I guess what i am looking for is some basic pointers in how to get off the ground.

You cannot teach an old dog new tricks. Either you have started EVE as a pirate or you have not. You will not be more than a miner with guns to everyone else.

Just look at yourself now. You need to ask for pointers on how to become a pirate. What kind of a pirate does that?!

A pirate can take a hauler or even a mining barge and use it for PvP, while you need to ask what ship to use.

You need a basic pointer? ... You will never become a pirate.

I have been in EvE since 2007. Thus far I have lead a failry sheltered life focusing on my little back end corner of hi-sec on the outer rim of lonetrek where i have been indy focused running a small 3 man mining and manufacturing operation supplying ammo and rigs to L4 mission runners in a 0.5 system.

I will cary on with this as it provides me with a steady ISK stream. However I have got a character that i have been training since 2007 that has got full gunnery skills (rails, blasters, projectiles, laser pew pew :) ) and can pilot Gal and Min frigates/cruisers and BCs. I really want to start engaing in PvP and as i know I can;t commit to a full nullsec sov based corp due to time I am looking into going the long john silver route.

I guess what i am looking for is some basic pointers in how to get off the ground. Some additional info: whle I hve lived predominantly in Hi-Sec I am not scared nor worried about getting blasted back to the stoneage. I am prepared toput hardware on the line and lose it. I have engaged in some PvP whilst mining when i got jumped by some frigs and then warped my muscle on grid that was parked up a few AU around the corner, however that was kinndergarten stuff and the few times I have been jumped i think they were sunday morning quarterbacks. !!!!

mainly I am looking for guidance on what ships are best to start off in when lloking to go into piracy. My aim is to go straight into losec as logisitically i haven't got the alpha needed for Hi-Sec suicide action. Also I don't care who I engage, as i stated i am prepared for the harsh learning, however I do want to at least start out on the right track rather than giving people free KB e-peen.

I would be open to joining a small piracy corp, but it would have to be on a casual basis as I am only on line for around 2 to 3 hours a day from aroun 10pm UK time

Man, your usually pretty constructive with your comments. Did you forget to take your pills this morning?

Bad hound! Go to your kennel

I absolutely loathe when people draw correlations between RL piracy and Eve piracy... >_>


That said just get a good frig, with that toon you should have plenty of SP. Get a good t1 frig or a dessie, go into FW low and go nuts.

That is just PvP.

Piracy in eve is just pvp.

If you try to convince yourself otherwise you're delusional.

The closest you can get to actual piracy is gate camping (And that is mindbogglingly boring)

Well from a purely philosophical standpoint, nearly ever action in eve is PvP of some form of another. To be completely honest, in terms of money gained and lost at least, station trade PvP is far more fierce than any other form.

That aside the this is Yarr that is Yarr is quite silly and pretentious. At the end of the day if you blow up someone's ship without sticking to some (obnoxious) e-bullshito code of conduct someone is going to say you're a bad person aka YAAR!

Yes and no. I agree for most part, but not everything is "e-bullshito" as you call it. Some just seek attention and wrap it into a pirate costume for more effect. This is what I would call "e-bullshito", too.

However, others grieve the hell out of noobs, are being despised and hated for having a petty game play, but these players are actually closer to true piracy than anyone else in EVE.

Other game plays are closer to terrorism than to piracy. And role-playing white knights can easily find themselves labelled as a "religious, militant sect".

The instalock thrasher or catalyst

What kind of fit is this exactly?

You cannot teach an old dog new tricks. Either you have started EVE as a pirate or you have not. You will not be more than a miner with guns to everyone else.

Just look at yourself now. You need to ask for pointers on how to become a pirate. What kind of a pirate does that?!

A pirate can take a hauler or even a mining barge and use it for PvP, while you need to ask what ship to use.

You need a basic pointer? ... You will never become a pirate.

Jesus Whitehound !!

The heck dude, you're in bad mood today??

C'mon you're better than that !

You cannot teach an old dog new tricks. Either you have started EVE as a pirate or you have not. You will not be more than a miner with guns to everyone else.

Just look at yourself now. You need to ask for pointers on how to become a pirate. What kind of a pirate does that?!

A pirate can take a hauler or even a mining barge and use it for PvP, while you need to ask what ship to use.

You need a basic pointer? ... You will never become a pirate.

LOL what a douche.

Jesus Whitehound !!

The heck dude, you're in bad mood today??

C'mon you're better than that !

Eve is a harsh place, I can handle whitehound being up in my grill :)

Ok is Whitehound an alt?

Because if he's not then why is he commenting on anything PVP as he doesn't seem to have done Any pvp o_o

Troll being the active word.

As for mains or not it is often in peoples best interest to keep the activities of their characters obfuscated. Where people will often call one and other out for posting with an alt, it is still an important tactic used both for trolls and for players both.

Debate people for their words. Show where you feel they are wrong. But don't put of a straw man argument that since the posting name doesn't have a perfect isk efficiency they can't know what they are talking about.

Hell I am terrible at applying what I know (believe I know) about frigate fights. But that doesn't mean I should be completely discounted off the bat if my parrot says the right things ;)