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Gordon Marinius
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2008.10.12 11:08:00 -
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So I ran into an odd guritas rat. It has me scrambled so I can't warp away and at the saame time it's attacks are very weak but I don't carry any weapons so I can't destroy it anyway. Does his scramble ever wear out or do I have to sit here like a lemon for 30 minutes til he blows me up?
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Gordon Marinius
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2008.10.12 11:23:00 -
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Edited by: Gordon Marinius on 12/10/2008 11:23:33
Mayby I can pod and go learn some combat skills then come back next week and destroy the pirate and claim my hulk again.
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Gordon Marinius
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2008.10.12 11:42:00 -
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Mayby he will be gone when the servers go back up.
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Gordon Marinius
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2008.10.12 11:52:00 -
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I'm on a minimalist scouting adventure and so I left my drones at home after losing some 7 of them to pirates earlier.
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Gordon Marinius
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2008.10.12 14:00:00 -
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Edited by: Gordon Marinius on 12/10/2008 14:04:28
When I got back on after the daily downtime the rat was gone. Ironicly I later lost the ship to a pirate.
Although he did open a private channel and I told him I was prepared to pay a ransom for the ship he blew up the ship and then wanted a ransom for the pod. That's a hundred million ISK ship equiped only with three T1 strip miners. The wreck will be worth at most 1-2 million then he wants a ransom for my implant-empty clone in the pod. I gave him a peice of my mind and so he blew up the pod. Saving me a long trip back home.
His corporation leader commented that SURGE only ransoms pods
I understand that pirates have to make a living too but all this ammounted to was a hundred million loss for me and a 2 million profit for him. Wouldn't it have been better for all parties if he had just accepted a 20-30 million ransom for the ship itself then let me go about my business?
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Gordon Marinius
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2008.10.12 18:02:00 -
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How much credit is there to be had from destroying an unarmed mining barge?
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Gordon Marinius
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2008.10.13 09:37:00 -
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I can see it now. Pirates gathered around the plasma bonfire, drinking space-rum. Everyone else talking about ransoming Rorqual's for billions after taking down the 20 ship escort. Then this guy goes "Oh yeah? Well today I took down a hulk! Got me a good 900.000 ISK for that "Strip Miner I" it droped"
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Gordon Marinius
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2008.10.13 12:52:00 -
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Oh it's fine. I have 9 more Hulks back home. I'm not bitter just....perplexed. But lesson learned I guess.
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Gordon Marinius
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School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2008.10.13 14:27:00 -
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Edited by: Gordon Marinius on 13/10/2008 14:33:48
We will see.
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Gordon Marinius
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2008.10.13 15:06:00 -
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 Originally by: Baldour Ngarr
You know that your clone is not worth paying a ransom for; but the pirate does not. He'd look a lot bigger fool if he'd taken a 30mill ransom for the Hulk and then found out you had two billion worth of implants in your head.
That's a gamble and now he ended up a fool anyway. From a capitalist perspective anyway. Mayby he sells the kill mail for 31 mill. I don't know.
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Gordon Marinius
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2008.10.13 15:45:00 -
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Originally by: ellie mayer
Why he the fool ?
The argument was put forward that accepting 30 million to not blow up my ship would have made him a fool had he later found out that I was wearing billions worth of implants. To which I respond that if that makes him a fool then walking out of there with nothing at all to show for it (as he did) Must make him an even bigger fool.
I have multiple Hulks because it's a dangerous world. Insurance payouts are low and I don't want to ever have to end up without a ship or money. As it works now I could lose nine fully equiped ships and still have a fully equiped ship ready for mining. Granted I don't buy a new hulk everytime I lose one. I think I will wait til I'm down to mayby 3 spare hulks before I consider buying more of them.
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Gordon Marinius
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2008.10.13 17:02:00 -
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Edited by: Gordon Marinius on 13/10/2008 17:03:55
There where no really nice mods on them. I left everything back home except for the strip miners. The list you cite are items suggested to me. But Instead I bought some market available items of the same type.
If anything it was an attempted diplomatic mission.
It's a shame. You have a gang of pirates that have managed to lock down a low sec area. All that ore going to waste. Instead of leting some people mine from it and collect a cut from the miners in exchange for safety they blow up the miners so no miners come there.
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Gordon Marinius
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2008.10.13 17:26:00 -
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Aren't there scanners for what one has "fitted"?
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Gordon Marinius
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2008.10.14 21:24:00 -
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Originally by: Ctp Hawkeye
Originally by: adriaans
and some people for some absurd reason value killmails beyond anything
and some people for some absurd reason value imaginary space money beyond anything.
Fun in eve for me is making things explode, not sitting looking at a big wallet balance.
Well geting equipment to make things explode cost ISK too.
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