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Gearing up for Piracy.
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Nimitz Ronuken
Doomheim
#1 - 2011-10-25 21:11:32 UTC
Fresh new character smell.

I am looking for this guy to do a hell of a lot of pirating. Ive done research on tactics/fittings/etc but I would like to hear it from some veterans here. Question

I recently got a rifter. I have been looking for an effective, cheap setup that is good for ransoming.

I am about as excited to get blown up as I am excited to make my first ransom. Either way, I need a rifter setup that won't pop like a zit when pressure is applied, and can do enough damage to make targets wet themselves.

Also, what should my primary targets be? Who should I avoid?

Thanks for helping out a n00b (to pvp/piracy). Pirate
FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#2 - 2011-10-25 21:30:10 UTC
Best advice I can give you is to get out of your "mission running/industrial corp" and join a PVP corp. Faction warfare might be a good start. You'll learn to live in lowsec, you'll probably wreck your sec status, you'll get decent advice, and most importantly you'll have a fair chance of getting fights.

Founding member of the Belligerent Undesirables movement.
egola
NSFW federation
#3 - 2011-10-25 22:08:30 UTC  |  Edited by: egola
FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:
Best advice I can give you is to get out of your "mission running/industrial corp" and join a PVP corp. Faction warfare might be a good start. You'll learn to live in lowsec, you'll probably wreck your sec status, you'll get decent advice, and most importantly you'll have a fair chance of getting fights.


well it depends on the level of douchebaggery hes willing to work with, if you're willing to punch a baby in the throat start with his OWN corp.
FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#4 - 2011-10-25 23:07:54 UTC
egola wrote:
well it depends on the level of douchebaggery hes willing to work with, if you're willing to punch a baby in the throat start with his OWN corp.

True. If you don't have anything invested in the corp (be that isk or friendships) then your first kill COULD be a really shiny mission ship if you do it right :D

Founding member of the Belligerent Undesirables movement.
Nimitz Ronuken
Doomheim
#5 - 2011-10-26 00:18:37 UTC  |  Edited by: Nimitz Ronuken
egola wrote:
FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:
Best advice I can give you is to get out of your "mission running/industrial corp" and join a PVP corp. Faction warfare might be a good start. You'll learn to live in lowsec, you'll probably wreck your sec status, you'll get decent advice, and most importantly you'll have a fair chance of getting fights.


well it depends on the level of douchebaggery hes willing to work with, if you're willing to punch a baby in the throat start with his OWN corp.



Not a lot (not any) douchebaggery in the corp oddly enough. We normally mission bait (hence mission running) for materials to be reprocessed into free ships (hence industrial).

Can't hurt to try out super mario with 50 1-ups imo...

FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:

True. If you don't have anything invested in the corp (be that isk or friendships) then your first kill COULD be a really shiny mission ship if you do it right :D


Well, on a wolfpack patrol one of our fleet members got raped by a passing red flashy drake. Does that count?
Zoe Alarhun
The Proactive Reappropriation Corporation
#6 - 2011-10-26 07:55:56 UTC
Buy 20 rifters.
Read wensly's rifter guide and copy one of his recommended load outs.
go lose them all.
Slowly learn what you can't attack and what you can.
Become pirate.
Kitty McKitty
In Praise Of Shadows
#7 - 2011-10-26 12:19:24 UTC
Zoe Alarhun wrote:
Buy 20 rifters.
Read wensly's rifter guide and copy one of his recommended load outs.
go lose them all.
Slowly learn what you can't attack and what you can.
Become pirate.

Absolutely this. Theory gets you out the stables but dying gloriously teaches you far far more. Also the hardest part of PVP is hunting down targets. Good luck out there.

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Nimitz Ronuken
Doomheim
#8 - 2011-10-26 17:06:08 UTC
Kitty McKitty wrote:
Zoe Alarhun wrote:
Buy 20 rifters.
Read wensly's rifter guide and copy one of his recommended load outs.
go lose them all.
Slowly learn what you can't attack and what you can.
Become pirate.

Absolutely this. Theory gets you out the stables but dying gloriously teaches you far far more. Also the hardest part of PVP is hunting down targets. Good luck out there.


Thanks for all the help.

I was looking for fitting guides that were not horribly outdated.

Made my first steps in lowsec playing cat and mouse with a red probe.
Zoe Alarhun
The Proactive Reappropriation Corporation
#9 - 2011-10-27 07:55:04 UTC
Try looking in the "fail heap challenge" forum.
Rifter and many other fits to be found there.

http://failheap-challenge.com/forumdisplay.php?15-Ship-Setup-Hangar
Karl Planck
Perkone
Caldari State
#10 - 2011-10-27 09:01:31 UTC
If you looking for a staple good to go rifter then your probably looking for the nos+rep rifter.

1xsmall nos, 3x 150mm (rf ammo), web, scram, ab, 200mm tungton plate, SMA and a DCU. Change rigs for taste, most ppl use two damage, or damage plus tankn increase etc. Good staple rifter, great at talking on larger targets (the nos).

If you as new as you say you are though, let me tell you one thing you may be leaving out. If your going to lowsec, the absolutely most important thing you need to learn how to use is the d-scan. If you need specifics hit me up in game

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