I used to be a carebear miner when I started out in EVE. But after about a month it seriously started to do my head in. If you look too long at asteroids, they will eventually start talking back to you, which can never be a good sign...or it could have been the rum, I dunno. While sitting semi-afk in the belt or in station, I spent time reading things about PvP and particularly pirating in the forums. Especially the stories in this tread amused me. I was pi-curious, so to say.

Into the second month I made the decision, and created this character to start causing trouble. To prevent I would ever fall back into my carebear ways, I carefully biomassed my now former main. I concluded sitting in an asteroid belt after working hours is not how this game is to be played. I got myself a Rifter, read a ton of guides, tips, websites, fits, watched videos, name it. Figured I would go out there and just...well, cause trouble.

I got my first luck while cleaning up an asteroid belt of yellow wrecks. The owner did not agree with it and sent his drones after me. As a proper pirate, I shot him into hull damage, opened convo and requested him to recall his drones so we could negotiate a ransom - 50% off the price of a Retriever is always sweet if you just start your criminal career. He did not reply me, although he did recall drones. On overview his corpmate warped into the belt to save him. Too late. His supposedly savior followed soon after.

I will summarize the brunt of my newbie experiences as flipping cans, popping haulers and causing general grief (1)(2)(3). Went into lowsec and found a Rokh sitting in a belt. I saw a video of a Rifter taking one out solo. I knew it could take ages, but hey, you learn by trying. His drones shredded me quickly, teaching me to stay away.

With my character being barely two weeks old, I was D-scanning in lowsec. Found a Caracal who was above me in space. With no celestial bodies there, I concluded it must have been a mission or complex runner. My probes locked onto him. I had switched to a Thrasher after solo killing Dagan in it for the SoE epic arch. I warped in at 160km distance, pushed my Thrasher into max speed to catch up. I found the Caracal happily flying from wreck to wreck, collecting his meager rewards from his mission, entirely oblivious of my presence. I locked on and made him aware. I got my first pod with him, too - to my own surprise. Again, he did not reply to my ransoming request, so I had to give my security status another beating. The poor sod was a newbie, but so was I.

Feeling slightly overconfident, I continued roaming lowsec. Came across a much older player sitting around in a complex. I went for him, and again, and again. Maybe it was the rum, but I couldn't figure out why he kept coming back in bigger and bigger boats. I finally caught his pod the third time and made sure he wouldn't come back a fourth. I have to admit his Stabber nearly got me. With only 20% hull left, he only needed one more shot to put me back in reality. Later he messaged me, saying he wanted to practice his PvP skills, hence he kept coming back.

Inspired by the big boys in this thread, this is my start of a so far wonderful pirating career.