Crime & Punishment

Ladies, pirates, scamers, griefers, mercs and other proud Citizen of C+P, I have two new stories for you.
I'm trying to improve my poor English writing skills so feel free to correct me.

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I was chilling in highsec, when I spotted someone from a previous wardec in local. That was some corp alt holding a DG large tower near Jita ; I tried a few months ago to get the loot but they onlined the tower.
One week later, still chilling, I decided to check the POS again. Bingo, same position. Full of labs/ammo mods, and... Offline. I don't know why but, eh, let's shoot at stuff.

Wardec, bla fast forward 24h later. I'm sitting on it and began shooting the tower. 60m EHP, a 450 dps tank, I had time. So, I thought what I should do. The original plan was to kill that tower and loot every mod. But ammo mods are cheap and barely worth the hauling. I decided to shoot 3 of them.

The first went kaboom. Empty. But the 2 others dropped a can. \ /
I (slowly) moved to it and check what was inside. 100m of goodies inside each one ! I hastly destroyed every remaining similar mod (you don't get the loot if you repackage them). Now I was sitting at a pile of ~1b2 of loot. I had to make a choice : to shoot the labs and loot 50% of the BPCs/interfaces (it would take 5m but that's not very valuable) and call it a day, or shoot the tower, get a shiny killmail, loot the labs ang get every BPC. Since the OP was already a ~success~ and I had free time, I decided to continue.

A few hours later. The POS has 21% shield remaining but suddenly, someone from the corp logs in. Aha
I docked to reship with a proper pvp fit (it took time since I left some modules in Jita). Another alt loggued in. They warped to their POS with a tengu escorting a bestower, and managed to fuel the POS. 20mn to go... The bestower docked.

I warped my fleet phoon, veteran of multiple wardecs and nicknamed "the bear hunter", at zero.
The tengu engaged me (onoz) but no point and not taking much range. The phoon finished to lock it, point web neuts and stuff on it. He had no chance to escape. Since torps do sh1t damage at cruisers, I warped another bs to kill him quicker.

Boom.
I opened the can. Caldari launchers, caldri BCUs. Sweet sweet. Then my Internet connection crashed. NAAAAAAAAAAH
Reboot of the modem, log in back, I saw him in a velator running away with his loot. Well I didnt want that caldari stuff anyway.
I checked the killmail and, well, check by yourself :
http://blshl.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=14272227

The wardec was going great. Tengu 4b1, the ammo mods about 100m, 1.2b of loot from them so another 1.2b lost in the explosion.
At this point, I had 5mn before the forcefield erected (sup funny word). I could **** all the labs, but decided to not do it. I shoot once at the tower and it went rf. He tried to do something with a prop-less, active armor tank machariel (I guess another PVE ship) but saved it by running inside the FF. Oh well.

1 day 16 hours later.
We talked about ransoms. He offered 300m, I said 4b "or the mach", he declined. Then I began to shoot the tower (again !).
Now 6 alts were loggued in, and the main toon (which was not in the corporation). They tried a few things to stop the bash...
http://blshl.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=14288612
My megapulse laser says no.
http://blshl.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=14288990
http://blshl.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=14288988
BLSHL is not your average "Save the damsel" mission, bro'.
http://blshl.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=14288986
Cmon I'm shooting the POS, I won't let you rep it. Kids these days.
It took me time to kill them, especially the basilisk that was playing "hide and seek" with the FF. A few other ships made it alive (including a raven).
At this point, I saw an increasing number of polish toons in local, one that went directly in the FF in a dominix (hi), their intel leaked in local (pro) and there were 2 scimitars next door. Normally I would stop here, I'm just a lone guy, no neutral RR at all, but since I got enough loot from the ammo mods to buy a whole bunch of new armas, I said "**** it" and hold the line.

They made another attempt, polish neutral spike in local, and after a long fight, I lost one arma. I think it was 3 armas vs raven/falcon/kestrel/domi/2 scimis. I knew about the falcon but couldnt do much about it ; he almost perma jammed the 3 armas (otherwise that raven would have been spanked but eh, I can't win everyday).
http://blshl.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=14289465

They all began to rep the tower (2 scimis 2 ospreys 1 basilisk -yes, he got a new one-). I tried to kill their ospreys but my naga didnt have the alpha. Then I took a scorp to jam the remote but after a while, one neutral toon got a warpin of it, they tried to get it with manticore+raven but I escaped.

End of a fight that lasts 6 hours. I improved my skills at playing with multiple toons ! Oh, and if the price of scourge rage missiles/L barrage is spiking, blame me.


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EDIT : the forum ate my second post (AAAAAAAAAAAAAH) so later for the lowsec story. :(

Great Story's guys, Keep up the 'good' work :D

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Okay, today, a lowsec story !

The 3 cap battles from Maut.

You don't know the ~Thundermautdome~ ?. Listen, kid, and learn.

Maut and its people

Maut is a 0.2 lowsec system, part of the highsec border of North Placid, next to the Orvolle Hub, PF- and its bubbles, Chardalane and its JF losses. For some (good) reasons it's not camped 24h/24 -but if you want to see orcas, try Oulley next door-.
Not many people are passing by Maut : some loners from the CFC moving to Pure Blind [but that's rare since they are easily ambushed in the pipe] and the FW farmers.

We have 3 main forces in the constellation :

Me. Well, at the moment most of my allies are busy elsewhere, so I'm pretty much on my own. I'm most of the time hunting 'tards and FW bot farmers in my rocket manticore. And idiots with freighters.

The Islandics/Quantum Cafe.They got the eight Maut POCOs and are doing PI. "Doing PI" means that they hide 16h/24 in a deathstar faction fitted POS, and when they really think it's safe, they warped a random warpcored iteron to a POCO.
I wouldn't say that they are terrible, because it would be an under-statement. Let's just say that they are some of the worst bears I have never seen, and would prefer 100x to cry in local for a few hours than getting in a ship and trying to kill someone.
I have a long history of me farming them (destroying their POSes, killing their barges, and how sup dawg nice pod you just lost) but some months ago, we made a deal (cool kids call that "a ransom") that I (and my blues) would stop destroying their POCOs -and before they claim I'm a dishonorable spaceship warrior, I really honored it-.

The Constantine corporation. Ex-PLs that still own a titan and at least 2 supers, they recently joined the Ninja Unicorns.
They are your average "pimp faction pirate gang", using disproportionate tools to get kills (they stopped hot dropping with the supercapitals a while ago. It seems that at least "L.", owner of a sc, is not playing anymore) but lacking ~tactical sense~.
They were mostly inactive the rest of this year but are making a good show recently.
I'm not a Constantine fan ; sometimes they can act like dicks (example, or the fact that I saw them playing once with an orca ) but I prefer far more these pirates than the Quantum bears.

Prelude

The Constantines killed or stole (yes... Quantum ftw) all the POCOs in Maut and put their own.
Let's just say that the Quantums were mad as f|_|ck and were very vocal about it.
Sadly, I would not copy logs since it would make my eyes bleed again, but you can look at their losses, I sometimes put some in the comments.
I met the Constantines when they were shooting one, but decided to not do anything. Andrejs's vindicator or the Quantums losing their POCOs ? I made my choice and Constantines became (without them knowing it) my proxy against the POCOs.

The first cap battle of Maut

I wasn't there when it happened, so can't say much about it. Basically they tried to rf the POCOs. After losing a few ships (I killed a bomber and they ran away ; later Constantines got their PVE nighthawk), they tried it later, still using assigned fighters from their POS.
The Constantines hotdropped them, killing a carrier and barely missing another one.

The second cap battle of Maut

I got lots of questions about this one.
Basically, Quantum Cafe dudes were trying to do the same thing, but since they are suck risk-averse bears that they were now only using shuttles and rookie ships with fighters. The moment something is approching, they run to their POS for hours.
I still managed to got some, that's why I have velators/shuttles on my kb.
The Constantines tried the same thing, hotdropping the carrier. He managed to get inside the FF. But their cap fleet was pinned down by the POS. A nag died in the first minutes (sd ? I don't know) while half of the fleet warped away.
A revelation and a thannie were still trapped. The revelation exploded after 10mn, and Andrejs (Constantine's CEO) bravely came back in his archon to rep the thannie. A bit later, another cyno was lit, some Ninja Unicorns (not from Constantine) carriers joined the fun. At this point, reps were holding (no more whoring :( ) and they slooooooowly slow-boat outside of the range of the POS. Yes, that's 200km in capital ships while webbed.
Then they warped away. I got a point on one of this carrier but couldnt do much on my own and let it escape.
During this time, the Quantum bears were hiding in their POS, too scared to do anything. Any decent pvper could have killed a carrier with just a random BS with a point (and the help of the POS).
I got the loot, so I claim :op success:.

Summary pic.

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Since my last post, i have done some soul searching about what i wanted in EVE. And the guys in The Marmite Collective were not discusted by my personality, or my lust for killing things..... not sure if thats a good thing or not. I guess only time will tell.

So, eager to get in on some kills, and to get affiliated with my new commrades, i joined up for some war target hunting. Initially not alot went on but we soon sniffed out a loot pinata running missions during wartime(Really, you think moving 12 jumps to run missions will save you ass?).

After some probing we finally got a hit and.

Ze Killmail

after that we took a short break and i just sat outside the undock the WT was in waiting for our group to reform

Really who dies at an undock?

The evening carried on well. plenty of kills, which carried on in the next day too as expected. We found ourselves another mission pinata to chase down.

Ze CNR Killmail

So all in all a productive few days.

Much fun has been had over the past few days. And i'm pretty sure i havnt offended anyone yet \o/

Take it easy

I agree. I want just enough active people so that no one ever has to play alone, but not too many so that there are 3 conversations going at once in corp chat.

Just a few months ago you were talking about wanting to join Hydra Reloaded at some point

They definately are a good bunch of guys, Been cursing my service provider the past few days but its game on today.

I do like hunting alone, but i also like the opportunity to pick up a group. And just chillin on TS is cool

Little update : they let most of their ships inside the FF.
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The wardec ended.
Two weeks later... And being short on fuel...

BLSHL got +1 dominix, +1 basilisk, +1 falcon, +2 manticores, +1 kestrel, all (badly) fitted.

Thanks.

I have just returned to Eve after a few years absence and after being not able to find any people willing to play in my lowsec area, I went into hisec to see if fun could be had.

So I roam through Uttindar and annoy the local miners. I arrive at a belt, it's full of wrecks. Luckily, the owner of the wrecks is still there as well, mining in a Retriever. Seconds after I land he warps off, business as usual. You should think people know how hisec game mechanics work.

I am chatting with a friend and while doing so orbit one of his wrecks. I have not looted them, so the Retriever pilot does not have killrights (yet). After a minute or so, he comes back in a Tornado and lands at a spot about 180km out of the belt, far away from me, staying there and watching me peacefully orbitting what he believes is rightfully his own space garbage.

Then suddenly he decides to warp to his wrecks and loot them. Alrighty, here we go. I wait for him to loot all but his last wreck. He approaches and shortly before he's there I take the (very valuable, of course) scrap metal and make it mine. Muhaha, more scrap for me...He does the only logical thing left for him, and that of course is to defend his honor as this belt's only garbage collector and starts shooting at me. Only problem, at that point I was already orbitting him at 1000m with AB on, so his guns never hit me even once. Let's just say that my guns hit him a little better. That's what you get for having a terrible character name (and no, I'm not talking about me ).

So, looks like I can at least still kill guys in hisec, yay for me. Next day, I am roaming through lowsec again, looking for a fight. Jump into a system, two people in it. I quickly look them up on battleclinic, one guy in an Incursus with quite a number of kills, the other guy in a Cyclone with no kill and a handful of losses so far.

I find them both in a mission room, they warp away even before I come out of warp. Actually I only saw the Cyclone, and only very briefly in my overview. I warp back to a safe spot just to find the Cyclone back again in the mission, the Incursus nowhere to be seen. Back in I warp just to get my ass handed to me. Quick chat in local afterwards and the guy tells me that the other guy is actually his alt and that he renamed his alt's Incursus to look like it belonged to his main. Nice trap, probably nothing you would fall for, still, I did. But I'm practically an Eve noob again. At least the Tornado drops more or less refinanced a new Thorax.

An apoc with 3 smartbombs, some webs and an armor repair...

You should check this guy in 3 months with a covie, he may lose a disco paladin in a mission.