Crime & Punishment

Ah ok thx alot.

In an Incursus, you may have had troubles. Most likely the Mega was permatanked and the best you could hope for was that he wasn't and had a cap instability where he'd eventually run out and would die a glorious death. This, my friend, is when you would've loved to have a Catalyst with T2 blasters. With good skills and maybe a cheap hybrid damage implant, you could've dealt in the upwards of 700dps on his fat, slothlike, carebear rear-end and probably killed him. Here's the trick...

Smaller ships can easily "speed tank" larger ones. The vital part is getting onto them fast, like within 500m, keeping a tight orbit, and flying as fast around them as possible. I'd probably recommend and AB for this since it'll reduce your ships signature radius. Whatever you do, don't approach them head on. Fly towards them at an angle and then get into a very tight orbit. Then scram and start hammering them with your AB on. Kill their drones first if they launch them at you. This is very important. As you probably know, Gallente ships have very large drone bays. Kill their drones and a BS won't be able to hit you at that close of range and at the speed you'll be flying at.

My buddy flies frigs and destroyers exclusively, mostly the Wolf. He kills BC's and BS's all the time. It takes a bit of piloting finesse, but see if you have a friend you can practice on or just do it on the test server (SiSi) until you perfect it. May you be blessed with many carebear kills and/or fat ransoms.

And yes, Daredevil's are definitely evil little bloody ships. It used to be that the Dramiel was the most badass of all the frigs, but since it got nerfed and hybrids got a nice boost...the Daredevil really leads the pack as far as frigates are concerned.

You are a great person, keep it up.

The vexor is a great ship to use against mission runners, drones being able to do all 4 damage types.

Here's a tip, pay attention to the rats/wrecks in the mission you're stealing from. Know the missions these guys are running, then if you're shot at you can come back with drones that will deal damage to the lowest resists in the MR's tank. Makes killing them even easier.

If you see serpentis rats, use minmatar drones on armor tank ships and amarr for shield tankers. Angel rats, use gallente on both.

Awesome stuff, you "get" EVE :)

You can also salvage the wrecks, and this is not considered "illegal" and will not make you red to those you steal from. I know nothing about making money off ninjaing, so no clue how profitable this could be vs. taking loot, but it is another way to get extra cash.

I hope you will one day make your way from ninja to pirate

Small update: I am too nice.

I warped into a mission and found some wrecks to loot. Which I did. Not many, and the mission runners destroyed them for some reason, but I got the valuable items before that.

There was one container floating around, though, with an item called "gate key". I thought that was something they needed to advance with the mission, so I asked them if they needed it.
They answered by shooting the container, then activating the accelleration gate. And I couldn't follow.

Well, that'll teach me, I guess, hehe.


Also thanks a lot for all the helpful hints and tips!
I'll be sure to watch the mentioned videos soon.

Edit: Oh yes. I read about a trick about scanning, involving the directional scanner to narrow down the distance in which the ships I am looking for are. But I guess everybody but me knew about that already, hehe. Was helpful so far.

It sounds to me like you need a battle Iteron.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6so9AT4UydQ

I agree in general, but a shield tank in a Serpentis or Angels mission may have no EM resists at all. This will give amarr drones far more damage on target than any other drone type, especially with it having the second best tracking speed.


It is, of course, situational. No matter what mission, amarr drones would be silly vs any minmatar t2/Loki.



To OP: Another suggestion would be a missile boat. My buddy Paul got started by popping a mission Typhoon (Drucore ♥) with a very badly skilled Caracal, using the right missile damage to hit the phoon's resist hole.

You're right. I forgot about the resistance bonus on some caldari ships. That would negate the amarr drones.

I haven't done this too often so far.. a little over ten times maybe. During these times I met one really friendly mission runner, who first was suspicious I'd try anything funny with his drones or so, to make them attack me.
(I was only trying to help him out by webbing frigates and cruisers he was fighting when I had the time. As I said, I am too nice, and as I was told it didn't help anyway)

Then a friendly conversation came up about how he didn't want to loot anyway and I could have just asked, others in local chiming in, talking about how evil ninjas baited them once and so on. It was interesting, if somewhat misinformed (one of them said my whole newbie corp could shoot at them if they took a shot at me after I stole loot), and always friendly.

Of all the other times I was ignored roughly half of the time, the other half I was shot at at some point.

And yes: I am at the moment in the process of skilling up the destroyer skill and hope someone will fill my buy order for a catalyst in time so I won't have to buy it from a sell order, saving 100k isk (stingy I am :x)


About the salvaging: Good to know it doesn't flag me. I currently don't have skills for it, but maybe worth a look. If it doesn't flag me it kinda seems to take half of the fun out of it, though. Well, I'll see.

Edit: The discussion about the drones above was very interesting!

Decent enough salvaging skills shouldn't take you anymore than a day for both the Salvager I and Rigs, I think. Well worth it, imho. If you're going out hardcore mode you might be able to pull about 25mil/hr or more easy. But your right, most bears don't loot or salvage...which always makes me wonder why they get so mad when you ninja them. I kinda like seeing them throw a hissy and at least waste ammo shooting wrecks rather than me ;)

BTW - there's no obligation to be nice to carebears. They aren't really people and have no true joy in their heart.