Crime & Punishment

I wrote a quick guide for those looking for new and interesting ways to get into the ******* business. If anybody needs any advice or has questions, feel free to convo me. If I'm not busy, I may even be able to show up with logi support. Or at least to cheer you on.

The basic premise of a safari is that you put a character in a corp for the exclusive purpose of killing their dudes. There are subtleties here about what sort of dudes to kill and if you can make any money off of it, but that's the basic idea. So I'll go through the most basic version of it, and then talk about some of the embellishments you can add. A Safari and an AWOX are very closely related things, and you can use the words more or less interchangeably unless you're a huge sperg.

1) The character you want to do this with.

For this job, just about any sort of character works, but some are especially good. The most important thing is that you want to look like a good recruit. So a clean-ish corp history, a clean-ish killboard, and some desirable skills are all good ideas, although none of those are required. As always, you can catch the dumber CEOs even with the the dirtiest histories, killboards, and bios simply because they don't bother to check. If you have reasonably high SP then that tends to blind potential victims to your faults.

Many CEOs will ask for your API. That's fine. Give it to them. If you're using an account made for this purpose than go ahead and give them everything. If it's a character on an account with existing stuff, just give them the character API. They probably won't check it beyond making sure you have the SP you say you have. Leaving out the wallet history and assets might be wise, especially since if this is an alt you probably funded it with your main. If they mention it, you can act hurt and ask them if they want to know so they can steal your stuff. That usually gets them off your back.

The other method is to make a brand new character and get into a corp almost immediately. Your choice of corps is a bit more limited here, but as long as they'll accept newbies there's not a thing that ties you to a life of crime. After a couple of safaris you can even delete the character and make a new one, having only lost a couple days of skill training. (Note: don't do this with suicide gank characters. Recycling negative sec status dudes is an exploit.) The trick with brand new characters is that you probably want to have a logi dude nearby to support you.

If you're making a brand new character, go for a catalyst or a thrasher, be able to fit a full rack of guns, a damage control, a scram, and all the damage mods you can. You'll be partially speed-tanking and partially logi-tanking, and a damage control is often enough for most purposes. Make sure to play up the newbie thing. Be naive, but not annoying. Be proud of your destroyer. It's the best ship you can fly, after all.

2) The corp you want to do this to.

The corp you're looking for is a large-ish highsec corp. You're probably looking for at least 20 people. More importantly than that, you're looking for activity. You want people actually in space to be doing things. Corps that advertise industry, incursions, and mission running are best. A corp that advertises everything probably does nothing, but the individual pilots will undoubtedly be in space doing things at some point.

Also, ask how frequently they have corp ops. These are great opportunities to kill stuff.

3) Okay, so you're in a corp, now what?

Here's the fun part. Open your map, go to 'My Information', and tick 'My Corp Members Now in Space'. This map is delayed by about five minutes, so if they're traveling somewhere it's not the most accurate method of finding dudes, but it's a good start.

Look at those people who are in space and online (note that the map shows you people who logged off in space as well). Check Battleclinic or Eve-kill to see what sorts of ships they've lost. Listen to corp chatter to see if there's any ops going on. If there aren't ask if anyone will help you get established with the local mission agent or whatever. This works especially well if someone has some super-pimp mission boat that they want to show off.

If you start an op or get invited to join someone who is doing stuff on his own, it's better for you if you make the fleet. That way you can right-click the fleet properties button thingy and click 'show fleet composition'. This will allow you to see exactly what they're flying and exactly what system they're in, in real time.

Once you've decided on your target, either join the op (if there is one) or go to the system they're missioning/mining/incursioning in or to a neighboring system. If you're joining an op, simply warp to the op and commence the killing.

If you're hunting a target that thinks he's going to hang out and mind his own business, get a covops in system first and drop some probes. If he's in a major mission hub like Motsu, scanning down every sig could be a problem, so make sure you check his kb to get an idea what he might be flying. Also, when not actually warping to a mission or whatever to see if that's your dude, park your ship at the station he's most likely to use and you might just see him drift by, which will let you know exactly what he's flying and, if you're quick to reposition your probes, will even get you a signature ID.

+1

I've done it this way and the results are almost universally hilarious.

Well Poached.

Safari + Ebil Poaching..... eh, it's weak.

Good guide.

Doing this right now to some ******** high sec corp that smack talks all day every day and gets war decced by everyone and their mother. Being on both their vent and the aggressor's at the same time is especially lulzy.

Good guide... If FW bores me ever... Time to have some lovely fun...

this is a good thread

The fuel? That's just rubbing it in.

I bloody love you sir! Good ideas there, will get right on it!

Monk is quite good at this sort of thing. For whatever reason, all my attempts have fallen flat. It seems my omnipresence on the forums has certain...side effects. Like being easily recognized.

I feel the need to bump this thread tonight after being on comms when an AMAZING safari adventure went down. One of our guys was out canflipping when he spotted a giant ball of mackinaws around an Orca. It was stupidly easy for him to get recruited as a seasoned PVPer. This was the corp chat:

Multiboxing Ice Miner > Welcome rareden
Corpmate > 0/
rareden > greetings
Corpmate > what you like to do rareden
rareden > this

And "this" means the destruction of 15 Mackinaws, an Orca, and 4 pods as the the multiboxer scrambled to evacuate his mining fleet. He saved one Orca (yes, there were 2 out there) and one Mackinaw. I removed the links to the killmails, but the information is out there and API verified for all to see.

That's a total 4.43 billion isk. Loot and salvage that we bothered to recover was worth over 500 million.

Alas, it all happened so fast that there is no video of the event.