Crime & Punishment

"Please note that the possibility of losing mission items through theft, damage, sale, or other means is considered an inherent risk in accepting work from agents"-GM


After having my Wei Todaki item stolen from me in the COSMOS mission chain which rewards a cumulative 1.6 billion isk in items, I became aware that it is considered a fair game play mechanic to steal and blow up other peoples required mission items and use extortion to extract money from your victim. You can find Wei Todaki in contracts for 750 million isk, to give you some idea of they money you can make for simply scanning someone down and stealing their required mission item, or threatening to blow it up if they don't pay you off.

The reason this works is that you cannot reset the COSMOS mission on downtime and have another chance at the item. If someone steals or blows up your Wei Todaki, it is gone for good. As with any mission, failure to complete results in a massive standing hit. This is a strong motivation to get your victim to pay up in addition to considering the time this person probably spent to get their standings up and capability of doing what is considered to be a difficult mission.

I encourage more high sec "pvpers" to camp the Otomainen system(0.5) in order to steal this valuable mission item from unsuspecting mission runners so that this valuable and balanced conflict mechanic, brilliantly designed by CCP, can see more use. This is also in the Forge region so you can conduct your business transactions while waiting for players to start this COSMOS mission if you have the proper trading skills.

Stealing or threatening to blow up required mission items is a safe and easy way to earn income as a high-sec pirate. There aren't a lot of required lvl 4 mission items in contracts at the moment, so get out there and invade some mission runners. You could make a killing if you get someone who values their standings and has no alternative other than to buy from you. Right now Sisters of EVE is a standing mission runners don't want to lose. It isn't a problem until more people start doing it, so take advantage of this moment in EVE when these great opportunities for low SP pirates still exist. Remember what happened to miner ganking? This is one of the only profitable high sec pirate activities that still exists, and with virtually no cost in failure.

Don't worry high sec mission runners, there is a solution to combat this. All you have to do is hit D-scan every second you are doing the mission and be ready to warp out the moment you see combat probes (you must make sure to keep any drones close and ready to drone bay at all times as they can be scanned as well). Then you can wait for whoever was using combat probes to leave system before continuing your mission. Hopefully they leave before downtime. If they don't appear to be leaving before downtime, well.....you can try sending them messages to see if they fell asleep yet. Good luck!

F*** me, I need to run mission chains.

Welcome to eve

Good tears are always welcomed.

Drones can be found with probes too so I guess you're just ******!

Not mad, just saying. I ended up getting my Mitchi without having to pay anything, so I'm happy with the result.

ah, of course! pipa portos solution is always the most simple and reasonable one. Another thread blessed.

You can, of course, return it to whomever you stole it from if it turns out you didn't need a spare.

What, if anything, you charge for its return is, naturally, entirely up to you.

And you posted in it with no sense whatsoever. Oh...you were about to say something about tears, weren't you ? haha

If he kills the guy he doesn't have to go suspect to keep you from.getting it, I think...