Atreides Horza
toxicology
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Posted - 2007.07.21 05:38:00 -
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 Originally by: Dysfunctionality
Apparently some of the local Isk farmers up in Fountain have been reported killing some of the residents who attempt to hunt NPC pirates in "their" systems. So far I've seen a few killmails from various killboards, listing deaths to their "blobs" of ravens (and the occasional Ishtar/Arazu), where the comments that followed were:
"I was ratting..."
"They jumped me!!! I didn't even go for them!!!"
"What the hell just happened?..."
And many other (quite funny) statements.
Anyone else seen this? Just Curious if it's only happening in Fountain. 
Two groups of isk farmers have been fighting each other for months in Verge Vendor. They had three guys who started sitting at gates with BCs to pop the competition's haulers. Then, after we hit them a couple of times, they started doing it in BSes within docking range. Jovainnnon has had several of them working like that for quite some time. They sit there, popping haulers. Then some gang comes along and smells the possibility for easy kills, camp the stations, they dock, haulers start moving again, they undock and kill a few more - rinse and repeat.
They also do a lot of their lvl3s and lvl4s in Aeschee. In periods with lack of targets, I and a few associates of mine would scan their missions out and go in for a fast pop and some looting.
One day I was solo, engaging a raven with my navy vexor (yeah, you can do that with those guys), when a drake and an omen joins them. After tanking them a while, I return to swap for a Brutix. As I came back in, I engaged the raven again - but all of the sudden notice a domi and Rokh come in. The Rokh was all nos fitted, and that pretty much ended the fight on my part.
In conclusion: There are macros and there are sweatshop workers. The sweatshop workers - or the smart ones, at least - must've realized that playing at least some acounts actively not only means you can get rid of the competition easily. It also means CCP will have a harder time classifying them as being in EULA violation, perhaps.
I don't really care. It means more fights and more money for me. I do care, though, that the region has 5 haulers coming through each gate pr minute on average - all of which are in the isk selling business.
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