Crime & Punishment

Drakes are our "no go" ship, we just can't do anything to them with our set-up. Anything that relies on turrets we will have a crack at though.

The Amarr tech 2 frigates don't seem like a valid option for us, maybe this will get fixed as assault ships have been mentioned in the dev blog.

Therefore at the moment we are focusing our skills into cruisers. Also they are the ships we can afford to loose (for the time being).

Question:

Is it possible / viable to roam low sec with 2 or 3 fleet members, or does the risk / reward ratio lean to heavily on "risk"?

2 or 3 is entirely doable and should be fun, just make sure you scout the neighboring systems to see if your targets have backup waiting. Just jump in and dscan for anyone in range of the gates, check local and see if there is anyone in the same alliance/corp as the people you're hunting before engaging.

Don't be afraid of the drake! Get yourselves into something bigger and kill it with fire (and ecm)! (I hate drakes)

I can tell you, roaming low sec is risky. Establishing a foothold out there all the moreso.

But from the events of a few days ago, I can tell you, even when you get into a huge firefight out there, and both sides lose a lot of ships, the "gf" and lols still flow in Local. Even from some of the groups that most people thing are ****heads.

It's part of the reason I keep going back for more.

PvP is one of those things that will always result in losses, no matter how good you are. You will eventually get in over your head. But if the people continue to be cool about it, like they are in most cases, it'll continue being enjoyable. The carebears could learn a lot from PvPers, even pirates about a sense of community. After all, losing ships stimulates the economy in game, thus keeps them gainfully and happily employed. If all PvP stopped, the market would grow stagnant, and they'd be losing profits.

If you're an industrialist, thank a pirate.

Like someone above brought up... shocked there's no trolls here (not going to be the first.)

Based in nullsec, but have never had more fun than wandering around lowsec looking for fights. You're right, most of the people you find there are decent people. It's not their fault they had to turn to a life of piracy to make a living

When my first trip to null failed (the alliance I had joined fell apart a week after I joined, I swear I had nothing to do with it,) me and a mate moved back to lowsec to fly with our former alliance in lowsec and I still haven't found many fights that were better than the ones we got in a couple of a AF's in Min lowsec.

Keep flying, keep shooting and keep having fun, because that's what EVE is.. a game to have fun in.

Good hunting o7

Confirming that every now and then, it just feels good to go roam with a group of friends and diaf gloriously :)

New players with a good attitude is something most players appreciate.

I'm not really into the low sec scene myself but I tend to do quite some wormhole ganking with my alts. As someone said earlier it's pretty easy to spot the new players on their behavior and I have been happy to help these guys out with advice should they be willing to listen.

I specifically remember a poor soul that just had moved in to a C3 wormhole and was in the middle of running his first wormhole anomaly ever in a Typhoon. To get this story into context I'm just going to say that me and a friend clear one of those sites in something like 4-5 minutes (long time since I timed, but i believe it's arround that). This poor guy had spent 3 hours finishing it.

Evil as we are we warped in and grabbed him just as he was about to start salvaging (in the same Typhoon) and ransomed his pod for an outrageous ammount of isk and stole his salvage/loot. When we actually realized from looking at NPC kill statistics and looking at his actual Typhoon fit we realized he couldn't have done this for long, and after starting a convo with him we realized that it was infact his first anomaly ever.

Felt so sorry for him we replaced all his isk and spent a long time guiding him.

For some reason the harshest internet spaceship living conditions has made me into a softie.

Roaming nulsec with 3 is viable too, but maybe not in Cruisers but something faster. Missing gateguns means that frigate sized hulls are much more viable. With enough patience you could take down the odd ratting battleship which are much more common in nulsec than lowsec.

It was a great fight last night, I think we enjoyed that one more than our kill (still our only one to date ). The Vagabond ecm drones knocked me out of the fight and saved your bacon!

Strange thing though... those losses last night actually gave us a lot more confidence!

We where soo close to getting the Vengeance and we walked away from that fight with a lot of belief that the kills will start coming soon!

In fact, by the time I got back to to high sec the other 2 fleet members where shipped up and ready to go out again, which we did. Then "Bros with Frozs" who had killed us earlier in the week started to set-up a gate camp for us (BS's and BC's), but this time we spotted the signs much earlier and got away from them with no losses.

And when you move up to better ships, for god's sake don't self destruct just to deny someone a km, had a tengu do that to me once, it's really annoying.

If you want to shoot at well adjusted, friendly people I warn you: Do not ever get involved in highsec PVP.

Up here we all have gigantic egos, anti-social personality disorders and severe anger mangement problems. Its not just the griefers either, you'll never see a more unintelligible, hate landen string of profanity than one that comes out of a mission runner when you blow up his ship.

That and everyone is alts of alts of alts.