Crime & Punishment

You can trade (skills are quick to train on an alt... can be easily added onto a hauler alt).

You can rat in quiet systems. (Nearly as boring as missions TBH.)

You can purchase/train an alt for Empire stuff (Missions/Incursions/etc).

You can do lowsec exploration. (Cannot help here... never done it, but heard it is fairly lucrative.)

Fly 10-15m isk arty thrashers and live off the loot you get from silly frig pilots carrying way too much ammo and fitting fancy mods.

I started a pirate career more than 2 years ago with around 1 Bil ISK in my wallet, 3 fitted canes, Hound and a Jaguar.
Now i have more than 15 Bils ISK all earned in lowsec without any help from from hisec alts ( except from hauling loot to hubs ).
Sure i have lost some ship for around 3 Bils ISK worth in that time.

My tip for you and every other pirate who wants to be quite rich is: Probing, probing and PI.

PI done in low makes you easly 150m / week per char and its only 5 days of training for 5 planets.

Plexes, Radars and other stuff is all about luck, my experience average profit from that activity is 200-300m per 2 hours of job every day.

You may ask so why i have only 15 Bils?
Well im lazy. I do probing like once or twice a week only - there is no need to farm more as im paying my subs with $$.

Also having all sites probed in your neighborhood gives you obvious advantage

I'm impressed. You, sir, would be a traditional lone-wolf pirate. That's what I need to do... drop this e-honor, frig-duel bullshit and get serious about hurting people.

Do you use a single account?

How many hours would you say you play per week? Do you suffer long empty roams once you're known in local and have to pull up stakes and find new areas?

Any advice?

I love how some people blabber anything without thinking. First off, there is no 8/10 in low sec. And to explore in null you need scout or your ishtar will die before you get decent loot in your cargo.

Second. He is not gallente. Ishtar is too skill intensive to be effective. Not to mention you need to know region. You could not solo 6/10 in blood region with ishtar. Probably not even 5/10.

I would suggest doing ratting with cloaky ship. Best income with little risk if ur careful. Exploration is an option, but need quite extra skills. Can do radars/mags/4.10s in bc easy.

Missions. Though i personally never passed lvl2 standings, my friends get nice rewards from lowsec missioning. Just take some ships with fits to quiet system with a station and do some grinding.

I gotta say that it's rare to hear of any pirate admitting to doing PI. One may even refer to you as a Pirate-Bear :)

Agreed. I'm not consistent with anything often enough to do PI, but I do a lot of exploration. It pays the bills and yields shiny mods for my PVP ships that I don't have to pay for. (cue some annoying min/maxer talking about opportunity cost like anybody but them cares)

As a non-pirate who lives in low sec, I highly recommend Exploration as well.

It's a lucrative profession and with your pew pew skills you should be able to easily manage ded plexes and whatnot.

All you need is some scanning skills and some hacking for the radar sites.

It's also very much a random profession, as some days you won't find many sites, and the ones you do find have lousy loots, while on other days, you find sites all over the place and hit those big bonanza's.

It's my profession of choice when I'm not in high sec hauling manufacturing stuff.

Yep someone might say that, in that case i would be the first carebear with -10 sec status. But thing is: I DON'T CARE.
I'm pirate, an opportunist, true free man. I do what i want, go where i want and kill what i want. No policy, no bonds no bullshit.
That day two years ago i went below -5 sec status was the best day in this game.
This is my definition of a pirate.

Those to say to someone a carebear just for doing a plex in low forgot from where they got their ISKies.
And i tell ya they usually run lv4 missions in hisec on alts or rat in null on alts that are part of pet corps, all this just to keep perfect -10.00000 ? I lol on them.
It's as pathetic as putting a bounty on your own head cuz noone sane enough wont put hundreads of mils on someone's head with current game mechanic.



First thing. There in no such a thing like e-honour. Yes i honor ransoms and ill let you go if you pay. But don't expect much more.
Even if you are 2 days old player in a Thrasher on belt or harmless Hoader on gate i'll engage kill your ship and pod you if you are too slow to warp away. That's because you have loot and a corpse that i can have.
In the end of the day only counts that you killed your prey. No matter how.

I own two accounts.
I play 4-5 hours per day, more at wekends.
Yes lowsec is sometimes empty, but hunting is all about being in right place on right time. You must be patient cuz this job is far from insta action. Well i operate in Heimatar area. I think 90% of my kills were made in same 3 or 4 systems. You can check my KB on battleclinic.

Nice kill. And thanks for the advice.

I was really hoping the 'traditional pirate' role you do would be less time intensive. I guess I was hoping that by dropping the e-honor thing I'd have a wider selection of targets which would shorten hunts.

I'm at a crossroads; I keep trying to find a way to keep Eve manageable, but can't find anything resembling a casual play-style. Even flying T1 frigates solo can leave you hunting for hours some nights. Not to mention the logistics side of things. Perhaps what I'm seeking does not exist in a MMO.

Eve always steals more time than I'd like... more time than I'm willing to allow.