Crime & Punishment

Well I'm still getting used to scanning my targets, I kind of suck at it. I set my filter so only the Battleships box is checked and I managed to scan down a mission runner but he turned out to be blue so I couldn't engage him.

I'm probably just going to spend some time trying to refine my technique a bit so I can scan down ships efficiently.

Good luck with that, considering most run in NPC or alt corps...

Consider just bringing their a few tier 3 BCs and suicide gank your target in his mission.

some corp recently tried to get my Machariel that way and they would probably have had success if they had been even slightly smarter in their way of doing it

(their probing/ship scanning covops did hang around in my mission for so long that I grew suspicious, aligned out and started to keep a close watch on dscan, once their Talos crew started to show on 1m km scan I was out - had they scanned me at a gate or had the covops made a serious effort to look like a ninja salvager they would have been successful)

I'm going to send you an in game message at some point tonight. The best place to learn about ninja ganking is the in game chat channel ''Ninja Dojo''. These guys can tell you all you need to know about attacking level 4 mission runners. I reccomend joining the channel with an alt and not your ganker though as the channel is full of spying bears that the admins never punt.

Most people just scan battleships down which I think is flawed. You don't want to target specific battleships, you want to target specific missions particularly the storylines and epic arcs. Failing these missions have a pretty harsh penalty for your target which encourages them to defend their items.

The level 13 epic mission arc item is particularly susceptible to theft and does not respawn after down time if stolen (prevents people farming a 300M isk contract item which is the only requirement of the mission). The mission is extremely easy to find as it's from a sole agent in station and always goes to the same system 1 jump. I've yet to meet someone who is happy to throw hours of work away and fail an epic arc 1 mission from completion because a 1 to 3 month scrub is about to take the item.

Any level 4 mission against a faction navy drops all bounty in the form of tags. It is possible for a 1 week char to make 50m to 200m per hour high sec peak time income by simply looting these tags from missions. I can clear a level 4 mission of tags in 15 mins hitting at max 4 an hour bringing in around 200m per hour, 50m in tags per mission. If the mission runner decides he does not want to lose his 50 to 100m mission bounties to a 2 to 4 week scrub he can shoot you, in which case....

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=11744066

This dude lost a 4bn Isk fit alongside 50m in tags and failed his storyline in the space of 10 mins. :) to a char who had been in the game for under 5 weeks. A 2 week char could easily do the same.

You can blow up his 4bn isk fit in your first month of eve with out neutral reps of any kind.

I no longer gank high sec mission runners instead I've been market trading and doing low sec industry. I like to mix it up in eve and try all manner of gameplay styles. Although reading about noobs wanting to do this brings back good memory so i might try a bit with an orca for lols this week

High sec Ninja ganking is a great choice of career for noobs and will prepare you for all manner of pvp including gang and null sec warfare and is simply another stepping stone other than tackle frigate for chars under 1 month. Plus it will pad your kb with great amount of solo kills and faction loot.

Your average 2month ninja ganker will be an expert in D-scan being able to find a particular named ship to 1 au and 5 degree's in a busy system. They will be expert probers being able to hit any target above cruiser with 1 sweep of scan probes. They will be able to deploy probes above 14 au like a pro hitting their targets in 1 sweep with out the bear even knowing. (low sec ganking essential). They will be able to name the mission the bear is in and what room by wrecks alone. They will engage targets amongst entire corps using expert manipulations of high sec timers. They will on occasion use all manner of tricks including ship swaps and neutral reps if needed. They will arrange suicide shots on active rep'd ships parked on gates recharging cap ect.

As a beginner ninja, I recommend the following:

Get an Imicus (or equivelant) and fit it out for scanning. Probe rigs, etc. It's alot cheaper than a Helios and can do the job almost as good.

Use this to scan down your hapless victims.

Once you scan them down, do the looting in another cheap ship. I recommend a salvage-fit frigate with a (relatively) large cargo bay.

Start the looting and watch out for the rats. Be aware that once Retribution goes live rats that have aggro on the runner may still switch to you if you are close to their size class (so in a frig, watch out for rat frigs and dessies, and some cruisers).

If he ignores you (most probable result) you make some easy isk, especially if you get those delicious dog tags. If he locks you up and shoots you, being in a small hard-to-hit frig means you probably will survive the first shot, and give you a chance to warp out and get your combat ship.

Again, recommend something small and cheap. Blaster Catalyst or Incursus/Atron fits the bill. But if you really want to try out that Drake, nobody is stopping you..:)

Get back in , orbit close and fast, and apply DPS. Watch his tank break and his blingboat go boom. Pop drones as required..:)

Then loot, and if necessary go get your loot ship and come back to loot some more.

And always watch out for the rats.

Oh yeah, sure. It happened earlier when I aggrod a spawn in one of the pockets I was in. I warped out though and came back after repairing my ship. Good job I put some tank on it. They guy still didn't red box me though, I think if I'd had some salvagers fitted, he would have attacked me. That's another skill I'll have train for to add to the inoffensive appeal of my Magnate.