EVE General Discussion

I am a -10 pirate. I am also in Caldari Faction. Finding enemy faction people to fight is very easy. Here's what you do:

Go to THEIR space. Live as close as you can. You will probably find that you have more fights and enemies than you know what to do with.



Hey, me too! We have something in common! The difference is that EVERYONE wants to kill me. My own allies want to kill me. And when I die, well, I need to swap toons and head to high sec to buy another ship, then haul it out there in my Badger Mark 1. I can't mission, I can't do any of the things you might normally do for money, I am not even sure how or where to turn in my faction loyalty points for isk.

Not complaining mind you. I am a pirate, so there you go. I wouldn't have it any other way.




Now we are getting to a more practical issue. I will help you solve it. Make a safe spot in space. Do this by warping to a planet at 100km, and while you are in warp create a bookmark, then warp back to it. Now no one will be able to warp to you without probing you down.

Next step. Use yor directional scanner. Center the site in your monitor (your ship is in the center) and adjust the slider until it is narrow. Adjust it to, say, 15 degrees, and hit scan. It will tell you who is in that direction. If you see a ship, narrow it to 5 degrees and scan again. If you want to get really tricky you can adjust the range so you know that the ship is there and nowhere else.

If it's a MINOR site you know only T1 frigs and destroyers can be inside, so if you see something bigger it's outside. If it's something that might snipe you, wait or move on, or try warping to the site at 100km and looking. Once you are on grid, open the angle on your scanner back to 360 degrees and lower the range to a few hundred km. That will show you who is inside, or once you are inside who is on the gate.



I understand how you feel. I would not object really if they only allowed pirates to dock in certain super lawless criminal systems. It might actualy make for some interesting PvP. But for now it is better for you to learn how to live with what we have.

Pirates live there and YOU CAN TOO!

Also, one more thing you should know about most pirates: You think that they are the evil scum of Eve, but as a general rule they are the MOST trustworthy people in the game. You probably don't believe that, but there it is. With pirates keeping your word, honoring 1v1s and ransoms, not scamming people or ripping off your mates, these things matter.

If you have any further questions about how to use your directional scanner or whatever, feel free to message me in game and I will try to talk you through it. I think your "problem" has less to do with pirates and more to do with a general lack of experience, and we were all there once.

a bloo bloo nerf pirates a bloo bloo

There's plenty of risk/penalty in being -10. You're restricted to areas of space (low, null, wh) where other players are free to slaughter you. Seems fair to me.

So in short you're saying ' i don't know how to avoid being shot down by pirates the game needs a complete overhaul so i can happily make my FW iskies.

pirates are able to be "gotten back at" by putting big bounties on them after retribution. Being -10 already has enough penalties, anything added should be simply reason for other players to want to shoot them. (Which is what is happening with bounties)

I just read about the upcoming changes to faction warfare on Dec 4 and I have to say - wow.



They are going to make it even easier for pirates to gank FW pilots by moving the warp-in point of plexes to within 10k of the capture point!!!

That means there will be no time to decide to stay or leave. Pirates warp in, scramble you, you die.

What, were pirates crying that their easy prey was getting away too often and they were bored???



This is amazing. They are nerfing rewards from FW also. I guess too many people were getting involved in FW so ccp wanted to cut the numbers down.

Must be a tax reason that ccp wants to reduce the subscriber numbers.


Well, it worked. I have played and paid for this game for years and years, even going to a fan fest in iceland. I have done everything and had run out of goals to accomplish.



FW was my last hope. It had promise. I enjoyed the plexing. It was dangerous but there were safeguards if you were careful. Not as much stupid politics as nullsec and getting back to hisec was so much easier. The lack of bubbles made play much more enjoyable as well since you could move about much safer. The small scale pvp was fun since you had more control vs nullsec 100v100 battles.



However, I signed up for FW to enjoy faction pvp, not pirate pvp. Since ccp wants pirates to have more targets at the expense of the rest of the universe then it is time to move to another game.

I never made much of a name for myself, just enjoyed the game in all categories. Wormholes, missioning, mining, invention, manufacturing, exploration, trading, nullsec, moon mining, planet mining, collecting things (huge bpo collection), skilling (all but 3 of the titan skills trained up),all ships piloted at one point or another, even some pirating with hulkageddon, and now faction warfare.


Good times.


Only 2 accounts so we wont be missed. Hope the rest of eve has fun with where the game is going.

fly dangerous :P

I'm curious how being -10 and docked is different from being 1 and docked?

It's low sec. The warfront of 4 empires, why would your rating matter if you're not a member of a militia? Why not just suggest that if you're not a member of the militia that controls the station you can't use it if you're not of the same faction? It makes much less sense that Amaar guy can dock at a station controlled by the Minmatar, then for them to give a crap that you've been bad.


I would also think that your complaint only matters if sec standing had anything to do with the sec rating of a system outside of high sec. I could have swore your standing only mattered in high sec, and that's what it was there for.

Thanks God, before was impossible to catch anyone not willing to fight. And still will be too hard.

Mercenaries?