Crime & Punishment

So, I'm an old can flipper/ war dec guy who is trying to get back into the game.

CCP drove me off for a while (with these awful new crimewatch mechanics), but I'm trying to get back into the game. I don't often post on the forums, but I didn't see a lot of information on the topic in which I'm interested.

I popped a mission ship the other day and got a nice officer module worth a lot. It reminder me I once killed a macharial that dropped 2.3b in loots. I want to relive that experience more, I think.

Now I'm wondering how hard it would be to non-consentually engage some of these massive faction fit ships. I used to gank bots now and then for laughs, but I haven't done much of it.

I can choose just the active fit ones and, if i need, I could open the gank with 8 heavy neuts to prevent modules from getting turned on (at a gate).

I do have experience with alpha shooting, but I think I need to find exact concord response times to determine how many shots i'll get with a given gank ship. All i can find on this is people's guesstimates.

Here is the gig, I'm thinking.

Step 1) spend a day outside a mission hub with passive scanner and sensor boosts looking for suitable fits and recording the info
Step 2) Choose a ship with about the right EHP
Step 3)Arrange team gank with either 50k ehp alpha or neut followed by gank (need references to do the maths).

Has anyone been doing this? Seems like an untapped natural resource to me. I hadn't considered doing this. If you have the maths done, please post.

Thanks,
Mo

try this

requires a deal more patience but it works.

The baiting? Click the link in Ralph's sig. Looks like he's been doing other things lately, here is a summary.

Here's an old vid I made
I've got a new one in the works but struggling to find the time atm

You can contact this guy for more info.

He will probably ask for ISK before answering though..

Last time I was in Lanngisi (SOE L4 mission hub), feral packs of Mad Drunken Russians hunted the wild mission bear with hordes of Arty Thrashers.

Being that they were popping blinged out Marauders (Krono's were especially popular that day...) they were making what we in the business like to call 'the phat lewts'.

Also, glorious, glorious tears.

We played around with it a bit between wh gigs. It's pretty much just a math problem you need to work out. It's not even that difficult of a math problem.

http://repoindustries.eve-kill.net/?a=home&m=1&y=2014&view=kills

This is pretty much a couple of us multiboxing. The biggest issue is sec status. We found a way to balance out 3 ganks worth of sec hits for the whole crew with less than an hours worth of eve activities. You just have to stay ahead of it and stay positive while you are doing it.

We came out over a billion ahead from start to finish. We only did if for a week or two. Once you solve the math problem.... it's kind of boring. The logistics aren't what I would call difficult (assuming you keep a positive sec status).

(How those deep immersion CODE role players do it is beyone me. The question you really need to ask those ninnies is which is more boring? Mining or flying around in a catalyst dunking mining barges. They both take about the same amount of eve skill. To each is own though, you can't have a healthy forest w/ out a few nuts rolling around here and there)

I can't help but notice all the faction frigates undocking in Lanngisi, presumably to run burner missions.

Wonder if a thrasher could alpha some of them? Daredevils and Garmurs will be active tanked with paper buffer...

Most of the fun isn't in the ganks, but in interacting with the ganked target and the local community.

Is your goal to make a profit, or just ruin someone's day? If the latter, just make some biting comments on local and mess with their MTU. Congratulations, and you're not the best example of our species.