Crime & Punishment

For starters I'd try a dual rep incursus. It gives quite a bit of wiggle room for derps and can provide some surprising results.
Also I strongly recommend checking out Feyd's blog, particularly this entry:
http://evedarklord.blogspot.ca/2014/03/carebear-to-killer.html?view=sidebar

It's chock full of fun tips for making this thing you are interested in happen.
Start cheap, then once you find your comfort zone step up to something along the lines of the Ishkur. The twofold weapons system, low sig radius and beefy tank make it an excellent ship for dealing with larger targets. It can mount a small neut as well once you've got your fitting skills up high enough. And yes, a small neut can make a difference, especially when your target is only barely cap stable.

Hmm ur right but wouldn't it also b a temping kill I'm risking my ship here by barely moving

T2, T3 and faction are scary. Navy faction cruisers are the least scary fancy boats, people aren't too afraid of stratioses either.

Would this work?: fleet up with a stranger for mission running, and do one or two. Then tell them you just got the next mission from your agent .. "I'll warp us in as a fleet" ... to your waiting POS.

There is no need, sit on the undock, figure out who they are, figure out their D-scan ID then probe them down after they warp to a mission runner.

They have to figure out the target's scan ID and their fit (at least the ones doing it for shiny profit), the most efficient way to do this is to sit on the undock, while it could be an alt doing the scanning many times it is not, if it is an alt you can also check the suspects KB to get a good idea of what kind of ship he uses and then probe for that type of ship that also has a BS in the scan results.

Agreed, but the work is what makes the end result satisfying. Remember that and it will drive you to complete the goal.

Unfortunately mission baiting has been done to death so you will probably have to scan down 8-10 to find one willing to aggress.
Certain missions with lots of valuable loot like faction tags it can be funny to warp in a Talos and delete their mobile tractor unit before they can scoop it. Actually destroying a bear's MTU tends to make him very cranky.

Don't use a confessor. T2/T3 and faction **** is scary. Your objective is to be as dumb and harmless looking as possible while fitting an active tank strong enough to absorb drone DPS and enough DPS to break the average mission fit. If you don't have a scanning alt you want to have a dedicated scanning ship and a bait/combat ship (or two, something heavier to bring out if necessary like a BC or navy cruiser.)

You can always play the game of alts with multiple logi then swapping those to shooters if they get aggressed also, but that's cheating.

Aside from frigates and AF's the dual repped cap boosted vexor is a very mean tech 1 cruiser. Doesn't seem too frightening to the unwashed but ~600 DPS heated and near permatank will dispatch a mission fit with ease.

firstly , read this. [edit]
derp, didnt see omars link
the confessor would work but it will get chewd up by any drone boats, like hilariously badly.

the problem is in a bear flipping scenario you have to be able to kill drones quickly and the confessors tracking just dosent allow for that reliably.

it can work but its not easy, personally im hoping the gal one will have the same bonuses to sig because if it does itl be a dead ringer for the job, more so if it can have a couple of drones.


but yeah, read feyds blog, its about the best way to tackle it




Apparently not, the last 4 videos of his are in one and people just don't seem to think they are that intimidating...which is odd because they are very cool ships.

MTUs are kind of a conundrum for mission flipping. Yes, shooting them does increase your chances of aggression. Yes, they also have a boatload of structure to deal with as well. Personally I feel kind of cheap whenever I pop one due to having to spend so much time and effort on what is basically a garbage can in space, BUT if you don't and do get aggression the loot fairy gets a second chance to screw you if you win as it sucks in the wreck of your victim. Also, I'd rather see ships on my KB than a bunch of them. That saying, they're still the most frequent thing for me to destroy.

On the other hand they also have their uses. Many crafty bears will do just about anything they can to prevent you from going suspect. (abandoning wrecks, shooting them, using tractor beams and salvage drones to keep the wrecks and loot out of your reach, and so on) Having bookmarked an abandoned MTU in the system can help when they're being downright uncooperative. Just pop a single round into that homeless floater whenever your timers run out and you can keep your flashy status as long as necessary.