Crime & Punishment

The lack of logs made me sad.

This thread is providing excellent reading - the above post however is the first I have come across which I feel is disappointing. I wish people would honour ransoms. I'll try and find some mails I have received over the years and post back later.

Kane - some excellent stories. Makes me think one day I might actually go back to high sec :p

"I am by no means a poet"
I recently decided to return to my roots - that is to say Crafty by name, Crafty by nature.

My story starts with me purchasing a proteus- my intention? To seek those who wish not to be found.

1) Logging back in isn't always advisable.

Start as you mean to go on

It's late on a Saturday - just as I was about to log, I notice a Mach running a mission... WTF. I manage to resolve the 100% on the 2nd hit however he clearly was on the lookout and quickly warped to a station. 20/30 minutes pass without him undocking before he finally logs. That old chestnut eh? Well you won't fool me Mr Bear.
Fast forward 10 hours (6:30AM). Mr Bear logs in, undocks and lands on top of me.

2) Bearing in low sec is an accident waiting to happen

Muahahhaha

So I notice this Gila probing around Metro. His route appears to be that which I am on, so I wait. Quietly +1'ing the bear, probing anomalies as I go. Not long passes before I find a juicy 5/10. Cloaked up 2584m from the acceleration gate, I watch the Gila pilot enter local and drop his probes.
(N.B. - site dropped B-type Invuln + MWD. And a Gila full of loots

3) Scouting is the way forward when flying a shiny. It's also a good idea to not press 'auto-jump'.

Derp

My alt is +2, surveying the entry system to Etherium Reach (LXQ2). A macharial along with a few bc's/logi/recons are sitting comfortably at range making short work of those unfortunates landing in bubbles/jumping through. I decide the gang is not engagable when an old friend of mine convo's me to say he has a few guys about to go for them. My proteus is not built for fleet work - and so I wish him the best and start checking the map for a suitable destination. A minute or so passes when suddenly gatefire. Hmmmmmm. Loki decloaks/cloaks and appears to warp. Just as I set my dest another gatefire. Damn my alt for not keeping me up to speed on things...

4) Don't steal from me!

Number 1

Number 2

Upon jumping into Odde, I notice an Orca on scan. D-scan allows me to narrow it down to a moon with a POS anchored. That POS wasn't there 5 mins ago? What is this. I warp at range and notice the cane I had on scan with it is in fact 200+km off the pos - seemingly slow boating towards some random part of space. Excellent. A free kill.

Probes go down and get set up - just as I hit analyse a local pirate whom I occasionally fly with decloaks on the cane in a Helios. Scan shows an oracle + drake inbound as I warp to 0 on the Helios. As I land the cane pop's and the oracle warps. The drake, confused by my sudden appearance (I hope), does not. As the drake is hitting low shields, the oracle lands at 50km. Pop the drake goes down, my armour now at about 50% w/pre heated mwd I burn in the direction of the oracle, my overheated scram catches him before he can warp and I close the gap to finish what was begun. The Helios pilot returns in a talos but didn't land in time. I decided at this point to bail as living one jump out, it wouldn't be long before things got messy.

And finally

5) A real ninja f*cks the prom queen


Prom Queen

Having probed anomalies in my home system earlier that day, I set about hunting targets as nothing decent had spawned. A long roam brings me back to the Heath where upon entering I notice a tengu on scan. Probes get dropped and 64% is achieved on the first cycle. The 2nd cycle however picked up nothing. God damn bears knowing how to use d-scan. I did however notice that the tengu seemed awfully close to a drone site I'd probed and bookmarked earlier. A quick scan confirmed drone wrecks on scan and so in I warp. A few minutes pass with local fluctuating when I notice the tengu come on short range scan and then disappear. He's here. I had not run this site before and so googled the drone 5/10. 6 rooms. Chances of success? Minimal. I go through the first gate and slowboat the 60km to the next gate. I do this for what feels like forever but finally i reach the penultimate room.
The tengu has not returned on scan this whole time however the pilot was still in local. Having got this far I assume finishing would be his preference. No wrecks in the final room... Hmmm.. Odd. Have I blown my cover? Is he cloaked near me now at present? Minutes pass and my patience grows thin. The tengu eventually appears on long range scan - and as I check short range he appears. Ahhahahahahaha...I laugh. So he docked eh? Has no idea I've come in has he???? HHAhahAhah chances of success now quite good.

30 minutes pass... Every 5/10 mins he decloaks (I assumed correctly he was going through gates) until finally he lands on the beacon I've carefully positioned myself on.

My story should end here however.... 1000 rounds later and 5 or so minutes, I realise his tank will not break. I convo the pilot and offer a ransom - something I generally don't do as backup is never far away. 2.5b is the price I ask for- the response was less then positive. In fact the tengu told me I had one last chance to leave........ ARGh. My alt docks in station and looks to see no combat ships whatsoever. Infact the only ship I had that supplied DPS was a PVE tengu (w ab). 5 minutes later and I'm burning the 60kms between the gates with still 2 more to get through. Short range scan suddenly shows 3 canes, a curse, ferox and drake. Oh ****.
As my alt arrives, the tengu breaks. His gang lands as I warp out. I return 10 minutes after they leave .. To scoop the 800m in loot. Thanks!

Once upon a Yarrrrrr

That's how all pirate stories start right? I digress....

We, the noble and fearless Calamitous-Intent where policing our space lanes last night when an unscrupulous smuggler decided to tempt fate and and test our resolve. You see, said pilot had not paid his docking taxes for the great Bosena Station of One. We had no choice but to defend our glorious honor and vaporize the offender who thought himself too strong to fall to our small, yet brave force!

You will find the local chat below. I am missing a few lines before I logged on, but the meat of it is there. Basically a carrier undocked from the Bosena station. As we can see from the chat he thought his carrier indestructible. At first we thought he would just dock, but being the crafty $%^& that we are, we proceeded to bump him off the station. Once he was off station we took a minute to ponder, was this bait? Surely it must be. Why would a carrier allow himself to be bumped off station? But Yarrrrr, we were all out of $%^& to give and undocked the DPS. He died in short order. 5.4 Bil dead, terrible loot drop as always. He also quickly stopped talking in local as he realized he was gonna die. Maybe he would have said more if we had not also podded him... ooops :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os5TXyJlEMc <--- this thread is full of this and i love it!

id rather the punk rock cover... i hate knowing that song came from that.

Today was my last day of trial. I was wondering if I'll sub or not, because so far I had only saw the "boring" part of the game, IE missioning & mining.
I had a little bit of extra cash I couldnt care losing, I have 0.5SP so I wouldnt mind to be podded, so I thought : "Why not go in low-sec, see if I can find some action". And Oh my, I found some action.

So here I am in a 0.4 security status system, with my 2M Rifter, and my 500k skillpoints. trying to figure out how D-scan works. Boredness eventually came, and the scanner was very mean to me not wanting to find people, lol. So i warped from belt to belt, until I saw a shiny Covetor, mining off an asteroid.

I instantly lock him, scramble, orbit, and start shooting. Everything goes pretty well, he doesnt fire back, he had mining drones and no weapons equipped. After a while he goes down, and i'm like YARRRR, my first kill ever, a 38M ship after 14 days of trial, pretty proud of myself. I even wanted to ransom his pod, but he warped too fast for me :(.

So here I am, approaching the wrecks of my first kill, happy and excited about the PVP i just had, even if the target wasnt really hostile.
And......... Suddenly, out of nowhere, 15-20 people warps in the location, an other ship decloak right next to me, and start to scramble me. I completely freaked out, trying to warp out, to maintain distance with the scrambler, but the horde of hostiles peoples shot me down in a matter of seconds, proceding at a giant bukkake on my rifter :(.

I quickly escape from the location on my pod, and go back in safe place.
I convo one of my killers, and turns out the miner I killed was some guy who killed some of his friends, he was cloaked because he had scanned him down, and was waiting from a super large fleet of his corpmates to come and gangbang the miner. Then, he suprisely saw a little rifter with a 14 days old player at the commands, proceeding to steal the miner kill right in front of his eyes. And turns out that I was about to randomly decloak him by approaching miner's wreck, so he started to scramble me.

I had NO CLUE that they wanted to kill, or either that there was someone cloaked around here. I guess it was a mix of pure luck (finding a covetor without any defenses and weapons in low sec), and pure bad luck (finding him 2 minutes before a huge 20 ppl fleet came to kill him, and therefore finding myself in kind of a situation).

But that was my first kill, my first PvP experience in that game, my first ship destroyed by other players. And that was a fuckin shitload of fun and excitement.

Oh, and that got me subbed. I'm not on a trial anymore.
Right now I'm fitting another Rifter. Maybe you'll have the honor to kill or ransom me in low sec one of those days ;D.

I'm also looking for a pirate corp willing to teach a complete noob how to be a real pirate terror.

Right after I subbed, I convoed the guy who was in cloak and who I chatted with before, and I told him : "I subbed my account. I'm gonna fit another rifter, and learn the pirate profession. And one day, sir, wherever you are, whoever you with, I'm going to find you, and I'm going to pod you. Until then, i wish you the best".

This game is freaking awesome.

that man should be put in prison for endangering the lives of those precious Elaras!!

I'd give you a like, but you already have 666 and I don't want to spoil the moment.

So you wrote all of that because you made a 2 week old noob eject from an osprey?

And you call yourself a pirate? rofl.