Commander Nikolas
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Posted - 2005.09.14 19:55:00 -
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I have a couple of problems with your post. My biggest is that it is ovbiously written to encourage people to submissivly give you money. I have been attacked several times in the last week alone well mining in the Kador region (I am pretty sure at least once by members of snigg). And nobody has been able to finish thejob in quite awhile.
The BEST thing that low security miners can do is carry warp core stabs! I mine in a mega with seven miner 2s (no I don't have the skills to carry mod deep core 2s). Every time a pirate jumps into the system I make a note of it, if he jumps to the belt I am mining. I simply wait, let him size me up, and then eventually he will attack (sometimes it takes awhile, a couple of days ago it took some pirate in a Thorax 3-5 minutes to make up his mind). The second he attacked I jump out. He got the security penalty and nothing to show for it. To reitterate carry warp core stabs and you may not be able to fight back but you can take some security status away from each pirate that attacks you!
In ragards to the smack talk thing, yeah don't do it. Once you get away rarely will the rat try to do anything about it. Most of them have messaged me to say "warp core stabs, smart, cudos, have a nice day". If you smack talk weather you got away or got killed, you are only asking for that rat (and his friends) to come after you again (or just kill you regardless of weather you pay).
Inregards to a previous reply, most pirates I have met have conducted themselves quite well. They don't do things like blow my ore can after I get away, or kill people if they pay (I have never once payed but have been ransomed several times). My answer has always been a simple one when they say pay X or I blow your pod (never been ship ransomed), "No implants, just do it."). None of them have ever done it, they have just left saying something to the effect of "I am not worth the security penalty".
In regards to logging when attacked. We are all familiar with the massive warp glitches when you are close to asteroids (where you get stuck in warp but never go anywhere). If I am too close to any roids I imediatly log off when attacked, because I am not willing to risk my ship on one of the many CPP glitches (I wish that they would fix it so if you failed to warp for a given amount of time that your warp drive would disengadge). When a player logs they cannot get stuck on anything (I have tested it point blank with rocks all around). I do however immediatly log back on (you don't warp back to the same spot you warp to within 15km of the same spot), and proceed to warp to a station or whatever. Not to mention I love to hear you pirates whine about your victims logging and getting away, it is so funny cause every time I dock my battleship and fit my guns and the local starts to fill with my corp mates battleships, I see you rats names dissapear quite quickly from local (and when I add you to my buddy list you seem to be a big red square, or is that just a bug?).
I will reserve my comments about how to hunt down and kill you rats after you attack (even once you log), since this post is supposedly about "how to survive" an encounter with pirate.
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