EVE General Discussion

Looking for exploration sites.

The first thing I noticed was a -10 standing bad guy by the name of Keyanu at the gate.

I did the afterburner plus cloak thing and headed out.

Second thing I noticed was that Keyanu warped off quick. No shame, he probably wasn't gate camping and I took him by surprise.

However, I sat there cloaked and waited. Soon another toon came in and sat in his noobship by the gate. Keyanu then warped in a few seconds later, popped then podded the guy in the noob ship.

He then warped off.

Curious, I sat there cloaked and watched. Sure enough, a few minutes later the noob came back in his noob ship and, a few seconds later Keyanu warps in...pops then pods the noob.

Disgusted, I went into system to explore.

Please please please tell me that you all can detect pathetic attempts to look like a great PvPer like Keyanu's by {creative bookkeeping} like this are recognizable.

I get the feeling this happens quite a bit by people not as transparent as Keyanu and so maybe harder to detect.

I wouldn't call it cheating...more like 'creative bookkeeping'. Another reason why KMs should be deep sixed.

There is a reason why kill boards don't count rookie ships, shuttles, or often pods as real kills.

Most of the pvpers these have manginas so it's not surprising.

One can never be certain, but the noob ship uncloaking by the gate and sitting there makes it a high probability.

If you wanted to do this, obviously the easiest way would be not not move the killer ship at all - you'd just repeatedly warp the victim ship to the killer. Even easier (in lowsec), but maybe not as obvious, would be to put the killer at an undock BM that's shared with the victim; the victim then just needs to undock, warp to the BM, die, repeat.

Killmails don't care where the kill happened.

So actually I'd guess that there's something else going on here, maybe

1. This pirate is practicing gank fits against weak ships under sentry guns, or

2. The rookie is some kind of someone's surveillance alt and the pirate keeps having to 'police' it.

he'd have to sit there and take sentry fire. For no reason. This guy is padding his killboard only if he's not aware that you can warp to places in lowsec that don't have sentry guns.

Actually, let me walk that back: he could be wanting to keep an eye on the gate, while still padding his klilboard, and just not know how to share bookmarks / join fleets so that the victim could warp directly to his location off the gate.

With everyone doing the afterburner, claok trick. What else is he suppose to do down there?

afterburner plus cloak? lmao

It's no way to greet guests Mags. You should set up a nice B&B, market and repair service instead.