Knights
Aegis Militia
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Posted - 2009.05.14 19:23:00 -
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The only problem I have with pirates and their ransoms are the one's that think my stuff is worth more than it is. If I'm in lowsec in a retriever, paying little enough attention to allow you to jump into the belt I'm mining and lock me down, I don't have anything worth 50mil. I'm in a +1 implanted (at best) jump clone with a T1 barge with T2 modules. Offer a 50mil ransom and my response is usually going to be to "Picard Tactics." Set self destruct, approach scramming ship and hope a glitch in the game causes my exploding ship to destroy yours.
Although sometimes it's fun to pay .01 isk just to see if the so-called pirate is such a noob they see the wallet blink and unjam (it's worth a try :P).
I've never payed more than a .01 isk bounty, and I've been blown up, podded, harrassed, heckled, bubbled, bumped, etc. I don't like losing a perfectly good ship, and I don't like losing a clone, but it happens, and even if I'm completely broke, I can still find a way to get a badger and mine in hisec until I can buy a good ship again if I need to.
Pirates will continue asking for ransom as long as someone pays it.
As for the OP, his victim HOPEFULLY learned a few lessons.
1. Don't park at a planet in low sec.
2. Don't pay a ransom and stay in system.
3. Don't park at another planet after paying the ransom and forgetting rule 2.
4. Sob stories don't work with pirates.
5. "I only have 30mil left" followed by "I'm going to put a 500mil bounty on you" statements tend to make pirates laugh, or at least ignore anything else you promise from then on.
6. Why are you "scanning the universe?" in a Myrmidon and not PVP fit? Where are your light drones/webber/scrambler? 1 Taranis should not be able to break a tank on a BC. Failfit?
7. Insure the ship, if it's all junk fittings, no loss there if ship is platinum insured. 34-38mil in cash can buy and fit several more acceptable cruisers to "scan the universe" in.
8. If you go to 0.0 or even low sec, do what I do. Plan on getting ganked, getting an adrenaline rush with the little red flashys show up, and make a pretty explosion. And hope, if they gank you 20-some jumps from your nearest harbor, that someone will at least have the decency to pod you. I've survived PVP some, but I'm really good at dying in a flash of fire and light. It's a game. And the "podkill express" is always running!
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