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Posted - 2005.05.14 23:04:00 -
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What Rho said.
The amount of abuse you receive from people is rediculous, but at the same time it keeps me in this career. 
At the end of the day, i tend to ransom usually, after telling whoever i have tackled to stop their ship, and deactivate their offensive modules (guns and stuff).
From here, the situation plays out one of a few ways :
50% of people scream at you, tell you to feck off, and try and mwd away, they then get their ships destroyed, and their pod gets ransomed for double the asking price asked for the ship (sometimes more depending on the age and corp of the character). Pay, or pod. Most of the 50% chose a trip to the cloning facility, and their remains of their ships are salvaged. Abuse, and possibly death threats or corp/allaince ganking threats ensure.
30% of people have all or most of their low slots packed out with WCS, and they run away screaming off in local, and hurling abuse, and saying their corp/alliance are coming to get you. Sometimes you're even lucky and get hatemail.
15% freeze up, and don't know what to do. These people are grief stricken when you destroy their ship, and threaten to quit eve, get you banned, etc, and appeal to your sympathetic side for thier stuff back.
The other 5% of people reject the ransom price, fight back, and sometimes die, or kill you. Either way, afterwards, these people take it well, congratulate/console you, no hard feelings, and they understand what's gone on. They converse in a civil manner and are generally nice people.
Simply destroying the ship, and/or ransoming the pod and salvaging the modules is the most cost effective way to operate.
If i want to murder people in eve, i will do. It's not against the rules. I AM a pirate, i murder, ransom, extort, mutilate, destroy and salvage what I can.
I also accept that with the sucess of my career, comes risk, and hatred. If a bunch of crazed lunatics come for revenge, and i die, i accept it as a work hazard, pick up the pieces and move on.
It's easy to pass judgement on a career path in eve, so don't do it until you've experienced it from the angle of attack.
I've been a miner, mission runner, NPC bounty hunter, and done a short stint as a lab-rat, before i joined SNIGG and turned pirate.
I have to say, this is the most active profession i've ever had in game, and keeps the adrenalyn coarsing every time i go into an engagement.
For some people, it's not having a 20-figure bank balance, and stupid amounts of faction ships and mods that makes them enjoy the game, it's that feeling of being alive, and venerable. The feeling you get every time you get a target lock, or are locked by someone.
For me, it's a mixture on insecurity, and adrenayln. That's the reason i log in every day.
Don't judge a book by it's cover.
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