Crime & Punishment

Lesson 22: The EvE forums are as much a part of the game as the game itself. A recent bit of forum warrioring on my part landed me, in addition to some outstanding comedy posts, a legit, fair, honest 1v1 fight, which I happened to win. That 1v1 has led to another pending 1v1, and rumors of a Thunderdome-style series of C&P grudge matches forming.

EvE-O forums: putting one of the 'M's in MMORPG since 2004-ish.

Lesson 23: Legit, fair, honest 1v1 fights do exist in EvE. They just may require some legwork to make happen.

Lesson 24: Having access to industry and research capabilities is quite useful. Yesterday I popped a small collection of offline industry and lab arrays that belong to a seemingly dead corp. Typically when this happens all I get is killmails, but this time I got something...else. Each array dropped a sizeable chunk of loot, and in the end I made off with over 120 million ISK in research & production goods and a few BPOs, plus a very large assortment of BPCs, including some T2 PBCs, that I can't even begin to estimate the value of. Score!

I looked into the value of the T2 BPCs for a quick sale, and realized that I had everything necessary to use said BPCs. I logged on my industry alt and realized that I could easily double my take by producing the T2 items in question instead of selling the materials and BPCs.

Sometimes, it is better to create than to destroy....

Lesson 25: Hull tanking faction cruisers is surprisingly affordable. One of the major downsides of hull tanking is that hull reppers are notoriously slow and paying to repair a badly damaged hull in a station can often be quite expensive. After a 1v1 fight in my VNI last night, I found myself at 16% structure and hobbled off to a local station to repair myself. The bill to almost completely rebuild my 70 million ISK VNI plus several of my drones was under 1 million ISK.

Of course, the other side of this is that my insurance payout will be minimal. Guess I'd best not lose it then....

Bad Overview is bad.

I wonder how their comms sounded like at that moment.

Oh that accident happens quite often I think… While doing some cloaky logistics, I remember seeing this spider tanking Vexor gang who were repping each other at the Sahda gate in Shajarleg, waiting for hostiles. Once the several hostile BCs jumped in and appeared on grid, one of the on-screen notifications were announcing a Vexor scrambling another Vexor of the same corp…

The Vexors had won the battle in the end, but also they had certainly learned a lesson about target management. Actually, you learn something new in Amarr lowsec everyday. It's a truly entertaining area and I hope to get back there once RL leaves some time for those shenanigans… and maybe I will see those Vexors scrambling each other again, who knows.

Lesson 28: Sometimes the best part about knowing it's a trap is springing it. I had cloaked eyes on the hisec exit gate for a losec loop, and sitting on gate was a Cynabal. A few dozen km off was an Osprey, and somewhere in local was someone from the same corp as the ships I could see. Looking for a fight, I decided to spring the trap.

I jumped in my now well-tested Vexor Navy Issue and immediately approach the Cynabal. A Rapier decloaks and all three aggress me. I manage to get hard tackle on the Cynabal and neut him down so he's trapped. The rapier has me webbed, but keeps about 40km off so he can't tackle me. As my shield and armor melt away, the Cynabal's shields are dropping far too slowly for my liking. As I suspected, the Osprey is remote repping him. By the time I hit structure, the Cynabal's shields are only at half. Not good.

Then, the tides turn. I see my drones start to take damage and realize that they must have shifted DPS. My structure HP holds for a bit, and the Cynabal suddenly drops like a stone. I don't know if the Osprey ran out of cap, flew out of range, or something else entirely, but I managed out-DPS it's reps. The Cynabal dies quickly without remote reps under heavy drone and gate gun fire and without anyone else tackling me, I warp away at 20% structure.

This was a 3-on-1 fight with hostile logistics on the field. By all rights, I should have lost. The next time I try it, I most likely will. But this time...this time I didn't...and that's the best part about springing a trap.

Lesson 29: when you pve in lowsec doing an expedition, checking regularly DScan to finally see combat probes and a certain number of people in local, quit your activity and warpoff to your safe... BUT DON'T WARP BACK to the expedition gate... Because you know the team which is ready to kill you hasn't lost its scan location of your activity like by magic you know...in case of you just forgot this fact I don't really know why I did something so stupid
It was a fight between my logi vs Orthrus, a heavy interdictor and a Command ship, damn good first PVP

Hey thank you! Yes, it was the first time that I finally had a fight with other players, living in lowsec it was only a matter of time before it happens.
And yes it was fun, I had some "internal vibrations" even if my options were limited by the time. But I finally launched my warriors against the Orthrus; after all it's better to die fighting than doing nothing. And don't laugh but I was happy to put a single dent in its shield .
You are right it isn't comparable at all with shooting crosses, that was really tense and fun.
I saved my main's ship and the pod of my alt, I consider myself lucky. The pod really warp off like an arrow if you align it before to be exploded, I could effectively test it this time haha.
Of course at the end I put the obligatory "gf" in local and had a little chat with the guys, that was cool
The loss is OK, it's just my stupidity to warp back, but anyway like one of the "ebil" pirate said; "**** happens"

nice thread mate, finally got around to reading it.

Vex is sex laterly, mind linking fit?

Thanks!

Lesson 30: Always have the right tool for the job. Thinking back to Lesson 29 above, I realized (in hindsight, of course) that I had focused my efforts to pop a few suspect Logis entirely on range or DPS. I didn't have a fast-locking Arty Tornado handy (and I have good skills for one), but if I had, I likely could have alpha'd one or two of their cruisers off of the field instead of just scaring the crap out of them.

Right then, off to go shopping....