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VD ThatsNotRight
Various Disease
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Posted - 2008.01.13 02:18:00 -
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So after a lot of internal alliance crap i decide to go yarr...
I warp to a .4 system i know well..and prowl..
And yay i spy my quarry..a cruiser ratting in the belts..
I warp in, scram,web and shoot....and POP
and im kind of thinking..wheres the fun in that..i struggle more when i used to rat..
Can someone explain the fun their is in killing the equivalent of bloody training drones??
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Dirk Magnum
Spearhead Endeavors
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Posted - 2008.01.13 02:45:00 -
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I did some solo PvP for the first time in months two weeks ago. My heart was pounding.
You need to find someone that you are only 99% or less certain that you can beat.
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Corstaad
Minmatar
Brutor tribe
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Posted - 2008.01.13 02:47:00 -
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Fight more then one fight the next cruiser you find will probably web you back and kill you. To be honest though you probably just lost your cruiser to a rifter.
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DarknessInc
Minmatar
mUfFiN fAcToRy
Sex Panthers
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Posted - 2008.01.13 02:50:00 -
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Edited by: DarknessInc on 13/01/2008 02:50:31
Now embrace your sadistic side and become a pirate full time, or carebear to a nice fat wallet and once you got a good, fat wallet. Become a full time pirate. Some regions arent as much of a money making spot for pirates, and some are. Ransoms are fun but sometimes just killing and getting hatemail and the killmail is sweeter than ISK
 Originally by: Viator Pilot
Now I will go back to agents, already without the desire of adventures on the ass :)
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VD ThatsNotRight
Various Disease
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Posted - 2008.01.13 03:28:00 -
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Originally by: Corstaad
Fight more then one fight the next cruiser you find will probably web you back and kill you. To be honest though you probably just lost your cruiser to a rifter.
Err it was me that killed a cruiser..was flying a Sac so it wasnt exactly fair..but meh....
Ty darkness btw..im still undecided, but the years of carebearing have left me with a fat wallet and a few sp`s 
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Spigoe
Celestial Frontier Inc
Celestial Frontier
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Posted - 2008.01.13 03:54:00 -
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First time I pirated was in a Rifter, first fight (and my very first PvP fight) was against a Catalyst, which I ransomed, my first kill was a Badger Mk II. Both times my heart was beating so hard that if I were 50 years older I would've had a heart attack.
Ze adrenaline is still there for me, and eet ees fun! |
Saint Apathy
Gallente
exiled souls
Dark Matter Empire
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Posted - 2008.01.13 04:00:00 -
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Originally by: VD ThatsNotRight
was flying a Sac
That is why you didn't get as much enjoyment out of it. If you fought something that put up a real fight, then you would of had more fun. You can hardly say piracy isn't fun (or challenging) if you are fighting people so much weaker than you that it is possible to make a direct comparison between popping training drones and popping them. Go out and take on a BS. Or get into a gang and try to find other gangs to fight. Then you will have fun.
Originally by: actionjaxun
What kind of "Pirate" are you? you just show up and knock out my warp drive, and then start shooting me for no reason.
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VD ThatsNotRight
Various Disease
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Posted - 2008.01.13 04:02:00 -
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Originally by: Spigoe
Ze adrenaline is still there for me, and eet ees fun!
could it be that after the years of numerous fleet ops, and a fair few solo "encounters" im just jaded??
knocking the crap out of this poor ass just didn't do it for me..once upon a time..yeah
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Cpt Branko
The Bloody Red
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Posted - 2008.01.13 04:06:00 -
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Originally by: VD ThatsNotRight
Originally by: Spigoe
Ze adrenaline is still there for me, and eet ees fun!
could it be that after the years of numerous fleet ops, and a fair few solo "encounters" im just jaded??
knocking the crap out of this poor ass just didn't do it for me..once upon a time..yeah
Do it in a Rifter next time and feel the adrenaline.
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M00dy
Killed In Action
The Crimson Federation
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Posted - 2008.01.13 04:13:00 -
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I've been playing for 2 plus years, never done anything but pvp, and today I still had the shakes and the pounding heart when we were about to gank someone.
I can't get enough of it.
RATatatatatat - Moody
Killed In Action
The Crimson Federation |
Fortune Mitford
Endure Eternal
DeStInY.
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Posted - 2008.01.13 04:49:00 -
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Edited by: Fortune Mitford on 13/01/2008 04:50:32
... clearly you have never had a close fight that gets ya blood pumping heart pounding know u could die ...ing... sac vs. t1 cruiser = THRILLINGLY UNFAIR FIGHT... go play with a huggin
Inch by inch
play by play
till we're finished.
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Rhak Amharr
Minmatar
Metafarmers
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Posted - 2008.01.13 11:45:00 -
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As Cpt Branko already said, hunt belts in a Rifter. There's pretty much nothing that makes your heart pump more than finding something like a Rupture in a belt, and engaging it. Though afterwards the thrill sometimes turns into laughter, when you see the killmail. Killed a Rupture a few days ago and giggled out my crim. :)
2008.01.10 22:31
Victim: x
Alliance: x
Corp: x
Destroyed: Rupture
System: Hadozeko
Security: 0.4
Damage Taken: 6939
Involved parties:
Name: Rhak Amharr (laid the final blow)
Security: -9.9
Alliance: None
Corp: Metafarmers
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: 150mm Light AutoCannon II
Damage Done: 6844
Name: Angel Shatterer / Archangels
Damage Done: 95
Destroyed items:
EMP M, Qty: 27
425mm Medium Gallium I Machine Gun
425mm Medium Gallium I Machine Gun
425mm Medium Gallium I Machine Gun
10MN Afterburner I
100mm Reinforced Titanium Plates I
50mm Reinforced Steel Plates I
50mm Reinforced Steel Plates I
425mm AutoCannon I (Cargo)
Proton M, Qty: 100 (Cargo)
Dual 180mm AutoCannon I (Cargo)
Small Shield Extender I (Cargo)
Stasis Webifier I (Cargo)
Medium Capacitor Booster I (Cargo)
Dropped items:
Fusion M, Qty: 46
425mm Medium Gallium I Machine Gun
EMP M, Qty: 53
Medium Shield Booster I
Barton Reactor Capacitor Recharger I
100mm Reinforced Steel Plates I
Small Armor Repairer I
Photon Scattering Field I (Cargo)
LADAR Backup Array I (Cargo)
Miner I, Qty: 2 (Cargo)
Small Energy Transfer Array I (Cargo)
EMP M, Qty: 2085 (Cargo)
Fusion M, Qty: 2989 (Cargo)
Tracking Computer I (Cargo)
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Stakhanov
Metafarmers
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Posted - 2008.01.13 12:10:00 -
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Try to catch the same cruiser at the gate. Instantly more challenging.
Originally by: CCP Mitnal
Thread now lacks an OP but the memories will live on.
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General Coochie
The Bastards
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Posted - 2008.01.13 12:22:00 -
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Edited by: General Coochie on 13/01/2008 12:25:43
Either you do it for isk camping or probing mish runners, or you do it for fun in ships that are cheap now a days.
Back in the days you could stumble upon a badly fitted BC in a belt ransom it and move on in your cruiser frig whatever. you warped into a gatecamp or somehow else died.. so what you just made 20 rifter setups ransoming that BC. Now you could keep pirating for weeks. The idea was to fly cheap and still earn isk. Cause everyone looses a ship sometime..
today ppl pirating have so much isk and sp you see HACs all around low sec. for such players its almost useless ransoming a t1 setup bc. so they just kill it, I also don't see the fun doing that, just as you said. Its a whole lot better like it was some year ago. Sure u can still find a BC but its just so rare these days. Pirating in a HAC ,though effective, doesn't yield you much isk if you consider what you might loose doing it.
Like yesterday I jumped through a gate in a carcal, I ran to take a wiss, when I came back I just uncloaked some seconds ago and a guy from veto was there in his cerberus, he killed me. He jumped to next system and engaged someone else and then he logged. I had my helios in that sytem so I probed him out and killed him, his bounty was enough to cover the caracal loss, not to mention his mods. A pith-small booster got destroyed. So about 150-200mill loss for that guy. How long will it take him to negate that loss through (belt) piracy or pvp even? quite some time I guess.
Another example some dude long ago posting his "loot of the week" if I'm exaggerating a lot now the value of the loot might have been 100 mill. I looked at battleclinic and in that same week this guy lost 3 absolutions in same systems as he pirated in. well thats like -600 mill probably. Did this guy pirate? Yes, was he a good, efficient pirate? No.
Key is making more isk then you loose while PvPing as much as possible, that usually involves cheap setups, and thats the charm of piracy for me.
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Draghkar
Minmatar
Pastry Coalition
Sex Panthers
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Posted - 2008.01.13 13:26:00 -
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PODS ARE LIKE PRINGLES. ONCE THEY POP YOU JUST CANT STOP
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