Crime & Punishment

Eeebiill !!

I'm an aspiring Pirate and looking to be taken under someone's wing to teach me the ins and outs of the trade

Step 1: Undock

Step 2: Click shiny.

Step 3: Check space diaper for mess as you lock.

Step 4: Fire your Civilian Laser.

Step 5: Profit.

Step 6: Get new diaper.

Or you know I could hold your hand or casually spell out each word slowly and pat you on the head for getting the color of that fire truck right....

(Also folks still working on the guide just been SUPER busy)

Try a Thorax. Easy to train, not a pain to lose and it's a quick deadly little ship. Get the hang of that or a frig may be even more beneficial. Also don't fret cross training is perfectly normal.

Look for corporations with recruitment advertisements, then check some of the members. A high join, high leave rate is a very bad sign. A high join stay rate, and active recruit channel is a better sign of not a scam pirate corp preying on new members.

Other than that, you can pm people, but don't trust anyone. Since you just want to be shown the ropes, train tackling skills and most corps will take you in as those are always needed, and if they do kill you, your only losing a Frig/dest so its not substantial. Mean while you enjoy the benefits of them teaching you proper tackle/camp/tracking skills that mean a lot to pirates/pvp.

I already gave you advice, brosef, and now two free bumps. Take it or leave it. If you didn't want to hear people's opinion of your guide, why post it in the forums?

Do you think you can put up fittings for a few frigate class ships? You put up cruisers and higher class fittings, but I'd like to start pirating in a frigate that I can replace easily enough when I make a mistake and it goes down in flames.

Either way, very interesting read, keep it up!

Okay, because I think a pirate guide is indeed a good idea, I'll throw a bit of effort into constructive suggestions. Your point is well made regarding the intro.

Looking at this guide from the point of view of a new player, the first thing I would suggest is adding some simple instructions for some of the more basic beginner forms of piracy, as you define it, IE broadly. Let's take a look at some of the more obvious topics:

PVP

Don't try to re-invent the wheel here. If they intend on participating in PVP they will need to learn the basics, like mechanics, T1 fittings, etc. All of this information is already available, and I suggest you link to some of the more well-known resources. Off the top of my head, Eve Uni's wiki pages on PVP fits and tactics and course recordings are a great resource. Cannibal Kane, for example, could likely offer quite a bit of insight about baiting high-sec carebears into dying in a fire under his guns. His stories in the pirate thread of this forum are actually a great resource, so I would link the pirate story thread.

http://failheap-challenge.com
http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Uni_Tackle_and_EWar#T2_tackle_long_range_.28Interceptor.29

I'm sure others could suggest other links.

You could also have sub-sections for various common low-sp pirate activities, and how to be successful at them. I would suggest asking the community to contribute to each subsection, one at a time, in this thread. You need to add some activities, and provide detail, so that they can get started right away, and a simple example of each, so they can wrap their heads around it.

Can flipping
Miner bumping for purposes of extortion (Gotta point them toward The Brotherhood's website here)
Ninja looting/salvaging L4 missions ( http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Ninja_Looting , http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Ninja_Salvaging_and_Stealing , http://www.suddenly-ninjas.net/ )
Belt piracy and other solo and small gang (2-3 man) low-sp lowsec roaming tactics
Suicide ganking
Camping in high sec for public kill rights
Scams, with details, and a simple scam explained

Each topic should be treated from the perspective of a new player, so easy to understand, low SP, low ISK, highly specific with examples. Yes it's hand-holding to a degree, but I believe that giving them a fool-proof roadmap to their first taste of illicit ISK or PVP adrenaline will hook them and they will figure out the rest on their own. Undocking with a naked newb ship and firing their civilian laser at someone who then blaps them back to a goo vat is not as fun as having a decent shot at -winning- an encounter. "Make a bunch of frigates and go blow them up" gets boring quickly unless you have a plan to actually win and a basic understanding of how you intend to accomplish that first victory.

I'd suggest putting a thread in the Corp Recruitment section of the forums stating you are a newer player interested in Piracy. I'm certain someone would take you

I suggest a total rewrite if this is a serious guide. Maybe include someone who knows piracy in the interim.