Lowsec has targets, but the days of catching missioners in super fancy ships are mostly gone.

Low sec is impoverished pirates shooting other impoverished pirates, while waiting for the occasional noob or mission runner to walk into them. It felt like a slum.

I wouldn't call it 'piracy' in the sense that you are thinking, but being a neutral in the FW warzone can be quite exiting, but not very profitable if you're not winning consistently. You'll be fighting people who are 100% prepared to fight you, versus killing helpless bears.

Piracy against FW people can be entertaining, although the harvest is mostly tears, not ISK.

You say THAT like it's a bad thing.

Tears are MOST delicious!!

I apologize if there is a thread about this somewhere but I can't locate the specific information I want. I've played EVE since 2005 and I've accumulated 47 mil SP in PvP skills but I've been away for years. In the past I've done nothing but piracy and some 0.0 small gang PvP (which didn't appeal to me). For me piracy died due to the lack of rewards offered in entering low sec space, I abandoned my pirate ways and entered high sec to do some high sec warfare but unfortunately that also resulted in people just either being logged off or staying docked. That was then, this is now and I have no idea what things are like now.

How is low sec piracy? In the past I would fly 55 jumps and get 2 or 3 kills soloing. Now please don't take this as an opportunity to tell me how uber you are as a pirate and how you've gotten 10 kills in one system before, etc. I could regale you with tales of astounding victories outnumbered and outgunned and tales of resounding defeats. So can anyone please give me the low down of how things are going in the pirate game these days? I'd love to get back to -10 sec status but if things are same old same old then I'd rather just keep my -1.9 and do something else.

Can anyone give me their opinion on how it's going? Is it worth it to sign up with a pirate corp once again and don the skull and crossbones?

Low sec is impoverished pirates shooting other impoverished pirates, while waiting for the occasional noob or mission runner to walk into them. It felt like a slum.

The money is in high and null sec I think.

Get a group of people and poke moon mining stations and POCOs. Best way to lure out a large group of people from what I have seen.

Now dealing with an angry blob... I'll defer that to you. I am probably the last person to give out tactics, since most of my tactics entails dying a noble tackler's death, or getting sniped.

I apologize if there is a thread about this somewhere but I can't locate the specific information I want. I've played EVE since 2005 and I've accumulated 47 mil SP in PvP skills but I've been away for years. In the past I've done nothing but piracy and some 0.0 small gang PvP (which didn't appeal to me). For me piracy died due to the lack of rewards offered in entering low sec space, I abandoned my pirate ways and entered high sec to do some high sec warfare but unfortunately that also resulted in people just either being logged off or staying docked. That was then, this is now and I have no idea what things are like now.

How is low sec piracy? In the past I would fly 55 jumps and get 2 or 3 kills soloing. Now please don't take this as an opportunity to tell me how uber you are as a pirate and how you've gotten 10 kills in one system before, etc. I could regale you with tales of astounding victories outnumbered and outgunned and tales of resounding defeats. So can anyone please give me the low down of how things are going in the pirate game these days? I'd love to get back to -10 sec status but if things are same old same old then I'd rather just keep my -1.9 and do something else.

Can anyone give me their opinion on how it's going? Is it worth it to sign up with a pirate corp once again and don the skull and crossbones?

Frankly I don't really like to see adults crying, it's quite unsettling. I much prefer when we can both say gf.

Unfortunately, low sec piracy was better 5 years ago compared to now. There were more targets in lowsec then.

The Kingpin remembers the good old days.

Ok I read through some posts. I find them more amusing than useful (in a good way don't worry) but luckily I've had the chance to fall in with a good pirate corp. I use the phrase 'pirate corp' loosely however because it's more of a PvP corp since most targets we engage are out also looking for PvP. I've always found that piracy is sneaking up on some hapless belt humpers and sticking my Mega Pulse in their thermal exhaust shaft. These days belts (from what I've seen so far) are so abandoned that you could probably Safe Spot in one and nobody would ever find you. Despite all these new developments I will always be an OG Pirate at heart. Long live the skull and crossbones.

Low sec is impoverished pirates shooting other impoverished pirates, while waiting for the occasional noob or mission runner to walk into them. It felt like a slum.

The money is in high and null sec I think.

Find 5/10's sit cloaked wait for bling tengu, decloak apply neuts and web allow rats to obliterate it. Scoop Tengu loot salvage wreck, wait for next tengu. When you get bored of tengu's run the plex and get 5/10 loot. Make 5bn easy in around 3 hours.

Piracy - in the old school sense - is not as prevalent as before. Gate camps are rare, real pirate corps and griefers are few and far between. Although there are a lot of corps that claim to be "pirate", they seem to be groups of pilots that simply have negative security statuses that will shoot anything not blue. Nowadays, the "pirate" corps usually operate on a code of conduct and require prospective members to undergo an intrusive application process and "background check" (though most of these corps also claim that EVE is just a game and shouldn't be taken so seriously -- why do I have to crawl under a microscope like I'm applying to the ******* CIA?). EVE's pirates of old (real pirates) were scammers, thieves, and cutthroats that would do anything to win, would tell you one thing and do another. These true pirate corps are basically nonexistent.

That being said, low sec PvP seems to be at an all-time high, thanks to FW and frigate rebalancing. IMHO, it is now easier than ever to PvP in lowsec, and cheaply! Fit up a frigate and go roaming. You will find an abundance of of other frigates/destroyers/cruisers to shoot at.